Attendance: 15-30 babies
Time: 20-25 minutes
Age group: birth to 18 months
During Baby Rhyme Time, we focus on the babies interacting with the stories that we are reading, as well as interacting with their caregivers. Early literacy skills that we try to emphasize are having fun with books, saying rhymes and singing songs.
General outline:
- Welcome song
- Introduce theme by singing "What's that something in my backpack?" song
- Book read by storytime presenter
- Rhyme or bouncy, cuddly song
- Choral reader - each baby and caregiver get a board book that we read aloud together
- Flannel board rhyme or another bouncy song
- Recorded music song with a maraca for each child to use
- Grand Old Duke of York
- Goodbye song
We have A LOT of babies in our small community, so Baby Rhyme Time is an ever-growing program that we find very valuable. It gives them socializing time with other babies, a chance to feel comfortable in the library, and starts them on early literacy skills.
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