Flower Seeds - Family Storytime

A Wednesday morning storytime for ages 0-6 years old.  

Opening #1: “Row, Row, Row Your Boat” from Songs for Wiggleworms by Old Town School of Folk Music

Opening #2: Roly Poly Oh So Fast (hand rolling body part chant adapted by Carol Hopkins)

Roly poly, roly poly, oh so fast!
Roly poly, roly poly, oh so slowly.
Roly poly, roly poly, up.
Roly poly, roly poly, down.
Roly poly, roly poly, hands on your head.
Roly poly, roly poly, hand on your feet.

(Repeat with other body parts)

Roly poly, roly poly, hands in your lap.

 

Opening #3: Fee Fi Fo Fum

Fee fi fo fum,
(clap for each syllable)

See my fingers,
(wiggle fingers)

See my thumbs.
(wiggle thumbs)

Fee fi fo fum,
(clap for each syllable)

Good bye fingers,
(hide one hand behind back)

Good bye thumbs.
(hide the other hand behind back)

(Repeat several times moving and saying the words faster and faster)

 

 

Literacy activity flannelboard: Pretty Flower Colors (color literacy flannelboard song to the tune of “Are You Sleeping” written by Carol Hopkins)

Pretty flowers;
Pretty flowers.
Is yours {_purple_}?
Is yours {_purple_}?
Bring it up right now;
Bring it up right now.
Let’s find some more;
Let’s find some more.

(Repeat with other color names)

 

  

 

Book #1: Here Are the Seeds by JaNay Brown-Wood, illustrated by Olivia Amoah

Theme activity #1: Plant a Little Seed (not sure where I found this action chant)

 I plant a little seed in the cold, cold ground

(bend down and pretend to plant a seed)

Out comes the yellow sun, big and round
(put arms above head like sun)

Down come the raindrops soft and slowly
(dancing fingers downward)

Up comes the flower grow, grow, grow
(jump as flower emerges)

  

Theme activity #2: “My Ups and Downs” from Jim Gill Sings Do Re Mi On His Toe Leg Knee by Jim Gill 

  

Transition: 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 

   

Book #2: Garden: Pop-Up Peekaboo! by Dawn Siett, illustrated by Hannah Abbo (pop-up) 

Book #3: Up, Down, and Around by Katherine Ayres, illustrated by Nadine Bernard Westcott 

Closing music with bean bags: “Popcorn Calling Me” from Buzz Buzz by Laurie Berkner

  

 

Art activity:  Flower stamping with paint and cut up straws and glitter glue.  One end of the straws are cut up into five strips and then spread out to stamp a flower-like shape.  

Optional other books:
My Garden by Kevin Henkes
Plants Can't Sit Still by Rebecca E. Hirsch, illustrated by Mia Posada