Storytime themes

Best Story Time Ideas for Preschoolers Do you have daily story time with a classroom of kids? Do you run story time at your library? Do you just enjoy reading stories and doing book inspired activities and songs with your child? If you answered YES to any of these questions then these ideas are for …

Storytime Theme: Sticky & Slimy – Literacious

Waiting is hard. I think we can all universally agree on that. Waiting is especially hard when you are a little kid. This story is all about the waiting struggle. It will not solve the issue or truth that waiting is hard, but I think it helps kids feel seen when you state things like […]

One of my most popular posts of all time - Storytime Theme: Imagination Station is a great list of picture book titles to inspire creativity!

Storytime Theme: Kindness is all about being kind to those around you and offers kids specific ways to be kind to others!

If you ask my kids what my favorite animal is, my youngest will answer that my favorite mythical creature is a dragon and my favorite real animal is a rabbit. I love that he makes that distinction and that he knows how much I love dragons! Because of that love, I am sharing a dragon […]

In April, I like to do story times about rain, chickens, birds, bunnies, libraries, and jazz. Rain (April Showers) Suggested Books: Rain by Robert Kalan and Donald Crews Rain Dance by Kathi Appelt Rain by Manya Stojic Tap Tap Boom Boom by Elizabeth Bluemle and G. Brian Karas Bringing the Rain to Kapiti Plain by Verna Aardema and Beatriz Vidal Extension Activities: Rain, Rain Go Away I Like to See the Raindrops Fall Red Umbrella Keeps Me Dry The Itsy Bitsy Spider Chickens Suggested Books…

Looking for something new for storytime? Check out Storytime Theme: Bees for a fun storytime about these really important animals!

Storytime Theme: Mail Time is all about introducing toddlers and preschoolers to the postal service and how letters and packages are delivered!

During the month of April, I’ll be participating in the Blogging From A to Z Challenge. My theme for the month is Storytime Plans From A to Z. Each plan will have eight stories as well as four songs, fingerplays or rhymes to match the theme! As you can see, I’ll try and attribute where I found all of this fun (and often you can find it in multiple places). My goal is to make storytime planning a little easier on myself in the future and to make storytime planning for other librarians easy as…