Easter and Egg Hunt (Preschool)

Preschool Storytime:

Opening: Big Books

Book: There Was an Old Lady Who Swallowed a Chick

*The kids really got into this book and loved helping me flap my wings like a chicken every time we read that line. A great book for this theme!

Fingerplay/Flannel: Hippity-Hop, Hippity-Hay

*I forgot to grab my flannel Easter bunnies for this great hopping fingerplay, so we used Easter eggs! It ended up working out wonderfully, and I think I'll do this from now on for Easter! To see the words for this wonderful fingerplay, check it out here.

Book: Everybunny Dance!

*The kids loved this book!  Everybody got up and started dancing without me asking them! A great movement book and it fits in wonderfully at Easter.

Fingerplay/Flannel: Easter Egg Guessing Game

*I used the clues inside this book and made a guessing game for the kids. I found a really cute flannel egg for a dollar, and took clipart of all the items I was describing. Then the kids could tell me what I was talking about and I would pull them out of my egg. The kids didn't enjoy this as much as I had hoped, but I still think it's a really fun guessing game.

Book: We’re Going on an Egg Hunt

*This is a wonderful new Easter book and the kids loved it! We used puppets during this and the best part of the book is when the wolf shows up at the end and surprises everyone!

Fingerplay/Flannel: Seven Eggs 

*I ran out of time to do my seven eggs storytelling, but it's always a great one to use!

Today's craft is the Easter bunny in a carrot car!  We found the idea for this fabulous craft here!

Extra Books:

Here Comes Easter Cat!

Picasso: The Tree Frog

What Am I?  Easter

Time for Two’s Storytime:

Opening: Big Books

Fingerplay: If You Want to Hear a Story

Book: We’re Going on an Egg Hunt

*This is a wonderful new Easter book and the kids loved it! We used puppets during this and the best part of the book is when the wolf shows up at the end and surprises everyone! The next time I read this I plan on using flannel Easter eggs and placing them on the flannelboard as we go.

Fingerplay/Flannel: Hippity-Hop, Hippity-Hay

*To see the words for this wonderful fingerplay, check it out here. The kids had a blast hopping today!

Fingerplay: Easter Eggs Colors

This is a really fun story to tell, and the two's had fun telling me what color my eggs were. To see the words for this, click here.

Book: Where Are Baby’s Easter Egg?

Fingerplay/Flannel:  Jelly Beans (Feed Puppets)

Action/Flannel: Seven Eggs

*I ran out of time to do this, but it's a great story to tell!

Extra Book:

Chester’s Colorful Easter Eggs

10 Easter Egg Hunters

Ten Easter Eggs

New Books for November (Part 2)

Beautiful Oops

*This book is utterly amazing!  I sat down and looked through it twice, it is so fascinating!  Each page is very entertaining with flaps, crinkles, fold-outs, you name it, this book has got it!  It truly is a beautiful oops!

Peekaboo in the Snow

*This book is part of a series that I love!  In this book, you will play peekaboo with precious winter animals.  A great lift-the-flap book to use with your little one.

New Books for November (Part 1)

More new books!  Yeah!


This book will make you sleepy!  The illustrations are so precious!  As you read along, each planet gets tucked into bed.  I love the curlers and nightcaps on the planets, so cute!


Oh how this book melted my heart!  A great book for one-on-one reading with your child.  I won't spoil the ending, but this book is great to read with someone who is scared of dogs.  It demonstrates how you don't have to be afraid of dogs.  But by taking baby steps, little by little, you can overcome your fear.  You will fall in love with the bun-wearing girl and the scruffy little dog.  Not to mention the old man with the quirky straw hat.


*What a fun building book!  I love the ending of this book, because the builders forgot one brick!  All of the pages rhyme, and the illustrations are breathtaking.  You feel like you can reach in and pull out an actual brick from the page.  A great one to use for next years' SRP theme!


*I am so excited!  I adore Mr. Panda, and this book is worth the wait!  The little penguin is the only one willing to wait for Mr. Panda and his creation.  What is it?  A doughnut.  Not just a tiny doughnut, but an enormous doughnut!  Doesn't the tiny chef's hat atop the giant panda steal your heart?


*Oh, what havoc superheroes could wreak when they have bad days!  This rhyming book takes you on a super adventure showing you just what superheroes could do!  But don't fear, they reign in their good and realize that they don't need to, and use their powers for the good!


*This book makes learning so much fun, and the kids don't even realize it.  With a simple rhyming sentence to each page, you will learn the length of a football field.  How long you say?  As long as 960 sandwiches joined in song!  At the bottom of each page is the actual length of the sandwich so that you can do the math.



*Oh wow, I have tears in my eyes from laughing at this book!  The creators of this book brought back the fluffy dog, but beware, he gets put through a workout.  I want to make a giant remote control to use during this book, because that will make it so much more interactive.  Plus there is a firetruck in this book, which always makes it more popular too!


This book is a true tongue-twister, but it's really worth it!  If you're brave enough to read this aloud, then the kids will appreciate it.  I want to buy actual bread to break and use while I read this book, to show the kids what is happening to my baguette!


Who's ready to play?  Owl!  But all his friends are asleep!  When owl goes around to play, he ends up tucking them all into bed.  But when owl finally goes to bed, who is waiting on him to play?  His friends!  Hooray!


What a great interactive color book!  This book starts out with black and white illustrations and strict instructions.  No colors allowed!  But as you go on, color starts to creep in.  Your job as a reader is to get all the color out by rubbing it off the page.  But it doesn't work!  Then you have to spin and tilt the book.  But nothing works!  What fun you can have by filling the book with colors and showing the kids what all they can do with a little imagination and nothing else but a book.


What a great combination of my two favorite things, dinosaurs and pirates!  These rollicking rhymes will keep you on your toes as you sail the seas.  The grinning toothy dinosaur on the cover may be small, but don't underestimate him!  


The beloved author of "Pete the Cat" has done it again with this silly book!  The disco ball with the spinning lights sets the stage for a dance party!  All of the book rhymes as you read along with Hazel who just wants to dance!  A great pick for you next dance party.

New Books

I have new books to share!  Yeah!

This book is perfect for Halloween!  This book is filled with fun farm animal all decked out for Halloween.  If you like Halloween jokes, this book is for you!  If you're not familiar with the first book in the series, I highly recommend you check it out.

Another great book by Doreen Cronin starring the animals from Click, Clack, Moo.  It's birthday time on the farm, and all the animals pitch in, including little yellow duck!  Not only is this great for birthday theme storytime but you can also use it for bath time too.

A great movement and dancing book starring a cute puppy and a precious boy. Kids will love hopping, jumping and moving with you as you read this book.

Who is making that awful sound?  Is it a monster?  Oh no, it's just silly wolf!    All the animals gather, worried that the AAA-OOO is a monster just waiting to eat them up!  I can't wait to use this book during October.

Another precious and interactive book by Britta Teckentrup.  Can all the animals float over tiger with their balloons?  What happens if one pops?  Tiger wakes up to find his surprise, a birthday party!  The kids have to help keep tiger asleep by rubbing his nose, patting his belly and other fun things.

New Books

New Books!

More new books! 


The adorable gorilla can't decide what he wants to be at the zoo.  The kids get to stomp and roar along with him, but he's still a gorilla, but a silly one at that!

A wonderful seek and find book that includes counting.  As you read the book, you lift the flaps on each page to help papa seahorse find his missing baby.  You will discover wonderful ocean animals as you go.  Great for a counting or ocean storytime!

I have fallen in love with this author!  This book is so cute!  Every animal has a flap that you lift to show the yawning mouth open up.  I can't wait to use this in my next bedtime storytime!

This rhyming books does a great job illustrating all the wonderful pets in our world.  The words on each page are very little, but the pictures more than make up for it.  

What a precious book about a little cloud.  This book is very sweet and teaches that even though you may be small, you can turn into something great and wonderful.  In the end, little cloudette spreads rain and joy to not only frogs but children too.  A great book for a rain, cloud, or even frog storytime.

What a wonderful dragon book, and I love how it incorporates storytime into the plot.  A great rhyming book about a beautiful dragon and it rhymes also.  I've never done a dragon storytime but after reading this book I want to now!

This book is a really good movement book and it is accompanied by a wonderful CD that goes along with the book.  

 

Great lift-the-flap book for a sick storytime.  On each page, baby gets a boo-boo.  Someone different will come along to kiss and make it better!

 

Another great hit by one of my favorite authors!  As you turn the page each cut-out reveals an animal.  The cover of the book?  It turns into a monkey!  This would be wonderful for any age, and I will definitely be using it for a shape or animal storytime very soon!

This book reminds me of "Dog's Colorful Day" and I love it!  I plan on making a flannel and placing colored dots on the cat as the story progresses.  

Don't you just love the adorable monster on the front of this book?  From the creators of the book "I Will Chomp You" comes another great book!  You won't be disappointed by this one.  The monster inside this book tries to convince you that he's not a monster and then lists all the reasons why.  Another great one by a wonderful pair, Jory John and Bob Shea.