Snow 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 – Downhill Fun: A Counting Book About Winter by Michael Dahl, illustrated by Tedd Ouren
• Activity – Snowflakes (action rhyme, I'm not sure where I picked up this rhyme)

Snowflakes falling down, down, down.
(hands flutter down)
Gently covering all the town
(move arms back and forth)
Swirling, twirling, down they come.
(swirl hands around, turn in a circle)
One landed on my tongue.
(point to tongue)

• 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 - 5 Little Snowmen (counting backwards rhyme, not sure where I found this one)

Five little snowmen all made of snow.
Five little snowmen all in a row.
Out came the sun and shone all day.
And on little snowman melted away.

Four little snowmen...
Three little snowmen...

Two little snowmen made a good plan.
Into my kitchen they both ran.
Hopped in my freezer where the temperature's right.
And they come out to play on very cold nights.

• Fingerplay - Itsy-Bitsy Snowflake (I first found this fingerplay in Mailbox Preschool magazine, Dec./Jan. 2007-8, page 26)

The itsy-bitsy snowflake fell down from the sky.
(flutter hands down)
It landed on my nose
(point to nose)
And it bounced upon my eye
(point to eye)
It slid down to my chin
(point to chin)
And it landed on my tongue.
(point to tongue)
Then it melted all away
Now my snowflake song is done!

• Book #2 - Cleo In the Snow by Caroline Mockford
• Activity – The Snowman (action rhyme, not sure where I found this one)

Roll him and roll him until he is big.
(rolling motion)
Roll him and roll him until he is fat as a pig.
(hold out arms in wide circle)
He has two eyes
(fingers circle eyes)
And a hat on his head
(put hands together on head)
He'll stand there all night,
While we go to bed
(place head on hands, close eyes)

• Closing - Popcorn Calling Me (scarf song found in Buzz Buzz by Laurie Berkner)
• Craft – On a dark blue paper, paint with a q-tip using white paint to make a snow scene