Wild Animals with Zebras Storytime

Storytime for 1 to 3 year olds:

• Opening - Skinnamarink, Sticky Sticky Bubblegum

 

 

• Book #1 – Old Mikamba Had a Farm by Rachel Isadora

• Stand-up Activity – Great To Be Wild and Free (action chant written by Carol Hopkins)

I'm running with the zebras

I'm running with the zebras

Isn't it great to be wild and free

I'm running with the zebras

(Do other action words with different wild animals)

• 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 - One Little Elephant Went Out to Play (counting rhyme)

One little elephant went out to play 

Upon a spider web one day

He had such enormous fun

He called for another elephant to come

(repeat rhyme as you add more elephants)

• Letter of the Day - "Z" is for zebra

• Book #2 – Count! by Denise Fleming

• Activity – "Jumping and Counting" action song from Jim Gill's Irrational Anthem and More Salutes to Nonsense by Jim Gill

• Closing - Scarves to the song "Popcorn Calling Me" from Buzz Buzz by Laurie Berkner 

 

 

• Art Experience – Glue black paper stripes onto a drawing of a white zebra body