A short post for y’all today, but a good one! I’ve been doing this with the kids this week and they’ve been enjoying it! I got this from Pubyac (someone sent out a compilation of teddy bear storytime ideas).
I give every child a picture of a bear. If you have enough teddies on hand to give them each a real one, great, but I do not. I made 24 of these – just clipart images of teddies, covered in contact paper (so they can be wiped off if necessary), and cut out:
We then recite this rhyme, moving the bear around to the body parts indicated:
Bippity, boppity, boo, there’s a teddy bear on my…shoe!
Bippity, boppity, bee, there’s a teddy bear on my…knee!
Bippity, boppity, belbow, there’s a teddy bear on my…elbow!
Bippity, boppity, bose, there’s a teddy bear on my…nose!
Etc…continued for as long as you can find rhymes!
This is very similar to “Willoughby Walloughby Woo,” in fact, I almost said elephant instead of teddy bear several times. I guess you COULD use almost any animal for this rhyme! I just happened to be doing a bear storytime right now.
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Oh yay! Thanks for the rhyme, Tara! The kids (and the teachers) really liked it – several teachers asked me for the words. And I said “elephant” a few times too!
Haha this is my rhyme! I posted it on Pubyac a couple weeks ago. I started saying it this way because everytime I said “Willoughby Walloughby Woo” I would say “elephant” out of habbit even though I was trying to do the rhyme with different animals.
Thanks! I am planning a bear storytime right now for toddlers. This will work great.