Sing-a-Song Storytime: No Two Alike

  With the pandemic closing the library and all large gatherings, my library continues offering virtual storytimes.  I created this video storytime series along with a coworker, who is a talented musician, to get young children moving around and singing.  It is filled with lots of favorite storytime songs and rhymes, and of course a book!  I really wanted the grown-ups watching along with the kiddos to learn the songs, so I used a split screen technique on the videos to display the words to the songs/rhymes while I am singing and acting them out.  

Opening song - Skinnamarink (https://youtu.be/95JkQfANW9M) 

Action song - This Is the Way We Play In the Snow (action song written by Carol Hopkins to the tune of "Here We go Round the Mulberry Bush")

This is the way we stomp through the snow, stomp through the snow, stomp through the snow.
This is the way we stomp through the snow,
When we go out to play.
This is the way we hop through the snow, hop through the snow, hop through the snow.
This is the way we hop through the snow,
When we go out to play.

(Repeat with other action words)

Transition sit down song - Itsy-Bitsy Snowflake (fingerplay I found in a Mailbox Preschool magazine)

The itsy-bitsy snowflake fell down from the sky.

It landed on my nose

And it bounced upon my eye

It slid down to my chin

And it landed on my tongue.

Then it melted all away

Now my snowflake song is done! 

 

Book - No Two Alike by Keith Baker (read with permission by Simon & Schuster)  

 

Action song - Snowflakes Falling (action rhyme I picked up many years ago)

Snowflakes falling down, down, down

Gently covering all the town

Swirling, twirling, down they come

One landed on my tongue!

Action song - Make Some Snowballs (action song written by Carol Hopkins to the tune of "Are You Sleeping")

Snow is falling,

Snow is falling,

All around,

All around,

Come let's make some snowballs,

Come let's make some snowballs,

Throw them here,

Throw them there!

Closing song - Down By the Bay (traditional rhyming camp song)

Down by the bay
Where the watermelons grow
Back to my home
I dare not go
For if I do
My mother will say
"Did you ever you ever see a goose kissing a moose?"
Down by the bay!

..."Did you ever see a whale with a polka dot tail?"...

..."Did you ever see a fly wearing a tie?"...

..."Did you ever see a fairy inside a library?"... 

***The video for this storytime will remain up through 3/31/21 on my library's YouTube channel.