Having a birthday themed storytime was such a great idea! It
made everyone excited and was a very fun topic!
The first book I read was Hide and Seek BirthdayTreat by Linda Jennings. This book featured jungle animals who through a
surprise birthday party for one of their friends. The pictures were cute and
the animals introduced was also a good learning opportunity.
Our first activity was counting candles on our flannel board
cake. We went over numbers, counting, and the colors.
The next book I read was Let's Have a Dog Party! by Mikela Prevost. This is a very energetic and chaotic book to read and kept
everyone's attention. A little girl wants to have a party for her dog, but her
dog just wants quiet. A very adorable picture book.
For our next activity, I handed out color balloons and we
each had a turn to put our color on the flannel board. We counted the balloons
and then they floated away.
The last book I read was Cupcake by Charise
Mericle Harper. The kids loved this book about a cupcake who didn't feel
special. The candle's suggestions on what to put on top of cupcake make this
book so funny!
We did one more activity and used The Freeze Song off of The
Birthday Party CD we have here at the library. We hopped, danced, and tip-toed
to the song and froze when their was no music. The kids had a ball!
For our craft, we each made our own cakes and added our age
number and the number of candles we need.
This is one of my favorite themes!
Other Books:
Happy Birthday, Moon Frank Asch
A Birthday for Cow! Jan Thomas
Baby Day Jane Godwin & Davina Bell
Happy Birthday, Biscuit!
Messy Besey and the Birthday Overnight Patricia and Fredrick
McKissack
Birthday Monsters! Sandra Boynton
Surprise! Sally Noll
Monster's Birthday Hiccups Virginia Mueller
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