Perry
Public Library Storytime
Up,
Down and All Around
Stories we shared:
We’re Going on a Bear Hunt: by Michael Rosen Where are
you little green dragon? By Klaus Baumgart
Grand old Duke of York / Maureen Roffey Up and
Down on the Merry Go Round: by Bill Martin Jr.
Other books you
may enjoy sharing:
It’s Just me Emily: by Anna Hines
Where’s Chimpy? By Bernice Rabe
All Fall Down: by Helen Oxenbury
Max’s Ride / Rosemary Wells
Over Under: by Catherine Matthais
Carousel Ride: by Lynea Bowdish
Here a chick, there a chick: by Bruce McMillan Up to
Ten and Down again: by Lisa Ernst
What’s inside? By Anthea Sieveking All
about where: by Tana Hoban
Alfie gets in first: by Shirley Hughes
Look up, look down / Tana Hoban.
Up
the down elevator: by Norma Farber Over,
under & through: by Tan Hoban
What’s Inside? By Duanne Daughtry Up
the steps down the slide: by Jonathan Allen
Beach Ball Left Right: By Bruce McMillan Becca
Backward Becca Forward: by Bruce McMillan
Left or Right? By Karl Rehm
Alfie’s Feet: by Shirley Hughes
North South East and West: by Allan Fowler Where’s
My Teddy? by Jez Alborough
Up
and Down / Patricia Murphy What
is up when you are down / David Marx
Berenstain Bears go up & down / S.
Berenstain Catch that cat / Cari
Meister
Songs and rhymes
to share:
Up I
Stretch (actions follow words)
I'm a little teapot
* sing up and down the scale
I'm a
little teapot, short and stout,
Up I stretch on tippy
toe Here
is my handle, (put hand on hip)
Down to touch my heels I
go Here is my
spout. (hold other arm out to side)
Up again my arms I
send When I
get all steamed up, hear me shout!
Down again my knees I
bend Tip me over,
and pour me out. (lean to side)
Up the
Hill
a Maylaysian folk
game
Teeter Totter
(lift child up and down)
(use child's arm as the hill)
Up and down,
and up and down,
Here goes a turtle up the hill
High up in the
sky
- creepy, creepy, creepy, creepy
Up and down, and up and down,
Here goes a rabbit up the hill
On our teeter
totter
- boing, boing, boing, boing
Here goes an elephant up the hill
Jack in the Box
- thud, thud, thud, thud
Jack in the
box, (curl child up)
Here goes a snake up the hill
Lying so still.
- slither, slither, slither, slither
Won't you come out?
Here comes a rock down the hill
Yes I will! (lift child up / child jumps up)
- boom, boom, boom, boom
(jump your fist down child’s
arm)
The Seesaw
(lift
child up and down)
CRASH!
(land fist in child’s open
palm) The seesaw goes up,
the seesaw goes down.
Seesaw up, seesaw down.
Roly
Poly
Seesaw stops,
one end on the ground.
(Roll hands round each other, in direction named)
Roly poly,
roly poly, up, up, up,
Dickery Dare
Roly poly, roly poly, down, down, down;
Dickery, dickery, dare
(bounce child on knees)
Roly poly, roly poly, out, out, out,
The pig flew up in the
air (lift child up)
Roly poly, roly poly, in, in, in, (give a big hug)
The man in brown soon brought him down
(bring child down)
The Kissing Rhyme
(lift
child up and down)
Dickery, dickery
dare! (bounce child on knees)
Up, up,
up in the sky like this
Down, down, down, for a great big kiss (give a kiss)
Up like this, down for a kiss, (give another kiss)
You're a special child! (give a big hug)
The Royal
Duke of York
A Little Frog
(follow words moving body up or down)
A little green
froggie am I am I
Oh the royal Duke of
York A- Hippity, hippity,
hop (bounce child on knees)
He had ten thousand men
I can jump in the air sooooo high (lift child)
He marched them up to the top of the hill A-
Hippity, hippity, hop (bounce child on knees)
And marched them down again
And when they're up - they're up
Grandpa’s Knees
And when they're down - they're down The
wind blows down the chimney (bounce gently)
But when they're only halfway up
The wind blows through the trees
They're neither up nor down
The wind blows
(child’s name) up and down (lift child up)
- other
verses:
Upon her Grandpa’s* knees
They played their pipes to the top of the
hill (change to Mommy or
Grandma or Daddy…)
They beat their drums to the top of the hill…
They waved their flags at the top of the hill...
Flying Man
- Make up your
own! Flying
man, flying man (bounce child on knees)
Up in the sky (lift child up)
Old Grey Mare
Flying
man, flying man (bounce child on knees)
(sing to "row row row your boat")
Flying so
high (lift child up)
Clip, clip, clipety clop (bounce
child) Over the mountains (bounce
child on knees)
Clipety, clipety,
clop And over
the sea (lift child up)
The old grey mare goes up and down
Flying man, flying man (bounce child on knees)
(lift child up and
down) Won't you take
me? (give big hug)
Until it's time to stop (stop bouncing)
My hands upon my head I place
Stepping Stones
My hands upon
my head I place,
Stepping over stepping stones,
On my
shoulders, on my face,
One, two,
three.
On my lips, by
my side,
Stepping over stepping stones,
Then behind me they will hide.
Come with
me.
Then I will
hold them way up high,
The river's very
fast,
And let my fingers
quickly fly,
And the river's very wide,
Hold them
down in front of me,
We'll step across on stepping stones,
Then I'll clap
them, one, two, three.
And reach the other side.
Merry Go Round Ride
I’m
Climbing
(suit actions
to words)
(suit actions to words)
Ride with me on the merry go round
I’m climbing,
climbing, up the ladder Around, around,
around, around
Sliding, sliding
down the slide Up go the
horses, up
Now I stop with a
BUMP! Down go the
horses, down
On my
feet…
You ride a horse that’s wite
Up I
Jump!
I ride a horse that’s brown
Up and down, up and down
Around, around, around, around