Opening Song: If You’re Ready For A Story, Clap Your Hands
Go! Go! Go! Stop! by Charise Mericle Harper
This fun, interactive story allows for lots of fun in storytime.
Flannel Board: Five Big Dump Trucks
This flannel board is simple and fun. You can add more dump trucks if you want to count higher than five, you can reverse the rhyme to count up, you can practice color ID… so many options! Check out our tutorial here if you want to make your own!
Three Grumpy Trucks by Todd Tarpley
Scarf Song: Green Means Go
This is a simple rhyme to practice green, yellow, and red traffic signal actions. You can turn it into a game by waving a different color scarf which adds to the fun. You can also play without scarfs at all. Just use colored paper of even grab three sheets of paper, draw a big circle on each sheet and color them green, yellow, and red. Then hold them up for each motion.
Scarf Song: Popcorn Kernels
Simple actions and rhyme make us want to do this one again and again!
Little Blue Truck Leads the Way by Alice Shertle
Sweet story in rhyme about kindness and manners.
And that’s what we did in Preschool Storytime ONLINE! Check out these activities to keep the fun going.
- Trucks and paint make for fun color mixing with this cute craft/sensory activity over at No Time For Flashcards
- Gross motor skills and color matching collide in this fun bean bag game from Mrs. Plemon’s Kindergarten
- A paper plate, scissors, glue, and tissue paper or construction paper is all you need to build a cool car with these instructions from Glued to My Crafts.
- Inspired by this blog post over at Pop Goes the Page, Try some dramatic play by making your own car wash! If you have cardboard boxes you should follow their instructions because it is amazing, but if not, you could hang streamers or a plastic table cloth cut into strips in a doorway and have kids “drive” through and make the sounds of the car wash as they do!
Moline Public Library Kids 