My little ones love circle time and most of them are little, 13 months, (2) 18 months and 2.5 year old. As soon as they hear my little bell ring, the 18 months old say circle...and they come sit on my carpet. I've never made any child have to sit, if they choose to wander around, that was fine by me...but all of my kids come to circle even the 12 month old...i think she sees the others and now she too enjoys the time spent there.

I have a puppet that always starts off circle time and sings to them and gives each of them a hug and kiss...they especially love this.

We do a little felt board story and sing a song and that's it. Very short.

So I'm completely for circle time at this age...if you make it short, interesting and fun...any child will enjoy it.

We keep it really short but fun. I do a calendar. They love to help point to the numbers, they each take turns sticking on the day. For the weather, we put pretend binoculars to our face to look out the window. The young ones just enjoy making funny faces when i say is it snowing today? And we scrunch up our face and say "no it's not snowing today".

I've often found that it's me getting up from the floor first and not them, sometimes they sit there wanting another felt board story...they really enjoy those.