Storytime Shenanigans

Books

Bloom Bloom! by April Pulley Sayre
A Good Place by Lucy Cousins
I Have a Garden by Bob Barner
In My Garden by Ward Schumaker
In Wibbly’s Garden by Mick Inkpen
Lola Plants A Garden by Anna McQuinn
My Garden by Kevin Henkes
Underground by Denise Fleming
Up, Down, and Around by Katherine Ayres
What Does Bunny See? by Maggie Smith

Flannel Boards

Songs

Puppets

Picking Buttercups by Kathy Reid-Naiman

Everyone pretends to crouch down to pick the buttercups and when it is time to jump up we all start jumping.

This cart setup is the creative genius of one of my co-workers. She sandwiched two pieces of cardboard and cut grass shapes along the top. There are flaps folded along the side to give us a place to tap it to the book cart. Silk flowers were placed between the two pieces of cardboard and we hid an assortment of garden animal puppets behind the plants.

There’s something in my garden,
Now what can it be?
There’s something in my garden
That I can’t really cannot see.
Hear its funny sound…
RIBBIT—RIBBIT—RIBBIT.
A FROG is what I found!
RIBBIT—RIBBIT—RIBBIT.

THUMP—THUMP—THUMP.
A RABBIT is what I found!
THUMP—THUMP—THUMP.

SQUEAK—SQUEAK—SQUEAK.
A MOUSE is what I found.
SQUEAK—SQUEAK—SQUEAK.

TWEET—TWEET—TWEET.
A BIRD is what I found.
TWEET—TWEET—TWEET.

BUZZ—BUZZ—BUZZ.
A BEE is what I found.
BUZZ—BUZZ—BUZZ.

FLIP—FLAP—FLIP.
A BUTTERFLY is what I found.
FLIP—FLAP—FLIP.