This is really a 'no theme' theme, but it still works very well with toddlers! We have a celebration coming up at our library featuring these characters, so I picked several books that are A) lots of fun and B) would help promote our celebration by including these beloved 'Favorite friends.' You can alter this to include any of your favorite picture book friends.
First I got out our parachute. This activity is always a winner! We lifted it up, down, walked in a circle, bounced balls on it, let kids run underneath... one mom said it was a "cathartic experience." That's a promising way to start the morning.
After we did our Hello song and Open Shut Them, we started off with a great book:
The Best Mouse Cookie by Laura Numeroff
This installment of the If you give a Mouse a Cookie series is perfect for toddlers. It's short, sweet, silly, and ends on a sweet but sincere note: "but the best cookie is the one you share with a friend." I have found some of the other IYGAMAC books are a little long for toddler-sized attention spans.
Last week I was shocked to witness how popular Jim Gill's Jumping and Counting is with kids, so of course we did that again... and again by request after storytime ended!
Then we did our action rhyme This is the Beehive together. Buzzzzzz!
Our next friend to celebrate was Pete the Cat! We read I Love My White Shoes, which you can watch being performed by the creators below. This story is a great opportunity to sing together, learn rhythm and colors, and celebrate resilience!
Kids love to yell "Goodness, NO!" Then we had to move a little more- this time we shook our sillies out with Raffi.
Our last friend story of the day was Maisy Goes to the Library by Lucy Cousins. My kids grew slightly antsy during this book, even though they enjoyed it, so you might want to shorten it up a little. (We often paperclip a few pages together to abridge the story.)
After we did our Hello song and Open Shut Them, we started off with a great book:
The Best Mouse Cookie by Laura Numeroff
Last week I was shocked to witness how popular Jim Gill's Jumping and Counting is with kids, so of course we did that again... and again by request after storytime ended!
Then we did our action rhyme This is the Beehive together. Buzzzzzz!
Our next friend to celebrate was Pete the Cat! We read I Love My White Shoes, which you can watch being performed by the creators below. This story is a great opportunity to sing together, learn rhythm and colors, and celebrate resilience!
Our last friend story of the day was Maisy Goes to the Library by Lucy Cousins. My kids grew slightly antsy during this book, even though they enjoyed it, so you might want to shorten it up a little. (We often paperclip a few pages together to abridge the story.)
For fun takeaways, all of these characters have printables made available by their authors and publishers. (I find that these officially sanctioned printables are often of better quality and formatting than the average internet printable.)
These are pages for a few other friends we wanted to include today:
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