Bundle Up!

Stories and songs about winter clothing - all those layers and layers!

Shorter books appropriate for babies and toddlers, or for the end of the storytime:

Under My Hood I have a Hat / Karla Kuskin

One, Two, One Pair / Bruce MacMillan

Buster's First Snow / Hisako Madokoro

The Snowy Day / Ezra Jack Keats

Longer books for kids ages 3 -7:

The Mitten / Alvin Tresselt , or...

The Mitten / Jan Brett 

The Hat / Jan Brett

The Missing Mitten Mystery / Steven Kellogg

      Early literacy activity : Narrative Skill. Most of these stories could be retold with felt board pieces, or in the case of The Mitten, with Beanie babies or other small stuffed animals and a pouch of some kind. Sometimes for Narrative Skill, I just go back to the beginning of the book and let the kids tell the story as I turn the pages. This would work with The Snowy Day or Buster's First Snow.

Here are the action activities:

Action Song: This is the way…

   (Tune: Here We Go Round the Mulberry Bush)

This is the way  we put on our pants,

put on our pants, put on our pants,

this is the way we put on our pants

on a cold and frosty morning!

Button our shirt     put on our coat

pull on our socks  put on our hat

put on our boots  put on our mittens

Action song: Hat, Snowsuit, Gloves & Boots

(tune: Head, Shoulders, Knees and Toes) 

Hat, snowsuit, gloves and boots

gloves and boots

Hat, snowsuit, gloves and boots

gloves and boots

I'm bundled up and ready for the snow

But wait! I think I have to go!

     ~~author unknown.

Tickle Rhyme: My Zipper Suit

  adult does zipping motions on child

     on "all around the town" gently tickle all over-- 

My zipper suit is bunny brown,

the top zips up

the legs zip down

Zip it up! Zip it down!

Zip it all around the town! 

Action Song: Put on Your Hat

(tune: Apples and Bananas)

Put on your hat, hat, hat, 

This is snowy weather!

Put on your:  scarf, coat, snowpants, mittens, boots, etc.)

Felt Board: Color Mittens

(cut 4 simple mitten shapes out of felt:

red, yellow, green and blue) -let kids finish 

sentences with colors.

My poor little kitten lost her mitten,

and started to cry, "boohoo!"

So I helped my kitten 

to look for her mitten,

her beautiful mitten of blue.

I found a mitten just right

for a kitten

under my mother's bed.

But alas, the mitten was

not the right mitten,

for it was colored red.

continue with: 

  found under Father's pillow - yellow

  found in the laundry so clean - green 

I found a mitten just right for a kitten,

inside my favorite shoe.

And this time the mitten 

was just the right mitten,

for it was colored blue!

     attributed to Jean Warren of Totline

       in some sources, others, no author listed  

 Here's one I think I wrote:

Snow Suit Song (tune: Head, shoulders, knees & toes)

            Hat, Jacket, pants, and socks for my toes

            Hat, Jacket, pants, and boots for the snow

            Scarf and mittens, zippers and Velcro

            And now, oh, no! I have to go!