Read: Seven Hungry Babies by Candace Fleming and Cold Little Duck, Duck, Duck by Lisa Westberg Peters.
Flannel board: I got nothin' this week!
I am getting down-heartened with my storytime! As the school-year winds down, I begin to feel the same every year. My registration shows that the program is "full." But, I have maybe 5 out of 12 children showing. Parents are showing up late (if they show at all). This month has been a bust. It takes a lot of work to pull-together a storytime -- selecting books, finding a craft and a flannel board activity, cutting out all the millions of pieces for the craft ... Oh, well! I don't know if other storytimers have the same problems? *sigh*
P.S. So, after explaining to the kids we are going to read books about ducks, I realize that one of my books is about BIRDS in a nest, not DUCKS! haha! Of course, the kiddos could care less. But, I was fretting, the entire time I was reading the book. Wowzer! I am losing it!
Craft: Waddling Duck
Need: White card stock, duck template, glue sticks, yellow and orange crayons, sticker eyes, feathers, brass brad.
- Prior to storytime, I downloaded a duck template (and tweaked it a bit) and printed it out on white card stock. Then I cut out all the bits and put a small slit in the body, the wing and the feet -- this will be where we attach the brad.
- I had the kiddos color their duck body yellow and the beak and feet orange.
- Apply the sticker eye.
- As each kiddos finished, I placed the brad through the wing, duck, and finally the feet
- Then asked them to glue some feathers onto their duck.
- And watch them waddle. Quack! Quack!
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