Action Songs for Toddlers

The following song suggestions allow toddlers to move around or use their hands to join in...

1. Eensy Weensy Spider

2. Five Little Ducks (have the children swim away like the ducks and then return at the end)

3. Ants go Marching (march around the room)

4. Sleeping Bunny (switch the animal again and again)

5.  I am a Little Teapot

6. Zoom Zoom Zoom We are Going to the Moon (toddlers can launch themselves like rockets)

7. Open and Shut Them

8. Hokey Pokey (change the lyrics with different themes)

9. Head and Shoulders (sing slow and then fast)

10. Engine Engine Number Nine (be a train around the room)

11. Wheels on the Bus

12. Twinkle Twinkle Little Star (make up actions for children to twinkle stars)

13. If you are Happy and You Know It

14. Five Little Monkeys Swinging in the Tree

15. Farmer in the Dell

17. Teddy Bear Turn Around

18. Baby Bumblebee

19.  Ring Around the Rosie

20. Shake my Wiggles Out ( Raffi)

Picture Frame Preschool Crafts: 20 Ideas

In preschool, daycare and primary school settings, when it comes to planning gifts for the children to make for their families, picture frames with photos inside remains a great choice. Following are some ideas...

Frame options:
Popsicle sticks stuck together with a glue gun
Paperplate with circle cut out (turns into a flower nicely)
Bought craft frames: wooden or foam (Michael's is great choice)
Pieces of cardboard-with or without the center removed
Styrofoam trays

Decoration Ideas:

Lots of glue is often needed!

1. buttons (take photos of child holding a sign saying "Cute as a Button")
2. googly eyes
3. old puzzle pieces (take photo of a child with the sign, "Love You to Pieces"
4. pasta (could spray paint gold or silver after completed)
5. letters (spelling love, dad, mom, etc.)
6. shells and/or pebbles
7. candy wrappers ( "you are sweet")
8. pom poms
9. bolts (great for Father's Day)
10. star shapes ("you are a star")
11. tissue paper
12. craft jewels and/or old jewelery pieces
13. heart shapes ("I love you")
14. flowers pictures from old greeting cards
15. old maps cut into pieces
16. straws cut in different sizes
17. colored sand

No glue needed

18. stickers
19. bingo markers
20. fingerprints or handprints