Babytime Basics:
Babytime Programs are interactive programs for children aged 6 months to 2 years of age. Participants share nursery rhymes, action rhymes, fingerplays, songs, baby toys, bubbles, and short books together. There is plenty of clapping, gentle bouncing and tapping, rocking, singing, and sharing of stories and smiles. Programs generally last between 15 and 20 minutes and incorporate 10 to 12 rhymes and/or activities.
Programs are generally split into Pre-walkers and Walkers.

Basic Program Format:
(1) Play Upbeat Classic Music or Circle Time Tunes
as Parents and Children come in and get settled in a circle.

(2)Hello or Welcome Rhymes
(Rhymes to Welcome Everyone!)

(3)Select a number of Rhymes, Fingerplays, & Songs to Share:
Gentle Bouncing Fun
Lots of Tickles
Clap with Me!


(4)Blow Bubbles

(5)Share a Book
You can have quantities of board boards to pass out to participants, so everyone can read/look at a book together.
Or you can read a bright, bold, short picture book to an older babytime group.

(6)Select a number of action or movement rhymes
for an active group:
Fingers, Toes, Shoulders, & More
Bend, Stretch, & Exercise
Singing Games

(7)Select a number of Calm Down Rhymes, Fingerplays, or Lullabies:
Gentle Bouncing Fun
Lots of Tickles
Clap with Me!


(8)Goodbye Rhymes
(Rhymes to Saying Good-Bye!)


Tips for Successful Programs:

-Start and End your program with the same songs or rhymes each week to establish the routine and a sense of continuity.

-Perform each rhyme or activity at least twice

-Clap with enthusiasm after every activity and/or rhyme

-Prepare Index cards with the rhymes/activities you are going to do

-Make a recording for the program with certain songs you plan to sing

-Be flexible and read your audience. Throw in another rhyme if they are patient, cut it short if they are getting restless. And always maintain your sense of humor!

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1-2-3-4-5 5 Little Puppies 5 Little Shofars A Caterpillar Crawled A Kiss A Little Ball, A Bigger Ball A Turkey is a Funny Bird After a Bath Airplane All for Baby All Kinds of Boats All sorts of Eggs Alligator Pie America the Beautiful Animals Ant Hill April Clouds Are You a Leprechaun? As I travel... Auto, Auto Autumn Autumn Leaves Baa, Baa Black Sheep Baby Game Baby Grows Baby Mice Baby Penguins Baby's Nap Bakery Bananas Barber's Scissors Bear Went Over the Mountain Bears Eat Honey Bedtime Tickle Bug Bend and Stretch Bend and Stretch So High Big A, Little A, Bouncing B Big Blue Boat Big Round Sun Birthday Cake Birthday Candles Black Sheep Blooming Flower Blow, Wind, Blow! Boom Bang! Bouncing Everywhere Bouncy Balls Brave Fireman Bubble Bubble said the Kettle Building a Snowman Bunny Bunny, Bunny Busy Fingers Busy Hands Butterfly Buzzing Bumblebee By the Campfire Call the Puppy Carpenter Carrots Catch a Wee Mouse Catching a Fish Chickadees Chin-Chopper Chinese Fan Chinese New Year's Dragon Choo Choo Train Choo-Choo Train Choo-choo Train Christmas Tree Song Chubby Little Snowman Church Clap for Grandma Clap Your Hands Clap, Clap Hands Climbing up the Apple Tree Cobbler, Cobbler Color Cowboy Bedtime Creeping Flea Creepy Crawly Little Mouse Criss, Cross, Applesauce Crocodile Cuddly Koalas Dance your Fingers up Davy Dumpling Dentist Did You Ever See a Squirrel? Digging in the Dirt Dingle Dangle Scarecrow Dinosaur Hunt Dinosaur, Dinosaur Dinosaurs Dinosaurs Were... Do You Hear a Monster? Do Your Ears Hang Low? Down by the Station Dressing for Winter During the Spring Easter Bunny Easter Bunny Hop Eat An Apple Eensy, weensy spider Eeny, meeny, miney, mo Eeny, meeny, miny mo Eight Little Reindeer Elephant Elves in Santa's Shop Engine on the Track Ever see a Bunny? Everybody Wave Hello Falling Leaves Family Farmer Plants the Seeds Fi fie Fo Fum Fierce Pirate Fingers Five Fingers Five Apples Five Candycanes Five Cranky Crabs Five Dinosaurs Five Fat Sausages Five Fat Turkeys Five Fire Fighters Five Green Speckled Frogs Five Groundhogs Five Leaves Five Little Ants Five Little Babies Five Little Birds Five Little Bunnies Five Little Chicks Five Little Chocolate Chips Five Little Flowers Five Little Flowers Five Little Froggies Five Little Gingerbread Men Five Little Hummingbirds Five Little Kittens Five Little Leaves Five Little Pilgrims Five Little Seashells Five Little Snowmen Five Monkeys Five Perky Penguins Five Police Officers Five Red Apples Five Royal Penguins Five scary monsters Fluffy Cloud Flying Man Four Grey Owls Foxes in Their Den Friendly Snowman Frogs Funny Clown Fuzzy Wuzzy Fuzzy Wuzzy Caterpillar Galloping Ponies Garden Snail Gingerbread Giraffe Give Mom a Kiss Going to Africa Going to Bed Grandma's Spectacles Grandpa's Spectacles Grasshopper Great Big Ball Great Big Cookie Guess Who ?!? Halloween Witches Hands go Up and Down Hands on Shoulders Hands up High Hanukkah Candles Hear the Engine Puff Hello Everybody! Here are Baby's Fingers - Baby Rhyme Here is A Bunny Here is a Doughnut Here is a House Here is a Nest for a Robin Here is an Apple Here is My Book Here is my Puppy Here is the Beehive Here is the Beehive Here is the Church Here is the Engine Here is the Sea Here sits the Lord Mayor Here's a Cup of Tea Here's a Fly Hibernating Bear Hickety, Pickety, My Black Hen Hickory dickory dock (Clapping) Hickory-Dickory dock Hippo on a Bus Home Sweet Home Homes Hopping Kangaroo Horses in the Pasture Hot Cross Buns How Many Leprechauns? Humpty Dumpty I am a Christmas Tree I am a Cobbler I am a Snowman I am the Sun I can... I caught a Hare I go to Work I Have a Nose I Have Ten Little Fingers I hear Thunder I Love Mommy I Love You! I Put My Arms Up High I Wiggle I Wiggle My Fingers Icky Bicky Soda Cracker If I were a Bird If I were a Monster... If Your Fingers Wiggle I'll Touch my Hair I'm a Little Chickie I'm a Little Clown I'm a Little Cowboy I'm a Little Groundhog I'm a Little Popcorn Kernel I'm a Little Pumpkin I'm Going Camping I'm Going to Sneeze I'm Sleepy, Very Sleepy I'm the Postman Indians Is Santa Shy? Itsy bitsy Monkey Jack and Jill Jack be Nimble Jack in the Box Jack, Jack Jack-O-Lantern Jack-o-Lanterns Jelly Bean Countdown Jelly on My Head Jolly Jack-o-Lantern Jumbo the Elephant Jungle Animals Kitten is Hiding Kitty Cat Knee Ride - A Robin Knee Ride - Banbury Cross Knee Ride - Donkey, Donkey Knee Ride - Hie to the Market Knee Ride - Ride away, Ride away Knee Ride - To Market, to Market Knee Ride - To the Fair Knee Ride - Trit trot to Market Knee Ride - Upon A Cock-Horse Knee Ride - Wibbleton to Wobbleton Ladybug Lap Games: Noble Duke of York Lap Games: Ride a Cock Horse Lap Games: Trot, trot to Boston Leaves on the Ground Leprechaun Let Your Hands Clap Light the Kwanzaa Candles Little Airplane Little Balloon Little Birds Fly Little Boy Blue Little Brown Seed Little Caterpillar Little Cricket Little Ducklings Little Heart Little Jack Horner Little Kittens Little Miss Muffet (Alternative) Little Mouse Little Mousie Little Penguin Little Plant Little Poodle Little Rabbit Little Squirrel Little Teapot Little Turtle Look at the Apple I have Found Love Somebody, Yes I Do Love to Blow Bubbles! Magic Finger Mailman Make Cookies Make a Cake Make a Circle, Draw a Square Make a Pancake Make a Wish Make Baby Smile Mary had a little Lamb Mary, Mary Quite Contrary Matzah Making Song Matzah Man Mister Thumb Monkey on the Moon Monster Hunt Monster Man Monster Stomp Monster, Monster Monster, Monster Monsters Galore Mother and Father... Mother, Father, and Uncle John Mouse in a Hole Mr. Bullfrog Mr. Clown Mr. Lobster and Mrs. Crab Mr. Turkey went out One Day Music at Our House My Apple My Big Balloon My Bike My Family My Friendly Caterpillar My Garden My Hands My Horn My Igloo My Puppy My Toothbrush My Turkey My Turtle No More Wiggles! Noble Duke of York Oak Tree Ocean Motion Ocean Shell October Old Mother Hubbard On My Head My Hands I Place Once I Saw a Bunny Once there was a Pumpkin One Dark and Stormy Night One for the Money One for the Money One I Love You One Potato Open them, Shut them Ostrich Our Country's Flag Pancake Pat-A-Cake Peas Porridge Peek-a-Boo Peekaboo Baby Penguin Peter, Peter Penguin Pig-a-Wig Pilgrim Children Pink Pinkety, Pinkety Pitter Patter Goes the Rain Pizza Police Officer Poodle in a Fuddle Pop Go the Bubbles! Popcorn Popcorn Chant Popcorn Sizzlin' Prince with Feathered Cap Pumpkin Pie Pumpkin, pumpkin Pumpkins on the Ground Quiet Mouse Quiet Time Quilts Galore! Rag Doll Rain Rain on the Green Grass Rain, Rain Go Away Ram Sam Sam Red Accordian Right Hand, Left Hand Ring Around the Rocket Ship Ring Around the Rosie Ring the Bell Rock-A-Bye Baby Rock-A-Bye Baby, Thy Cradle is Green Round and Around Round and Round the Garden Round, Red, & White Row, Row, Row your Boat Royal Penguins Rub a Dub Dub Rub-a-dub-dub Tickle Rhyme Run Mice Run! Russian Fingerplays Russian Langauge Fingerplays Sally Go 'Round the Sun Santa Pops Out! Santa's Little Reindeer Sat a Little Hare Scarecrow Scary Eyes Scrambled Eggs Seashell Shoe the Little Horse Sing a Song of Six Pence Sing a Song of Sunshine Six Little Ducks Six Little Penguins Sleding Hill Sleds Snow Swirling Around Soliders Spaceship in the Sky Spotted Giraffe Squirrel Gathers Nuts Star light, Star bright Start Our Day... Sticky Lollipops Story Hour Storytime's Over Summer Clothing Swaying Apple Tree Teasing Mr. Shark Teatime Teddy Bear, Teddy Bear Ten Fingers Ten Fluffy Chickens Ten in Bed Ten Little Firefighters Ten Little Indians Ten Little Mittens Ten Little Ponies Ten Little Sailors Ten Red Apples Ten Turkeys test Thank You! Thanksgiving Dinner The Baby Grows The Cat and the Bunny The Easter Bunny The Family The Little Leaves Fall Gently Down The Sun The Train The Turkey The Zoo is Fun! There's a little elf These are Baby's Fingers This is the Way You Bat the Ball This Little Bear This Little Clown This Little Cow Eats Grass This Little Doggie This Little Fire Fighter This little Leprechaun This little pig had a rub-a-dub This Little Piggie This Little Squirrel This Little Train This little Wind Blows Rain This Old Man Three Blind Mice Three Little Ladybugs Three Little Witches Thumbkin, Pointer... Time to Say Goodbye Time to Say Hello Time to Wave Goodbye Tiny Seeds Tiny, Tiny Worm To Bed To Bed, To Bed To Market, To Market - Baby Rhyme Tommy O'Flynn Tommy Thumb Touch Touch your nose TRaditional Rhymes & Songs in Spanish Traffic Light Trot, trot to Boston - Baby Rhyme Turtle Two Fat Sausages Two Little Blackbirds Two Little Eyes Two Little Friends Two Little Hands Two Little Hands Two Little Kittens Two Little Men in a Flying Saucer Two Little Penguins Two Mother Pigs Two Old Turtles Two Pointy Fingers Two Puppies Two Things Make a Pair Unhatched Egg Up, Up, Up Valentine Heart Valentine in a Box Very Old Witch Vintery, mintery, cutery, corn Walking in the Snow Wash Your Face Watermelon Song Waves in the Sea Waving Goodbye Way Up High in the Apple Tree Way Up in the Sky We are a little bit Crazy! We Can Jump Wee Willie Winkie We're Glad You're Here What about the Kangaroo? What do you suppose? When the Wind is Blowing Where are Baby's Fingers? Where is Baby? Who am I? Whoops Johnny! Wiggle Fingers! Wiggle, Wiggle, Wiggle Windshield Wiper Wise Old Owl Won't You be My Valentine? Wooden Soliders Woodpecker Yogi Bear Your Fingers Zoom, Zoom, Zoom


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