Fall Colors Storytime

Storytime for 1 to 3 year olds:

• Opening - Skinnamarink, Sticky Sticky Bubblegum

 

 

• Book #1 – Leaf Jumpers by Carole Gerber, illustrated by Leslie Evans

• Stand-up Activity – "Shakin' Like a Leafy Tree" action song from Racing to the Rainbow by The Wiggles

• 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 - Four Little Leaves (counting down color rhyme I found in a Preschool Mailbox magazine, October/November 2005, page 33)

• Letter of the Day - "L" is for leaf

• Book #2 – Apples, Apples! by Salina Yoon (lift-the-flap board book)

• Activity – Great Big Apple Tree (action song to the tune of "Are You Sleeping?" written by Carol Hopkins)

Great big apple tree
Great big apple tree
Standing tall
Standing tall
Moving your branches
When the wind blows
Then the apples fall
Down to the ground

• Closing - Tambourines to the song Victor Vito by Laurie Berkner  

  

 

• Art Experience – Glue fall colored craft foam leaves and silk leaves to a paper headband