Storytime - Here a Chick, There a Chick

Toddler

Books: Five Little Chicks by Nancy Tafuri and The Little Red Hen on the felt board

Songs / Rhymes: “Good Morning”, “Hello, How Are You?”, “Open, Shut Them”, “Head and Shoulders”, “Cluck, Cluck, Red Hen” with hen puppet, “Put Your Egg on Your Head” with shakers, “Shake Your Egg” with shakers, “We Shake Our Shakers Together” with shakers, “I Wiggle My Fingers”, and “The More We Get Together”.

Craft: Chicken. Materials: red construction paper die cut circle, yellow construction paper die cut hand prints, orange construction paper die cut triangles, large googly eyes, crayons, glue, and tape. The toddlers glued their pieces together to make chickens. The idea came from First School.

Preschool

Books: The Little Red Hen by Byron Barton and Hungry Hen by Richard Waring on the felt board

Songs / Rhymes: “Welcome to the Library”, “Hello, How Are You?”, “Open, Shut Them”, “A Tooty Tah”, and “The More We Get Together”.

Craft: Paint a Chicken. Materials: chicken outline on cardstock, watercolor paint, paintbrushes, and water. The preschoolers painted their chickens with the watercolors. Many of them made little red hens. The idea came from Little Family Fun. I used this outline.

Songs/Rhymes

Cluck Cluck, Red Hen
Use a chicken puppet and two plastic eggs
Sung to: "Baa Baa, Black Sheep”Cluck, cluck, red hen, have you any eggs?
Yes, sir, yes, sir, as many as my legs: 1,2!

--Storytime Source Page

Put Your Egg on Your Head

Sung to: “There’s a Spider on the Floor”

Use egg shakers
Put your egg on your head, on your head.
Put your egg on your head, on your head.
Put your egg on your head
Put your egg on your head.
Put your egg on your head, on your head.
continue with toes, tummy, etc.

--Librarian Lisa’s Storytimes

Shake Your Eggs

Shake your eggs and shake them high.
Shake your eggs and shake them low.
Shake your eggs and shake them high.
Shake your eggs around you go.

--Librarian Lisa’s Storytimes

We Shake Our Shakers Together

Sung to: “The Bear Went Over the Mountain”

-- Mother Goose on the Loose by Betsy Diamant-Cohen. New York: Neal-Schuman Publishers, Inc., 2006.