Teeth

I’ve been itching to do a tooth related storytime for a while.  I’m really not sure why; it just seemed like a fun theme.  (FULL DISCLOSURE: I only did this storytime once – I went to the Minnesota Library Association Conference in Mankato, MN and missed the second storytime)

BOOKS:

We read Bear’s Loose Tooth by Karma Wilson (one of my all-time favorites) and Pony Brushes His Teeth by Michael Dahl.

The storytime tots were okay with both of these books.  It didn’t even occur to me that some of them might not know that you lose your teeth and grow new ones (it does sound a little grotesque when you think about it).  So we talked about teeth and how you brush them and losing them before we started.

FINGERPLAY:

I have been eyeing those little black glove activities for a long time and I found one that fit teeth and little black gloves are in season so I went for it.

This was a smash hit!  I’m definitely going to do more of these.  The rhyme that went along with it was:

“There were five little teeth in my teeny tiny mouth.
I pulled and I twisted and one popped out!
Now there are four little teeth….”

The pulling and twisting and popping just hit the spot.  All the kids were giggling.

CRAFT:

I had a hard time figuring out a craft for this one.  Smily faces are okay and sharks are great, but we didn’t read any shark books, so VOILA – a mouth with teeth in it.  Marshmallow teeth, that is.

Some of the kids in my session were eating the “teeth,” but not all of them.  Apparently on Wednesday, while I was gone, they all mowed down.  No big deal. I had lots of extra “teeth.”  It’s not the cutest craft, but it works and it was simple.