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Saturday Morning Stories – Colours and Rainbows

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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

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Singing in the Rain – Action Song

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So much silliness. I’m always surprised when I pull something out of my brain from Brownies and people have never heard of it. Especially something this good. I shall teach it to everyone, along with 40 years on an Iceberg.  As a kid I had my mom and grandmother in stitches with my rendition of this one. It requires much silliness so you might need a warm-up silly song to get them into it.

  • Singing in the rain,
  • I’m singing in the rain,
  • What a glorious feeling
  • I’m haaappy (or hap-happy) today.
    • thumbs up! (put your thumbs up, keep them up while singing)
  • Singing in the rain,
  • I’m singing in the rain,
  • What a glorious feeling
  • I’m haaappy (or hap-happy) today.
    • thumbs up, elbows in!
  • Singing in the rain….
    • thumbs up
    • elbows in
    • knees together
    • bum out
    • head up
    • tongue out
  • Singing in the rain,
  • I’m singing in the rain,
  • What a glorious feeling
  • I’m haaappy (or hap-happy) today! (it ends up sounding like gibberish because your tongue is out)

I am apparently going to have to make my first ever storytime video because there does not appear to be one on YouTube of the way I do this! But you can get the tune from the kids on this video. But I perform the song keeping all the actions while singing the next verse, ie: I have my thumbs up, elbows in, and knees together while I sway to the tune and sing the verse. Hilarity ensues.

Enjoy!