Monster Mash
Preschool Storytime
Opening: Big Books
Book: “Monsters Love Colors”
*The kids loved, loved, loved this book! I got the idea for using prop monsters from this website. Below is a picture of what I did during storytime. What I do is I hide my monsters (made from construction paper and laminated) inside a cauldron, behind a pocket. Then I show the kids my empty cauldron. As I read the book, I will put in my two monsters that make a color, and pull out of the pocket the monster that we've created. Then I will place the monsters on the flannelboard and go back to mixing again. At the end of the book you make a rainbow monster. For that, I put all my monsters inside the pocket that I have taped inside the cauldron. Before I pull out the rainbow monster, I will show the kids the empty cauldron and ask them what they did with my monsters. They got super quiet at this point and had the cutest expressions. Then, viola! I pull out the rainbow monster and they went crazy! Such a fun book that teaches how mixing colors will create new colors and it makes you look like you're magical too!
Fingerplay: “Monster, Monster”
Monster, monster, turn around
Monster, monster, touch the ground
Monster, monster, touch the sky
Monster, monster, wave goodbye
Monster, monster, pat your head
Monster, monster, go to bed
Monster, monster, turn around
Monster, monster, sit back down
Book/Flannel: Monsters Go Night-Night”
*This book was the favorite pick by the kids. They asked that I read it again, which hasn't happened in a while. Each page opens up with a monster, and a question. You have four choices to pick from. I asked the kids what they thought the answer was, and it's always the silliest choice. I either had a flannel piece to put on the board or the actual prop to show them to correspond with each correct answer. They laughed more and more with each page, except for the page about where do monsters go to the bathroom. I thought that would be the funniest page, but it ended up not being so. Awesome book that I highly recommend doing and I plan on using it again next year!
Fingerplay/Flannel: “Five Little Monsters Jumping on the Bed”
*Here is the website where you can print out some adorable monsters for your flannelboard. We had a blast jumping up and down! Of course, if you're jumping the kids will want to do this again, and they did.
Fingerplay/Flannel: “Monster, Monster”
Monster, monster, where can you be?
Shout out a color on the count of three!
*I came up with this fingerplay because I wanted to have a hiding game to use with a monster. I used the same pieces from a previous flannelboard where we hunted for a lion, and you can see it here. I just switched the lion out for a monster.
Book: “Monsters Love Underpants
*The cover of this book cracks me up everytime I see it! Sadly, we ran out of time for this book. This is a great rhyming book and the illustrations are hilarious. Definitely a great read-aloud.
Song: “Silly Dance Contest”
*You can't have a monster mash storytime without dancing! We got up danced, shaked and clapped. I was surprised, but the kids wanted to dance again. This reminded me that I need to do more dancing and music with them, which is always fun.
Book: “Go Away, Big Green Monster!”
*Classic book, that you can't go wrong with. The kids were very engrossed with this book and started screaming as I made the monster disappear. I've read it many times, but they really got into it this time. I had so much fun reading it and it's a standby that I will always go to.
Below is our craft, and here is the website where it was found. There are a lot of other cute variations of it also. My favorite part of this craft is that the mouth of the monster opens up to reveal the tongue and teeth. I think that was the kids' favorite thing about it.
Below is our craft, and here is the website where it was found. There are a lot of other cute variations of it also. My favorite part of this craft is that the mouth of the monster opens up to reveal the tongue and teeth. I think that was the kids' favorite thing about it.
Extra Read-Alouds:
Quit Calling Me Monster!
Pumpkin Trouble
Monster Trouble!
Little Shop of Monsters
Don’t Touch This Book!
Monster Trucks! by Denise
What Do You Do When a Monster Says Boo?
Go to Bed Monster!
There Was an Old Monster
Monsters Go Night-Night
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