Perry Public Library Storytime

Spring is Here!

 

Stories we shared:

Rabbit’s Good News:  by Ruth Bornstein                          Spring is here:  by Taro Gomi

Come to the Meadow:  by Anna Hines                             My Spring Robin:  by Ann Rockwell

It’s Spring:  by Samantha Berger                                     Mouse’s First Spring:  by Lauren Thompson

 

 

Other books you may enjoy sharing:

It’s Spring:  by Linda Glaser                                                        Countdown to spring:  by Janet Schulman

Splosh:  by Mick Inkpen                                                             In the tall tall grass:  by Denise Flemming

Jack’s Garden:  by Henry Cole                                                    This Year’s Garden:  by Cynthia Rylant

When Spring Comes:  by Natalie Kinsey-Warnock                        First comes spring:  by Anne Rockwell

Simon Welcomes Spring:  by Giles Tibb                                      A Springtime walk:  by Lucille Wood

One Step Two: by Charlotte Zolotow                                            It could still be a flower:  by Allan Fowler

Listen to the rain: by Bill Martin Jr.                                              How do you know it’s spring? By Allan Fowler

Winter’s Child: by  Mary Whittington                                            Flower Garden:  by Eve Bunting                         

Growing Colors:  by Bruce McMillan                                            Miss Emma’s Wild Garden:  by Anna Hines        

The Gardener:  by Sarah Stewart                                                 The day the dasies danced:  by Dee Lillegard                  

Titch:  by Pat Hutchins                                                               The carrot seed:  by Ruth Kraus

Planting a rainbow:  by Lois Ehlert                                               The Tiny Seed:  by Eric Carle

In my Mother’s Garden: by  Melissa Madenski                             Magic School bus plants seeds:  by Joanna Cole

In a spring garden:  by Richard Lewis                                           Growing Vegetable Soup: by Lois Ehlert

Everything Grows:  by Raffi                                                         How my garden grew:  by Anne Rockwell

Spring is here:  by Jane Moncure                                                Mother Earth:  by Nancy Luenn

                                   

Songs and rhymes to share:

Watch it Bloom                                                                       Planting Time  (to the tune of “Row Row Your Boat”)

Here is a green leaf                    (hold out one palm)                    Dig, dig, dig the earth                 (pretend to dig)

And here is a green leaf              (hold out other palm)                  Then you plant your seeds          (pretend to plant)

That, you see, makes two.          (hold up 2 fingers)                      A gentle rain                 (fingers flutter down)

Here is a bud                             (cup hands together)                  The bright sunshine        (arms circle overhead)

That makes a flower                   (slowly open hands)                   And flowers you will see             (open arms wide)

Watch it bloom for you!               (slowly open hands)                                          

 

Cheer up!                                                                                 Little Robin Redbreast

The robin came and sang cheer-up, cheer-up, cheer-up                 Little robin redbreast

The robin came and sang cheer-up, cheer-up, cheer-up                 Sat upon a rail

The robin came and sang cheer-up, cheer-up, cheer-up                 Niddle noodle went his head        (nod head)

Spring is here spring is in the air!                                                 Wiggle waggle went his tail         (shake tail)

 

Christopher Robin  by A. A. Milne                                             Little Birdie

Christopher Robin goes hopppity,  hoppity                                    I saw  a little birdie go hop, hop, hop 

Hoppity, hoppity, hop                 (hop fingers on palm)                              (hop fingers on palm)

Whenever I tell him politely to stop          (shake finger)                 I asked that little birdie to stop, stop, stop

He says he can’t possibly stop   (shake head “no”)                                   (hold up hand, palm out)

If he stopped hopping                                                                 I went to the window to say “how do you do?”

He couldn’t go anywhere (shake head “no”)                                                   (wave hello)

Poor little Christopher Robin                                                        But he shook his little tail           (wiggle bottom)

Couldn’t go anywhere                 (shrug shoulders)                       And away he flew!                      (flap arms)

That’s why he always goes

Hopppity,  hoppity                                                                      Rain is Falling

Hoppity, hoppity, hop                 (hop fingers on palm)                  The rain is falling down  (flutter fingers down)

                                                                                                            Splash!             (clap hands once loudly)

Rain Rain  (sing to “Row Row Row Your Boat”)                            The rain is falling down  (flutter fingers down)

Rain rain falling down    (flutter fingers down)                                             Splash!             (clap hands once loudly)

Falling on the ground                                                                  Pitter patter pitter patter  (flutter fingers down)

Pitter patter pitter patter                                                              The rain is falling down  (flutter fingers down)

What a lovely sound!                                                                              Splash!             (clap hands once loudly)

 

 

Handprint Tulips

This is a wonderful craft for kids who like to get messy. 

 

 

Materials you will need for the tulips are:

white paper (we used construction paper)
  

green finger paint and red finger paint  (or pink, white or yellow…) 

   

Directions:

Dip the forearm (from elbow to wrist) in green finger paint.  If you don't have a tray big enough to accommodate this, just paint the finger paint onto the forearm with a paintbrush.
 

Press the arm down 3 or 4 times onto a sheet of white paper (construction paper works great!) to make the stems of the tulips  

         

                                                                    

Now dip the hand (excluding the thumb) into red finger paint and stamp on top of the stems (holding the thumb up) to make the tulip flowers.  
  

Keep the fingers close together.

                                                                             

You can add fingerprint green stems, thumbprint green grass, thumbprint caterpillars and thumbprint butterflies…With a black marker draw a body and antennae

 

 

                                                                                                                               

 

 

 

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