After some of our sillies were bean-bagged away, we walked the plank into our first story, The Pirate Who Said Please by Timothy Knapman. This is both a pirate and politeness story that rhymes.
After our first story, it was time to help Pirate Bear get an eye patch. This is a color practice flannel. I handed out different colored eye patches and the kids had to put theirs on Pirate Bear's eye to complete his outfit. This was also good practice on direction since they needed to put his eye patch on a specific part of the body. Most of the group was able to put the eye patch on his eyes, but some of the younger ones had a little trouble.
Once we went through all the colors with the help of Pirate Bear, we read Pirasaurs! by Josh Funk. The group loved this one the best because who wouldn't love a picture book that is about both pirates and dinosaurs?
Since a movement activity worked so well last time and because the group was extra peppy, we did a row your boat action song from Arms Up Keep Moving. We all pretended to be pirates rowing and we went from slow to fast. The song I used mostly went slow and the group was waiting for it to get faster than it was. At the end, we all rowed our boats super fast until we tipped over.
I closed storytime with reading Pirate Treasure by Scoular Anderson.
All three books were rhyming books. I absolutely am a sucker for rhyming books, but try not to do more than two in one particular storytime just in case it makes things a little less interesting with all that rhyming. As with this storytime, I did allow it because rhyming is an excellent way to learn and also because these pirate books seemed to be the shortest and I needed some short books today.
There are loads of good pirate picture books out there, but I think the ones that have engaging stories are usually on the long side. This is definitely a doable theme for storytime, but I could see would work even better with a slightly older crowd.
We ended storytime with making a parrot craft using a toilet paper roll. The younger ones had a slightly harder time making this craft with the liquid glue and construction paper giving them some trouble with sticking, but they liked this craft. I decided to not use pipe cleaners for the bracelet part since they were having a little trouble with the craft.
I remember doing a toilet paper roll snowman craft one year and that was also a little bit of a challenge, so I think I'll have these toliet paper roll crafts walk the plank! Arrrghh!
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