DIY Storytime: Bedtime Stories

 

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Read

Available through hoopla Digital

 

Watch

 

These videos are available on Kanopy Kids for free and unlimited streaming. Click on the titles to be re-directed to the videos. 

  • Don't Let the Pigeon Stay Up Late! (8 mins.) - The pigeon is back! This time he does not want to go to sleep! Do you think we should let him stay up late? 
  • Goodnight, Goodnight, Construction Site (10 mins.) - Down in the big construction site, tough trucks work with all their might. But now it's time to say goodnight! Say goodbye to the day with your favorite construction vehicles. 

 

Sing

 

Sleeping Bunnies 

(kids lie on the floor pretending to sleep) 
See the little bunnies sleeping, ‘til it’s nearly noon 
Come and let us gently wake them with a merry tune 
Oh, how still. Are they ill? 
Wake up soon..... 
(kids wake up and hop around the room like bunnies) 
Hop little bunnies, hop hop hop! 
Hop little bunnies, hop hop hop! 
Hop little bunnies, hop hop hop! 
Hop little bunnies, hop...and...stop! 
(repeat as many times as you like!) 

 

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Twinkle, Twinkle, Little Star

Twinkle, twinkle, little star (open and close hands like flashing motion) 
How I wonder what you are (shrug shoulders and put hands out palm up) 
Up above the world so high (point up to the sky) 
Like a diamond in the sky (put your thumbs together, and pointer fingers together, to make a diamond shape) 
Twinkle, twinkle, little star (open and close hands like flashing motion) 
How I wonder what you are! (shrug shoulders and put hands out palm up) 

 

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Activity

Star Twirler Craft 

https://www.redtedart.com/paper-plate-star-twirler/ 

 

Supplies:

  • Paper Plate (or thin cardboard or paper cut into a circle if not available) 
  • Blue or black paint, markers, or crayons
  • Yellow paper (or white paper colored yellow) cut into star shapes 
  • Scissors 
  • Glue 
  • String to hang the twirler (optional) 

 

Steps:

  1. Color or paint the paper plate blue or black to resemble the night sky (cover all the white space!) 
  2. After it dries, cut the paper plate in a large spiral (as shown in the picture)
  3. Glue stars to the spiral
  4. Attach a string to hang your twirler! 

 

Bedtime Yoga 

Stretch and relax your body to get ready for bed by participating in yoga for young children with Cosmic Kids Yoga. Watch on Youtube: Tommy the Bedtime Turtle: a Cosmic Kids Yoga Adventure! (17 mins.) 

 

 

More Books

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Books on Overdrive/Libby (note: These titles may have a waiting list.)

 

Keep Learning

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