The Story of Ping Storytime/ Eggs Storytime

We do our storytimes on Tues/Thurs from 9-11am.

The Tuesday storytime was The Story of Ping- about a little duck who lives on a boat on the Yangtze River in China. So we talked briefly about China. We also talked about consequences when you do something wrong (Ping is trying to avoid a punishment and hides so he gets left behind from his family)

We ate our snack (goldfish crackers) with chopsticks. (The Buzz Lightyear costume is optional, lol!) I rigged them so they are easy for little hands to manipulate- just put a little rolled up piece of paper and a rubberband.

You could do a science activity about what floats and bouyancy (one point a little boy falls in the water and floats because he is tied to a barrel). You could do a counting activity (was too advanced for my barely 3year olds with the attention span of a gnat) For an activity I had the outline of a duck and they snipped yellow paper with their scissors into 'feathers' and used their gluesticks to glue the feathers on their ducks.

For the Thursday storytime we talked about EGGS and what comes out of eggs- not just birds! We read Flap Your Wings (love this book!) and skimmed parts of Chicken's Aren't the Only Ones. We had a bunch of plastic (easter) eggs in the center of our circle and took turns opening them to see what kinds of animals 'hatched' from them (small pieces of paper with pictures on them: dinosaurs, insects, fish, octopus, lizards, snakes, birds, frogs)