Our second to last book was “Freight Train” by Donald Crews. I am all for creative flannel pieces, but I am also a big believer in the less pieces you have and the less you move the pieces around - the better the flannelboard works.) And, I did not make the paintbrushes and instead just used a real paintbrush before putting the color splots on the white piece of felt. Instead, I asked the kids to dance for the mice and we twirled our fingers in the air and I just overlapped the new color over the old. (As a brief note - I did not make the spiraled paint splots and I did not make the dancing mice. I was very happy that I was able to use it here! I found this flannelboard template on Kizclub and tried to make it in time for Mice Storytime this winter, but it didn’t happen. Then I moved on to our flannelboard today: “Mouse Paint!” I wound up moving the book back and forth for the butterfly to flap at the kids for a few minutes. I adore the pop-up ending with the butterfly, and it was a HUGE hit in storytime. Lucy discovers a butterfly one day, but when she goes to find it again – it is missing! She then finds a ton of other brightly colored bugs throughout the book. I will be using it again for bug storytime at the end of May. This book was a real treasure that I discovered one day while shelf-reading our picture books. Next, I read “Butterfly, Butterfly” by Petr Horacek. My favorite part was when one of the little boys shouted out “baby blue” - it was super cute and we did sing a verse about a baby blue car. We wound up singing this song for a really long time, but they loved it. I let the kids choose what color we would sing about next. (I heard white, gray, and moon-colored as the guesses.)Įven though the kids were really sitting nicely, I wanted to shake things up with a song!Īction Song: “Driving Round in My Car” (Tune: Ten Little Indians) The kids loved guessing what colors the object really was, and the only one that tripped them up was the silver moon. This book has cut-out pictures and reveals what color the object is when you turn the page. Next up, a very tricky color book, “Lemons Are Not Red” by Laura Vaccaro Seeger. I was just commenting the other day that I wish there were more Emma Dodd books, because I love them all. After each page, the kids named the colors that were on Dog already, reinforcing color recognition and names. I’ve used this in counting storytime before, but obviously this is a great fit for a color storytime. Started off with “Dog’s Colorful Day” by Emma Dodd. Because this was a very last minute decision, I went with the easiest theme I could - colors! So, now I’m doing two six-week long sessions. I added another storytime to each of my sessions this spring.
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