Flying Airplanes Storytime

Storytime for 1 to 3 year olds:

• Opening - Skinnamarink, Sticky Sticky Bubblegum

• Book #1 – Maisy Goes on a Plane by Lucy Cousins

• Stand-up Activity – "The Airplane Song" action song from Whaddaya Think of That? by Laurie Berkner

• 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 - Hanger Home for My Airplane rhyme found in the book Artsy Toddler Storytimes by Carol Garnett Hopkins

Directions: On the board place five hangers with the airplane under one hanger. Say the rhyme and then have the children guess which building the airplane is under.

My airplane is in its home.

The hanger is its home.

Hi, ho, the derry-o,

Which hanger is it in?

• Book #2 – Flying by Donald Crews

• Activity – The Airplane (action song I have found in many places)

The airplane has great big wings

Its propeller spins around and sings -- Vvvvvrrrruuuummmm!

The airplane goes up

The airplane goes down

The airplane flies high

All over the town

• Closing - Scarves using the song "Flitter Flutter" from The Second Line by Johnette Downing 

  

 

  

• Art Experience – Stickers on paper airplanes