Apples-Babies

Books

5 Little Apples by Yusuke Yonezu
Orange Pear Apple Bear by Emily Gravett
Red Apple Green Pear: A Book of Colors

Bounces, Rhymes & Fingerplays

Apple Tree
Way up high in the apple tree, raise baby’s arms over head
Two little apples did I see. hold up two fingers
So I shook that tree as hard as I could, jiggle baby
And down came the apples, lower baby between your legs to the ground
Mmm! They were good! Rub baby’s tummy and hug

Ten Red Apples
Ten red apples growing on a tree hold hands high w/ fingers extended
Five for you and five for me wave one hand, then the other
Help me shake the tree just so shake tree
And ten red apples will fall below lower hands & wiggle fingers
1, 2, 3, 4, 5,6, 7, 8, 9,10!

Music

Way Up High In the Apple Tree by Music for Little People
For each of the fruit trees we bounce babies on our knees and when the fruit falls we drop to the floor

Trains-Toddlers

Books

A Train Goes Clickety-Clack by Jonathan London
And the train goes… by William Bee
Chugga Chugga Choo Choo by Emma Garcia
Chugga Chugga Choo Choo by Kevin Lewis
Circus Train by Jennifer Cole Judd
Count on the Subway by Paul Dubois Jacobs
Down By the Station by Will Hillenbrand
Freight Train by Donald Crews
I Love Trains! By Philemon Sturges
Meow and the Little Chairs by Sebastien Braun
Sleep Train By Jonathan London
Train! By Judi Abbot

Flannel Boards

This Little Train

Clickety-Clack

Going For A Ride In My Train

Here Comes the Choo-Choo Train

Fingerplays

This Is a Choo-Choo Train
This is a choo choo train
Puffing down the track
Now it’s going forward,
Now it’s going back,
Now the bell is ringing
Now the whistle blows
What a lot of noise it makes
Everything it goes.

Boxcar Countdown
Clickey clack, clickety clack.
Hear the train come down the track.
Puffing ‘cause it’s going fast,
Count the cars as they go past.

Clickety-one, clickety-one,
Here comes boxcar number one. Hold up one finger

Clickety-two, clickety-two,
Here comes boxcar number two. Add a finger

Clickety-ten, clickety-ten,
Here comes boxcar number ten.

Clickety clack, clickety clack,
The train has gone on down the track.
Puffling ‘cause it’s going fast.
Wave good-bye, ‘cause it’s all past. Wave goodbye

Music

I’ve Been Working on the Railroad by Raffi
I take out the for this song. We all pretend to be trains.

Here Comes the Choo-Choo Train

I’m not sure where this rhyme came from. It is from one of the old flannel boards that was sitting in our workroom that I remade. Given that this rhyme is short it works really well with babies.

Here Comes the Choo-Choo Train PDF

Here comes the choo-choo train,
Puffing down the track.
First comes the engine,
The caboose is in back.
Now the bell is ringing,
Now the bell is ringing,
Now the whistle blows.
What a lot of noise it makes everywhere it goes.