Storytime - Peas, Please!

Toddler

Books: Where is the Green Sheep? by Mem Fox and Green by Laura Vaccaro Seeger

Songs / Rhymes: “Good Morning”, “Hello, How Are You?”, “Open, Shut Them”, “Pea Soup” on the felt board, “If You’re Happy and You Know It”, “I Wiggle My Fingers”, and “The More We Get Together”. 

Craft: Peas on a Spoon. Materials: spoon printout, green foam circles, crayons, glue, and tape. The toddlers glued the circles to the spoons and colored the paper. The spoon picture came from SuperColoring.com.

Preschool

Books: Mabel O’Leary Put Peas in Her Ear-y by Mary Delaney and LittlePea by Amy Krouse Rosenthal

Songs / Rhymes: “Welcome to the Library”, “Hello, How Are You?”, “Open, Shut Them”, “Pea Soup”, “The Hokey Pokey”, and “The More We Get Together”. 

Craft: Peas on Ps. Materials: letter P printout, green construction paper circles, crayons, glue, tape, and scissors. The preschoolers glued their circles to their Ps and colored in their projects.

Songs/Rhymes

Pea Soup

One little pea,

Jumped into the pot,

And waited for the soup to get hot.

(Tuck thumb into fist)

Two little peas jumped into the pot,

And waited for the soup to get hot.

(Tuck pointer finger into fist)

Three little peas jumped into the pot,

And waited for the soup to get hot.

(Tuck middle finger into fist)

Four little peas jumped into the pot,

And waited for the soup to get hot.

(Tuck little finger into fist)

Finally the soup got so very hot,

All the little peas jumped out of the pot!

(Open hand and wiggle all your fingers)

--Katie at Sharing Soda

If You’re Happy and You Know It

If you’re happy and you know it,

Clap your hands.

If you’re happy and you know it,

Clap your hands.

If you’re happy and you know it,

And you really want to show it,

If you’re happy and you know it,

Clap your hands.

Repeat with stomp your feet, shout hooray, do all three.

--Traditional

The Hokey Pokey

You put one arm in,

You take one arm out.

You put one arm in,

And you shake it all about.

You do the Hokey Pokey,

And you turn yourself around.

That’s what it’s all about!

Substitute different body parts. For more advanced children, use left and right.

--Traditional