With the pandemic closing the library and all large gatherings, my library continues offering virtual storytimes. I created this video storytime series along with a coworker, who is a talented musician, to get young children moving around and singing. It is filled with lots of favorite storytime songs and rhymes, and of course a book! I really wanted the grown-ups watching along with the kiddos to learn the songs, so I used a split screen technique on the videos to display the words to the songs/rhymes while I am singing and acting them out.
Opening song - Skinnamarink (https://youtu.be/95JkQfANW9M)
Action song - Baby Bumblebee (traditional song)
Won't my mommy be so proud of me?
I'm bringing home a baby bumblebee
Ouch! It stung me
Won't my mommy be so proud of me?
I'm squishing up the baby bumblebee
Eeeww! It's yucky!
Won't my mommy be so proud of me?
I'm wiping off the baby bumblebee
No more bees on me!
(open and close hands)
Open, shut them
Give a little clap (clap)
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
Book - If You Plant a Seed by Kadir Nelson (read with permission by HarperCollins Children's Books)
Action song - Let's Be Friends Today (action song to the tune of "The More We Get Together" written by Carol Hopkins)
Let's be friends with one another, together forever,
Let's be friends with each other,
Let's be fri-ends today!
As friends we can ju-ump, go jumping, go jumping.
Let's be friends with each other,
Let's be fri-ends today!
As friends we can cla-ap, go clapping, go clapping.
Let's be friends with each other,
Let's be fri-ends today!
As friends we can ru-un, go running, go running.
Let's be friends with each other,
Let's be fri-ends today!
As friends we can spi-in, go spinning, go spinning.
Let's be friends with each other,
Let's be fri-ends today!
As friends we can si-it, go sitting, go sitting.
Let's be friends with each other,
Let's be fri-ends today!
Closing song - Down By the Bay (traditional rhyming camp song)
Down by the bay
Where the watermelons grow
Back to my home
I dare not go
For if I do
My mother will say
"Did you ever you ever see a goose kissing a moose?"
Down by the bay!
..."Did you ever see a whale with a polka dot tail?"...
..."Did you ever see a fly wearing a tie?"...
..."Did you ever see a fairy inside a library?"...
***The video for this storytime will remain up through 6/30/21 on my library's YouTube channel.
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