Wednesday, January 1, 2014

Storytime - Butterflies

Toddlers

Books: The Very Hungry Caterpillar by Eric Carle and Butterfly Butterfly by Petr Horacek.


Songs / Rhymes: “Good Morning”, “Hello, How Are You?”, “Open, Shut Them”, “Flutter, Flutter, Butterfly” with butterfly puppet, “Cocoon”, “I Wiggle My Fingers”, and “The More We Get Together”. 

Craft: Fluttering Butterflies. Materials: Kleenex, black pipe cleaners, and watercolor paints. The toddlers used the paints to decorate their butterflies.






Preschoolers

Books: Fly, Butterfly, Fly! by Dana Meachen Rau and Birthday for Cow by Jan Thomas (because it was my birthday!).

Songs / Rhymes: “Welcome to the Library”, “Hello, How Are You?”, “If You’re Happy and You Know It”, “Open, Shut Them”, “Cocoon”, “I Wiggle My Fingers”, and “The More We Get Together”. 

Craft: Fluttering Butterflies. Materials: Kleenex, black pipe cleaners, and watercolor paints. The preschoolers used the paints to decorate their butterflies.

Songs/Rhymes
Flutter, Flutter, Butterfly
Sung to: "Twinkle, Twinkle, Little Star”
Flutter, flutter, butterfly, 
Floating in the summer sky.
Floating by for all to see,
floating by so merrily.
Flutter, flutter, butterfly,
floating in the summer sky. 
 

Cocoon
You spin a cocoon
(Spin in a circle)
Then you wait inside
(Crouch down low and cover face)
And when you come out
(Link thumbs, still covering face)
You’re a butterfly!
(Lift hands fluttering into the atmosphere!)
--HCPL

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