Food Storytime

Storytime for 1 to 3 year olds:

• Opening - Skinnamarink (from Car Songs: Songs to Sing Anywhere by Dennis Buck at Kimbo) and Sticky Sticky Bubblegum
• Book #1 – Very Hungry Caterpillar by Eric Carle (BIGBOOK)
• Stand-up Activity - I'm a Little Teapot (action song from This Little Piggy: And Other Rhymes to Sing and Play by Jane Yolen, Will Hillenbrande, and Adam Stemple)
• 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 - Ten Little Cupcakes (counting song to the tune of "10 Little Indians")

1 little, 2 little, 3 little cupcakes
4 little, 5 little, 6 little cupcakes
7 little, 8 little, 9 little cupcakes
10 little cupcakes for us to eat!

• Book #2 - Maisy Bakes a Cake by Lucy Cousins (pop-up)
• Activity – A Delicious Cake (action rhyme I found in the book I'm a Little Teapot: Presenting Preschool Storytime by Jane Cobb)
• Closing - Use tamborines to the song "Fruit Salad Salsa" from Victor Vito by Laurie Berkner
• Craft – Crayon coloring on a cupcake drawing