SEPTEMBER Book Babies + Toddlers: Feelings
SEPTEMBER Book Babies + Toddlers: Feelings
Ah, emotions… however big or small, can be difficult to manage for everyone, especially children. There are, however, tips and tricks you can use to help your child learn how to recognize and regulate their feelings, and you can start early, even with an infant. The very first step is to talk about different emotions. Try using simple hand gestures or signs for each emotion as you read a book or look at pictures. For more information, visit the American Psychological Association at https://www.apa.org/topics/parenting/emotion-regulation for more information.
Book Babies: Wednesday @ 9:30am in Community Room
Ages 0 – 10 months
Toddler Time: Monday & Tuesday @ 9:30am in Community Room
Ages 11 – 23 months
Welcome Songs
Here We Are Together
Here we are together, together, together! Oh, here we are together in our library. There’s (sing names)… Here we are together in our library!
Hello Everybody
Hello everybody let’s clap our hands*, clap our hands, clap our hands. Hello everybody let’s clap our hands today! *pat our head, stretch up high, wiggle our fingers, tickle our knees, kick our feet, bounce up high!
S, T, R, W, P
(Sing while pointing to each finger on your child’s hand.) Sing, talk, read, write, play! Sing, talk, read write, play! Sing, talk, read, write, play! Sing, talk, read, write, play each day!
Sing, Talk, Read, Write, Play
TIP
Early experiences help to form the architecture of the brain and lay a strong foundation for both social and emotional development. Playing with children at a young age, experiencing the fun of taking turns and sharing, and discovering that it is fun to pass the ball to someone else and then get it back are great ways to learn important social and emotional skills. ~Reading Picture Books with Children by Lambert
Activity
With family members or friends, sit in a circle on the floor, and roll a ball to one anther while singing, “Roll that Round Ball.” Continue until everyone has had a chance to start rolling the ball.
Books Presented
Bear Feels Scared by Karma Wilson
Glad Monster, Sad Monster: A Book About Feelings by Ed Emberley
Monsters of different colors explain what makes them feel glad, sad, loving, worried, silly, and angry. Fold-out masks encourage readers to talk about their feelings.
If You're Happy and You Know It! by Jane Cabrera
Feelings are Wild by Sophy Williams
It’s true! Feelings are wild! But whether we are grumpy or glad, brave or sad, with a big hug, a kind word, or a little time we can embrace all our wild and wonderful emotions. A warm and playful counting book to help little kids understand their big feelings.
Happy Hippo, Angry Duck: A Book of Moods by Sandra Boynton
The Feelings Book by Todd Parr
Never Touch the Grumpy Pets by Lynch Stuart
A rhyming story that counts down the woes of an unhappy group of five pets.
Baby Feels by Thalita Dol
Thalita Dol’s debut picture book, Baby Feels, is a book about feelings, but with a twist: it shows not only the basic feelings we usually see in similar books, but also those that aren’t always discussed. By showing these feelings that are very present in a baby’s daily life, this adorable board book will help care givers acknowledge their babies’ emotions.
Songs, Rhymes, and Fingerplays
Roll That Round Ball
(Tune: London Bridge)
Roll that round ball down to town,
Down to town, down to town,
Roll that round ball down to town,
Then roll it back to (name of person who rolled the ball first).
Old MacDonald Felt so Glad
(to tune of “Old MacDonald had a farm”)
Old MacDonald felt so glad (Happy)
HA-HA-HA-HA-HA
And when he’s glad we sign it like this:
Happy Happy Happy
With a Happy Happy here and a Happy Happy there
Here a Happy, there a Happy everywhere a Happy Happy
Old MacDonald felt so glad.
HA-HA-HA-HA-HA
Repeat this, substituting the following emotions and signs:
Grumpy = Grr
Sad = Wah Wah
Silly = Hee Hee
Source: Jen in the Library
A Farmer Went Trotting
A farmer went trotting
(Bounce baby on lap, facing you)
Upon his gray mare
With his daughter behind him
So rosy and fair
Then a duck cried out, “Quack!”
(Lift baby up)
And they all tumbled down
(Slide baby down your shins)
Off of the horse
And upside down!
(Tip baby gently backwards!)
Source: Orem Library
Round and Round the Garden
Round and round the garden goes the little bear
(Hold child’s hand with palm facing up and tickle with your fingers in a circular motion)
One step, two steps, (Walk fingers up arm)
And tickly under there! (Tickle underarm)
Round and round the haystack went the little mouse (Move fingers in walking motion around child’s tummy)
One step, two steps, (Walk fingers up body towards neck)
Into his little house (Tickle under neck)
Round and round the lighthouse up the spiral stair (Move fingers in walking motion around child’s feet)
One step, two steps, (Walk fingers up legs towards tummy)
And right up in the air! (Tickle child’s tummy)
Source: Parenthub
Two Little Black Bears Sitting on a Hill
Two little black bears sitting on a hill,
One named Jack and one named Phil,
Run away Jack, run away Phil.
Come back Jack, come back Phil.
Two little black bears digging in the snow
One named Fast and one named Slow…
Two little black bears feeling very proud
One named Quiet and one named Loud..
Source: Jbrary
Two Little Eyes
Two little eyes to look around
Two little ears to hear each sound
One little nose to smell what’s sweet
And one little mouth that likes to eat.
Source: Jbrary
Jump Up, Turn Around
From Jim Gill Sings Moving Rhymes…
Simple motions and a simply rhyme.
Say it as you play it and repeat two times.
Jump up
Turn around
Clap your hands
Stamp the ground
REPEAT
Let’s play it again, but this time try
To say it as you play and stretch your arms up high.
Let me suggest that this time you might
Say it as you play it with your eyes
closed tight.
Get ready my friends to take a deep breath
Because I challenge you to play it as you hold your breath.
