Books:
Toddler Books:
Welcome Home, Bear: A Book of Animal Habitats - Il Sung Na
Do Lions Live on Lily Pads? - Melanie Walsh
Preschool Books:
Room for Bear - Ciara Gavin
Welcome Home, Bear: A Book of Animal Habitats - Il Sung Na
Mama Built a Little Nest - Jennifer Ward
The Napping House - Audrey Wood
Rhymes/Fingerplays/Songs:
Whose House Guessing Game
One of my library assistants made a laminated flannel. She made six different pictures of animal homes and six separate pictures of animals.
We had a cave, a barn, the ocean, a tree, a nest, and a hive.
For animals, we had a bear, a cow, a fish, an owl, a bird, and a bee.
We played a game with the kids, asking them if a fish belonged in a tree, or a cave, and the kids had fun telling us where each animal lived.
Source: My lovely Library Assistant
Home Sweet Home Fingerplay:
A nest is a home for a robin (cup hands),
A hive is a home for a bee (put fists together),
A hole is a home for a rabbit (make circle with hands),
And a house is a home for me! (make roof with hands)
Source: Poudre River Public Library
Little Mouse Hiding Game:
Little Mouse, Little Mouse, are you behind the red house?
repeat with different colors
Source: Traditional
The Napping House (flannel story adapted from the book by Audrey Wood):
There is a house.
A napping house.
Where everyone is sleeping.
And in that house,
There is a bed.
A cozy bed,
In a napping house,
Where everyone is sleeping.
And in that bed,
There is a granny.
A snoring granny,
On a cozy bed,
In a napping house,
Where everyone is sleeping.
And on that granny,
There is a child.
A dreaming child,
On a snoring granny,
On a cozy bed,
In a napping house,
Where everyone is sleeping.
And on that child,
There is a dog.
A dozing dog,
On a dreaming child,
On a snoring granny,
On a cozy bed,
In a napping house,
Where everyone is sleeping.
And on that dog,
There is a cat.
A purring cat,
On a dozing dog,
On a dreaming child,
On a snoring granny,
On a cozy bed,
In a napping house,
Where everyone is sleeping.
And on that cat,
There is a flea.
A wakeful flea,
On a purring cat,
On a dozing dog,
On a dreaming child,
On a snoring granny,
On a cozy bed,
In a napping house,
Where everyone is sleeping.
A wakeful flea who bites the cat,
Who claws the dog,
Who thumps the child,
Who bumps the granny,
Who breaks the bed,
In the napping house,
Where no one now is sleeping.
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