Family Storytelling

FAMILY STORYTELLING
(Participatory Stories & Songs)

Carol Simon Levin is a professional storyteller who offers a variety of 
interactive participatory stories and songs.
Programs can be customized to ages/audiences,
shortened/lengthened, mixed up and rearranged!

Want more info? You can reach me a cslevin59 (at) gmail.com

Animal Antics: 

• Let's Take a Little Walk Outside (sign language song)
• The Very Hungry Caterpillar (based on the story by Eric Carle)
• Deep in the Jungle (song by Joe Scruggs)
• I'm Being Swallowed by a Big Alligator (action chant)
• Down by the Bay (song by Raffi)
• The Frog - A Rainstick Story (adapted from a Hopi Indian tale)
• The Napping House (based on the story by Don & Audrey Wood)
• There's a Dinosaur Knocking at My Door (based on the song by Linda Arnold)
• The Three Little Pigs (traditional)
• A Squash and a Squeeze (based on the story by Julia Donaldson)
• Alligator Pie (extended verses, based on the poem by Dennis Lee)
• I Know an Old Lady Who Swallowed a Fly (traditional)
• The Great Big Enormous Turnip (based on the story by Leo Tolstoy)
• The Cake that Mack Ate
• Old McDonald Had a Farm
• Cluck Cluck Red Hen (Raffi)
• The Great Big Enormous Turnip  
• Throw it Out the Window 
• Barnyard Banter (book by Denise Fleming)
• Sitting on the Farm (book by Bob King)
• Color Farm (book by Lois Ehlert)
• Morning (book by Maria Polushkin Robbins)

Spring & Summer Stories (also Earth Day):

• Rainstorm (participatory action)
• Chalk (wordless book by Bill Thomson)
• Let's Take a Little Walk Outside (sign language song)
• The Very Hungry Caterpillar (based on the story by Eric Carle)
• Springtime is Here (multi-lingual song)
• Deep in the Jungle (song by Joe Scruggs)
• I'm Being Swallowed by a Big Alligator (action chant)
• Down by the Bay (song by Raffi)
• Earth Dance (participatory story by Joanne Ryder)
• The Frog - A Rainstick Story (adapted from a Hopi Indian tale)
• Lucky Ducklings: A True Rescue Story (story by Eva Moore)
• Five Little Ducks (traditional song)
• Tap the Magic Tree (participatory story by Christie Matheson)
• The Green Grass Grew All Around (traditional) 
• Wangari's Trees of Peace (story by Jeannette Winter)
• All the Water in the World (story by George Ella Lyon & Katherine Tilletson)
• Walk the World Now Children (sign language based on song by Tom Chapin)
• We've Got the Whole World in our Hands (traditional)

Houses, Homes, and Habitats: (many of the Spring & Summer Stories are also suitable)

• The Napping House (based on the story by Don & Audrey Wood)
• There's a Dinosaur Knocking at My Door (based on the song by Linda Arnold)
• The Three Little Pigs (traditional)
• A Squash and a Squeeze (based on the story by Julia Donaldson)

Food Fun:

• Stone Soup (based on the story by Ann McGovern)
• Alphabet Soup (song by Tom Chapin)
• Chicken Soup with Rice (based on the story by Maurice Sendak)
• Green Eggs and Ham (based on the story by Dr. Seuss)
• Alligator Pie (extended verses, based on the poem by Dennis Lee)
• I Know an Old Lady Who Swallowed a Fly (traditional)
• The Great Big Enormous Turnip (based on the story by Leo Tolstoy)
• The Cake that Mack Ate 
• On Top of Spaghetti (traditional)
• Ravioli (traditional)
• I am a Pizza (song by Linda Arnold)
• Humpty Dumpty (traditional)
• Peanut Butter & Jelly (traditional - based on the book by Nadine Westcott)
• Aikendrum (Raffi)
  

Apples & Pumpkins/Halloween Hootenany:

• The Little Red House with No Doors and No Windows (traditional)
• I Like to Eat Apples and Bananas (Raffi)
• Big Pumpkin (based on the story by Erica Silverman)
• Five Little Pumpkins (traditional)
• The Little Old Lady Who Was Not Afraid of Anything (based on the story by Linda Williams)
• One Dark Night (based on the story by Edna Mitchell Preston)
• It's Monster Day (based on the song by Linda Arnold)
• Old McDonald Had a Haunted House
• There Was an Old Woman Who Swallowed a Bat
• Go Away Big Green Monster (based on the book by Ed Emberly)
• Hookey Spooky 
• Horns, Fangs, Knees and Paws
  

Holiday Happenings: 

• I know an Old Lady Who Swallowed a Pie (based on the story by Alison Jackson)
• The Case of the Missing Thanksgiving Turkey (based on the story by Rhonda Turley)
• The Turkey Shot Out of the Oven (based on the poem by Jack Prelutsky, chorus by Cathy Darby)
• The Magic Dreidel (based on the story by Eric A. Kimmel)
• I Have a Little Dreidel (crazy variations, source unknown)
• The Christmas Menorahs: How a Town Fought Hate ( based on a story by Janice Cohn)
• The Surprise (based on the story by George Shannon)
• The Marvelous Toy (song by Tom Paxton)
• Night Tree (based on the book by Eve Bunting)

Bundle Up:

• Caps for Sale (based on classic story by Esphyr Slobodkina)
• Joseph Had a Little Overcoat (traditional)
• Hi, My Name is Joe (traditional)

Farm Frolics/4H Fair: (and more from Food Fun and Apples & Pumpkins)

• Old McDonald Had a Farm
• Cluck Cluck Red Hen (Raffi)
• The Great Big Enormous Turnip  
• Stone Soup (based on the story by Ann McGovern)
• The Little Red House with No Doors and No Windows (traditional)
• I Like to Eat Apples and Bananas (Raffi)
• The Three Little Pigs (traditional)
• Throw it Out the Window 
• A Squash and a Squeeze (based on the story by Julia Donaldson)
• Barnyard Banter (book by Denise Fleming)
• Sitting on the Farm (book by Bob King)
• Color Farm (book by Lois Ehlert)
• Morning (book by Maria Polushkin Robbins)
• Life Size Farm