Chicken Little - Online Storytime
Hello everyone! We hope you are all excited for Chicken Little by Laura Rader. We have put together a bunch of fun activities and crafts for the little ones.
Kits are ready for pickup beginning Thursday, October 1 for our online storytime this month!
Enjoy a FREE copy of the book and more!
"Chicken Little" by Laura Rader
"This rendition of the fable about a chicken who believes the sky is falling after an acorn falls on his head is as funny and instructive today as it was a hundred years ago. With bright and funny animal illustrations and a conclusion that simply has the animals realizing their foolish mistake instead, this is a terrific way to introduce children to the story!"
Visit https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9SAVGSqNAcI to hear the story read aloud by Mrs. Fine of the Pre-K team at Universal Learning Academy. Enjoy the activities! Everything is yours to keep!
Kits include:
a FREE copy of Chicken Little
information page
colors game (5 colored acorns)
rhymes/song pages with weblinks (instrument included)
2 activity pages
2 coloring pages
color your own chicken little craft
3 magnets from the story
chicken stickers
Here are the following pages that you will receive with your kit!
HANDOUT GAMES – play with included acorn handouts
Can You Show Me…?
(Tune: “Here We Go Round the Mulberry Bush”)
Can you show me the brown acorn?
Brown acorn, brown acorn?
Can you show me the brown acorn?
And wave it in the air?
Yellow… purple… green… pink
Hold It High – Choose one acorn from handouts
Hold your acorn high and stand
Now wave it around in gestures grand!
Hold your acorn below your chin
Now hold it way up high again
Hold your acorn against your nose
Now touch the acorn to your toes
Touch your acorn to the ground
Now wave that acorn all around!
Hold your acorn in front of you
Now turn around – one time, two!
Hold your acorn and jump up high!
Now let your acorn fly fly fly (throw it in the air)
SONGS & INSTRUMENT – use included instruments
Chicken Licken & the Falling Sky by The Children’s TV Channel
Chicken Dance by Tanutchanya Kongthai
Five Little Chicks by Super Simple Songs
Chicken Count by Jack Hartmann
BOUNCE RHYME (bounce along with child in lap)
Little Egg
Once there was a little egg
That jumped down to the floor.
(swing child down)
It started rolling all around,
(bounce child in circles)
Then rolled right out the door!
(end on a clap)
Once there was a little chick
That bounced around the yard.
It started bouncing up and down
Then bounced up toward the stars!
(raise hands up and wiggle fingers for stars)
ACTION RHYMES
Chicken Little on the Road
(Tune: “The Wheels on the Bus”)
Chicken Little on the road goes peep, peep, peep
Peep, peep, peep, peep, peep, peep
Chicken Little on the road goes peep, peep, peep,
All day long!
Henny Penny on the road goes bok, bok, bok…
Cocky Locky on the road goes cock-a-doodle-doo…
Ducky Lucky on the road goes quack, quack, quack…
Goosey Loosey on the road goes honk honk honk…
The king in the castle goes “It’s all right!”
If You’re a Chicken and You Know It
(Tune: “If You’re Happy and You Know It”)
If you’re a chicken and you know it, flap your wings (flap, flap)
If you’re a chicken and you know it, flap your wings (flap, flap)
If you’re a chicken and you know it, and you really want to show it,
If you’re a chicken and you know it, flap your wings (flap, flap)
Search for worms: scritch scratch (scratch ground with foot)
Eat some corn: peck peck (move head in pecking motion)
Cluck hello: bok bok (nice and loud!)
Get in your nest: settle settle (wiggle bottom and get low)
This Little Chick
This little chick got into the barn
(wiggle first finger)
This little chick ate all the corn
(wiggle second finger)
This little chick said he wasn’t well
(wiggle third finger)
This little chick said she’d go tell
(wiggle fourth finger)
But this little chick said “Peep, peep, peep”
(wiggle last finger)
“Please be quiet, I’m trying to sleep!”
Five Eggs and Five Eggs
Five eggs
(hold up one hand)
and five eggs
(hold up other hand)
And that makes ten
(wiggle fingers)
Sitting on top is Mother Hen
(lay one hand atop the other)
Then – Crackle crackle crackle!
(clap hands as you say Crackle!)
What do I see?
(cup hands around eyes)
Ten fluffy chickens
(hold up both hands and wiggle fingers all around)
Yellow as can be!
I’m a Little Chicken
(Tune: “I’m a Little Teapot”)
I’m a little chicken ready to hatch,
Pecking at my shell, scratch, scratch, scratch!
When I crack it open, out I’ll leap,
Fluff up my feathers and cheep, cheep, cheep!
EXTRA LINK!
Laura Rader’s site:
We hope you enjoy these activities and would love to hear what you thought of the book! We also hope you enjoyed the extra links. Remember, you can comment here on this website, email us at swantonpl@gmail.com, or come in and turn in a physical copy!
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