Storytime: Thanksgiving

Family storytime for ages 3-8 with craft.



Books:


 
Run, Turkey, Run by Diane Mayr and pictures by Laura Rader


 
This Is the Turkey by Abby Levine


 
Thanks for Thanksgiving by Julie Markes and pictures by Doris Barrette



'Twas the Night Before Thanksgiving by Dav Pilkey

 
I Know an Old Lady Who Swallowed a Pie by Alison Jackson and pictures by Judy Schachner
 

Songs and Fingerplays:


Here Is the Turkey

Here is the turkey
(fist of one hand)
with his tail spread wide.  
(place fist against outspread palm of other hand)
He sees the farmer coming so he tries to run and hide.  
(lower hands to side of body)
He runs across the barnyard- wobble, wobble, wobble.  
(make hands "wobble")
And he says out loud,
"Gobble, gobble, gobble."


We Eat Turkey
sung to: "Are You Sleeping"
 
We eat turkey.
We eat turkey.
Yum, yum, yum.
Yum, yum, yum.
Always on Thanksgiving.
Always on Thanksgiving.
Oh, so good.
Oh, so good.  

Verses:
We eat mashed potatoes.
We eat squash.
We eat pie.
(What else do the children eat?)  

Craft:

"Bouncing Turkey"
from All New Crafts for Thanksgiving 
by Kathy Ross and pictures by Sharon Lane Holm