Storytime: Mice

Books

Mouse and Hippo by Mike Twohy

Oops Pounce Quick Run by Mike Twohy

Mayday Mouse by Seb Braun

Hide and Squeak by Heather Vogel Frederick

Mouse Shapes by Ellen Stoll Walsh

Mousequerade Ball by Lori Moretensen

There are a lot of great picture books and children's songs about mice. There's also everyone's favorite flannelboard, "Mouse in the House," so this storytime was a definite winner!

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Songs and Rhymes

Action Song: “Hickory Dickory Dock”

Hickory dickory dock (run fingers up legs)

The mouse ran up the clock (run fingers up body)

The clock struck one (clap hands once over head)

The mouse ran down (run fingers down body)

Hickory dickory dock (run fingers down legs)

…the clock struck two (clap twice) - the mouse said boo!

…the clock struck three (clap 3 times) - the mouse said whee!

…the clock struck four (clap 4 times) - there is no more

Source: Perry Public Library

Action Rhyme: “Boing! Boing! Squeak!”

Boing! Boing! Squeak! Boing! Boing! Squeak!

A bouncing mouse is in my house,

It’s been there for a week.

It bounced from out of nowhere,

Then quickly settled in.

I’m grateful that it came alone,

I’ve heard it has a twin.

It bounces in the kitchen,

It bounces in the den,

It bounces through the living room —

Look! There it goes again.

Boing! Boing! Squeak! Boing! Boing! Squeak!

A bouncing mouse is in my house,

It’s been there for a week.

It bounces on the sofa,

On the table and the bed,

Up the stairs and on the chairs

And even on my head.

That mouse continues bouncing,

Every minute of the day,

It bounces, bounces, bounces,

But it doesn’t bounce away.

Boing! Boing! Squeak! Boing! Boing! Squeak!

A bouncing mouse is in my house,

it’s been there for a week.

Source: Jack Prelutsky- New Kid on the Block

Action Rhyme: “Where are the Baby Mice”

Where are the baby mice? Squeak, squeak, squeak (Make fist and put behind back)

I cannot see them. Peek, peek, peek. (Shrug shoulders and begin to bring fist out.)

Here they come out of their hole in the wall. (Show fist.)

One, two, three, four, five and that's all! (Uncurl fingers one at a time.)

Source: So Tomorrow

Transition Rhyme: “Tall as a Tree”

Tall as a tree

Wide as a house

Thin as a pin

Small as a mouse

Source: So Tomorrow

Flannelboards and Fingerplays

Flannelboard: “Mouse in the House”

Little mouse, little mouse, are you in the (color) house?

Craft

We made little paper heart mice with googly eyes!