Thursday, August 13, 2009

Fresh Storytime Ideas

Hi folks! We are halfway through August which means many of us are starting to think about storytimes again. This summer on PUBYAC someone asked for Unusual Storytime Topics--they were getting a little bored with their regular ideas and wanted to get some fresh ideas. The list everyone came up with was really fun. I'm adding the list to this post, but if you'd like to see the full compilation with more commentary, let me know and I will send it to you via email.

Don't forget Lori Romero and I are offering another Storytime Practicum share session. We will be talking about Dialogic Reading--how to ask those open-ended questions that are so powerful for kids developing their language skills. As always, there will be time to share something from your storytime kit with everyone else--a new book you love, a flannel you've made, a song you are having a great time singing. Check with your supervisor and sign up on ALD-U. The class is called Literacy Based Storytime (Practicum) and it is on August 27, Thursday, at the May library. Hope to see you there!

Here's the list of storytime topics:

List of Unusual Storytime Themes

__________ Appreciation Day
(use Chase’s Calender of Events / Internet sites)
5 Senses
Ah-choo!
All About Me
Alligators
Alphabet
Amazing Adventures
Amusement Park
Animals
Animal Crackers
Animals Nobody Loves
Arctic
Art
Author Appreciation
Babies
Backwards Stories
Bad Days
Bags & Backpacks
Beans
Be Creative
Bedtime
Berries
Best Friends
Bicycles
Birds
Birthday Parties
Black & White
Blue
Boxes
Bravery Stories
Bread
Bubbles
Bugs
Busses
Buttons
Can’t Sit Still
Castles
Carrots
Chain Reactions
Cheese
Cherries
Chocolate
Circular Stories
Circus
Cleaning Up
Community
Cookies
Coyotes
Crocodiles
Cumulative Stories
Crackers
Cupcakes
Dads
Dancing Shoes
Deliveries
Dinosaurs
Dirty Jobs
Discipline
Dragons
Drawing
Dreams
Earth
Edwards
Election Day
Fairs
Fast & Slow
Favorites
Farms
Feathers
Feet
Finding Your Place
Fire Prevention
Firsts
Five Senses
Five (of something)
Flags
Fractured Fairy Tales
Frogs
Garbage
Gardening
Getting Out of Interesting Situations
Glitter Time
Goats
Going…
Going Hunting (bear hunt, a-hunting)
Grandparents Day
Green
Gulp
Guessing Games
Hair
Happy Unbirthday
Heroes
Home of My Own
Hide & Seek
Hugs & Kisses
Ice Cream
Illness
Imagination
I’m Big
In My Pocket
Insects
Interesting Animals
I SPY
Journeys
Jumping
Kings
Kites
Knights
Knitting
Let’s Learn About __________
Let’s Play Pretend
Llamas
Lost & Found
Laundry
Mail
Make Believe
Marshmallows
Me & My Dad
Me & My Mom
Messes
Miss / Mrs. / Mr. __________’s Favorites
Milk
Mistaken Identity
Moms
Movement
Museums
Music
Mysteries
Names
Napping and Waking Up
New Books!
Night Happenings
NO!
Noises
Noodles
Noses
Now I’m Big!
Numbers
Ocean
Oh No! I’m Scared!
Old Ladies (I Know an Old Lady Who…)
Opposites
Orange
Outer Space
Pancakes
Parties
Pasta
Peas
Pickles
Pirates
Pizza
Places to go in the Summer
Pockets
Poetry
Polka Dots
Position Words
Post Office
Princes
Princesses
Purple
Queens
Questions
Quilts
Recycling
Red
Rescued Animals
Rice
Ridiculous Stories
Rhymes
Running
Same But Different
Scientific Principles
Secrets
Sheep
Shadows
Shoes
Shoo Fly Shoo
Shopping
Show & Tell
Sign Language
Silly
Sing-A-Book
Sleepovers
Slugs
Snails
Snakes
Socks
Solving a Problem
Song Stories
Soup
Spatter Paint
Spooky stories
Squirrels
Stinky Things
Story villains
String
Stripes
Stuck
Tails
Talking
Things on Your Head
This & That
Three of Something
Time Travel
To the Rescue
Toys
Trash
Trees
Troublemakers
Un-Kissing
Under the Weather
Unusual Animals
Unusual Appetites
Unusual Pets
Unusual Rescues
Vocabulary Building
Wacky Farm
Waiting
Walking
Weaving
Wheels
Where is?
What’s Black and White and Red All Over?
What’s on Your Head?
What’s That Sound?
Who’s Afraid of the Big Bad ________?
Wild & Wacky
Wind
Wolves
Wool
Worms
X-Rays & Skeletons
Yellow
Zoos

2 comments:

Betsy said...

Some of these sound really fun. We've just finished signing up for storytimes through December, but it's good to have something to think about now so we can start looking for supporting materials. That is always a challenge - While I can usually find books, properly themed songs and activities are sometimes harder to come by for the more unusual topics.

Alyson said...

"Cupcakes" and "Names" sound fun, but I would skip "Slugs" storytime!