Storytime - The Year of the Snake: A Chinese/Lunar New Year Party

Toddler

Books: My First Chinese New Year by Karen Katz and Hide and Snake by Keith Baker.

Songs / Rhymes: “Good Morning”, “Hello, How Are You?”, “Open, Shut Them”, “Head and Shoulders”, “Hello Sammy Snake” with snake puppet, and “The More We Get Together”.

Craft: Sssssnakes. Materials: green construction paper strips, red construction paper tongues, crayons, glue, and tape. The toddlers glued their strips together to make a chain. When they were done, they glued on the tongues and drew on eyes. The idea came from DLTK's Crafts for Kids.

Preschool

Books: Max Celebrates Chinese New Year by Adria F. Klein and Ten Mice for Tet by Peti Deitz Shea.

Songs / Rhymes: “Welcome to the Library”, “Hello, How Are You?”, “Open, Shut Them”, “A Tooty Tah”, “Hello Sammy Snake” with the snake puppet, “I Wiggle My Fingers”, and “The More We Get Together”.

Craft: Sssssnakes. These ones were made with red, yellow, and black strips. Some preschoolers glued their strips together to make a chain, while others taped them together to make one long strip. See above.

A retired coworker let me borrow some of her Lunar New Year decorations to add to our festivities.

Songs

Hello, Sammy Snake (with snake puppet)

Sung to: "If You're Happy and You Know It"

Hello, Sammy Snake,

How are you?

Hello, Sammy Snake,

How are you?

With a slither, slither, slither,

And a hiss, hiss, hiss,

Hello, Sammy Snake,

How are you?

--Miss Mollie