Best Picks for Storytime About Toys

I made this Spongebob bag for my nephew, using a plain yellow bag from the Dollar Store. I illustrated the bag using construction paper, rubber cement and a black marker.

Toddler Read Alouds
Are You There, Bear? by Ron Maris - works well as a puppet story
Floppy Teddy Bear by Patricia Lillie
Higher! Higher! by Leslie Patricelli
Jiggle Joggle Jee by Laura Richards
Miss Polly Has a Dolly by Pamela Duncan Edwards
Monkey and Me by Emily Gravett
My Bear and Me by Barbara Maitland
Overboard! by Sarah Weeks
Ten in the Bed by Penny Dale
Ten in the Bed by David Ellwand
That Dancin' Dolly by Mertz
Zoom Zoom Zoom by Kirsten Hall

Preschool Read Alouds
Bea's 4 Bears by Martha Weston
Cowboy Kid by Max Eilenberg
I Lost My Bear by Jules Fieffer
I Love You, Mister Bear by Sylvie Wickstrom
Harry and Horsie by Katie Van Camp
Have You Seen Duck?  by Janet Holmes and Jonathan Bentley
Louie's Goose by H. M. Ehrlich
Next! Please by Christopher Inns - a toy hospital 
Night-Night, Emily by Claire Freedman
Off We Go!  by Beverly Abramson
One Ted Falls Out of Bed by Julia Donaldson
Pilot Pups by Michelle Meadows
Playground Day! by Jennifer Merz
Teddybear Blue by Malchy Doyle
Toy Trouble by Justine Fontes
Where's My Teddy? by Jez Alborough
While You Are Sleeping by Alexis Deacon

Kindergarten Read Alouds
Big is Big, and Little Little by J. Patrick Lewis
Blue Horse by Helen Stephens
I Love You, Blue Kangaroo by Emma Chichester Clark
Knufflebunny by Mo Willems
Please Do Feed the Bears by Phyllis Reynolds Naylor - can be told as a puppet story
Show-and-Tell Lion by Barbara Abercrombie
Sock Monkey Boogie-Woogie by Cece Bell
Stuffed Animals Get Ready for Bed by Alison Inches
10 Little Sock Monkeys by William Winburn
That Rabbit Belongs to Emily Brown by Cressida Cowell
When Library Lights Go Out by Megan McDonald

Flannels, Songs and Story Extensions

Toy version of “Wheels on the Bus” song
*Works well as a flannel story
The balls at storytime bounce up and down,
Up and down, up and down…
The balls at storytime bounce up and down all through the day

The balls at storytime bounce way up high…
The balls at storytime bounce way down low…
The balls at storytime bounce all around…

Three Balls flannel script
A great big ball
A medium-sized ball
A little ball I see
Let's see if we can count them: 1-2-3

Teddy Bear version of “Shortening Bread”
Teddy put your jammies on, jammies on, jammies on.
Teddy put your jammies on just like this.
First we do one foot, one foot, one foot.
First we do one foot just like this.
Then we do the other foot, other foot, other foot.
Then we do the other foot just like this.
Then we pull the bottoms up, bottoms up, bottoms up.
Then we pull the bottoms up just like this.

Teddy put your jammies on, jammies on, jammies on.
Tedddy put your jammies on just like this.
First we do one arm, one arm, one arm
First we do one arm just like this.
Then we do the other arm, other arm, other arm.
Then we do the other arm, just like this.
Now we do the snaps up, snaps up, snaps up.
Now we do the snaps up just like this.

Now you have your jammies on, jammies on, jammies on.
Now you have your jammies on, you look so sweet.

Fuzzy Wuzzy
Fuzzy Wuzzy was a bear
Fuzzy Wuzzy had no hair
Fuzzy Wuzzy wasn’t fuzzy, was he?

Teddy Bear, Teddy Bear
Teddy Bear, Teddy Bear, turn around
Teddy Bear, Teddy Bear, touch the ground
Teddy Bear, Teddy Bear, touch your shoe
Teddy Bear, Teddy Bear, peek-a-boo
Teddy Bear, Teddy Bear, turn out the light
Teddy Bear, Teddy Bear, say goodnight