Fruit Salad Storytime

Storytime for 1 to 3 year olds:

• Opening - Skinnamarink, Sticky Sticky Bubblegum

 

• Book #1 – The Watermelon Seed by Greg Pizzoli

• Stand-up Activity – Alligator Pie (fingerplay I found somewhere, I have seen it on numerous websites)

Alligator, alligator, alligator pie
If I don't get some
I think I'm gonna cry
You can take away the grass
Take away the sky
But don't take away
My alligator pie!

• 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 Red Apples (counting down chant written by Carol Garnett Hopkins as found in the book Artsy Toddler Storytimes) 

5 red apples hanging on the tree

5 red apples, big and round and shiny

Along came a child with a hungry, grumbly tummy

And picked an apple right out of the tree

(continue counting down to zero apples)

• Letter of the Day - "F" is for fruit

• Book #2 – Orange Pear Apple Bear by Emily Gravett

• Activity – On the Tree, On the Ground (action rhyme I found in a Preschool Mailbox magazine, August/September 2011, page 7)

• Closing - Tambourines to the song "Fruit Salad Salsa" from Victor Vito by Laurie Berkner 

 

• Art Experience – Fruit salad coloring sheet with crayons