Colors Around Us Storytime

Storytime for 1 to 3 year olds:

• Opening - Skinnamarink, Sticky Sticky Bubblegum

   

 

• Book #1 – Wow! Said the Owl by Tim Hopgood

• Stand-up Activity – Twinkle, Twinkle Little Star (traditional song)

• 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 Crayons (a rhyme about colors and ordinal numbers that I found in The Mailbox Preschool magazine, August/September 2003, page 6)

• Letter of the Day - "C" is for colors

• Book #2 – I Went Walking by Sue Williams, illustrated by Julie Vivas

• Activity – "Little Red Wagon" bouncing song from Wiggleworms Love You by Old Town School of Folk Music

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

 

• Art Experience – Watercolor painting