Storytime for 1 to 3 year olds: - Opening - Skinnamarink (from Car Songs: Songs to Sing Anywhere by Dennis Buck at Kimbo) and Sticky Sticky Bubblegum
- Book #1 – Ten Little Fingers and Ten Little Toes by Mem Fox and Helen Oxenbury
- Stand-up Activity - Everybody Knows I Love My Toes (action song from Sing It! Say It! Stamp It! Sway It! Vol. 1 by Peter and Ellen Allard)
- 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 - How Many Feet?
Birds have two.
Dogs have four.
Beetles have six.
Spiders have eight.
That's quite a lot more than me,
Because I only have 2 feet!
Dogs have four.
Beetles have six.
Spiders have eight.
That's quite a lot more than me,
Because I only have 2 feet!
- Book #2 - Here Are My Hands by Bill Martin Jr. and John Archambault, illustrated by Ted Rand
- Activity – Head, Shoulders, Knees, and Toes (action rhyme)
- Closing - Use scarves to the song "Milkshake" from Songs for Wiggleworms by Old Town School of Folk Music
- Craft – Glue sewing trim onto a gingerbread man shape
