Toy Fun Toddler Storytime

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

• Opening - Skinnamarink, Sticky Sticky Bubblegum

• Book #1 – Baby Danced the Polka by Karen Beaumont, illustrated by Jennifer Plecas

• Stand-up Activity – "Knees Up Mother Brown" from Raffi In Concert

• 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 - Teddy bear patterns (I used three different colored teddy bear cut-outs to create simple patterns that the children then had to continue to make for me)

• Book #2 – I Know a Rhino by Charles Fuge

• Activity – Rhinos Stomping (action song to the tune of "Are You Sleeping" written by Carol Hopkins specifically to go with the book I Know a Rhino)

Rhinos stomping

Rhinos stomping

Monkey hands

Up in the air

Dragons are sleeping

Bears eat lots of honey

But rhinos stomp

Rhinos stomp

• Closing - Scarves to the song "Popcorn Calling Me" from Buzz Buzz by Laurie Berkner

• Art Experience – Shaving cream fingerpainting