Crayons and Colors (Preschool and Two's)

Preschool Storytime:

Opening: Big Books

Fingerplay: Birdhouse Colors Matching

Book: Pete the Cat: I Love My White Shoes

*Usually the kids know the song to sing along with this book. But this time, most of them didn't. I do have to say they all knew their colors very well, so that made reading the book lots of fun! There is a fun pattern to use with this book, and you can find it here!

Fingerplay/Flannel: Guessing Game

*For this game, I used the cards above.

Fingerplay/Flannel: Little Cat…..

*For this hiding game, I hid Pete the cat behind different colored shoes.

Book/Flannel: What Color is Bear’s Underwear?

*I was so excited to use this book, I even made a flannelboard bear and underwear to go along with it. But for whatever reason, the kids didn’t enjoy this near as much as I had hoped. I do have to say, this is still a very silly book!

Flannelboard: I Have a Crayon

I have a crayon, I’ll give it to you.

Here is my crayon, my crayon of blue.

I have a crayon, a lovely little fellow.

Here is my crayon, my crayon of yellow.

I have a crayon, it’s here on my head.

Here is my crayon, my crayon of red.

I have a crayon, we can draw a circle.

Here is my crayon, my crayon of purple.

I have a crayon, what do I see?

Here is my crayon, an orange one for me.

I have a crayon, the best ever seen.

Here is my crayon, my crayon of green

*For this fingerplay, we all stood up and acted like animals. Why? Because I fed each crayon to a different puppet. So each time the puppet appeared, we acted like that animal and I gave them a crayon!

Credit: Anne’s Library Life

Action: Crayon Changing

*Use paint cans and tell kids you’re going to change the colors of the crayons.  Do this like the story “White Rabbit’s Colors”, where you change out the crayons in each paint can.

LOVED! Would have watched me do this the whole storytime! I have included a picture below to show you what my paint cans look like. I have a hidden pocket inside each paint can, so that I can make my crayons "disappear". The kids think I'm magic, which is so awesome!

Book: Colors All Around

*Ialready done a lot in this storytime, but I'm glad I went ahead and read this book. In this interactive book, you do different things to make items fall down inside the book. I had these items cut out of paper, so that I could throw the items out onto the kids! For instance, when you tapped the pages of the book, and bananas fell down on the pages of the book, I threw out paper bananas onto the kids! This is always a big hit with the kids, and they loved it this time too!

Our craft today was two crayons inside their crayon box! We added the crayon box to our craft to have something to put our crayons inside.

Credit: Crafty Pammy

Extra Books:

Time for Two’s Storytime:

Opening: Big Books

Fingerplay: If You Want to Hear a Story

Fingerplay/Flannel: Birdhouse Matching

Book: Cat’s Colors (Puts dots on cat puppet as you read)

*I was really excited to do this, but I had no idea the two's would have such a reaction to this! I had my volunteer hold out the cat puppet as I read this story. Cat goes around collecting colors all throughout this book. So I had each color cut out of construction paper. As I read the story, I would stick each colored dot onto the cat puppet. The two's went crazy over this! Such a wonderful reaction!

Fingerplay/Flannel: Little Cat…..

*For this hiding game, I hid Pete the cat behind different colored shoes.

Flannelboard: I Have a Crayon

I have a crayon, I’ll give it to you.

Here is my crayon, my crayon of blue.

I have a crayon, a lovely little fellow.

Here is my crayon, my crayon of yellow.

I have a crayon, it’s here on my head.

Here is my crayon, my crayon of red.

I have a crayon, we can draw a circle.

Here is my crayon, my crayon of purple.

I have a crayon, what do I see?

Here is my crayon, an orange one for me.

I have a crayon, the best ever seen.

Here is my crayon, my crayon of green

*For this fingerplay, we all stood up and acted like animals. Why? Because I fed each crayon to a different puppet. So each time the puppet appeared, we acted like that animal and I gave them a crayon!

Credit: Anne’s Library Life

Action: Crayon Changing

*Use paint cans and tell kids you’re going to change the colors of the crayons.  Do this like the story “White Rabbit’s Colors”, where you change out the crayons in each paint can.

LOVED! Would have watched me do this the whole storytime! I have included a picture below to show you what my paint cans look like. I have a hidden pocket inside each paint can, so that I can make my crayons "disappear". The kids think I'm magic, which is so awesome!

Our craft today was two crayons inside their crayon box! We added the crayon box to our craft to have something to put our crayons inside.
Credit: Crafty Pammy

Credit: Crafty Pammy