Storytime - Camping

Books

Let's Go Camping by Jan Mader

Toddler

The Big Storm: A Very Soggy Counting Book by Nancy Tafuri

Toddler

Camping Day by Patricia Lakin

Preschool

Let's Play in the Forest While the Wolf is Not Around by Claudia Rueda

Preschool

Special Songs/Rhymes

Let's Go Hiking
Sung to: "Frere Jacques" 

Let's go hiking, let's go hiking,
Along the trail, along the trail.
I love to hike fast,
I love to hike slow,
Along the trail, along the trail.

--from PreschoolEducation.com

Campfire Pokey
Sung to: "Hokey Pokey"

You put your marshmallow in, 

You take your marshmallow out, 

You put your marshmallow in 

and you shake it all about, 

You do the campfire pokey, 

and you turn yourself about,

That's what it's all about, hey!

 

End with: you put your whole dinner in, 

you put your whole dinner out.

Substitute "marshmallow" with hot dog, potato, apple, popcorn, and anything else that you can roast over the campfire. 

--from PreschoolEducation.com

Craft

Toddlers

Campfire

Each child was given a paper plate, two brown construction paper logs, and some red, yellow, and orange tissue paper squares.

Preschoolers

Starry Night

Black construction paper + construction paper crayons + glitter = awesome

Flannel Friday - Campfire Pokey

Happy Flannel Friday! I hope you have your gear ready, because we're going camping!

"Camping Pokey"

Sung to: "Hokey Pokey" 

You put your marshmallow in, 

You take your marshmallow out, 

You put your marshmallow in 

and you shake it all about, 

You do the campfire pokey, 

and you turn yourself around, 

And that's what it's all about, hey!

 

Substitute "marshmallow" with hot dog, apple, popcorn, and anything else that you can roast over the campfire.

 

End with: you put your whole dinner in, you put your whole dinner out.

-- from PreschoolEducation.com

Flannel Friday is hosted by Katie at storytime katie. Check her site later to see the roundup of all of today's post.