Fathers and Grandfathers Storytime

Storytime for 1 to 3 year olds:

• Opening - Skinnamarink, Sticky Sticky Bubblegum

• Book #1 – My Pop Pop and Me by Irene Smalls, illustrated by Cathy Ann Johnson

• Stand-up Activity – "I'm a Little Teapot" from This Little Piggy: Lap Songs, Finger Plays, Clapping Games and Pantomime Rhymes by Jane Yolen, Adam Stemple, et al.

• 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 - Daddy Mouse House (color rhyme flannelboard)

(put up different color houses on the board, hide a baby mouse picture under one house)

Daddy mouse, daddy mouse, where is your baby?

Daddy mouse, daddy mouse look for your baby under the "yellow" house.

(repeat by replacing the color yellow with other colored houses on the board until the baby mouse is found)

• Letter of the Day - "D" is for dad

• Book #2 – Just Like Daddy by Frank Asch

• Activity – Come A' Look A' See (fingerplay song I first picked up at a workshop conducted by Jane Cobb but can also be found on the music CD The Baby Record by Bob McGrath)

• Closing - Rhythm sticks using "Goin' On a Bear Hunt" song from Kids In Action by Greg and Steve 

 

 

• Art Experience – "You Are My Sunshine" greeting card with happy face stickers as the face of the sun and glued spiral noodles for the rays of the sun