Hello everyone! We hope you are all excited for Stellaluna by Janell Cannon! Leanna and I have put together a bunch of fun activities and crafts for the little ones. Starting on Monday, November 16, the kits will be available to pick up for our online storytime.
"Stellaluna" by Janelle Cannon
“Stellaluna is a 1993 children's book by Janell Cannon about a young fruit bat, Stellaluna, who becomes separated from her mother and finds her way to a nest of birds. She is adopted by them and learns bird-like behavior. Eventually, Stellaluna finds other bats and reunites with her mother, and she learns how to behave like a bat. She introduces the birds to her bat family. Stellaluna and the birds decide that, despite their many differences, they are still friends.”
You will have the book read to you by actress Pamela Reed. She does such a great job, we hope you enjoy her reading as much as we did!
Kits include:
a borrowed copy of Stellaluna by Janelle Cannon
information page
colors game (5 colored bats)
a flyer for this website
2 activity pages
2 coloring pages
matching game
rhymes/song pages with web links (maraca included)
a bat launcher craft
3 magnets from the story
stickers
HANDOUT GAMES – play with included bat handouts
Can You Show Me…?
(tune: “Here We Go Round the Mulberry Bush”)
Can you show me the brown bat?
Brown bat, brown bat?
Can you show me the brown bat?
And wave it in the air?
Blue… gray… red… purple
Hold It High – Choose one bat from handouts
Hold your bat high and stand
Now wave it around in gestures grand!
Hold your bat below your chin
Now hold it way up high again
Hold your bat against your nose
Now touch the bat to your toes
Touch your bat to the ground
Now wave that bat all around!
Hold your bat in front of you
Now turn around – one time, two!
Hold your bat and jump up high!
Now let your bat fly fly fly (throw it in the air)
SONGS & INSTRUMENT – use included maraca
Echolocation by JumpStart
Flap Like a Bat by Skoolbo Music
Batty Bat by Sesame Street
Flap Your Wings Together by Super Simple Songs
BOUNCE RHYME (bounce along with child in lap)
Don’t Wake the Birds!
Way up high in the sky
The little birds fly
Then down to the nest
The little birds rest
Shhh... don't wake the birds!
With a wing on the left
and a wing on the right
The little birds sleep
All through the night
Shhh... don't wake the birds!
The bright sun comes out
The birds are up for the day!
Good morning, good morning
The little birds say!
ACTION RHYMES
Bat Hokey Pokey
You put your right wing in.
You put your right wing out.
You put your right wing in.
And you flap it all about.
You do the bat hokey pokey and you fly yourself around.
That's what it's all about. Squeak, squeak!
Left wing…
Bat ears…
Whole self…
Five Little Bats
Five little bats sitting on a gate.
First one said, “Oh my, it's getting late.”
Second one said, “There are mosquitoes in the air.”
Third one said, “Let's eat them up right here.”
Fourth one said, “I'm ready for some fun!”
Fifth one said, “Let's flap and run and run.”
Then Whooo-ooo went the wind and out went the light,
And the five little bats flew off in the night.
The Bats at Night
(Tune: “The Wheels on the Bus”)
The bats at night go flap, flap, flap
Flap, flap, flap, flap, flap, flap
The bats at night go flap, flap, flap
Up in the sky
The bats at night go squeak, squeak, squeak
squeak, squeak, squeak, squeak, squeak, squeak
The bats at night go squeak, squeak, squeak
Up in the sky
The birds at night stay in their nest
In their nest, in their nest
The birds at night stay in their nest
Safe in a tree!
Bats Are Sleeping
(Tune: “Frère Jacques”)
Bats are sleeping
Bats are sleeping
Upside down.
Upside down.
Sleeping in the morning sun.
Waiting for the night to come.
To fly all around.
To fly all around.
MORE LINKS!
Houghton Mifflin Harcourt’s Stellaluna page:
Stellaluna Read-to-Me and Game:
Stellaluna movie on Google Play:
Let us know what your little ones thought of Stellaluna! What did they think of the activities? Do you have any suggestions for us?