TODDLER PROGRAM
OPENING SONG: Mister Sun
OPENING RHYMES:
SIGN LANGUAGE: Butterfly
Cross wrists, palms toward you, lock thumbs, and flutter fingers to represent the shape and movement of a butterfly.
SONG: Fly Fly Butterfly
Tune: Skip to My Lou
Fly fly fly butterfly (make the sign for “butterfly” while singing)
Fly fly fly butterfly
Fly fly fly butterfly
Fly high up in the sky.
Credit: The Virtual Vine
BOOK 1: The Very Hungry Caterpillar Pop-Up by Eric Carle
And just when you thought the Very Hungry Caterpillar couldn’t get any better – it comes as a pop-up book! And it’s amazing.
FINGERPLAY: Flutter, Flutter, Butterfly
Tune: Twinkle Twinkle
Flutter, flutter butterfly
Floating in the spring sky
Floating by for all to see
Floating by so merrily
Flutter, flutter butterfly
Floating in the spring sky
Credit: Best Kids Book Site
ACTION SONG: Butterfly Driving a Truck by Caspar Babypants
from the album Sing Along!
We danced to this song with colorful scarves and pretended to be butterflies.
BOOK 2: Butterfly, Butterfly: A Book of Colors by Petr Horacek
Lucy sees a beautiful butterfly in the garden one day, but then can’t find it the next. While she searches, she sees many other, colorful creatures. This book has a surprise pop-up at the end!
CLOSING SONG: Skinnamarink
from Sharon, Lois and Bram’s album Skinnamarink TV
SNACK: Butterfly Jello
I picked up a pack of these butterflies on sticks on clearance at the end of last summer. I wasn’t sure what I was going to use them for, but they ended up looking incredibly cute in pre-made jello cups! It was a fun (and food allergy friendly) snack for my last storytime of the school year.
Where did you find the butterflies on a toothpick? Do you know who made them? I will write/email them. My passion is butterflies.
I found them in the sale bin at pier one a couple of years ago. I bought them because I thought they were so pretty….but then it took me a while to actually figure out how I wanted to use them!