Train themed storytimes are always a big hit with the toddler and preschool crowds. It’s hard to resist doing a little chugga chugga chug action with a classic “Toot! Toot!” at the end. Today I’m offering two sets of train storytime printables for free! Each set comes with trains in 9 colors, great for helping little ones learn their colors. One set can easily be turned into flannel board pieces to use with a wide variety of train rhymes, songs, and books.
Train Rhymes
Train Songs
- Ride the Train
- This Little Train
- Down By the Station
- The Good Morning Train
- The Good-bye Train
- If You Have a Train
Train Fingerplays
Train Storytime Printables
As mentioned earlier, these two train storytime printables can be used in a variety of ways. The full-size trains can be used with the song This Little Train holding each train up for the verse about its color. They can also be used to create a walking path if laminated/taped and secured to the floor. A fun game is to place the different colored trains in a circle and have children walk the circle to music like a cake walk. Then when the music stops each child sits on their colored train. This leads right into the song If You Have a Train (just switch the words “you have” for “you’re on.”)
Free Train Printable
Download this free printable to use in your next train-themed program. Each train is full-page sized and a different color. 9 pages, 9 trains, 9 colors: black, gray, white, red, orange, yellow, blue, green & purple.
The second printable contains all nine colored trains on one page. Each train is about two inches wide; the perfect size for turning into flannel board pieces or creating stick puppets. A fun extension activity is two print two sets, laminate and cut them out and use them to play a matching game. Another extension activity is to hide the trains around your room and have the children find them.
Free Train Printable
Download this free printable to use in your next train-themed program. Each train is a different color: black, gray, white, red, orange, yellow, blue, green & purple. Print two copies to create a matching game!
Music for your Train Storytime
Some of my favorite children’s musicians have some great train songs. They work great for the “train walk” mentioned earlier or as gathering music to play at the beginning of your program.
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While the album speaks to the child in all of us, I Believe in Little Things was born of Diana Panton’s desire to present a personal musical offering to her many fans who are parents of young children. Diana explains, “I started to hear from moms that they were using songs from my albums like ‘Moon River’ and ‘Fly Me to the Moon’ to put their children to bed. This inspired me to put together a collection of songs that would hold special meaning for children (and their parents). The recording process was a real treat, as every effort was invested in using the best musicians and production values to make this record equal in quality to any of the jazz albums I’ve previously released.”
Our family has thoroughly enjoyed I Believe in Little Things. It is a terrific addition to our music library. We have enjoyed arts and crafts time with Diana Panton’s voice inspiring our creativity. We’ve also brought her along on car rides for some much needed crooning which soothes all our car-cramped crankiness and exhaustion from running errands with four kids in tow.
This giveaway will, hopefully, reach families, teachers and librarians and provide another opportunity to get kids music into the hands of those who know and love kids on a daily basis.
