Preschool Storytime - Art/Colors

Opening

Sit Down, Stand Up Song by Rick Goldin

Everybody stand up

Everybody sit down

Now stand up again

And turn around

Keep standing up

But not for long

Cause this is the sit down stand up sit down stand up sit down song

Books
Press Here by Hervé Tullet
Mix It Up by Hervé Tullet
Ain't gonna paint no more! by Karen Beaumont - I've seen people present this book with paint brushes so I decided we could pretend to paint on ourselves with the scarves. 

Songs
Put Your Fingers In the Air by Carole Peterson from Baloney
Dance Freeze Melt by Mr. Eric and Mr. Micheal from Rockin' Red
Shake With You by Mr. Eric and Mr. Michael from Bouncy Blue

Felt Board
From The Education Center, Inc. www.themailboxcompanion.comAug/Sept 2004

Red is the color of apples in trees. 

Yellow is the color of bumblebees. 

Orange is the color of carrots in a line. 

Purple is the color of grapes on a vine. 

Blue is the color of a great big lake. 

Green is the color of a garden snake. 

Pink is the color of a little flower. 

Brown is the color of a sand castle tower. 

Black is the color of the sky at night. 

White is the color of the moon so bright. 

Take a moment to look around, 

There are so many colors to be found. 

Scarves
Wind, Oh Wind - King County Library System

wind  oh wind oh wind oh wind I say

what are you blowing away today?

Scarves scarves scarves I say

I’m blowing the scarves away today

Closing 

We Clap Our Hands Like This - tune farmer in the dell
Borrowed from Opening/Closing Songs on Storytime Katie who borrowed it from Rhymes for Toddlers on Sunflower Storytime. 

We clap our hands like this
We clap out hands like this
We clap our hands with all of our friends
We clap our hands like this.

We blow a kiss like this
We blow a kiss like this
We blow a kiss with all of our friends
We blow a kiss like this.

We wave goodbye like this.
We wave goodbye like this.
We wave goodbye with all our friends.
We wave goodbye like this.

Filmstrip of Don Freeman's A Rainbow of My Own.

Parachute 
The parachute makes my kids really wild,;there is a lot of shrieking and shaking, but not a lot of listening.  I don't play any music like I do with my older kids.  Today we did opposites like Up/Down, Fast/Slow, Loud/Soft.  Then we put all the scarves in the parachute, shook them out and repeated over and over.  At the end we sat on the floor, raised the chute over our heads and waved goodbye to everyone followed by us staying seated to sing the goodbye song listed above. I really liked doing the chute at the end of the program and I think if I don't over plan we can definitely do this again. 

Laura

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