Fluttering Bugs Storytime

Storytime for 1 to 3 year olds:

• Opening - Skinnamarink, Sticky Sticky Bubblegum

• Book #1 – The Very Quiet Cricket by Eric Carle

• Stand-up Activity – "Baby Bumblebee" action song from Toddler Action Songs by Cedarmont Kids

• 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 - Bugs In a Rug rhyme found in Mailbox Preschool magazine, August/September 2007, page 6

• Book #2 – Bugs! Bugs! Bugs! by Bob Barner

• Activity – "Eensy Weensy Spider" fingerplay song from Toddler Tunes by Cedarmont Kids

• Closing - Scarves using the song "Flitter Flutter" from The Second Line by Johnette Downing 

  

 

  

• Art Experience – Crayon coloring on butterfly outline