Fathers 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 – My Dad by Anthony Browne
• Stand-up Activity - Do It for Your Father (action song to the tune of "Row, Row, Row Your Boat")

(suite actions to words)
Roll, roll, roll your hands
As fast as fast can be.
Do it now, let me see,
Do it for your father.
Clap, clap, clap your hands
As loud as loud can be.
Do it now, let me see,
Do it for your father.
Stomp, stomp, stomp your feet
As hard as hard can be.
Do it now, let me see,
Do it for your father.
Jump, jump, jump your feet
As high as high can be.
Do it now, let me see,
Do it for your father.
Roll, roll, roll your hands
As fast as fast can be.
Do it now, let me see,
Do it for your father.

• 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 - Daddy Mouse

(Make 6-8 different colored houses and put them on the board. Put a small mouse under one of these houses. Before you look under a house, say the rhyme with the children.)
Daddy Mouse, Daddy Mouse, where is your baby?
Daddy Mouse, Daddy Mouse, look for your baby in the yellow house.
(Be sure to use different house colors.)

• Sit-down Activity - Come a' Look a' See (fingerplay song I first picked up at a workshop conducted by Jane Cobb but can also be found on the cd The Baby Record by Bob McGrath)
• Book #2 - Just Like Daddy by Frank Asch
• Activity – If You're Happy and You Know It (action song from Songs for Wiggleworms by Old Town School of Folk Music)
• Closing - Goin' On a Bear Hunt (rhythm stick song from Kids In Action by Greg & Steve)
• Craft – Tissue paper scales glued onto a fish shape