This one time...at storytime!: August 2018

Wednesday, August 29, 2018

Once Upon a Time Party

I'm so happy to share this, we had our first "Once Upon a Time" party! Below are pictures of our crafts, food and decorations.

We had a banner going down both sides of the auditorium. The banner had unicorns, lions and other items on the shields. On our walls were torches and chandeliers.

*Our two back walls had purple tablecloths hanging down, tied in the middle.

For a game, who can resist castle putt-putt???

*How about trying to pull the sword out of the stone? My boss made this astounding stone for us, and I had to dress up as Snow White!

*Castle craft with turrets and stones to glue on.

Credit: Mommyish

*Unicorn craft with different colored hair. The girls loved the unicorn, but the yarn threading was a little challenging for some of the kids.
Credit: Glued To My Crafts

*We had shields for everyone, with unicorns and swords to choose from.

*I apologize, I would give credit for this fabulous dragon, but the website is unavailable.

I forgot to take a picture, but we also had paper crowns laid out for the kids to make and wear. Sorry about that!

*This is a picture of my faithful volunteer, my mom! The kids ate all of our "twigs" or pretzel sticks, almost two pans of brownies, and the majority of the "dragon fireballs" or cheetohs. I have to say all of the food was a big hit! I did have a jar of magical jellybeans and the kids got to guess how many were inside. We had eighteen guesses, which wasn't too bad! We had 36 kids attend, which was good attendance for our first time doing this party!

Once Upon a Storytime (Preschool and Two's)

Preschool Storytime:

Opening: Big Books

Book: I Will Not Eat You

*This is such a fun book to read, especially when you use a dragon puppet! That's the fabulous creature hiding inside the cave, a dragon! The preschoolers loved making the animal sounds along with me as we tried to guess the animal hiding inside our cave.

Fingerplay: Dragon, Dragon

Dragon, dragon, turn around

Dragon, dragon, touch the ground

Dragon, dragon, fly up high

Dragon, dragon, touch the sky

Dragon, dragon, swing your tail

Dragon, dragon, shake your scales

Dragon, dragon, give a ROAR

Dragon, dragon, sit on the floor

Credit: Sunflower Storytime

Book: Huff & Puff

*For this story, I decided I wanted to make some props for my pigs. So, I made a house for each pig, and taped them onto a box. Then I tucked the happy pig into the first house, and as we "blew" down the house, my volunteer literally knocked the house into the floor! Much to the kids delight. Then my volunteer would show the pig to my kids, with the unhappy pig facing out. When we got to the last house, we tried huffing and puffing with all our might, but we couldn't knock down that house! But instead, my volunteer pulled out a yummy chocolate cake for the wolf! Which is what happens at the end of the story. I've included pictures below of the houses I made so that you can see what I did. All the houses folded down, but I cut out the windows so that you can just tuck each pig inside the house.

*This pig is the grumpy pig, can you tell? LOL!

Fingerplay/Flannel: Five Knights

Five little knights, fearless and brave,

Went dragon hunting deep in a cave!

They heard a loud ROAR

Shaking the cave’s floor!

So one little knight ran away!

(Four… Three… Two… One…)

*The kids loved stomping our feet and roaring like dragons. The best part was watching all the knights run away behind me!

Credit: Literary Hoots

Fingerplay/Flannel: Pancakes Hiding Game

*Pancakes, pancakes, not very big...

Are you under the purple pig??

Credit: Flannel Board Fun

Book: Not Your Typical Dragon

*This book is great to read, but it was the last one I read and it was a little long. The thing that helped the most was that I had the items inside the story cut out of construction paper. So, when Cripsin the dragon breathes out teddy bears instead of fire, I would throw out little paper teddy bears onto the kids. They loved all the items being thrown out onto them!

Our craft today was a castle!

Credit: http://terrific2s.blogspot.com/2013/08/fairy-tale-preschool-projects-for-2.html

Extra Books:

I dressed up as Snow White, here I am!

Time for Two’s Storytime: