Garbage and Recycling Toddler Storytime

Storytime for 1 to 3 year olds:

• Opening - Skinnamarink, Sticky Sticky Bubblegum

• Book #1 – Trashy Town by Andrea Zimmerman and David Clemesha, illustrated by Dan Yaccarino

• Stand-up Activity – The Garbage Truck Rolls (fingerplay to the tune of "Wheels On the Bus" adapted by Carol Hopkins)

The garbage truck drives down the street, down the street, down the street
The garbage truck drives down the street
As it picks up garbage

The garbage truck stops adn goes, stops and goes, stops and goes
The garbage truck stops and goes
As it picks up garbage

(use other action words)

• 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 - Five Little Garbage Trucks (counting down rhyme, I'm not sure where I found this one)

• Book #2 – The Earth Book by Todd Parr

• Activity – I Saw a Piece of Trash (action song to the tune of "Battle Hymn of the Republic" that I found at http://www.hummingbirded.com/earth-day.html) 

Oh, I saw a piece of trash so I went to pick it up

I saw a piece of trash so I went to pick it up

I saw a piece of trash so I went to pick it up

But it blew away up in the air

I keep my earth clean, so I ran and ran and ran

I keep my earth clean, so I ran and ran and ran

I keep my earth clean, so I ran and ran and ran

I threw that trash in the garbage can

• Closing - Scarves to the song "Popcorn Calling Me" from Buzz Buzz by Laurie Berkner

 

 

• Art Experience – Chalk coloring on construction paper garbage can/recycling bin shapes