Color 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 – Mouse Paint by Ellen Stoll Walsh
• Stand-up Activity - I Look and Look (action rhyme written by Carol Hopkins)

I look and look and what do I see?
A bright red apple hanging from a tree
I look and look and what do I see?
A yellow sun shining right on me
I look and look and what do I see?
A great orange fruit, shiny and round
I look and look and what do I see?
Some green grass growing on the ground
I look and look and what do I see?
The blue waves on the ocean and sea
I look and look and what do I see?
All the colors around you and me

• 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 - Five Little Crayons (number rhyme found in Mailbox Preschool Magazine August/September 2003, page 6)
• Sit-down Activity - Little Red Wagon (action song from Wiggleworms Love You by Old Town School of Folk Music)
• Book #2 - I Went Walking by Sue Williams, illustrated by Julie Vivas
• Activity – Colored Shoes (action rhyme by Carol Hopkins)

Stomping in my red shoes, red shoes, red shoes
Stomping in my red shoes here at storytime

Running in my blue shoes, blue shoes, blue shoes
Running in my blue shoes here at storytime

(continue with more action words and shoe colors)

• Closing - rhythm sticks to the song "Going On a Bear Hunt" by Gret & Steve from Kids In Action
• Craft – Paint with watercolor paints