Theme — Bedtime:

Books
For Infants (birth - 17 months):
Ten, Nine, Eight by Molly Bang
Goodnight Moon by Margaret Wise Brown
Baby Hearts and Baby Flowers by Remy Charlip
All on a Sleepy Night by Shutta Crum
Time For Bed by Mem Fox
Guess How Much I Love You by Sam McBratney
Ten Sleepy Sheep by Phyllis Root
Baby's Boat by Jeanne Titherington
Peek-a-book : a lift-the-flap bedtime rhyme by Lee Wardlaw
Where does the brown bear go? by Nicki Weiss

For Toddlers (18 months - 3 years):
The Goodnight Kiss by Jim Aylesworth
Good Night, Baby Bear by Frank Asch
How Many Kisses Do You Want Tonight? by Varsha Bajaj
Bedtime, Nelly! by Jan Barger
Anything for You by John Wallace
Is it Time? by Marilyn Janovitz
Bouncing on the Bed by Jackie Koller
Good Night, Gorilla by Peggy Rathman
Hush-a-bye Babies by Janet Slingsby
Bedtime by Elsa Warnick

For Preschoolers (4 - 5 years):
Good Night, Sleep Tight, Little Bunnies by Dawn Apperley
And if the Moon Could Talk by Kate Banks
Hushabye, Bearcub by Strawberrie Donnelly
Good Night, Copycub by Richard Edwards
My Favorite Bear by Andrea Gabriel
All the Way to Morning by Marc Harshman
Before I Go to Sleep by Thomas Hood
Are You Ready for Bed? by Jane Johnson
Going to Sleep on the Farm by Wendy Cheyette Lewison
Good Night Engines by Denise Dowling Mortensen
Rabbit's Bedtime by Nancy Elizabeth Wallace

Poems/Fingerplays
Big Yellow Moon
Good Night!
Sleeping Time
Stars
To Bed, To Bed
Too Many in the Bed

Songs
Find many bedtime themed songs in these and other lullaby CDs from the Canton Public Library:
Dreamytime songs
Sleepytime
Songs for Rest Time
Linda Arnold's Lullaby Land by Linda Arnold
Go to sleep Jeff! by The Wiggles
Good Night: enchanting story visualizations with sleepytime music
by Jim Weiss

Activities

• Flashlight Tag
  Turn out all the lights in the house and play flashlight hide and seek. Cover the windows and turn out the lights in your house and have fun!
• Graphs
  Graphing is an easy way to tie in math to "bedtime." Create a chart with headings for things that children do to get ready for bed, such as "brush teeth" "brush your hair" "get on pajamas" and so on. Only list 3-4 different ones. Write (or have children write) their names on a small sentence strip or index card and have them put their name under what they do first. Which one has the most? Which one has the least?
• PJ Match
  Make several sets of pajama shaped cutouts. Let your children match them by shape, color, size, or anything else they want to.