Ducks

Ducks three times at three different libraries.  Two newish books I wanted to use for the theme.  I did Seven Little Ducklings at two of the family storytimes.  It is such an adorable book...but the kids were just too young to really "get it".  And on some of the pages the illustrations of kind of small.  Duck, Duck, Goose (by John Hare) is also very fun, but geared more towards preschoolers.  

Books

Seven Little Ducklings

by Annette LeBlanc Cate

Splish, Splash, Ducky!

by Lucy Cousins

Ducks!

by Deborah Underwood; illustrated by T.L. McBeth

Third Storytime Books

Songs and Movement

Hello, Hello!

Put Your Hands Up

(tune: Do Your Ears Hang Low?)

Put your hands up high

Put your hands down low

Put your hands in the middle

And wiggle them so

Put your elbows in front

Put your elbows in bakc

Put your elbows in the middle

And quack, quack, quack!

I Have a Little Duck

(tune: Wheels on the Bus)

I have a little duck that goes quack, quack, quack

Quack, quack, quack

Quack, quack, quack

I have a little duck that goes quack, quack, quack

All day long!

Bobs up and down

Splash

Waddle

Are You Sleeping?

My Hands Say Let's Play

Flannel

Ducks Away!

adapted from Mem Fox

I love the book, but I didn't really enjoy doing it as a flannel.

Activity

It was our first really nice day of spring, so we played with plastic ducks in water on the patio!