Peekaboo Fun Storytime

Storytime for 1 to 3 year olds:

• Opening - Skinnamarink, Sticky Sticky Bubblegum

  

• Book #1 – Peekaboo Morning by Rachel Isadora

• Stand-up Activity – "If You're Happy and You Know It" action song from Songs for Wiggleworms by Old Town School of Folk Music

• 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 - Cuckoo Bird Shapes

Create a selection of felt shapes as well as one shape of a small bird.  Hide the bird behind a shape.  Let the children guess which shape the cuckoo bird is hiding behind while saying this rhyme.

Cuckoo bird, cuckoo bird,

Where are you?

Cuckoo bird, cuckoo bird, 

Peek-a-boo!

(look under a shape)

• Letter of the Day - "P" is for peekaboo

• Book #2 – Peekaboo, Blueberry! by Barney Saltzberg (lift-flap)

• Activity – "Where Is Thumbkin?" a traditional fingerplay from Where Is Thumbkin? by Kimbo

• Closing - Rhythm sticks using "Goin' On a Bear Hunt" from Kids In Action by Greg and Steve 

 

• Art Experience – Pen coloring on a Blueberry Bunny picture

Peekaboo Teddy Bear Storytime

Storytime for 1-1/2 to 3 year olds:

• Opening - Skinnamarink, Sticky Sticky Bubblegum***
• Book #1 – Peekaboo Bedtime by Rachel Isadora
• Activity – Teddy Bear, Teddy Bear

Teddy Bear, Teddy Bear turn around.
Teddy Bear, Teddy Bear touch the ground.
Teddy Bear, Teddy Bear dance on your toes.
Teddy Bear, Teddy Bear touch your nose.
Teddy Bear, Teddy Bear reach up high.
Teddy Bear, Teddy Bear jump to the sky.
Teddy Bear, Teddy Bear find your feet.
Teddy Bear, Teddy Bear find your seat.

• Flannelboard - Colored bears in a row pattern
• Book #2 - *** Peek-A-Baby by Karen Katz (board book)
• Activity – A Teddy Bear (action rhyme I found in some Mailbox Magazine)
• Closing - Tamborines using "Kookaburra" from Where Is Thumbkin?: Action Songs for Every Month by Kimbo
• Craft – Decorate bears on a stick with stickers

*** Parent enhancement - This book is a "lift-the-flap" book. At home, it is well suited to children who are learning fine motor control in their fingers and are able to lift up the flaps, which is just one of many ways to engage children in a book.