Birthday Cake Storytime

Storytime for 1 to 3 year olds:

• Opening - Skinnamarink, Sticky Sticky Bubblegum

• Book #1 – It’s My Birthday by Helen Oxenbury (board book)

• Stand-up Activity – “I’m a Little Teapot” from This Little Piggy by Adam Stemple et al
  Bridge

• 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 - 10 Little Candles (counting backwards rhyme I got from a librarian at the Whatcom County Library System www.wcls.org/youth/Themebook.pdf)

• Book #2 – Maisy Bakes a Cake by Lucy Cousins (pop-up)

• Activity – Pat-A-Cake (traditional fingerplay)

• Closing - Rhythm sticks using the song "Goin' On a Bear Hunt" from Kids In Action by Greg and Steve

 

 

 

• Art Experience – Glitter glue on craft foam cupcake shapes