Friendship 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 – Along Came Toto by Anni Axworthy
• Stand-up Activity - "Hey Little Friend" action song from Sing It! Say It! Stamp It! Sway It! volume 3 by Peter and Ellen Allard

• 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 - Five Friends (counting down rhyme I found at www.stepbystepcc.com)

• Book #2 - How Do Dinosaurs Play with Their Friends? by Jane Yolen and Mark Teague (board book)
• Activity – Four Friends (fingerplay I found somewhere many years ago)

• Closing - Use scarves to the song "Milkshake" from Songs for Wiggleworms by Old Town School of Folk Music
• Craft – Dot stickers on a friendship card