Tag: trains

This was on the first flannel boards I had done that included embroidery work. I had seen Katie’s over at Storytime Katie and loved it so I naturally had to do it do. All of the little details really make the train stand out. There is a link to the train pattern on her page.

This little train, painted black,
Keeps us chugging down the track,
With a choo, choo, clicky-clack, hear the whistle blow,
This little train goes rolling home.

This little train, painted gray,
Takes us places far away,
With a choo, choo, clicky-clack, hear the whistle blow,
This little train goes rolling home.

This little train, painted white,
Keeps things cold both day and night,
With a choo, choo, clicky-clack, hear the whistle blow,
This little train goes rolling home.

This little train, painted blue,
It has seats for me and you,
With a choo, choo, clicky-clack, hear the whistle blow,
This little train goes rolling home.

This little train, painted green,
Rolls on by the field and stream,
With a choo, choo, clicky-clack, hear the whistle blow,
This little train goes rolling home.

This little train, painted red,
Is where the engineer goes to bed,
With a choo, choo, clicky-clack, hear the whistle blow,
This little train goes rolling home.

Books

Choo Choo by Petr Horacek
Freight Train by Donald Crews
Inside Freight Train by Donald Crews

Bounces, Rhymes & Fingerplays

This Little Train
This little train ran up the track run fingertips up baby’s arm
It went Choo Choo! Beep baby’s nose
And then it ran back. run fingertips back down baby’s arm

The other little train ran up the track run fingertips up baby’s other arm
It went Choo Choo! Beep baby’s nose
And then it ran back. run fingertips back down baby’s arm

Choo-Choo Train
Adapted From: Ring a Ring O’Roses by Flint Public Library
This is a choo-choo train bounce
Puffing down the track.
Now it’s going forward lean forward
Now it’s going back lean backward
Now the bell is ringing—ring ring pretend to ring the bell
Now the whistle blows—toot toot
What a lot of noise it makes cover ears
Everywhere it goes stretch arms out

Flannel Boards

Music

I’ve Been Working On The Railroad by Raffi

We take out our shaky eggs and pretend they are train whistles as we shake to the song.