Frolicking! Prancing! Unicorns!

I was soooooo pumped when Unicorn Thinks He’s Really Great by Bob Shea came in.  I may or may not have peer pressured our cataloger to catalog-it-right-away-because-I-need-it-NOW!! It is pretty much as awesome as I thought it would be.  It was glaringly apparent that I HAD to do a unicorn storytime ASAP.

BOOKS:

We read The Unicorn and the Moon by Tomie DePaola and (of course) Unicorn Thinks He’s Pretty Great by Bob Shea.

The Unicorn and the Moon got a little long for my toddlers.  They couldn’t sit still through the whole thing even though I skipped three pages.  Unicorn Thinks He’s Pretty Great worked better.  I did a goat voice and a unicorn voice (which is pretty much my small ditzy girl voice).  Best line: “Lucky.  I can only eat glitter and rainbows.  Darn my sensitive stomach!”

SONG:

What kind of unicorn storytime would this be if we didn’t play “Space Unicorn” by Parry Gripp (which is also my ringtone for REASONS).

We divvied up the scarves ahead of time and everyone danced with scarves to one of the happiest best songs ever!  (Okay, yes, I’m exaggerating, but it is a good song.)

CRAFT:

We made unicorn masks!  I wanted to whip out the glitter and go full on unicorn for these, BUUUUUUTTTTT most of our participants are toddlers and I thought that glitter probably wasn’t the best idea.  So we colored our blank masks and glued on our horns and went to it.  (As you can probably see in the picture, I didn’t take into account actual human measurements when making these, so there is no way that an actual toddler can look out both eyes.)