Mud Play Storytime

Storytime for 1 to 3 year olds:

• Opening - Skinnamarink, Sticky Sticky Bubblegum

 

 

• Book #1 – I'm Dirty by Kate and Jim McMullan

• Stand-up Activity – "Shiny Clean Dance" action song from Tony Chestnut & Fun Time Action Songs by The Learning Station

• 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 Clean and Dirty Pigs (counting down rhyme I found at the Sunflower Storytime blog)

• Letter of the Day - "D" is for Dirty

• Book #2 – Puddles!!! by Kevan Atteberry

• Activity – Stomping Through the Mud Today (action song to the tune of "Mary Had a Little Lamb" written by Carol Hopkins)

Stomping through the mud today, mud today, mud today.

Stomping through the mud today,

Let's have some fun!

Grabbing handfuls of mud today, mud today, mud today.

Grabbing handfuls of mud mud today,

Let's have some fun!

(repeat with more action words such as sliding, spinning, sitting, etc.)

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

 

• Art Experience – Painting on a watercolor sheets