Read to Your Bunny - Storytime Online
- Leanna Chappell
- 6 hours ago
- 3 min read
Hello everyone! We hope you are all excited for Read to Your Bunny by Rosemary Wells. We have put together a bunch of fun activities and crafts for the little ones.
Kits are ready for pickup beginning Tuesday, September 1 for our online storytime this month!
Enjoy a FREE copy of the book and more!
"Read to Your Bunny" by Rosemary Wells
"When parents read to their children every day, soon the children will be able to read to their parents. Reading together for twenty minutes a day is the most important gift you can give your child."
Visit https://www.facebook.com/watch/?v=238467157199626 to hear the story read aloud by author Rosemary Wells. Then enjoy the activities! Everything is yours to keep!
Kits include:
a FREE copy of Read to Your Bunny
information page
colors game (5 colored paper books)
rhymes/song pages with weblinks (instrument included)
2 activity pages
2 coloring pages
make your own bunny mask craft
3 magnets from the story
reading bunny stickers
Here are the following pages that you will receive with your kit!
HANDOUT GAMES – play with included book stack handouts
Can You Show Me…?
(Tune: “Here We Go Round the Mulberry Bush”)
Can you show me the blue books?
Blue books, blue books?
Can you show me the blue books?
And wave it in the air?
Yellow… pink… green… orange
Hold It High – Choose one book stack from handouts
Hold your books high and stand
Now wave it around in gestures grand!
Hold your books below your chin
Now hold it way up high again
Hold your books against your nose
Now touch the books to your toes
Touch your books to the ground
Now wave that books all around!
Hold your books in front of you
Now turn around – one time, two!
Hold your books and jump up high!
Now let your books fly fly fly (throw it in the air)
SONGS & INSTRUMENT – use included instruments
Reading Song by Doggyland
Two Letter Words My By So At by Patty Shukla
I Love to Read by Jack Hartmann
Reading Books by The Learning Station
BOUNCE RHYME (bounce along with child in lap)
I Like Books
(Tune: “Three Blind Mice”)
I like books
I really do!
Books with stories
And pictures too!
Books of birds
(bounce child up high)
And things that grow
(swing child down low)
Books of people we should know.
Books of animals and places, too,
I like books
Yes I do!
ACTION RHYMES
Reading Song
(Tune: “The More We Get Together”)
The more we read together, together,
The more we read together, the happier we'll be.
For these books are good books
And we all enjoy books,
The more we read together, the happier we'll be!
Here is My Book
Here is my book,
(hold hands together as if a book, then open)
I open it wide,
To see all the pictures,
that are inside.
Read a Book
(Tune: “Row, Row, Row Your Boat”)
Read, read, read a book,
Travel anywhere
World-wide, you decide:
A book will take you there.
Storytime at the Library
(Tune: “Wheels on the Bus”)
We go to storytime at the library,
Library, library.
We go to storytime at the library
Every week!
We listen to stories at the library…
We sing songs at the library…
We do crafts at the library…
We have fun at the library…
If You’re a Reader and You Know It
(Tune: “If You’re Happy and You Know It”)
If you’re a reader and you know it, clap your hands
If you’re a reader and you know it, clap your hands
If you’re a reader and you know it and you really want to show it
If you’re a reader and you know it, clap your hands.
If you love books and you know it, shout “hooray!”
If you love books and you know it, shout “hooray!”
If you love books and you know it, and you really want to show it
If you love books and you know it, shout “hooray!”
My Book
This is my book, it will open wide
(palms together, open outwards)
To show the pictures that are inside.
(point to one palm)
I read about a ball, so big & round
(make ball shape with hands)
That is tossed in the air & rolled on the ground.
(Make these motions)
I read about a kitty with a loud loud purr
(say "meow")
I'd love to stroke her soft, warm fur.
(make stroking motions)
EXTRA LINK!
Rosemary Wells’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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