Letter C: Songs & Rhymes

1) C is for Caterpillar from The Measured Mom.

• Print caterpillar and butterfly clipart from Preschool Mom. Glue the caterpillar onto one side of a popsicle stick and the butterfly onto the other side of the popsicle stick. Have your child hold the caterpillar to start and flip to the butterfly at the end of the song.

The fuzzy little caterpillar

Curled upon a leaf.

Spun her little chrysalis

And then she fell asleep.

While she was sleeping, 

She dreamed that she could fly.

And later when she woke up

She was a butterfly!

Tune: Itsy Bitsy Spider

2) C is for Clouds from the Measured Mom.

• Hold & Shake Cloud Shaker Plates. Both of my boys (ages: almost three and one) loved these cloud shakers! You can make them by hot gluing two paper plates together, with dried beans inside. I drew a cloud on a piece of blue paper and used a velcro dot to stick it to the plate. I chose velcro dots, so I can reuse the shaker plates in the future. 

Clouds are floating

Clouds are floating

Up so high, up so high,

Floating up above us,

floating up above us,

In the sky, in the sky

Tune: Are you Sleeping?

3) Who Stole the Cookies from the Cookie Jar?

• I bought a set of oreo matchin' middles to use for this song. They are expensive new on amazon ($40), so I looked around a bit and was so excited to find a gently used set on ebay ($7). My almost three drew a cookie, identified the shape inside and we sang the song. Then, my one drew a cookie, I told him the shape inside and we sang the song. We did this over and over until my boys were tired of singing and only wanted to play with the oreos. If you don't want to buy anything, you can print a set of cookies and do the same activity.

(Name) stole the cookies from the cookie jar.

Who me?

Yes, you?

Couldn't be! 

Then, who? 

(have child choose a new name and repeat song)

4) We are Little Orange Crabs by Heather McPhail.

• Use actions while singing this song. My almost three wanting to sing this song over and over with a different color of crab each time. 

We are little orange crabs by the sea,
(pretend to pinch with your hands)

Playing on the sand we're happy as can be.
(point to cheeks).

Watch us crawling this way and that way, too,
(use fingers to pretend crawl on the floor)

And then go swimming in the sea so blue.
 (pretend to swim).