Storytime: Penguins

Family Storytime for ages 3-8 with craft.


Books:

 
Tacky the Penguin by Helen Lester and pictures by Lynn Munsinger


 
Penguins, Penguins, Everywhere! by Bob Barner



 
If You Were a Penguin by Wendell and Florence Minor


 
Penguin by Polly Dunbar

Additional Books: 

I Am Pangoo the Penguin by Satomi Ichikawa 

Little Penguin by Patrick Benson 

Where Is Home, Little Pip? by Karma Wilson and pictures by Jane Chapman 

 

Songs and Fingerplays



"Doing the Penguin" from Sesame Street: Hot! Hot! Hot! Dance Songs 
 


Two Little Penguins

Two little penguins sitting on the ice.
(Hold up both index fingers)
One bows once, the other bows twice.
(Make index fingers bow)
Waddle little penguins.
Waddle away.
(Put fingers behind back)
Come back penguins.
Time to play.
(Bring fingers to the front)
 

If You're a Penguin, And You Know It
(If You are Happy...)

If you're a penguin and you know it, flap your wings
If you're a penguin and you know it, flap your wings
If you're a penguin and you know it and you really want to show it
If you're a penguin and you know it, flap your wings

Additional verses:
Waddle your feet....
Swim, swim, swim...
Eat a fish, yum, yum, yum
(rub your belly)  



Craft: Hearts Penguin Craft

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

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.