Hello everyone! We hope you are all excited for Freight Train by Donald Crews.
Michelle and I have put together a bunch of fun activities and crafts for the little ones. Starting on Tuesday, January 2 (today!), the kits are available to pick up for our online storytime this month!
Enjoy a FREE copy of the book and more!
"Freight Train" by Donald Crews
In simple, powerful words and vibrant illustrations, Donald Crews evokes the rolling wheels of that childhood favorite: a train.
Visit https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0y0cWEKtIl0 to watch the Hibbing Public Library’s read-aloud. Then, enjoy the activities. Everything is yours to keep!
Kits include:
a FREE copy of Freight Train
information page
colors game (5 colored train engines)
3 activity pages
2 coloring pages
rhymes/song pages with weblinks (instrument included)
train craft with included crayons
3 magnets from the story
reading stickers + a golden ticket sticker
Here are the following pages that you will receive with your kit!
HANDOUT GAMES – play with included engine handouts
Can You Show Me…?
(Tune: “Here We Go Round the Mulberry Bush”)
Can you show me the black engine?
Black engine, black engine?
Can you show me the black engine?
And wave it in the air?
Red… blue… green… purple
Hold It High – Choose one engine from handouts
Hold your engine high and stand
Now wave it around in gestures grand!
Hold your engine below your chin
Now hold it way up high again
Hold your engine against your nose
Now touch the engine to your toes
Touch your engine to the ground
Now wave that engine all around!
Hold your engine in front of you
Now turn around – one time, two!
Hold your engine and jump up high!
Now let your engine fly fly fly (throw it in the air)
SONGS & INSTRUMENT – use included instruments
Train Song by Patty Shukla
Color Train Song by Pinkfong Hogi
Freight Train by Mother Goose Club Playhouse
Train Song by KLT
BOUNCE RHYME (bounce along with child in lap)
Ride the Train
(Tune: “Row Your Boat”)
Ride, ride, ride the train
Quickly down the track.
Clickety, clickety, clickety clack
When will you be back?
Up up up the hill
Train is slowing down
Clickety, clickety, clickety clack
Make sure to look around
Down down down the hill
Train is going fast!
Clickety, clickety, clickety clack
Make the whistle blast!
ACTION RHYMES
The Good Morning Train
(Tune: “She’ll Be Coming Round the Mountain”)
The Good Morning Train is coming
How are you? Choo! Choo!
The Good Morning Train is coming
How are you? Choo! Choo!
The Good Morning Train is coming
The Good Morning Train is coming
The Good Morning Train is coming
How are you? Choo! Choo!
Let’s say Hello to (Child’s name)
How are you? Choo! Choo!
Let’s say Hello to (Child’s name)
How are you? Choo! Choo!
Let’s say Hello to (Child’s name)
Let’s say Hello to (Child’s name)
Let’s say Hello to (Child’s name)
How are you? Choo! Choo!
Train
This is a choo-choo train
(Bend elbows)
Puffing down the track
(Move arms forward)
Now it’s going forward
(Push arms forward)
Now it’s going back
(Push arms back)
Now the bell is ringing
(Pretend to ring bell)
Now the whistle blows
(Hold fist near mouth and pretend to blow)
What a lot of noise it makes
Everywhere it goes.
(Cover ears with hands)
Five Train Engines
Five train engines rolling down the track.
One little engine is very, very black.
Four train engines admiring the view.
One little engine is very, very blue.
Three train engines see a mountain up ahead.
One train engine was very, very red.
Two train engines now going very slow.
One little engine is very, very, yellow.
One train engine, the prettiest that I’ve seen.
That little engine is very, very green!
This Little Train
The little train ran up the track
(run fingers up arm)
Toot, toot, toot
(make train noises)
And then it came toot-tooting back
(run fingers down arm)
Toot, toot, toot!
(make train noises)
EXTRA LINK!
Weebly site about author/artist Donald Crews:
Let us know what your little ones thought of Freight Train! What did they think of the activities? Do you have any suggestions for us?