Baking Storytime

Storytime for 1-1/2 to 3 year olds:

• Opening - Skinnamarink, Sticky Sticky Bubblegum
• Book #1 – My Pop Pop and Me by Irene Smalls, illustrated by Cathy Ann Johnson
• Stand-up Activity – "I'm a Little Teapot" action song from This Little Piggy: Lap Songs, Finger Plays, Clapping Games and Pantomime Rhymes edited by Jane Yolen, Adam Stemple, et al.

• 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 

• Book #2 – Maisy Bakes a Cake by Lucy Cousins (Pop-up)
• Activity – A Delicious Cake (fingerplay I found in the book I'm a Little Teapot by Jane Cobb)

• Closing - Rhythm sticks using "Goin' On a Bear Hunt" from Kids In Action by Greg and Steve
• Craft – Put stickers onto a tissue paper chef's hat.