Lapsit - Monkeys

Storytime for 0 to 24 months old:

• Opening: "Baby Hop" from Diaper Gym by Priscilla Hegner and Rose Grasselli
• Body rhyme: The Flea (from Pierce County Library System)
• Lap bounce: Did You Ever See A Baby?

(have your child sitting on your lap)
Did you ever see a baby, a baby, a baby,
Did you ever see a baby
Go this way and that?
(rock from side to side)
Go this way and that way,
And that way and this way,
Did you ever see a baby,
Go this way and that?

• Book: Hand, Hand, Fingers, Thumb by Al Perkins, illustrated by Eric Gurney (board book version)
• Theme rhyme: Monkey See, Monkey Do (I don't remember which book I got this rhyme from)
• Tickle: Round And Round the Garden

Round and round the garden
(with index finger, make a circle on baby's tummy)
Like a teddy bear
One step, two step
(walk fingers up chest)
Tickle under there!
(tickle under chin)
Round and round the garden
(with index finger, make a circle on baby's tummy)
Goes the little mouse
Up, up, up he creeps
(walk fingers up arm)
Up into his house
(tickle baby under arm)

• Clap rhyme: Miss, Miss

(clap)
Miss Miss, little Miss Miss,
When she misses,
She misses like this!
(hug baby)

• Lap bounce: Pop Goes the Weasel

All around the cobbler's bench,
The monkey chased the weasel,
The monkey thought t'was all in fun,
POP! Goes the weasel.
(raise baby into the air)
A penny for a spool of thread,
A penny for a needle,
That's the way the money goes,
POP! Goes the weasel.
(raise baby into the air)

• Doll song: When (animal) Gets Up In the Morning...

When cows get up in the morning, they always say "Good day."
When cows get up in the morning, they always say "Good day."
"Moo! Moo!" this is what they say.
"Moo! Moo! Moo! Moo!" this is what they say.
(substitute other animals and animal sounds)

• Book: Eight Silly Monkeys illustrated by Steve Haskamp
• Lap bounce: Tick Tock

(bounce baby from leg to leg)
Tick tock, tick tock,
I'm a little cuckoo clock.
Tick tock, tick tock,
Now it is one o'clock... Cuckoo!
(raise baby up for each cuckoo)

Now it is two o'clock... Cuckoo! Cuckoo!

Now it is three o'clock... Cuckoo! Cuckoo! Cuckoo!

• Body rhyme: Baby's Fingers

These are baby's fingers,
These are baby's toes,
This is baby's bellybutton,
Round and round it goes.
These are baby's ears,
This is baby's nose,
This is baby's bellybutton,
Round and round it goes.

• Closing: "If You're Happy And You Know It" from Songs for Wiggleworms

Extra book: Busy Monkeys by John Schindel and Luiz Claudio Marigo (board book)