Clothing
/I ditched the Thanksgiving theme this year because blegh holidays and we don't have any good Thanksgiving books anyway. So after I wrestled with the idea of music and night time, I finally settled on clothing and what a storytime it was!
BOOKS:
We read Naked Mole Rat Gets Dressed by Mo Willems and Ella Sarah Gets Dressed by Margaret Chodos-Irvine.
Both of these are wonderful. The kids liked Ella Sarah a little more I think, but the adults appreciated Willems' humor. I liked that we could talk about different items of clothing with each story - and items of clothing we might not usually talk about like suits and top hats and all that.
ACTION RHYME:
I borrowed this action rhyme from Storytime Katie. The stomping, let me tell you what. The stomping is the best.
Old shoes, new shoes
[insert child's name] is wearing [description] shoes.
1, 2, 3, 4, now I stomp them on the floor!
So I got to talk to most of the kids and ask them what kind of shoes they were wearing or how they would describe their shoes and we would chant our little rhyme again and stomp our feet.
SONG:
We listened and danced and did all kinds of goofy stuff to "Bring Your Clothes" by Laurie Berkner. I made sure to preface this one by saying we're going to PRETEND that we ARE our clothes. That helped them understand the actions we did.
CRAFT:
I went super simple for this one. We just matched up the different clothing with its shape and letters and then glued it down. We've had a lot of toddlers at storytime lately so I've been trying to go simpler on the crafts for the kids and for the moms.