Bubble Baths!

Through a weird amalgamation of crazy events, my Baby Steps partner in crime and I both ended up being out and unable to plan a program for our last storytime before our pre-SRP break.  Fortunately, another coworker lent us a few of her planned songs, and we were able to put together a bubble bath-themed storytime that ended up being really good!

We started off with our regular hello songs, bounced around in our little red wagons, and then my partner read our book--Ten Pigs: An Epic Bath Adventure.

I picked this book because when I read it before storytime it made me laugh out loud.  Everyone loved it!  The illustrations are fantastic, and we all had fun counting up to ten and then back down as the story progressed.  I highly recommend this book if you're looking for an entertaining bath time story to share.

After our story, we practiced our counting with a five floating bubbles flannel set.  The rhyme is very simple--"Five little bubbles floating to the top, one little bubble did not stop!  Uh oh...pop!" 


 

 

 

 

 

 

Five blue bubbles floating around!

This was one of the rhymes that my lifesaver of a coworker shared with us.  I'm not sure where she got it from, but our babies loved it!  They kept trying to come up to the board and help us pop the bubbles as we counted down.

We have some other songs and stand up activities that we do regularly, like practicing stop, playing with egg shakers, and the number one favorite around our library, the elevator song.  Before we ended, we had one more bathtub song courtesy of my coworker, and it might be my favorite song ever.  We all had so much fun singing it together, and if you have the time I highly recommend making some kind of flannel set to go with it, because our babies loved all the tub toys in our set.

Every bathtub should come with an octopus!

Without further ado, I give you "Sing a Song of Tub Toys!"

Sing a Song of Tub Toys 

(to the tune of "If You're Happy and You Know It")

There's a sailboat in the tub, in the tub

There's a sailboat in the tub, in the tub

There's a sailboat in the tub,

Rub-a-dub, rub-a-dub

There's a sailboat in the tub, in the tub

You can repeat this with whatever tub items you'd like to use!  We had a frog, a duckie, a whale, and an octopus...as it turns out, it's kind of hard to fit "octopus" into that song, but we all enjoyed the adventure of trying to figure out how to sing it.

This was by far our most rushed attempt at getting a plan together since this coworker and I started doing Baby Steps together, and I was really worried that would be reflected in the storytime, but it was such a blast...my coworker and I both agree that it was one of our favorites ever!