Use established ones and have the children rate them for relaxation potential.
Sleepy people need lullabies and, when you've stopped singing cumulative songs, you can switch to lullabies. The grandfather of the cumulative tales is probably "This Is the House That Jack Built". It's an obvious step from this cumulative tale to all the others in song and story songs such as " The Old Lady Who Swallowed a Fly", "The Hole in the Bottom of the Sea" and "There's a Hole in the Bucket" among countless others have been delighting singers and annoying listeners for years. Are there other books with a similar climax? The concept that the flea was the straw that broke the camel's back could lead to other situations where that old saw seems to apply. What about that bike left out in the rain? Is it Granny's or the child's or neither one?. For children who have difficulty seeing this, focus their attention on the water pitcher it's more apparent there. As the pile goes higher, so does our vantage point until when the pile reaches its zenith, we must be on the ceiling. At the beginning of the story, we're at eye level with the bed. Do any of them move before they get up to join the pig pile on the bed? Did you also notice that, except for the very first picture, everybody's there already in the room, long before the text takes notice of them. We start with a sleepy blue and change to a vibrant yellow as the afternoon rain changes to sunshine and a rainbow appears. Of course you noticed the changing colors as the house woke up. Are there more? And what if it wasn't a napping house, but a laughing house? You'd have chucklers and grinners and? Take one sentence from the book and change one word at a time, making sure each new sentence still makes sense: "There is a house, a napping house, where everybody's sleeping" becomes "Here is a house, a napping house, where everybody's sleeping", "Here was a house, etc.", until perhaps, "Here was a home, a laughing home, which has nobody crying". Look at all the synonyms that you have for sleeping. 
Children with very limited attention spans also enjoy the complete restating of all the preceding action on each page. The repeated phrases make Napping House ideal for beginning readers.
Each page repeats the action from bottom up. Gradually, the pile increases with a dozing dog, a snoozing cat, a slumbering mouse and finally a wakeful flea who, by biting the mouse, sets off a chain of events which results in a broken pile and even a broken bed. It's a rainy afternoon and Granny is snoring on the bed in a cozy room.
This delightful cumulative tale has been a favorite with readers and listeners since its debut.
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