Feelings Storytime

Storytime for 1 to 3 year olds:

• Opening - Skinnamarink, Sticky Sticky Bubblegum

 

 

• Book #1 – Grumpy Bird by Jeremy Tankard

• Stand-up Activity – "If You're Happy And You Know It" action song from Songs for Wiggleworms by Old Town School Folk Music

• 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 - Sorting Happy and Sad

I got this wonderful idea from the Falling Flannelboards blog.  I put up the word "happy" and "sad" with a happy face and a sad face.  Then I held up a variety of pictures.  The children told me which word I should place the picture under.  I had pictures of a broken toy, a little boy with an boo-boo, a little girl crying, a playground, candy, duckllings, and an ice cream cone.  

• Letter of the Day - "H" is for happy

• Book #2 – The I'm Not Scared Book by Todd Parr

• Activity – "Spin Again... Again" action song from Jim Gill Sings Do Re Mi On His Toe Leg Knee by Jim Gill

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

 

 

• Art Experience – Pen coloring on happy face cut-outs I found at a store.  I used the smelly Mr. Sketch pens for this art activity.