BUGS!
/Bugs was a super fun storytime theme. All of my storytime kids are too little (or don't know any better) to get grossed out by bugs I think so we all enjoyed this.
BOOKS:
We read I Love Bugs by Emma Dodd and Can You Make a Scary Face? by Jan Thomas.
Both of these are fantastic storytime reads. I feel like Emma Dodd can do no wrong and following that up with the action-filled wonder of Can You Make a Scary Face? was perfect.
FLANNELBOARD:
I borrowed this idea from Miss Mary Liberry and made it my own. The lyrics go a little like this:
5 hungry ants,
marching in a line,
came upon a picnic
where they could dine.
They marched into the salad,
they marched into the cake,
they marched into the pepper….
Uh oh, that was a mistake!
AHHHH-CHOOO!
You can count down and have one sneeze and fly off one at a time, but I chose to make all of my ants fly off the board at once and you'll see why.
I made my ants out of pom poms and pipe cleaners! So I perched them on the top of my flannelboard and then popped them off by giving my flannelboard a little jerk. So fun! Here's a close up of an ant.
CRAFT:
We made our own Very Hungry Caterpillars. It was a little more complicated than most of the crafts we've been doing lately, but overall it paid off because the kids LOVE the VHC. Here's mine.