Birthday Parties Storytime

Storytime for 1 to 3 year olds:

• Opening - Skinnamarink, Sticky Sticky Bubblegum

 

• Book #1 – If You Give a Pig a Party by Laura Numeroff, illustrated by Felicia Bond

• Stand-up Activity – "Clap Your Hands" 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 - Ten Little Candles (counting backwards rhyme I got from a librarian at the Whatcom County Library System www.wcls.org/youth/Themebook.pdf)

• Letter of the Day - "P" is for party

• Book #2 – Happy Birthday Sophie! by Dawn Sirett, designed by Polly Appleton (pop-up)

• Activity – "If You're Happy and You Know It" action song from Songs for Wiggleworms by Old Town School of Folk Music

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

  

 

• Art Experience – Glitter glue on craft foam birthday cupcakes