Preschool Storytime:
Opening: Big Books
Book: Little Mouse’s Big Breakfast
I like to make this story come to life, so I have made a mouse that I put onto a box. Then, as I'm reading my volunteer will stick all of the food the mouse is eating on the boxes. Why? Because the mouse drops all the food he is stacking when he sees the cat! When that happens my volunteer knocks over all the boxes! Not only does this bring the book visually to life but it is also a lot of fun to knock the boxes over!
Flannelboard: Hiding game with food
*Little mouse, little mouse, where can you be?
Are you behind the grapes? Let’s see!
Book: Hide and Squeak (With mouse puppet popping up)
*This is an adorable rhyming book about a little mouse playing hide-and-seek! Each time I would read a certain stanza my volunteer would pop up the mouse puppet behind me. My hope was the preschooler kids would holler at me and tell me the mouse was behind me. Thankfully they enjoyed it and loved seeing the mouse pop up and down!
Action: Five Little Mice (Make five mice to go onto puppet stage)
Five little mice came out to play
Gathering crumbs along the way.
Out came pussycat sleek and fat,
Four little mice go scampering back.
*Repeat until zero mice left.
Book: Lunch
*I have never used this book in storytime before, but I am so happy I did! This book is super simple for preschoolers, but I turned it into a guessing game for them. I did make all the food for mouse, and as I was reading this book I wore a mouse finger puppet. Why? Because I took each mouse finger puppet and slid the food over my hand, just like you would if you were doing "The Very Hungry Caterpillar". I've included pictures below of the food so that you can see what it all looked like.
The craft is a cute little mouse holding two cookies with different colored squares.
Extra Books:
Time for Two’s Storytime:
Opening: Big Books
Book: Hide and Squeak
*This is an adorable rhyming book about a little mouse playing hide-and-seek! Each time I would read a certain stanza my volunteer would pop up the mouse puppet behind me. Usually the two's enjoy seeing a puppet pop up then disappear behind me, but today they went completely crazy over this! I do believe that everyone in the whole building, even on the fourth level, heard them screaming in excitement!
Flannelboard: Wheels on the Bus
Flannelboard: Hiding game with mice and cheese
Book: Lunch by Fleming
*I have never used this book in storytime before, but I am so happy I did! This book is super simple for preschoolers, but I turned it into a guessing game for them. I did make all the food for mouse, and as I was reading this book I wore a mouse finger puppet. Why? Because I took each mouse finger puppet and slid the food over my hand, just like you would if you were doing "The Very Hungry Caterpillar". I've included pictures above of the food so that you can see what it all looked like.
One little two year-old boy was absolutely adorable, he was so fascinated seeing the little mouse finger puppet pop up through the food! I highly recommend taking the time to make the food out of construction paper, it is truly worth the effort.
*For the craft, the two's did the same cute little mouse as the preschooler did, which is pictured at the end of the preschool post.
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