Snow!

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Hilariously enough, I scheduled this theme for last week AND we had a blizzard and had to cancel both days of storytime.  So we moved it to this week and it's bitterly cold, BUT we were still open and had people show up.  

BOOKS:

We read The Mitten by Jan Brett and Snow by Uri Shulevitz. 

Both of these were wonderful.  I just love love love The Mitten.  I saw someone on the Storytime Underground Facebook page who had put a masking tape outline of a big mitten on their storytime room carpet and as they progressed through the story, they had more kids going into the mitten outline until they were all crammed in like the animals in the book.  So I did that and at first, it was difficult to get kids to be brave enough to go in there, but once they did, they were giggling and having a blast.  Fabulous idea!  Snow is nice.  It was a good winding everyone down book.  It would be a nice bedtime story book.

FLANNELBOARD:

I borrowed "Five Little Snowflakes" from Storytime Katie.  It is so fun.  Here are my snowflakes:

And here is the rhyme to go with them:

One little snowflake with nothing to do.
Along came another and
Then there were two.

Two little snowflakes laughing with me.
Along came another and
Then there were three.

Three little snowflakes looking for some more.
Along came another and
Then there were four.

Four little snowflakes dancing a jive.
Along came another and
Then there were five.

Five little snowflakes having so much fun.
Out came the sun and
Then there were none!

At the last verse, I swept my arm over the flannelboard and scooped up all the snowflakes so they "disappeared."

SONG:

We shook our shakers along with "Winter Party" by Caspar Babypants.  He's not always my favorite baby musician, but I do like this song.

CRAFT:

The majority of kids I'm getting these days are toddlers - three and up - so I've tried really hard to tailor my crafts to fit the skills that those kids have AND need to develop.  So we made simple snowflakes using blue paper strips and painting white glitter dots on them using qtips.  All about those fine motor skills.  Here is one of mine!