Winter Holiday Singalong: Bernardsville Library

 

Holiday Sing-Along (Need Easel, Promethean, Board and Musical Instruments)

Action Song:  You’ll Sing a Song and I’ll Sing a Song 

Flannelboards:  

Hanukkah, Oh Hanukkah 

One Little, Two Little, Three Little Candles

Action: Spin Little Dreidel, Turn Around

Flannelboards:  

I have a Little Dreidel

Flying on the North Wind

Rudolph the Red Nosed Reindeer

Active Music Play (with videos - next time, use audio only, kids were too glued to video to participate very actively with instruments)

**Pass Out Musical Instruments**

Videos: 

Jingle Bells

Little drummer boy (omitted)

Feliz Navidad (omitted)

Deck the Halls

Singable book: The Marvelous Toy by Tom Paxton

Wish For Snow and a white holiday Break!

Videos: 

Frosty the Snowman (prefer singable book when I can get it)

Let it Go

Flannelboard: In the Freezer by Joe Scruggs

Snowball Fight Play – Sleigh Ride by Leroy Anderson

Goodbye/Wind Down - action songs

This Little Light of Mine 

We Wish You a Merry Christmas

Sing, Sing a Song (clasp hands and make a circle - go in and out - sing louder 2nd time)

Distribute Stickers

Lyrics for the songs can be found at: 

https://carolsimonlevin.blogspot.com/2015/01/singalong-winters-day.html

https://carolsimonlevin.blogspot.com/2013/12/singalong-keep-spiritwinter-holiday.html

December 2024

Family Storytime/Craft "All Presents Accounted For" - Clarence Dillon Library

 

Family Storytime/Craft "All Presents Accounted For" - Clarence Dillon Library

Come join us for a STEM Story & Craft ---  Saturday 12/21  10:30

                         Ages 4 and up (siblings welcomed). Saturday, Dec. 21, 10:30 am

Join Carol Levin for a great story plus a fun wrapping paper & card craft afterwards!

Booktalked: Rabbit's Gift (A Fable from China) by George Shannon, Silver Packages (An Appalachian Story) by Cynthia Rylant, and Boxes for Katje (a story of American packages to Europe after WW2) - had kids vote for which one I should read. 

Read: Silver Packages by Cynthia Rylant

Song/Flannel pieces: He'll be coming round the mountain when he comes

Read (silly story): The Gift by Gabriela Keselman (a child's parents try to figure out what kind of gift could be big, strong, soft, sweet and other qualities...)

Song (silly verses): I had a little driedel, I made it out of clay... soap, ice, straw, etc.

Booktalked: Gifts by Jo Ellen Bogart (a grandmother brings her granddaughter gifts from all over the world - illustrations created from plasticine), The Carpenter's Gift: A Christmas Tale about the Rockefeller Christmas Tree by David Rubin, Night Tree by Cynthia Rylant (a family decorates a tree  with edibles for the forest animals), December by Eve Bunting (a homeless mother and child experience a Christmas miracle), The Extraordinary Gift by Florence Langlois (celebrates all the marvelous imaginary things a kid can find in the pages of a book)

Singable Book: The Marvelous Toy by Tom Paxton

and, in celebration of today's snowfall:

Song/Flannel: In the Freezer by Joe Scruggs

Action Song: I'm a little snowman 

Plastic bag snowball fight to the song Sleigh Ride by Leroy Anderson 

Crafts: making wrapping paper with stamps & stamp pads, cards with stickers and markers

Lyrics: 

https://carolsimonlevin.blogspot.com/2015/01/singalong-winters-day.html

https://carolsimonlevin.blogspot.com/2013/12/singalong-keep-spiritwinter-holiday.html

More info on these books & themes: 

https://carolsimonlevin.blogspot.com/search/label/Gifts%20and%20Giving