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.  

--PreschoolEducation

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