Lunch!

Super-simple way to incorporate a puppet into story time. Based on Denise Fleming's book, Lunch.

Puppet:
mouse

Props:
I made simple felts of :
a turnip
a carrot
pea pod
an ear of corn
an apple
a bunch of grapes
a slice of watermelon

Mouse is hungry. AAH! Mouse spies our picnic while we're napping! She eats through:
a crisp white, turnip; a crunchy orange carrot; a sweet green pea pod; a crisp ear of yellow corn; a juicy red apple; a sour bunch of purple grapes; and a slice of pink watermelon. Then, she takes a nap until DINNERTIME!

The kids thought this was funny and enjoyed guessing the fruit and vegetables as I pulled them out of our picnic basket.

Five Little Apples

This is a puppet and flannel board combination skit. Very simple and effective. I used it this morning with my preschool group and it was a sweet addition to our stortytime.

Puppets:
caterpillar (or worm)
horse
pig
goat
squirrel

Props:
flannel board tree with five removable apples

"Five Red Apples"
Five red apples on the tree,
the farmer didn't care, so guess who came to eat?

CATERPILLAR!
Munch! Munch! Munch!

Countdown until you get to one.

The tree is bare,
there are no more apples there.
But when next Fall comes around,
guess who will be found?
Caterpillar, horse, pig, goat and squirrel!

Berries! A Puppet Feeding Song

(Potentially, a song for when hibernating bear is preparing to sleep in Fall or just waking up in Spring.)

One berry, two berries
three berries, four!
Five berries, six berries
Seven berries more!
Eight berries, nine berries,
Ten berries, then . . .
We count them all over again!

(or let's do it again!)