Bugging Around Storytime

Storytime for 1 to 3 year olds:

• Opening - Skinnamarink, Sticky Sticky Bubblegum

   

 

• Book #1 – The Very Quiet Cricket by Eric Carle

• Stand-up Activity – "Baby Bumblebee" action song from Toddler Action Songs by Cedarmont Kids

• 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 - Bugs In a Rug rhyme found in Mailbox Preschool magazine, August/September 2007, page 6

• Letter of the Day - "B" is for Bug

• Book #2 – Snappy Little Bugs by Claire Nielson and Dug Steer, illustrated by Derek Matthews

• Activity – Ladybug (fingerplay I found many years ago)

Ladybug, ladybug fly out of the farm and land on my little arm.

Ladybug, ladybug fly out of the tree and land right on my little knee.

Ladybug, ladybug fly out of the rose and land right on my little nose.

Ladybug, ladybug fly out of the chair and land right on my own sweet hair.  

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

  

 

• Art Experience – Stickers on a caterpillar or butterfly cut out