Chicken? Nobody Calls Me Chicken
/I have a whole host of completely random storytime themes for August and September and I could not be more pumped for them. First up CHICKENS! There are so many cute chicken books! Also a bunch of my friends have recently decided to get chickens for eggs and meat, and it has been completely fascinating to watch the little chicks grow up into full blown chickens. Through Facebook. Not in the flesh because after Jurassic Park, they look like little velociraptors to me.
BOOKS:
We have a three-fer! On Tuesday, I read Wings by James Marshall and Minerva Louise by Janet Morgan Stoeke. On Wednesday, I only had three toddlers and read Ed’s Egg by David Bedford and Karen Sapp and Minerva Louise.
Wings is so cute and so funny, but it’s also pretty long. It would be the perfect kindergarten read-aloud. The interesting thing about both Minerva Louise and Ed’s Egg is that they definitely need one to read the pictures. Ed slowly loses his egg and Minerva Louise picks all the silliest places to sit. Both are a great length for toddlers, but almost require a preschooler’s reading skills.
SONG:
Obviously, we did the chicken dance. What kind of chicken storytime would it be if we didn’t do the chicken dance? Thank goodness for Amazon Prime Music. They had lots of chicken dance songs to pick from.
CRAFT:
We made paper plate chickens who peck! This was an easy craft that had some nice tactile elements, since we used crepe paper as “feathers.”
I vined it so you could see how cute it was. :D