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 – Ten Mice for Tet by Pegi Deito Shea and Cynthia Weill, illustrated by Tō Ngọe Trang, embroidery by Phạm Viết Ðinh
- Stand-up Activity - Raw, Raw, New Year (action song written by Carol Hopkins to the tune of "Baa Baa Black Sheep")
Parties and dancing and parades go by
Fireworks and firecrackers boom in the air
Lanterns and candles light up the sky
Raw, raw new year let's go celebrate
Parties and dancing and parades go by
- Bridge - Open Shut Them (fingerplay)
(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 - Five Green Dragons (counting backwards rhyme I found at http://www.everythingpreschool.com/themes/chinnesenewyear/songs.htm)
- Sit-down Activity - Ten Fingers (fingerplay I have seen in numerous places)
And they all belong to me.
I can make them dance,
Would you like to see?
I can shut them up tight,
Or open them wide.
I can put them together,
Or make them all hide.
I can make them jump high.
I can make them jump low.
I can fold them quietly,
And hold them just so.
- Book #2 - Lanterns and Firecrackers: A Chinese New Year Story by Jonny Zucker, illustrated by Jan Barger Cohen
- Activity – A Marching We Will Go (action song to the tune of "The Farmer In the Dell")
A marching we will go
Hi ho the derry oh
A Marching will will go
A jumping...
A spinning...
A running...
A sitting...
- Closing - Scarves to the song "Flitter, Flutter" from The Second Line by Johnette Downing
- Craft – Decorate a paper Chinese lantern
