Toddler Program

Tyler Public Library

Amanda Stephen

Target Audience: Toddlers from 18 months to 3 years

Goals: To introduce some pre-literacy skills to toddlers and caregivers, particularly rhyming,
rhythm, singing, and play. To model how caregivers can be doing movement, reading books,
and singing songs with toddlers in the home.
Promotion: Advertise on library website, library bulletin board, and make half-sheet fliers for
program. Go to apartment complexes near library to post and hand out fliers.
Location: Storyroom in Tyler Public Library
Length of Program: 30 minutes
Theme:Ducks
Outline:
Introduction: 2 minutes
Song: Little Baby Ducklings3 minutes (1x to demonstrate, 1x with parents and children, 1x
just parents and children)
Book: Dimity Duck-3 minutes
Song & Movement: Five Ducklings Went Out to Play5 minutes
Book: Ducks and Their Ducklings2 minutes
Song/Fingerplay: Six Little Ducks 2 minutes
Book: Have You Seen My Duckling?2 minutes
Song/Fingerplay: The Little Ducklings4 minutes
Craft/Freeplay: Duck Puppet 6 minutes

Details:
Songs:
Little Baby Ducklings
Little baby ducklings dash, dash, dash.(Have children make running gestures ie
pumping arms)
Jumped in the duck pond splash, splash, splash! (Have children act like they are
splashing water with their hands)
When their Mother called them quack, quack, quack! (Have children make duck
beaks with hands and quack)
Little baby ducklings swam right back. (Have children act like they are swimming
with arms)
Traditional

Adapted from: http://www.preschoolexpress.com/music-station12/duck-songs-rhymes.shtml

Five Little Ducklings Went Out to Play

Five little ducks went out to play Over the hill and far away Mama duck said "Quack, Quack,
Quack" And four little ducks came waddling back.
Four little ducks
Three little ducks...
Two little ducks...
One little duck went out to play Over the hill and far away Mama duck said "Quack, Quack,
Quack" And no little ducks came waddling back.
No little ducks went out to play Over the hill and far away Mama duck said "QUACK, QUACK,
QUACK" And five little ducks came waddling back!
For this Activity: Use yellow feather dusters found at most $1.00 stores. You will need one large
and five small yellow feather dusters, 4 large wiggly eyes, and 10 medium wiggly eyes, and a
piece of orange felt to make beaks.
Turn the feather dusters upside down so that the feathers are sticking up. Glue the big eyes on the
large one for the Mother duck. Cut a large bill and hot glue it on for the mouth. Do the same for
all of the little ones with the smaller eyes and make smaller beaks with the orange felt.
6 Children will hold the ducks by the handle. As you sing, Five Little Ducks went out to play
over the hills and far away, the mother duck called "Quack, Quack, Quack, Quack, and only 4
Little Ducklings came back. Have the children act out as the class sings. Take turns making sure
everyone has a chance to be a duck!
Adapted from:
http://www.perpetualpreschool.com/preschool_themes/ducks/duck_songs.htm

Six little ducks

Six little ducks, That I once knew
Fat ones, skinny ones, little ones, too
But the one little duck, With the feather on his back
He led the others, With a quack, quack, quack (have children make quacking noises for this and
all quacks that follow)
Quack, quack, quack,
Quack, quack, quack

He led the others

With a quack, quack, quack
Down to the river
They would go
Wibble, wobble, wibble, wobble,
To and fro
But the one little duck
With the feather on his back
He led the others
With a quack, quack, quack
Quack, quack, quack,
Quack, quack, quack
He led the others
With a quack, quack, quack
Back from the river
They would come
Wibble, wobble, wibble, wobble,
Ho, hum, hum
But the one little duck
With the feather on his back
He led the others
With a quack, quack, quack
Quack, quack, quack,
Quack, quack, quack
He led the others
With a quack, quack, quack
Adapted from: http://www.childfun.com/index.php/holidays/spring-holidays/easter/385-ducksongs-poems-a-fingerplays-easter-crafts-and-activities.html
The Little Ducklings
All the little ducklings
Line up in a row. (Have children and caregivers stand up in a row)
Quack, quack, quack,
And away they go. (Start walking around story space having the ducks follow)
They follow their mother, (put hands behind as a tail waddle)
Waddling to and fro.
Quack, quack, quack
And away they go.
(repeat above)
Down to the big pond
Happy as can be. (Have children do big smiles)

Quack, quack, quack

They are full of glee. (repeat)
They jump in the water (jump up and down)
And bob up and down,
Quack, quack, quack,
they swim all around.
(repeat)
All the little ducklings (swimming motion)
Swimming far away.
Quack, quack, quack,
They'll play another day.(repeat)
Books: * books used in storytime
Berry, Lynne. Duck Dunks. New York: Henry Holt and Company, 2008.
Berry, Lynee. Ducking for Apples. New York: Henry Holt and Company, 2010.
Cronin, Doreen and Lewin, Betsy. Click, Clack, Quackity-Quack: An Alphabetical Adventure.
New York: Atheneum Books for Young Readers, 2005.
Ginsburg, Mirra. The Chick and the Duckling. New York: Macmillan Publishing Company,
1972.
*Hall, Margaret. Ducks and Their Ducklings. Mankato, MN: Capstone Press, 2004.
Hest, Amy. In the Rain with Baby Duck. Cambridge, MA: Candlewick Press, 1995.
Krilanovich, Nadia. Chicken, Chicken, Duck! Berkeley, CA: Tricycle Press, 2011.
*Tafuri, Nancy. Have You Seen My Duckling? New York: Greenwillow Books, 1984.
*Yolan, Jane and Braun, Sebastien. Dimity Duck. New York: Philomel Books, 2006.

Craft:
Supplies: Duck cutouts
Crayons
Feathers
Glue
Craft sticks
Instructions: Print duck template below onto card stock and cut out for children before storytime.

Have children color and glue feathers onto ducks as they desire. Glue or have caregivers glue
craft stick to the bottom of the duck to create a puppet.

www.craft-chronicles.com/2011/10/quack-quack-quack-duck-and-egg.html