Food Storytime

Storytime for 1 to 3 year olds:

• Opening - Skinnamarink (from Car Songs: Songs to Sing Anywhere by Dennis Buck at Kimbo), Sticky Sticky Bubblegum
• Book #1 – Very Hungry Caterpillar by Eric Carle (BIG BOOK)
• Activity – Alligator Pie (poem by Dennis Lee, first published in a book of poetry by the same name in 1974)
• Bridge - Open Shut Them (fingerplay)

Open, shut them
(open and close hands)
Open, shut them
Give a little clap (clap)
Open, shut them
Open, shut them
Put them in your lap
(put hands in lap)

Creep them, creep them
Under your chin
(creep fingers up chest)
Open your mouth, but don't put them in
(do as words say)

Open, shut them
Open, shut them
Give a little clap
Open shut them
Open shut them
Put them in your lap

• Flannelboard/Math Activity - 4 Little Apples (counting backwards rhyme I found in the book Ready-To-Go Storytimes: Fingerplays, Scripts, Patterns, Music and More by Gail Benton and Trisha Waichulaitis)
• Fingerplay - Pat-a-Cake (traditional)
• Book #2 -Maisy Bakes a Cake by Lucy Cousins (pop-up)
• Activity – I'm a Little Teapot (action rhyme found in This Little Piggy & Other Rhymes to Sing & Play by Jane Yolen and Will Hillenbrand)
• Closing - Popcorn Calling Me (scarf song found in Buzz Buzz by Laurie Berkner)
• Craft – coloring sheet