Bedtime Storytime

Storytime for 1 to 3 year olds:

• Opening - Skinnamarink (from Car Songs: Songs to Sing Anywhere by Dennis Buck at Kimbo), Sticky Sticky Bubblegum
• Book #1 – How Do Dinosaurs Say Good Night? by Jane Yolen and Mark Teague
• Stand-up Activity - Shake My Sillies Out (action song from More Singable Songs by Raffi)
• 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/Math Activity - 5 Little Monkeys Jumping On the Bed (counting down rhyme)
• Sit-down Activity - This Is a Baby Ready for a Nap (fingerplay I first found in I'm a Little Teapot by Jane Cobb, but I have also found it in many other places)

This is a baby ready for a nap
(hold up one finger)
Lay her down in her mother's lap
(place in palm of other hand)
Cover her up so she won't peep
(wrap fingers around it)
Rock her till she's fast asleep
(rock hands together back and forth)

• Book #2 - Baby Danced the Polka by Karen Beaumont, pictures by Jennifer Plecas (lift-flap)
• Activity – Twinkle, Twinkle Little Star (fingerplay from Car Songs: Songs to Sing Anywhere by Dennis Buck at Kimbo)
• Closing - Popcorn Calling Me (scarf song found in Buzz Buzz by Laurie Berkner)
• Craft – Make a moon bed