Storytime: Pies

Family Storytime for ages 3-8 with craft.




Books:





The Apple Pie That Papa Baked
by Lauren Thompson and pictures by Jonathan Bean



 More Pies
by Robert Munsch and pictures by Michael Martchenko


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

Additional Books: 

Pie in the Sky by Lois Ehlert 

The Apple Pie Tree by Zoe Hall and pictures by Shari Halpern 

All for Pie Pie for All by David Martin and pictures by Valeri Gorbachev

 

Songs and Fingerplays:
 

Alligator Pie

Alligator, alligator
(open and close hands like an alligator's mouth)
Alligator pie.
If I don't get some,
I think I'm gonna cry.
(pretend to cry)
You can take away the grass,
(wiggle fingers like grass blowing)
Take away the sky,
(hands over head)
But don't take away
(do alligator's mouth again)
My alligator pie.
 

Five Apples

(count to five on fingers)

The first apple in the basket was bright and shy red.
The second apple in the basket said,
"What a cozy bed!"
The third apple in the basket said,
"Please move over there."
The fourth apple in the basket said,
"Now we are two pair."
The fifth apple in the basket said,
"Oh dear, me-oh-my!"
"This basket looks like pastry."
"I think we're apple pie!"  

Craft:

Modified Apple Pie Plate

Instead of using two plates I just used the top plate and had the kids put tissue paper on the backside of the middle slits. Kind of like stained glass. No paint either, I gave them crayons to decorate and "season" their pies.

Storytime: I Feel Sick (Germs)

Family Storytime for ages 3-8 with craft.  Stories, songs and a craft about getting sick and staying healthy.
 

Books

 

Wash Your Hands! by Tony Ross

 
Bear Feels Sick by Karma Wilson

 

 
How Do Dinosaurs Get Well Soon? by Jane Yolen and Mark Teague

Additional Books:
Mother, Mother I Feel Sick; Send For the Doctor, Quick, Quick, Quick by Remy Charlip and Burton Supree
Barnyard Song by Rhonda Gowler Greene and pictures by Robert Bender
I'm Not Feeling Well Today by Shirley Neitzel and pictures by Nancy Winslow Parker
The Big Sneeze by Ruth Brown

Songs and Fingerplays

 

Sneeze Song
(sung to Farmer in the Dell)

I think-- I am going to sneeze, ahh-choo.
I think-- I am going to sneeze, ahh-choo.
Pass the tissue please,
pass the tissue please.
I think-- I am going to sneeze, ahh-choo.
 
More "Health and Safety" from Preschool Education


 

Five Nasty Germs
 

Five nasty germs going out to play

Along came the water and washed one away!
Four nasty germs trying to make you sick
Along came the scrubbing and said
"You're not going to stick!"
Two nasty germs got into a fight
Along came the rinse and washed one out of sight!
One nasty germ thought it couldn't be seen
Along came the towel and your hand is nice and clean!  

From Hennepin County Library  



Balloon Sneeze

Fill a balloon with paper hole punches, and blow it up. Talk about germs in sneezes and then pop the balloon. The punches fly everywhere, and the kids love helping collect the "germs".  
From King County Library  


Craft  


"K" Is For Kleenex

Photocopy a large letter "K" onto colored paper. Provide children with scissors and glue and a tissue. Let them tear or cut the tissue into the little bits to glue and fill in their "K". Let them cut out their "K" if they choose. This is not a glamorous craft, but it helps the kids with manual dexterity and gives them practice with scissors and glue.

Storytime: Frogs

Family Storytimes for ages 3-8 with craft.

Books:



Fribbity Ribbit 
by Suzanne C. Johnson and pictures by Debbie Tilley


 

A Frog in the Bog
by Karma Wilson and pictures by Joan Rankin

Wide-Mouthed Frog
by Keith Faulkner and pictures by Jonathan Lambert


 

Red-Eyed Tree Frog
by Joy Crowley and pictures by Nic Bishop



Song:

Head, Shoulders, Knees and Toes


Craft:

Frog Puppet Paper Plate Craft
from dltk-kids.com

We did the craft without the arms and legs, and used cotton balls with googly eyes on them instead of paper eyes.

Storytime: Ocean Animals

Family Storytime for Ages 3-8 with craft.

Books:

 
 Swimmy

by Leo Lionni


 
Rub-A-Dub Sub

by Linda Ashman and pictures by Jeff Mack



Hooray for Fish!

by Lucy Cousins

Additional Books (added 6.1.10) 

Fish, Swish! Splash, Dash!: Counting Round and Round by Suse MacDonald 

I'm the Biggest Thing in the Ocean by Kevin Sherry 

Into the A, B, Sea by Deborah Lee Rose and pictures by Steve Jenkins 

One Lonely Sea Horse by Saxton Freymann and Joost Elffers 

Ten Little Fish by Audrey Wood and pictures by Bruce Wood 

The Three Little Fish and the Big Bad Shark by Ken Geist and pictures by Julia Gorton 

Trout, Trout, Trout: A Fish Chant by April Pulley Sayre and pictures by Trip Park  

Songs:


I Caught a Fish

1, 2, 3, 4, 5
I caught a fish alive.
6,7,8,9,10
I let him go again.
Why did you let him go?
Because he bit my finger so. OUCH!
 


Baby Shark Song 

  (Make hand like a puppet, with thumb underneath and fingers above.)
Baby shark doo, doo, doo, doo.
Baby shark doo, doo, doo, doo.
Baby shark doo, doo, doo, doo.
Baby shark.

(Put palms together and open and shut fingers, while bottom of palms remain touching)
Mama shark doo, doo, doo, doo.
Mama shark doo, doo, doo, doo.
Mama shark doo, doo, doo, doo.
Mama shark.

(Put elbows, forearms, and palms together. Hinge on elbows and clap hands together.)
Papa shark doo, doo, doo, doo.
Papa shark doo, doo, doo, doo.
Papa shark doo, doo, doo, doo.
Papa shark.
 
(Make "mama shark", but roll fingers in so knuckles clap.) 
Grandpa gums, doo, doo, doo, doo.
Grandpa gums, doo, doo, doo, doo.
Grandpa gums, doo, doo, doo, doo.
Grandpa gums.

(Make swimming motions)
Went for a swim, doo, doo, doo, doo.
Went for a swim, doo, doo, doo, doo.
Went for a swim, doo, doo, doo, doo.
For a swim.

(Make shark fins above your head)
Saw a shark, doo, doo, doo, doo.
Saw a shark, doo, doo, doo, doo.
Saw a shark, doo, doo, doo, doo.
Saw a shark.

(Quick swimming motions)
Swim real fast, doo, doo, doo, doo.
Swim real fast, doo, doo, doo, doo.
Swim real fast, doo, doo, doo, doo.
Swim real fast.

(Wiggle around)
Shark attack, doo, doo, doo, doo.
Shark attack, doo, doo, doo, doo.
Shark attack, doo, doo, doo, doo.
Shark attack.


Here's a video of the song, but I tend to do it much slower.

Here Is the Sea

Here is the sea the wavy sea.
(Make wave motions with arm)
Here is my boat.
(Cup hands)
And here is me.
(Point to self)
All of the fishes.
(wiggle index and middle finger of one or both hands)
Down below.
Wiggle their tails.
And awaaaay they go!
(Hide wiggling fingers behind back)  



Crafts:


Octopus Craft 
 modification of Crazy Eight Octopus (pg 39)

 
Jumbo Book of Easy Crafts (2001) by Judy Ann Sadler

Instead of cutting lines in a toilet paper tube. I created a template on construction paper, and used the copier. The kids cut straight lines in the paper and glued it all into a tube. Then they added wiggly eyes and a mouth. More coloring and leg curling were optional.



Additional Craft (added 6.1.10)

Rainbow Fish First, I cut out fish from our Ellison machine. Then I cut little squares of multi-colored tissue paper. The children glued their tissue paper fish "scales" to their fish. I also offered crayons for them to decorate with. Very cute.