Spring 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 – Hurray for Spring by Patricia Hubbell, illustrated by Taia Morley
• Stand-up Activity - Spring Is All Around Me (action song I found in Mailbox Preschool Magazine, April/May 2000)
• 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 - Bluebird, Bluebird Through My Window (song)
• Sit-down Activity - 5 Spring Flowers (fingerplay adapted by Carol Hopkins)

Flowers tall, flowers small
(let fingers stand up)
Flowers planted by the wall
Blowing in the springtime breezes
(sway fingers and arm)
Not for little children sneezes
(sneeze)
Let us count the flowers alive
1, 2, 3, 4, 5
(touch each finger as you count)
Five little fingers thrive in the springtime sun!

• Book #2 - In the Spring by Craig Brown
• Activity – A Springtime Rhyme (action rhyme I found in Mailbox Preschool Magazine, Feb/Mar 2006 page 33)
• Closing - Popcorn Calling Me (scarf song found in Buzz Buzz by Laurie Berkner)
• Craft – Create a muffin cup flower