Food and Eating Storytime

Three storytimes using this theme: Family, Preschool, and another Family.  Here's all the things I used at least one time...

Books

The Greedy Goat

by Petr Horacek

(all storytimes)

Mouse Mess 

by Linnea Riley

(first family storytime)

From Farm to Table

by Pat Brisson; illustrated by Mary Azarian

(preschool storytime)

Feast for 10

by Cathryn Falwell

(second family storytime)

Music and Movement

Roll, Roll Sugar Baby

If You're Happy and You Know It

Can You?

Colors in Motion

(what foods are that color?)

I Know a Chicken

Laurie Berkner

with shaker eggs

(first two storytimes)

Flannel Board

Four Hungry Ants

Magnet Board Game

What food is the ant hiding under?

Little Ant, Little Ant come out and play

What kind of food are you eating today?

Play and Learn

Pizza Factory Felt set(s)

Playdough (Preschool)

Play snack food stringing

Squirrels

Books

Squirrels Leap, Squirrels Sleep

by April Pulley Sayre; illustrated by Steve Jenkins

The Busy Little Squirrel

by Nancy Tafuri

Music and Movement

Hello, Hello!

Two Little Squirrels

Sitting on a hill--Jack and Jill

Climbing up a pole--High and Low

Playing in the snow--Fast and Slow

Looking at a cloud--Quiet and Loud

Run, Baby Run

Caspar Babypants

Colors in Motion

Head, Shoulders, Knees, and Toes

Hop, Hop, Stop!

Let's Play!

Magnet Board

Ten Little Squirrels

based on the book by Bill Martin Jr. and Michael Sampson

Squirrel Clipart from DigitalArtConcepts 

Open Ended Art

Do-a-Dot dotters (on blank paper--instead of the squirrel do-a-dot I had found.  The kids had a lot of fun being very creative with their dots.  Another reminder to me that open-ended is always so much better!)

Optional Book

Squirrels (Seedlings)

by Quinn M. Arnold

Baby Storytime: Fall

Books

The Very Busy Spider

by Eric Carle

Baby Loves Fall

by Karen Katz

The Busy Little Squirrel

by Nancy Tafuri

Songs, Rhymes, Bounces

You Ought to See My Baby

Hello!

Old MacDonald had a Farm

My Body

On my face I have a nose,

And way down here I have ten toes.

I have to eyes that I can blink

I have a head to help me think.

I have a chin and very near,

I have to ears to help me hear.

I have a mouth with which to speak,

And when I run I use my feet.

I have to elbows and two knees

I have two checks my mom loves to squeeze!

My Pony, Macaroni

Hey Diddle, Diddle

The Wheels on the Bus

Pat-a-Cake

The Elevator Song

I'm Not Scared!

Books

Let's Play Monsters

by Lucy Cousins

The Mouse Who Wasn't Scared

by Petr Horacek

Music and Movement

The Monster Boogie

Laurie Berkner

I Clap My Hands

I'm a Little Kitty Cat

Jump Up, Turn Around

Jim Gill

Flannel/Magnet Board

Five Little Pumpkins

Five Little Monkeys

Activity

Playdough!

Fall Storytime

Books

Pumpkin Cat

by Anne Mortimer

We Want Leaves! A Fall Chant

by Jamie A. Swenson; illustrated by Emilie Boon

Where's Sam?

by Yves Got

Songs and Movement

Scarecrow, Scarecrow

Turn around, touch the ground

Dance on your toes, touch your nose

Reach up high, touch the sky

Bend down low, touch your toe

Jump up now, take a bow

Stomp your feet, take a seat

Silly Dance Contest

Jim Gill

Pumpkin, Pumpkin

clap each syllable

Pumpkin, pumpkin, pumpkin bread

Pumpkin, pumpkin, pumpkin head

Pumpkin, pumpkin, pumpkin pies

Pumpkin, pumpkin, pumpkin eyes

Pumpkin, pumpkin, pumpkin cake

Pumpkin, pumpkin, pumpkin shake

Pumpkin, pumpkin, pumpkin stew

Pumpkin, pumpkin, pumpkin Boo!

Flannel Board

Fall Riddles

Beneath your feet you hear them crunch

Then they get raked up into a bunch.

What are they?

LEAVES

This drops off trees and there it lies

Til someone baked it into pies.

What is it?

APPLE

This stand in the field and scares a bird

But doesn't say a single word.

What is it?

SCARECROW

Of all the flowers this one's queen

With yellow petals and seeds between.

What is it?

SUNFLOWER

It's big and orange and quite a catch

When you pick it from the patch.

What is it?

PUMPKIN

Open Ended Art

Orange, black, brown, green purple paper

Lots of paper scraps

Scissors, glue sticks, crayons

Alternate Books

When Autumn Comes

by Ekaterina Trukhan

(love the book, but a little small for a large group)

It's Fall!

by Renee Kurilla

Spider Storytime

I did a variation of this storytime four times (3 family, 1 preschool).

Books

Frank the Seven-Legged Spider 

(preschool)

by Michaele Razi

Walter's Wonderful Web

(all)

by Tim Hopgood

Aaaarrgghh! Spider

(preschool and 1 family)

by Lydia Monks

Itsy Bitsy Spider

(1 family)

by Jane Cabrera

The Very Busy Spider

(1 family)

by Eric Carle

Songs and Movement

There's a Spider on the Floor

Run, Baby, Run!

Caspar Babypants

Itsy, Bitsy Spider--5 Ways

Flannel Board

Little Miss Muffet

Open Ended Art

Chalk and black paper

Draw a spider and/or spider web

Karen Katz Baby Storytime

Books

Ten Tiny Babies

Where is Baby's Belly Button?

Baby's Big Busy Book

Ten Tiny Tickles

Songs, Rhymes, Bounces

You Ought to See My Baby

Good Morning to You

When Cows Get Up in the Morning

Baby Hokey Pokey

A Hippopotamus on the Bus

I'm a Little Teapot

Babies on the Bus

Twinkle, Twinkle

Tick-Tock

Parachute

Touch-a-Bus Storytime

Unfortunately, the city bus canceled on us, so we had no bus to ride in.  However, we did have our Book Mobile available for families to visit.

Books

The Seals on the Bus

(big book)

by Lenny Hort; illustrated by G. Brian Karas

The Bus is for Us

by Michael Rosen; illustrated by Gillian Tyler

Don't Let the Pigeon Drive the Bus

by Mo Willems

Songs and Movement

If I was a Bird

Driving in my Car

My Hands

Hop, Hop, Stop!

Activity

Cut and glue create a bus

Homes and Houses Storytime

Books

Welcome Home, Bear: A Book of Animal Habitats

by Il Sung Na

Find Out about Animal Homes

by Martin Jenkins; illustrated by Jane McGuinness

My House

by Byron Barton

Music and Movement

Run, Baby, Run

Are You Sleeping?

Magnet Board

Iggy Iguana

Art

Cut and glue shapes

Optional Books

I Love My Home

by Sebastien Braun

Vincent Paints His House

by Tedd Arnold

Ice Cream Storytime

Books

The Little Ice Cream Truck

by Margery Cuyler; illustrated by Bob Kolar

(I didn't do all the pages of this one...)

Groovy Joe: Ice Cream and Dinosaurs

by Eric Litwin; illustrated by Tom Lichtenheld

Ice Cream Face

by Heidi Woodward Sheffield

Songs and Movement

Hello, Hello

If You're Happy and You Know It

Hop, Hop, Stop!

We are the Dinosaurs

Laurie Berkner

Giant Moves

My Hands Say Let's Play

Flannel

Ice Cream

Play and Learn

Lakeshore's Counting Cones

Flannel Ice Cream Cones

Art

Ice Cream Cone