Playing with Pets Storytime

Storytime for 1 to 3 year olds:

• Opening - Skinnamarink, Sticky Sticky Bubblegum

   

 

• Book #1 – Dear Zoo by Rod Campbell (lift-the-flap)

• Stand-up Activity – Some Dogs (action rhyme adapted by Carol Hopkins)

Some dogs run
Some dogs bark
Some dogs jump
Some dogs growl
Some dogs roll in the grass
Some dogs yip
Some dogs sniff
Some dogs howl
And some dogs just wag their tails all day.

• 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 - Playing Drums on the Mat (clapping rhyme found in the book Artsy Toddler Storytimes: A Year's Worth of Ready-To-Go Programming by Carol Garnett Hopkins) 

• Letter of the Day - "D" is for dog

• Book #2 – Cat by Matthew Van Fleet, photos by Brian Stanton

• Activity – Can You Walk On Tiptoe?  (action rhyme adapted by Carol Hopkins from a rhyme I found in the book I'm a Little Teapot! by Jane Cobb)

Can you Meow?

Can you Purr?

Can you walk on tiptoe as softly as a cat?

And can you stamp along the road, stamp, stamp just like that?

Can you take a really fast pace as if you are running a race?

Or can you walk so slowly?

As if you are a cat ready to curl up for a nap.

• Closing - Egg shakers to the song "I Know a Chicken" from The Best of the Laurie Berkner Band by Laurie Berkner 

  

  

• Art Experience – Dot stickers and eye stickers on a paper plate "pet" snake