Building with Blocks Storytime

Storytime for 1 to 3 year olds:

• Opening - Skinnamarink, Sticky Sticky Bubblegum

   

 

• Book #1 – Blocks by Irene Dickson

• Stand-up Activity – This Is the Way We Stack Our Blocks (action song to the tune of "Here We Go Round the Mulberry Bush" that I fashioned after the "Construction Worker Song" that I found at PreKFun.com)

This is the way we stack our blocks,

stack our blocks, stack our blocks.

This is the way we stack our blocks,

when we build a tower!

This is the way we blow a kiss...

This is the way we stomp around...

This is the way we run around...

This is the way tip-toe around...

This is the way we sit inside...

• 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 - Stacking colored building blocks

Grab an assortment of many colored building blocks.  Hand one block to each child.  Have the children bring their blocks up to a table when you call their color.  Once all of the blocks are on the table, count the blocks while stacking them into a high tower.

• Letter of the Day - "H" is for high

• Book #2 – Rex Wrecks It! by Ben Clanton (board book)

• Activity – "If You're Happy and You Know It" action song from Songs for Wiggleworms 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 – Use Lego Duplo bricks as stamps and paint as ink to create unique stamped art.