Preschool Storytime - Dinosaurs

Opening
Hello Everybody, Yes Indeed by Carole Peterson from H.U.M.

Hello to your toes yes indeed yes indeed yes indeed
Hello to your toes yes indeed my darling
Knees – shoulders - friends

Books
Dinosaur vs Bedtime by Bob Shea
Dinosaur Stomp by Paul Stickland
Hello, Dinosaur by Dwell Studios

Music
Shaky Shaky by the Wiggles from Yummy Yummy
I Feel Crazy So I Jump in the Soup by Laurie Berkner from Victor Vito
We Are the Dinosaurs by Laurie Berkner from The best of the Laurie Berkner Band One 

Dinosaur - Sung to the tune of One Elephant.  See KCLS video for the tune.

One dinosaur went out to play
On a giant fern one day 
She had such enormous fun 
That she called for another dinosaur to come. 
Oh Diiiiiiiiiiiinosaur!.
Two dinosaurs went out to play…. 
Three dinosaurs… 
Four dinosaurs….
Five dinosaurs went out to play 
On a giant fern one day 
They had such enormous fun 
That they played until the day was done! 

Felt
This is one of my most favorite dinosaur stories.   I used a very tiny voice for the Ammonite in the story. I used this all the time at outreach and it became a running joke at work. 

Excuse Me Please Story

Excuse Me Please 

I have an exact scrip for the excuse me please story but I always change it a bit the day of storytime.  Basically Pterodactyl likes to fly in the same place every day but one day he cannot because  Apatosaurus is in the way.  Pterodactyl gets angry but he doesn't know what to do so he asks Stegosaurus, Triceratops, T-Rex and the little Ammonite for help.  Each suggests they do something mean like show Apatosaurus their spiked tail, their horns or their  teeth but of course Pterodactyl can't do any of those things because he does have spikes or horns or big teeth.  Finally the little Ammonite says to say "Excuse me Please."  Pterodactyl tries this and it works great.  

Bells
Little Jingle Mouse is from Toddler Story Time - Roar! I'm a Dinosaur! on Library Village.  

Little Jingle Mouse 

I heard a little jingle,  (jingle bells softly)
Right inside my house.
It sounded like the jingle
Of a little jingle mouse.
He jingled to the ceiling,  (jingle bells high over head)
he jingled to the floor,  (jingle bells on the floor)
He jingled till he fell asleep,  (hold jingle bells in arms like a baby)
And he began to snore...
(snooore, snooore, snooore)  (jingle bells very gently with a tiny, squeaky snore)

Right outside my door,
I heard a great big jingle,  (jingle bells loudly)
It sounded like the jingle
Of a jingle dinosaur.
He jingled to the ceiling,  (jingle bells high over head)
He jingled to the floor,  (jingle bells on floor)
He jingled till he fell asleep,  (hold jingle bells in arms like a baby)
And he began to snore...
(snooore, snooore, snooore)  (jingle bells with a very loud snore) 

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.

Craft
The kids made these little construction paper dinosaurs using a template I got online.  I precut all the dinos and their little paper tube feet.  And yes my dino has rosey cheeks. 

Laura
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