Stories & Crafts: Winter Animals

January 23, 2024

Books
Little Owl’s Snow by Divya Srinivasan
Little Wolf’s Song by Britta Teckentrup
Got to Get to Bear’s! by Brian Lies

Songs, Rhymes, and Fingerplays
Song: Up, Down, Turn Around
Up, down, turn around
Touch the sky and touch the ground
Wiggle fingers, wiggle toes
Wiggle shoulders, say hello!

Song: Head Shoulders Knees and Toes by Super Simple Songs (Speeding Up)

Rhyme: There’s Something in the Snow
There’s something in the snow, now what can it be?
There’s something in the snow that I can’t really see.
Hear its funny sound… Hoo, hoo, hoo
A snowy owl is what I found! Hoo, hoo, hoo

GRRRRR, GRRRRR, GRRRRR . . . Bear
Awoo, Awooo, Awoooo . . . Wolf

Song: Polar Bear Action Song by Rachel Rambach
Polar bear, polar bear
Big and strong with snow white hair
Polar bear, polar bear
Watch him move from here to there

Swimming, swimming, swimming in the icy sea
Swimming much faster than you and me
Swimming til he stops and takes a rest
Then swims some more from east to west

Polar bear, polar bear
Lives in freezing arctic air
Polar bear, polar bear
Watch him move from here to there

Swimming, swimming, swimming in the icy sea
Swimming much faster than you and me
Swimming til he stops and takes a rest
Then swims some more from east to west

Polar bear, polar bear
Walks on ice, it’s everywhere
Polar bear, polar bear
Now he’ll stop and sleep right there

Shaker Song: The Walrus Washes His Winter Coat
Oh, the walrus washes his winter coat
down by the wavy ocean.
He adds some water and he adds some soap
and he waits…and he waits…and he waits.

Then the laundry shakes, shakes, shakes
The laundry shakes and shakes and shakes
The laundry shakes, shakes, shakes until it’s clean.
The laundry shakes, shakes, shakes
The laundry shakes and shakes and shakes
The laundry shakes, shakes, shakes
until it’s clean.

The laundry spins, spins, spin . . .

Shaker Song: Shake Your Body Down by The Laurie Berkner Band

Craft: Paper Plate Owl
Craft idea from Our Potluck Family.

Stories & Crafts: Winter Animals

January 31, 2023

Books
Polar Bear Night by Lauren Thompson
Ernest the Moose Who Doesn’t Fit by Catherine Rayner
Virgil & Owen Stick Together by Paulette Bogan

Songs, Rhymes, and Fingerplays

Song: Up, Down, Turn Around
Up, down, turn around
Touch the sky and touch the ground
Wiggle fingers, wiggle toes
Wiggle shoulders, say hello!

Rhyme: There’s Something in the Snow
There’s something in the snow, now what can it be?
There’s something in the snow that I can’t really see
Hear it’s funny sound . . . Howl, howl, howl
A wolf is what I found! Howl, howl, howl

Other verses:
Grrrrr, grrrrr, grrrr . . . Polar Bear
Squawk, squawk, squawk . . . Penguin
Hoo, hoo, hoo . . . Snowy Owl
Arp, arp, arp . . . Seal

Song: Fred the Moose by The Learning Station

Song: Polar Bear Song by Rachel Rambach

Song: Penguin Dance Chant by Jack Hartmann

Shaker Song: The Walrus Washes His Winter Coat
Oh, the walrus washes his winter coat
Down by the wavy ocean.
He adds some water and he adds some soap
And he waits…and he waits…and he waits.

Then the laundry shakes, shakes, shakes
The laundry shakes and shakes and shakes
The laundry shakes, shakes, shakes until it’s clean.
The laundry shakes, shakes, shakes
The laundry shakes and shakes and shakes
The laundry shakes, shakes, shakes
until it’s clean.

Oh, the walrus washes his winter coat
Down by the wavy ocean.
He adds some water and he adds some soap
And he waits…and he waits…and he waits.

Then the laundry spins, spins, spins
The laundry spins and spins and spinss
The laundry spins, spins, spins until it’s clean.
The laundry spins, spins, spins
The laundry spins and spins and spins
The laundry spins, spins, spins
until it’s clean.

Shaker Song: Shake! Your Shaker Egg by We Kids Rock

Craft: Winter Animal Puppet
A modified version of the Popsicle Stick Arctic Animal craft from Messy Little Monster. Instead of gluing together popsicle sticks and painting them, we used construction paper, and then added a craft stick to the back to make it into a puppet.