Frozen Winter Storytime

Storytime for 1 to 3 year olds:

• Opening - Skinnamarink, Sticky Sticky Bubblegum

• Book #1 – Frozen Noses by Jan Carr, illustrated by Dorothy Donohue

• Stand-up Activity – This Is the Way We Play In the Snow (action song written by Carol Hopkins to the tune of "Here We go Round the Mulberry Bush")

This is the way we stomp through the snow, stomp through the snow, stomp through the snow.
This is the way we stomp through the snow,
When we go out to play.

This is the way we hop through the snow, hop through the snow, hop through the snow.
This is the way we hop through the snow,
When we go out to play.

(Repeat with 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 Snowmen (counting backwards rhyme I found somewhere many years ago)

Five little snowmen all made of snow.
Five little snowmen all in a row.
Out came the sun and shone all day.
And one little snowman melted away.

(continue rhyme counting down until you get to two snowmen)

The last two snowmen made a good plan.

Into my kitchen They both ran,

Hopped in my freezer where the temperature's right,

And they come out to play on very cold nights.

• Letter of the Day - "S" is for snow

• Book #2 – Millions of Snowflakes by Mary McKenna Siddals, illustrated by Elizabeth Sayles

• Activity – Itsy Bitsy Snowflake (fingerplay I found in a Mailbox Preschool magazine, December/January 2007-8, page 26)

• Closing - Dance with scarves using the "Milkshake" song from Songs for Wiggleworms by Old Town School of Folk Music

 

 

      Art Experience – Q-tip painting with white paint onto blue construction paper