Saturday Morning Stories – Colours and Rainbows

Pouring rain forecast for this weekend, but we’ve had some lovely spring days so I planned a Rainbow storytime to keep things bright.

•  Opening:
  • ♫ Clap and Sing Hello ♫
  • ♫ Wheels on the bus ♫

•  I ain’t gonna paint no more by Karen Beaumont and David Catrow
  • ♫ Open Shut them ♫
  • ♫ These are the colours that we know ♫
• Felt: Make a rainbow
  • ♫ Can you find the colours ♫
• A colour of his own by Leo Lionni
  • Little Chameleon’s Colour Game
  • ♫ If You’re wearing any red ♫
  • ♫ Bend and stretch ♫
  • Wiggle my fingers
• Last short story:  Duckie’s rainbow by Frances Barry
• Game: Green says go go go… (using felt props)
• Closing Songs:
  • ♫ Roly Poly goodbye ♫
  • ♫ We wave goodbye like this ♫

Other story options:

• Lemons Are NOT Red  by Laura Vaccaro Seeger
• Butterfly, Butterfly by Pert Horacek
• Planting a Rainbow Lois Ehlert
• Wow said the owl by Tim Hopgood
• Little white rabbit by Kevin Henkes