Farm Storytime Ideas
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Ideas for Librarians and Nursery Schools for a Farm Themed Storytime
Name any child's top five favorite picture books, and chances are the list will include multiple books about farm animals. With so many excellent farm stories, songs, rhymes and finger plays, a farm theme is a sure bet to be a storytime favorite.
Contents at a Glance
Stories for a Farm Storytime
- Pig Stories for Storytime
- Everything from the traditional Three Little Pigs to new, fractured versions.
- Duck Stories to Use in Storytime
- You'll love these duck stories.
- Chicken Stories to Share in Storytime
- Old and new favorites to share in storytime.
Pig Stories for Storytime
Duck Stories for Storytime
Chicken Stories for Storytime
Farm Storytime Videos Using the Flannel Board
from YouTube
Need a Flannel Board?
Homemade Felt Boards and Giveaways
Looking for a unique giveaway for infant or toddler storytime? At my library, we make the Flannel Board Story Boxes once per year as giveaways for storytimes for infants and toddlers. We include a few simple felt pieces and rhymes for families to use at home. I made the other felt and flannel board kits to show parents and childcare providers what they can easily make at home with scraps of material.
(I've made several hundred flannel board story boxes for storytimes and childcare clock hours throughout the years. Once you get into a groove, they take an average of 2-3 minutes each to make NOT including cutting out the felt story pieces. They can easily be made while on desk during slow times.)
Songs for a Farm Storytime
- Farm Songs to Use in Storytimes
- Includes the words for "Down on Grandpa's Farm" and other farm related songs.
- Storytime Songs about Ducks
- This has the words for Five little ducks went out to play and other songs and rhymes about ducks.
- Cow Songs and Rhymes for Storytime
- Quite a few familiar nursery rhymes feature cows, but here are some newer ones too.
- Horse Songs and Rhymes
- Lyrics to favorite horse songs and rhymes including a storytime friendly version of "Boom, Boom Ain't It Great to Be Crazy."
Farm Animal Puppets for Storytime
What Ages Are in Your Storytimes?
What is your favorite book to share in Farm Storytime?
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iijuan12
Apr 2, 2012 @ 11:11 am | delete
- Great ideas!
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veryirie
Feb 27, 2012 @ 5:02 pm | delete
- Thanks for the tute on making diy flannel boards for storytime. I bet your storytime sessions have waiting lists. :)
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ChrissLJ Feb 27, 2012 @ 7:23 pm | delete
- We don't take registration for storytime as we have a large children's programming room. The largest (in the building) storytimes I've ever had were about 160 people, but I've done a few mini storytimes outside the building that were somewhat larger.
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scarlettohairy Feb 27, 2012 @ 3:52 pm | delete
- The puppets look like a lot of fun for animal storytime!
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AngryBaker
Feb 2, 2012 @ 3:41 pm | delete
- I love flannel boards...brings back great memories of reading aloud, and being read to.
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RobinDM
Jan 7, 2012 @ 2:55 pm | delete
- I love, love, love Farmer Duck!
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cffutah
Sep 23, 2011 @ 5:04 pm | delete
- great lens, I like it when I can do poll questions too.
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smithlights
Jul 19, 2011 @ 8:43 pm | delete
- Great lens! I haven't thought of doing "themed" storytimes!
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WorldVisionary
Jun 28, 2011 @ 7:44 am | delete
- Such nice ideas - thumbs up!
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KatBar
May 14, 2011 @ 2:17 am | delete
- Great ideas. Thanks for sharing.
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LizMac60 Apr 20, 2011 @ 4:04 pm | delete
- Informative lens. Well done. Blessed by a squid angel.
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Evelyn_Saenz
Mar 26, 2011 @ 6:17 pm | delete
- Do you use flannel boards for each of these stories? What age group do you have attend your stories? What made you choose each of these stories?
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- Personally, I rarely use flannel boards as I specialize in 3-5 year old storytime and only 3 of my storytimes per month are small enough to use them efficiently. I've personally performed all but 2 of the above stories for children ages 2-6 and have seen the other two performed. All but "Wolf's Coming" and "Do Like a Duck Does" can be acted out with 1-2 people and/or puppets. I chose these particular stories because they're my favorites I've used throughout the years that have worked well multiple times. I hope to update the lens soon with additional farm animal favorites... such as Cowlick by Ditchfield.
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- I'd dig these farm storytimes!
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vallain Mar 24, 2011 @ 7:50 am | delete
- Do you include an easy craft with your storytimes? Maybe you have some suggestions for that.
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- At the library where I work, we only do crafts in 2 evening storytimes per month where numbers are more manageable for crafts. Our weekday preschool storytimes have anywhere from 45-120 people per session (times 3 sessions). However we do have a Discovery Time (ages 0-4) once per month with different stations set up to learn a specific skill or concept which usually includes a craft. I don't think I've ever used a farm themed craft in DT, though.
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