Jungle Storytime

Jungle Storytime (Orig. 8/2020)

This jungle storytime is perfect for the upcoming Tails & Tales Summer Quest theme! You can watch the storytime here.

Opening Songs:

As usual, our opening songs consist of:
The More We Get Together (using baby signs)
Shake My Sillies Out by Raffi

Flannel Board:

We LOVE this bath-time version of "Down in the Jungle"- found on Let's Play Kids Music.

Down in the jungle where nobody goes,
There’s a big fat elephant washing his toes,
With a rub-a-dub here, and a rub-a-dub there,
That’s the way he washes his toes!
(Chorus:
Boom, boogie, boom, boogie, boogie woogie boom
Boom, boogie, boom, boogie, boogie woogie boom
Rub-a-dub here, and a rub-a-dub there,
That’s the way he washes his ____!)
Down in the jungle where there’s nobody there,
There’s a great big lion washing his hair,
With a rub-a-dub here, and a rub-a-dub there,
That’s the way he washes his hair!
CHORUS
Down in the jungle, if you look in the trees,
There’s a cheeky monkey washing his knees,
With a rub-a-dub here, and a rub-a-dub there,
That’s the way he washes his knees!
CHORUS
Down in the jungle if you care to check,
There’s a very tall giraffe washing his neck,
With a rub-a-dub here, and a rub-a-dub there,
That’s the way he washes his neck!
CHORUS
Let us know if you'd like a stencil for our hand drawn flannel board!

Our hand drawn flannel board
Our hand drawn flannel board

BOOK:

We read "Over in the Jungle" by Marianne Berkes. We loved this story because it is a counting book AND each page rhymes, which are two great ways to keep the attention spans of younger readers.

over in the jungle

More Books:

We typically read one book for preschool storytime, but here are some other great jungle stories!

By John Butler
By John Butler
By Giles Andreae
By Giles Andreae
By Dan Yaccarino
By Dan Yaccarino