Snow Much Fun Storytime

Storytime for 1 to 3 year olds:

• Opening - Skinnamarink, Sticky Sticky Bubblegum

  

 

• Book #1 – One Mitten by Kristine O'Connell George, illustrated by Maggie Smith

• Stand-up Activity – "When It's Cold Outside" from Pick Me Up! Fun Songs for Learning Signs by Roger Treece and Nancy Stewart

• 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 Snowmen (counting backwards rhyme I found somewhere many years ago)

Five little snowmen all made of snow.
Five little snowmen all in a row.
Out came the sun and shone all day.
And one little snowman melted away.

(continue rhyme counting down until you get to two snowmen)

The last two snowmen made a good plan.

Into my kitchen They both ran,

Hopped in my freezer where the temperature's right,

And they come out to play on very cold nights.

• Letter of the Day - "W" is for winter

• Book #2 – Millions of Snowflakes by Mary McKenna Siddals, illustrated by Elizabeth Sayles

• Activity – Itsy Bitsy Snowflake (fingerplay I found in a Mailbox Preschool magazine, December/January 2007-8, page 26)

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

    

 

• Art Experience – Print snowflakes on blue construction paper using white and paint and plastic receipt roll centers