Baby Storytime 1.13.2021

Use a feather or something else soft to indicate a feather. Touch the parts of the body as you say them in the rhyme.

Birdie flies away from her nest

While her feather falls and tickles my chest

Birdie lands in a nearby tree

Her feather tickles both of my knees

Birdie glides in the air nice and slow

Then her feather tickles my toe

Birdie and her friend play hide and seek

While her feather tickles both of my cheeks

Mother bird calls, "Come home, dear!"

And there's one last tickle on my ears!

Give your baby the opportunity to touch a variety of textures and talk to them about how things feel. Feeling and touching things is how they discover the world around them.

Hold your baby's hands so they are doing the clapping. Move their hands in the directions indicated.

Clapping little, clapping big, clap in a circle rig a jig jig, clap with a smile, clap with a frown, clapping up and clapping down, clap all night, clap all day, clap for my baby hip hip hooray!

Clapping helps stimulate the nerves in the palms and helps babies develop muscles they'll need later for writing.

Chant this rhyme or sing it to the tune of "Twinkle Twinkle Little Star." Pretend to "color" on your baby and surprise with a tickle at the end.

Color, color up and down

Color, color all around

Color, color knees and toes

Color, color on your nose

Color, color on your tummy

Color, color oh so yummy!

Repetition is key to the way that babies learn about the world so doing things again and again help them!