Animals in Winter

Family Storytime (ages 2-5)

Books

Snow

by Manya Stojic

Don't Wake Up the Bear!

by Marjorie Dennis Murray; illustrated by Patricia Wittmann

Bear and Hare: Snow!

by Emily Gravett

Songs and Movement

Hello, Hello

Are You Sleeping?

starting with the bear

My Hands Say Goodbye

Flannel Board

One Little Penguin

Chubby Snowman

Play and Learn

Playdough

Alternate Books

Froggy Gets Dressed

by Jonathan London; illustrated by Frank Remkiewicz

This is one of my favorites, but my group was just too young

Winter, Winter, Cold and Snow

by Sharon Gibson Palermo; illustrated by Christina Song

Soup Storytime

Revisiting a favorite wintertime storytime with a new book I'm super excited about (A Spoonful of Frogs) and it didn't disappoint!

Books

Bear and Chicken

by Jannie Ho

A Soup Opera

by Jim Gill; illustrated by David Moose

A Spoonful of Frogs

by Casey Lyall; illustrated by Vera Brosgol

Songs and Movement

Hello, Hello

Teddy Bear, Teddy Bear

We are the Dinosaurs

Laurie Berkner

My Hands

Adapted a new ending this week

My hands say goodbye with a clap, clap, clap

My feet say goodbye with a tap, tap, tap

Clap, clap, clap

Tap, tap, tap

We roll our arms and say...

"It's time to play!"

Magnet Board

The Soup is Boiling Up

Prop Activity

Peas in a Pot

(with green pompoms and a small play pot)

1 little pea jumped into the pot, waiting for the soup to get hot.

2 little peas jumped into the pot, waiting for the soup to get hot.

...

5 little peas jumped into the pot, waiting for the soup to get hot.

Soon the soup got very, very hot and 5 little peas jumped out of the pot!

Play and Learn

Pompoms!

Several children loved doing the Peas in the Pot rhyme (even if they didn't remember all the words)

Alternate Books

Soup Day

Every Color Soup

Storytime Year in Review

2023 Stats

38 Family Storytimes reaching 1, 650 patrons (average attendance = 43)
45 Baby Storytimes reaching 1,352 patrons (average attendance = 30)
21 Outreach or subbing storytime reaching 351 patrons

Smallest Baby Storytime: 12 (January 25)
Largest Baby Storytime: 54 (October 18)

Smallest Family Storytime: 15 (February 28)
Largest Family Storytime: 84 (August 22)

Favorite Storytimes

Lucy Cousins (March 21, 23, and 24)
Cats (July 25 and Aug 3)

Baby Storytime--Food!

Books

one each session

I Could Eat You Up!

by Jo Harper; illustrated by Kay Chorao

Today is Monday

by Eric Carle

The Very Hungry Caterpillar

by Eric Carle

Applesauce is Fun to Wear

by Nancy Raines Day; illustrated by Jane Massey

Lunch

by Denise Fleming

The Very Hungry Caterpillar Eats Lunch

by Eric Carle Institute

Baby Cakes

by Theo Heras; illustrated by Renne Benoit

Songs/Rhymes/Bounces

You Ought to See My Baby

Baby-o

Hello

Little Bear

Old MacDonald had a Farm

Mix and Stir

Sitting in My Highchair

Hickory Dickory Dock

I'm a Little Teapot

Pat-a-Cake

Noble Duke of York

Baby-o

Alabama, Mississippi

Jim Gill

with parachute

Flannel

Cookies

Down around the corner in the bakery shop

Were three little cookie with frosting on top

Along came ___________ with a dollar to pay

S/he buys the ___________ and takes it away.

Give a Gift

Books

Ivy Love to Give

by Freya Blackwood

Thank You, Mr. Panda

by Steve Antony

A Gift for Goose

by Tad Hills

Songs and Movement

Hello, Hello

Jingle Bells

A Very Simple Dance

Prop Story

The Surprise; adapted from George Shannon

Little Bee was worried. His mother’s birthday was today he still hadn’t found her a present. She had perfume & books & the most beautiful garden. He’d already given her drawings, and songs that he’d made up. And every time he made a cake, he burned it.

He sighed and said, “I’ll just have to give her a plain old birthday card,” but then he had an idea.  He left his mother a note and a big box saying, “Open your birthday present right away!”  When his mother came home she saw the box and the note.  She untied the ribbon and opened the box. But there was another box inside. So she opened that box – and found another box! And opened that box – and found another box! And when she opened that box… Little Bee jumped out and gave her a big kiss!

Magnet Game

Which animal is hiding the present?

Open Ended Art

A Present Lift-the-Flap coloring page

Who will you give the gift to?  What will give them?

Alternate Books

One Winter's Day

by M. Christina Butler

Pip and Squeak

by Ian Schoenherr

Baking Day! Storytime

Books

Cookie Countdown

by Matt Mitter; illustrated by Tom Brannon

Baking Day at Grandma's

by Anika Denise; illustrated by Christopher Denise

A Birthday for Cow!

by Jan Thomas

Alternate Book

All for Pie, Pie for All

by David Martin; illustrated by Valeri Gorbachev

Songs/Movement

Hello, Hello

Making Cookies 

I am making cookie doug

Round and round the beaters go

Add some flour from a cup

Stir and mix the batter up.

Roll them, cut them nice and neat

Pet them on a cookie sheet.

Bake them, count them 1, 2, 3

Serve them to my friends for tea.

Two Little Friends

Two little friends went out to play

On a bright and sunny day

They had such e-nor-mous fun

They called another little friend to come,

"Come and play!"

Continue counting up

Five little friends went out to play

On a bright and sunny day

They ran, they jumped, they had such fun

They played and played til the day was done!

A is for Alligator

A is for alligator, chomp, chomp, chomp

B is for bear, stomp, stomp, stomp

C is for circle turn round and round

D is for dizzy, let's all sit down!

Bean Bag Song

Hap Palmer

My Hands Say Goodbye

Flannel Board

Five Little Gingerbread Men

Open Ended Activity

Playdough

Cookie cutters, cookie trays

Colors!

Books

Dog's Colorful Day

by Emma Dodd

Millie in the Meadow

by Janet Pedersen

A Good Day

by Kevin Henkes

Songs and Movement

Hello, Hello

Silly Dance Contest

Jim Gill

Wave Your Scarf

(tune: London Bridge)

Wave your scarf way up high

Way up high, way up high

Wave your scarf way up high

Wave your scarf!

Down low

Fast

Slow

Side to side

Opposites:  high and low; fast and slow

Wave your scarf, wave goodbye

Wave goodbye, wave goodbye

Wave your scarf, wave goodbye

Goodbye scarf! 

My Hands Say Goodbye

Flannel

Polar Bear's Underwear

Oh where oh where is my red underwear?

Or where or where could it be?

I've looked up high

I've looked down low

Oh where or where could it be?

Tissue box washing machine

Open Ended Art

Tissue Paper Collage (on contact paper)