One of the perils of my line of work is the potential to spend entire paychecks on puppets. Luckily, the Folkmanis sheepdog I got the other day was a gift. He’s so darn cute that I couldn’t resist basing a storytime around him. (And, yes, I currently use themes in my babytimes. I find the wealth of songs, fingerplays, bounces, etc. overwhelming without a theme to zero in on. I do repeats week to week and anticipate I’ll move to themeless babytimes once I have a wider repetoire memorized and once I’ve gained a bit more confidence.)
Weekly Opening Song — The More We Get Together (x2)
Weekly Hello Song with Puppet — Hello Babies
Weekly Opening Song — Bread and Butter
Book — Where’s Spot? by Eric Hill
Song — How Much is That Doggie In the Window? (from Storytime Secrets)
Used clipart on the felt board for this one
Book — Old Mother Hubbard
Nursery Rhyme with Awesome Retro-y Fingerpuppets — Hey Diddle Diddle
Hey diddle diddle
The cat and the fiddle
The cow jumped over the moon.
The little dog laughed
To see such sport
And the dish ran away with the spoon!
These fingerpuppets come from branch’s prop collection; photographed with a banana for no good reason.
Bounce — Have You Ever Seen a Puppy?
Adapted from Storytime Katie’s Did You Ever See a Fishy?
Time for Storytime 