Gulf Beaches Library Baby And Toddler Storytime: Bathtime Storyhour

Wednesday, November 30, 2011

Bathtime Storyhour

Song & Turtle Puppet: "I Had a Little Turtle, his Name was Tiny Tim"

Story: Clifford's Bathtime board book Bridwell. I put our giant Clifford the Big Red Dog center stage and could act out the book, scrubbing him, giving him his rubber duckie, toweling him off.

Song: Large & Small (I showed them the tiny dog so we could compare large and small)

Story: Tubby board book Patricelli. A lot of washing and scrubbing toes and tums, which is always fun. So fond of Patricelli for this age group.

Song: Motor Boat, Motor Boat. I never need an excuse to do Motor Boat, but the baby does play Motor Boat in the tub.

Story: Bubble Bath Pirates! by Jarrett Krosoczka. This book with its simple illustrations and its Mommy Pirate and two little pirates did a fairly good job of holding on to the babies' attention. Of course, I did have my pirate hat on and my pirate sword and my spyglass handy.

Song: This Is the Way I Wash My Face (hands, tum, toes) to the tune of Mulberry Bush.

Story: Splish! Splash! easy reader by Sarah Weeks. This worked in earlier years, but maybe because it was at the end of storyhour, the kids -- and the moms, more importantly -- just didn't listen.

Song: Those lucky attendees at this storyhour got to hear my debut performace of Tubbie-O! which I share now with the world:

To the tune of Day! Day-O! (The Banana Song)

Tub! Tubbie-O!

Tubbytime comes and me not wanna go.

I got grime and slime and lots of goo.