Matching colors: In stories such as Dog's Colorful Day, The Day the Crayons Quit, Freight Train, and Tip, Tip, Dig, Dig, you can hand out scarves before you begin reading. When a color comes up, give all the children with a green scarf a turn to come into the center of your circle and act out the story.
Body awareness: In stories such as From Head to Toe and Itsy Bitsy Spider (the Keith Chapman version), you can ask children to place the scarf on the body part of each page layout.
Stretching it: Using scarves to spruce up classics is a great idea. You can match up scarf colors to animal cages in Good Night Gorilla. When the gorilla gets out of his cage, have the children with orange scarves tip toe around the room like a gorilla would.
You can also match up monsters to scarf colors in If You're a Monster and You Know It. When the pink monster snorts and growls, have the children holding pink scarves stand up and show off.
For more ideas on flannels and storytime, check out Read, Rhyme and Sing. She's hosting Flannel Friday this week!
This entry was posted on November 15, 2013 by mrsshaia in Video Clips and tagged Video clips.