January 7th: Birthday Baby Time
2025 is a brand new year filled with birthdays and we celebrated by having a birthday Baby Time!
Here are the songs we used:
New Year’s Here
Adapted from: http://familyplayandlearn.com/January-Winter-Toddler-Rhymes-Fingerplays.html
Tune: Frere Jacques
Crash your cymbals,
toot your horns,
New Year’s here!
New Year’s here!
A time for happy drumming,
New birthdays are coming.
New Year’s here!
New Year’s here!
Today is Someone’s Birthday
http://www.preschoolrainbow.org/occasion-rhymes.htm
Today is someone’s birthday,
let’s make a cake.
Mix and stir, stir and mix,
Then into the oven to bake
Here’s our cake so nice and round,
We frost it pink and white
We put the candles on it, to make a birthday light.
Birthday Candles
Adapted from: http://www.preschoolexpress.com/music_station06/music_station_sep06.shtml
Tune: I’m a Little Teapot
See the little candles
Up on the cake.
It’s time to eat,
So don’t be late.
First we’ll light the candles,
Then we’ll blow,
Huff, huff, puff, puff,
Out they go!
Ten Little Candles
Ring A Ring O’Roses: Finger Plays for Preschool Children; Flint, Mich. : Flint Public Library, c1996. c1996.
Ten little candles on a chocolate cake
“Wh! Wh! Now there are eight.
Eight little candles on candlesticks
“Wh! Wh! Now there are six.
Six little candles and not one more
“Wh! Wh! Now there are four.
Four little candles, red, white, and blue
“Wh! Wh! Now there are two.
Two little candles, make a wish and your done!
“Wh! Wh! Now there are none.
Take Me Out for Some Ice Cream
http://www.preschooleducation.com/sicecream.shtml
Tune: Take Me Out to the Ball Game
Take me out for some ice cream,
Take me out to the store.
Buy me a triple scoop jumbo cone.
Just one flavor can’t be all alone!
For its scoop, scoop,
scoop up the ice cream
Three flavors I adore!
For it’s one, two, three scoops to go
At the ice cream store!
Beginning Songs:
We Clap and Sing Hello
Adapted from: https://storytimekatie.com/songs-rhymes/openingclosing-songs/
Tune: The Farmer and the Dell.
We clap and sing hello,
We clap and sing hello,
With our friends
at story time,
We clap and sing hello!
*Hug *Kiss *Tickle
Hello Hello
Adapted from https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Cmd5Gs5FKuc
Tune: Hello Hello
Hello hello
Can you clap your hands?
Hello hello
Can you clap your hands?
Can you stretch up high?
Can you touch your toes?
Can you give a kiss?
Can you say hello?
Up and Down in My Little Red Wagon
Adapted from Adapted from: http://www.ala.org/alsc/issuesadv/borntoread/babyrhymesgames
Tune: Bumpin Up and Down in My Little Red Wagon
Up and down in my little red wagon
Up and down in my little red wagon
Up and down in my little red wagon… Going to Storytime
Lost my wheel and the axel’s draggin’
Lost my wheel and the axel’s draggin’
Lost my wheel and the axel’s draggin’… Going to Storytime
Hammer the wheel back on the wagon
Hammer the wheel back on the wagon
Hammer the wheel back on the wagon… Going to Storytime
Up and down in my little red wagon
Up and down in my little red wagon
Up and down in my little red wagon… Going to Storytime
Ending songs:
Elevator Song
Tune: Do Your Ears Hang Low
Oh, the city is great and the city is grand
There are lots of tall buildings
On a little piece of land
We live way up on the fifty-seventh floor
And this is what we do
When we go out the door!
Take the elevator up, take the elevator down (3 x)
Then we turn around!
Peek a Boo
Where is Baby? …. Peekaboo
Where is Baby? …. Peekaboo
Peek-a-boo peek-a-boo I see you!
Peek-a-boo peek-a-boo I see you!
Peek-a-boo peek-a-boo
toodle-loo coochie coo
Peek-a-boo peek-a-boo
I see you!
Peek-a-boo!
Where is Baby? …. Peekaboo
Where is Baby? …. Peekaboo
Peek-a-boo peek-a-boo I love you!
Peek-a-boo peek-a-boo I love you!
Peek-a-boo peek-a-boo
toodle-loo coochie coo
Peek-a-boo peek-a-boo
I love you!
Peek-a-boo!
Goodbye from Storytime
Tune: If You’re Happy and You Know It
Oh it’s time to say goodbye to our friends (clapclap)
It’s time to say goodbye to our friends (clapclap)
Storytime is done today
(wave goodbye)
So come again another day
It’s time to say goodbye to our friends (clapclap)