Trash & Recycling Storytime

Storytime for 1 to 3 year olds:

• Opening - Skinnamarink, Sticky Sticky Bubblegum

     

  

• Book #1 – Trashy Town by Andrea Zimmerman and David Clemasha, illustrated by an Yaccarino

• Stand-up Activity – The Garbage Truck Rolls (fingerplay to the tune of "Wheels On the Bus" adapted by Carol Hopkins)

The garbage truck drives down the street, down the street, down the street
The garbage truck drives down the street
As it picks up garbage

The garbage truck stops adn goes, stops and goes, stops and goes
The garbage truck stops and goes
As it picks up garbage

(use other action words)

• 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 Little Garbage Trucks  (counting down rhyme, I'm not sure where I found this one)

• Letter of the Day - "E" is for Earth Day

• Book #2 – Little Helpers from Innovative Kids, illustrated by Jillian Phillips

• Activity – I'm a Little Recycling Truck (action song to the tune of "I'm a Little Teapot" written by Carol Hopkins)

I'm a little recycling truck, watch me go
Here is my hopper
Here is my cab
When I get all filled up, to the recycling center I go
Just tip me over and dump the recycling out

• Closing - Dance with scarves using the song "Milkshake" from Songs for Wiggleworms by Old Town School of Folk Music

  

 

• Art Experience – Glue shredded paper strips to a picture of a recycling truck