Baby Storytime: Mermaids

Welcome Song

Sign Language
3-5 signs; Repetition, Positivity, & Consistency; approximations
Learn: Play Repeat: Book, Water, More, Please

Book
Flipper Friends by Cindy Rodriguez

Color Game: Shell Search
Little pearl in the sea; Little pearl where can you be?
Are you in the ________ shell?
(after it is found) what’s in the __________ shell?

(credit: Miss Jess, modification of Little Mouse rhyme)

Book
Five Little Mermaids by Sunny Scribens

Lapsit Song: Have You Ever Seen a Mermaid? (Tune: “Have You Ever Seen a Lassie?”)
Have you ever seen a mermaid, a mermaid, a mermaid,
Have you ever seen a mermaid swim this way and that?
Swim this way and that way, swim this way and that way?
Have you ever seen a mermaid swim this way and that?

Repeat with: shark, octopus, etc.
(Credit: modified locally, CSLP 2022)

Book
Baby Touch and Feel: Mermaid by Dawn Sirett

Egg Song
Under the Sea from Disney’s “The Little Mermaid” – available on Youtube

Closing Songs
Bubble Song & Goodbye Song

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