Family Storytime: Food

For our short storytime week due to the Thanksgiving holiday, we decided to do a food/sharing/Thanksgiving theme and it worked out great. For my storytime, I focused more on food books and sharing and this turned out to be one of my favorite storytimes of the fall sessions. 

We read a total of three books together, used the flannel board two times, sang a song together, and made our craft.

I ended up reading How Do Dinosaurs Eat Their Food? by Jane Yolen for my first book. The group loved this book and weren't distracted the whole time. 

Our first activity was counting shape cookies on the flannel board. I handed out different cookies and they each had a chance to put theirs on the board. Then we went over each cookie's shape and color and counted each one. 

The next book I read was Who Put the Cookies in the Cookie Jar? by George Shannon. This is different from the classic everyone knows, but shows all what it takes and who it takes to make one cookie and went perfectly well with the sharing and community table theme.  

For our next activity, I thought we could add turkey feathers to our flannel turkey. It was another opportunity for them to interact with the flannel board while we counted and went over our colors. 

The final book of the night was Dim Sum for Everyone! by Grace Lin. A great, short book to incorporate a different culture into the mix. 

After we had our book fix, and boy did they do wonderful with their attention spans, we sang "If You're Happy and You Know It" and then I explained our craft.

We decorated construction paper cookies using cut out circles and black paint for chocolate chips. We also wrote what we were thankful for on the back and turned a few of our cookies into the cookie jar and kept the rest to take home.

Happy Thanksgiving!