Here’s what we did for Fun Friday on October 7th.

The Story

The Very Hungry Caterpillar by Eric Carle

The Songs and Fingerplays

The Very Hungry Caterpillar Song (sung to the tune of 10 Little Indians)
On Sunday, 1 little egg, on Sunday 1 little egg, on Sunday 1 little egg, out comes a caterpillar.
On Monday, 1 red apple, on Monday 1 red apple, on Monday 1 red apple, that’s what the caterpillar eats.
On Tuesday, 2 yellow pears, on Tuesday 2 yellow pears, on Tuesday 2 yellow pears, that’s what the caterpillar eats.
On Wednesday, 3 purple plums, on Wednesday 3 purple plums, on Wednesday 3 purple plums, that’s what the caterpillar eats.
On Thursday, 4 red strawberries, on Thursday, 4 red strawberries, on Thursday, 4 red strawberries, that’s what the caterpillar eats.
On Friday, 5 oranges, on Friday 5 oranges, on Friday 5 oranges, that’s what the caterpillar eats.
On Saturday, too much food, on Saturday, too much food, on Saturday, too much food, that’s what the caterpillar eats.
On Sunday, 1 green leaf, on Sunday, 1 green leaf, on Sunday, 1 green leaf, that’s what the caterpillar eats.
In his cocoon, he goes to sleep, in his cocoon, he goes to sleep, in his cocoon, he goes to sleep, that’s what the caterpillar does.
Out comes a butterfly, out comes a butterfly, out comes a butterfly, isn’t that a great surprise!

The Little Caterpillar Sung to (Itsy, Bitsy Spider)
The little caterpillar crawled up into a tree, 

spun his cocoon and slept so quietly,

All through the winter he didn’t make a sound, 

He dreamt of his new life when he’d be flying all around. 

While he was sleeping the snow did gently fall,

winter came and went, then her heard the robin’s call, 

“Come on Mr. Butterfly, out of your cocoon 
Spread your wings and fly for me, while I sing my tune.

Caterpillar (sung to Row, row your boat)
One caterpillar, two caterpillars, three caterpillars today. 

Four caterpillars, five caterpillars eating all the day. 

One cocoon, two cocoons, three cocoons today.

Four cocoons, five cocoons sleeping all the day. 

One butterfly, two butterflies, three butterflies today. 

Four butterflies, five butterflies, flying, flying away.

The Craft: Caterpillar/Butterfly

What you need:

• Scissors
• Glue
• Wide craft stick
• Colored Pom Poms
• Construction paper
• Toilet paper roll
• Velcro
• Crayons or markers

To Make:
Glue pom poms the length of the craft stick.
Use a marker to make eyes and mouth at one end.
Cut two antennae from the construction paper: glue on end of craft stick.
Let dry. Apply a small piece of Velcro on the back of the caterpillar.

Cut a butterfly shape out of paper. Color or decorate with markers. Apply a small piece of Velcro to the front side of the butterfly.

Roll the butterfly to fit into the toilet paper tube.

Take the caterpillar and insert it into the “cocoon” toilet paper roll. Press the Velcro pieces together. Pull the caterpillar from the cocoon and reveal the butterfly.

About Fun Friday

Fun Friday is a weekly event at KangarooBoo in Valley Junction. Join us for interactive storytelling, singing, and crafts. A fun way to foster a love for reading and develop your child’s imagination. This event is free — no registration required.

Here’s what we did for Fun Friday on September 30th.

The Stories

I Like Me by Nancy Carlson

Two Eyes, a Nose, and a Mouth by Roberta Grobel Intrater

The One and Only Special Me by Rozanne Lanczak Williams

The Songs and Fingerplays

I am Special
(Tune of “Frere Jacques”)
I am special,

I am special,

Look at me,

You will see,

Someone very special,

Someone very special,

It is me,

It is me.

Me
I have 10 little fingers

And 10 little toes, 

2 little arms, 

And 1 little nose.

1 little mouth, 

And 2 little ears, 

2 little eyes

for smiles and for tears.

1 little head

And 2 little feet, 

1 little chin -

That’s me!

I’m complete.

I Am Special
I am special

I am special,
don’t you see? 

Don’t you see, someone very special.

Someone very special 

yes, it’s me,
yes, it’s me

The Craft: Mirror

What you need:
Scissors
Paper plate
Toilet paper roll
Crayons or markers
Stickers (optional)

To Make:
Cut the middle out of the paper plate
Color and decorate the rim of the plate
Cut a slit on two sides of the toilet paper roll
Slide the paper plate in the slits, so the toilet paper roll forms a handle for the mirror.
Hold the plate up to your face to show people how you look. Smile!
Option: you can put a piece of aluminum foil over the opening of the paper plate to make a mirror surface.

About Fun Friday

Fun Friday is a weekly event at KangarooBoo in Valley Junction. Join us for interactive storytelling, singing, and crafts. A fun way to foster a love for reading and develop your child’s imagination. This event is free — no registration required.

Here’s what we did for Fun Friday on September 23rd.

The Stories

Mamma Cat Has Three Kittens by Denise Fleming

My Cats Nick & Nora by Isabelle Harper

Grumpy Cat by Britta Teckentrup

The Songs and Fingerplays

I’m A Little Cat

(Sung to “I’m a Little Teapot”)

I’m a little kitty cat,

soft and furry.

I’ll be your friend,

so don’t you worry.

Right up on your lap I like to hop.

I’ll purr, purr, purr and never stop.

HUGS
(Nobody likes me, everyone hates me, think I’ll go eat worms..)
Everybody wants one, Everybody needs one,
Everybody loves a hug!
Big hugs, little hugs, even itty bitty hugs.
Hugs for everyone!

The Craft: Cat collar and headband

Supplies Needed:

• White paper plate
• Crayons
• Stickers, gems, craft foam shapes
• Scissors
• Glue or glue stick
• Tape or stapler

Directions:
For the Cat Collar
Cut the center out of the paper plate so only the rippled ring remains. Cut a slit in the ring so the child will be able to slip it on their neck. Optional; you can punch a hole on each side of the cut and put yarn or string to hold the ring together once the child has put it on their neck. Let the child decorate the paper plate ring with crayons, stickers, gems or foam shapes.

For the Head Band
Have the child color a picture of a cat’s face. You can find a simple one in a coloring book, or on line. Cut out the picture and tape it to a piece of bulletin board border or strips of construction paper to form a crown.

About Fun Friday

Fun Friday is a weekly event at KangarooBoo in Valley Junction. Join us for interactive storytelling, singing, and crafts. A fun way to foster a love for reading and develop your child’s imagination. This event is free — no registration required.

Here’s what we did for Fun Friday on September 16th.

The Stories

Chatty Chipmunks Nutty Day by Susanne Gruber

Zoo Faces by Innovative Kids

The Songs and Fingerplays

Brown squirrel
Brown squirrel, Brown squirrel Swoosh your bushy tail (hold elbow in your other hand and move your arm back and forth)
Brown squirrel, brown squirrel Swoosh your busy tail
Put a nut between your toes
Wrinkle up your little nose
Brown squirrel, brown squirrel Swoosh your bushy tail.

Busy Squirrel
Grey Squirrel, grey squirrel
Doesn’t make a sound.
As he buries acorns
Underneath the ground.
Later when it’s cold out
And food cannot be found,
The gray squirrel will dig
His acorns from the ground.

The Craft: Squirrel in a Tree

Supplies Needed:

• Cardboard paper towel tube
• Small squirrel picture
• Tissue paper orange, yellow and red
• Scissors
• Glue or glue stick

Directions:
Cut a hole out of the center of the tube. Then cut slits from the top of the tube toward the center. Bend the tube’s sections downward to resemble tree branches. Crumple small pieces of the tissue paper; then glue them to the branches. Color and cut out a picture of a squirrel. Put glue on the back of the picture; then insert it into the tube so that the squirrel’s face can be seen through the hole.

About Fun Friday

Fun Friday is a weekly event at KangarooBoo in Valley Junction. Join us for interactive storytelling, singing, and crafts. A fun way to foster a love for reading and develop your child’s imagination. This event is free — no registration required.

Here’s what we did for Fun Friday on September 9th.

The Stories

Smash! Mash! Crash! There Goes The Trash by Barbara Odanaka

We also read Trashy Town by Andrea Zimmerman and David Clemesha and I Stink! By Kate & Jim McMullan

The Songs and Fingerplays

GARBAGE!
Pick up garbage, and throw it in the bin!

Push it down, and stomp it in!

Carry the cans to the street

for the garbage trucks to eat.

When the truck comes roaring by,

workers lift the cans up high.

Garbage falls into the back.

Crush it, mash it, smash it flat!

Set the cans down with a thump.

Now drive that garbage to the dump!

The Craft: Garbage Truck

Here’s what you’ll need…

• Picture of garbage truck
• Crayons
• Glue
• Assorted paper scraps

Color the picture of the garbage truck. Crumple paper and glue on picture to represent the garbage.

About Fun Friday

Fun Friday is a weekly event at KangarooBoo in Valley Junction. Join us for interactive storytelling, singing, and crafts. A fun way to foster a love for reading and develop your child’s imagination. This event is free — no registration required.

Here’s what we did for Fun Friday on September 2nd.

The Stories

I Like Me by Nancy Carlson

We also read Clifford Makes a Friend by Norman Bridwell and
The Doorbell Rang by Pat Hutchins

The Songs and Fingerplays

If You’re Happy and You Know It
If you’re happy and you know it clap your hands.
If you’re happy and you know it clap your hands.
If you’re happy and you know it, then your face will surely show it.
If you’re happy and you know it, clap your hands.

If you’re happy and you know it, stomp your feet.
If you’re happy and you know it, stomp your feet.
If you’re happy and you know it then your face will surely show it.
If you’re happy and you know it stomp your feet.

If you’re happy and you know it, shout hurray
If you’re happy and you know it, shout hurray
If you’re happy and you know it, then your face will surely show it.
If you’re happy and you know it, shout hurray.

Head and Shoulders, Knees and Toes
Head and shoulders, knees and toes.
Head and shoulders, knees and toes.
Eyes and ears and mouth and nose.
Head and shoulders, knees and toes.

Mister Sun

Oh Mister Sun, Sun,

Mister Golden Sun, 

Please shine down on me

Oh Mister Sun, Sun, 

Mister Golden Sun,

Hiding behind a tree…

These little children
are asking you

to please come out

so we can play with you

Oh Mister Sun, Sun, 

Mister Golden Sun, 

Please shine down on me!

The Craft: Funny Face.

Here’s what you’ll need…

• Paper plate
• Crayons
• Scissors
• Glue
• Assorted craft items (wiggle eyes, yarn, feathers, pom poms)

Using craft items you have around the house, create a funny face on the back side of the paper plate.

About Fun Friday

Fun Friday is a weekly event at KangarooBoo in Valley Junction. Join us for interactive storytelling, singing, and crafts. A fun way to foster a love for reading and develop your child’s imagination. This event is free — no registration required.

Here’s what we did for Fun Friday on Aug 25th.

The Stories

Sometimes You Get What You Want by Lisa Brown

We also read When Summer Ends by Marisabina Russo and Where Is My Mommy by Julie Downing

The Songs and Fingerplays

Bug Song (“If You’re Happy and You Know It”)
Oh, I wish I were an eensy-weensy spider. Clap, clap
Yes, I wish I were an eensy-weensy spider. Clap, clap
I’d go “creepy-creepy-crawly” down your hall and up your “wall-y!”
Oh, I wish I were an eensy-weensy spider.
Clap, clap

Oh, I wish I were a yellow honeybee. Clap, clap
Yes, I wish I were a yellow honeybee. Clap, clap
I’d go “buzzy-buzzy-buzzy” and my stripes would all be fuzzy!
Oh, I wish I were a yellow honeybee.
Clap, clap, stomp, stomp

Oh, I wish you were a wiggly caterpillar. Clap, clap
Yes, I wish I were a wiggly caterpillar. Clap, clap
I’d go “munchy-munchy-munchy.” All the leaves would be my “lunch-y”!
Oh, I wish I were a wiggly caterpillar.
Clap, clap, stomp, stomp, click, click

Oh, I wish I were a small red army ant. Clap, clap
Yes, I wish I were a small red army ant. Clap, clap
I’d go “trompy-trompy-trompy” over hills and through the “swamp-y”!
Oh, I wish I were a small red army ant.
Clap, clap, stomp, stomp, click, click, jump, jump

Oh, I wish I were a hungry little misquote . Clap, clap
Yes, I wish I were a hungry little miscquoto. Clap, clap
I’d go “bitey-bitey-bitey” when you went outside at “night- y”!
Oh, I wish I were a hungry little misquoto.
Clap, clap, stomp, stomp, click, click, jump, jump, Shhhh, Shhhh!!

Picnic Song
(“For He’s a Jolly Good Fellow”)
We’re going on a picnic!

We’re going on a picnic!

We’re going on a picnic!

And I’ll bring something [red].

I will pack some [apples].

I will pack some [apples].

I will pack some [apples] 

because [apples] are [red].

Sing additional verses, replacing the color word and food each time. Suggestions include: blue, berries; yellow, bananas; brown, cookies; green, celery; orange, carrots.

Mister Sun

Oh Mister Sun, Sun,

Mister Golden Sun, 

Please shine down on me

Oh Mister Sun, Sun, 

Mister Golden Sun,

Hiding behind a tree…

These little children
are asking you

to please come out

so we can play with you

Oh Mister Sun, Sun, 

Mister Golden Sun, 

Please shine down on me!

The Craft: Ladybug

Here’s what you’ll need…
• Construction paper – black, red and green

• Pencil

• Scissors

• Glue or tape

• Black marker

• Hole punch



Here’s how you make it…
Cut out a red and black circle from your construction paper – they need to be the same size and no more than about 5″ in diameter (otherwise your hole punch won’t reach into the middle). Cut your red circle in half and cut out a small black circle for the head. Try using a small plate to trace out the big circles and a spice container to trace around for the small circle. 



2. Glue or tape your black circles onto a piece of green construction paper as shown in the picture.



3. Punch holes in both red semi circles and then glue onto your black circle. With a black marker draw on legs and antennae.

More information about this craft via Busy Bee Kids Crafts Blog.

About Fun Friday

Fun Friday is a weekly event at KangarooBoo in Valley Junction. Join us for interactive storytelling, singing, and crafts. A fun way to foster a love for reading and develop your child’s imagination. This event is free — no registration required.

Here’s what we did for Fun Friday on Aug 19th.

The Stories

Turtle Splash by Cathryn Falwell

Scoot by Cathryn Falwell

and I Can’t Get My Turtle to Move by Elizabeth Lee O’Donnell

The Songs and Fingerplays

MY LITTLE TURTLE

This is my little turtle.

He lives alone in a shell.

He likes his little home.

He thinks it’s really swell.
He pokes out his head 

When he wants to eat. 

Then he pulls it back in.

TURTLES EVERYWHERE

Tune: “On Top of Old Smokey”
Some turtles swim over the ocean.

Some turtles swim over the sea.

Some turtles grow very big

As big as you and me.
Turtles, turtles, swimming here and there.

Turtles, turtles, turtles everywhere.

Tiny Tim the Turtle
I had a little turtle, his name was Tiny Tim

I put him in the bathtub, to see if he could swim

He drank up all the water, he ate up all the soap

and now he’s sick in bed with a bubble in his throat hiccup

A Little Turtle
There was a little turtle
He lived in a box
He swam in a puddle
He climbed on the rocks 
He snapped at a mosquito 
He snapped at a flea 
He snapped at a minnow
He snapped at me
He caught the mosquito
He caught the flea 
He caught the minnow
But he didn’t catch me

The Craft: Turtle

What you’ll need:

• Turtle templates (found at Scholastic pintables)
• Scissors
• Crayons or markers

To Make: Print template, color and cut out. Insert head through slits in the shell to make the head go in and out.

Here’s what we did for Fun Friday on Aug 5th.

The Stories

Old MacDonald’s Farm (Poke-A-Dot) By Innovative Kids

Farm Faces by Innovative Kids

Counting (EZ Page Turners) By Innovative Kids

Old MacDonald Had a Farm by Jane Cabrera

The Songs and Fingerplays

Bingo

There was a farmer who had a dog and Bingo was his name-o.

B-I-N-G-O, B-I-N-G-O, B-I-N-G-O

and Bingo was his name-o.

(Repeat, replacing one letter with a clap each time.)

Over in the Barnyard (Tune: “Down By the Station”)

Over in the barnyard

Early in the morning

See the yellow chickies

Standing in a row

See the busy farmer

Giving them their breakfas
t
Cheep, cheep, cheep, cheep

Off they go
[pink piggies and spotted cows]

Two Mother Pigs

Two mother pigs lived in a pen (show thumbs)

Each had four babies, and that made ten (show fingers & thumbs)

These four babies were black as night (thumb in palm, wiggle fingers)

These four babies were black and white (switch hands, repeat)

But all eight babies loved to play

And they rolled and rolled in the mud all day (roll hands)

At night, with their mother, they curled up in a heap (clasp hands)

And squealed and squealed till they fell fast asleep.

The Craft: Sheep

What you’ll need:

• White and black construction paper
• Cotton balls
• Glue
• Scissors
• White crayon
• 2 googly eyes
• Red yarn
• Sheep template (template 1 and template 2)

How to make your cotton ball sheep craft:

1. Trace the face and legs onto black construction paper using a white crayon and cut out the pieces. Cut the body of the sheep out of white paper.
2. Cover the sheep’s body piece with glue.
3. Stick the 4 legs onto the bottom of the body.
4. Cover the rest of the sheep with cotton balls.
5. Glue the sheep’s head onto the body (on top of the cotton balls).
6. Glue the googly eyes on the head. Glue the red yarn on the sheep’s face to make a smiling mouth.
7. Cut a small triangle out of black construction paper and glue it to the face as a nose.

Idea for the Cotton Ball Sheep craft via All Kids Network

Here’s what we did for Fun Friday on July 29th.

The Stories

A Summer Day by Douglas Florian

Simon in Summer by Gilles Tibo

Sun Up, Sun Down by Gail Gibbons

Mr. Bear’s Vacation by Debbi Gliori

The Songs & Fingerplays

Mister Sun

Oh Mister Sun, Sun,

Mister Golden Sun,

Please shine down on me

Oh Mister Sun, Sun,

Mister Golden Sun,

Hiding behind a tree…

These little children

Are asking you

To please come out

So we can play with you

Oh Mister Sun, Sun,

Mister Golden Sun,

Please shine down on me!

It Is Summer (“If You’re Happy And You Know It”)
It is summer and it’s time to take a swim!
It is summer and it’s time to take a swim!
It is summer that’s the season!
We don’t need a better reason!
It is summer and it’s time to take a swim!

The Craft: Summer Visors

Supplies:
Foam Visor (Dollar Tree – 3 for $1.00) or you can make one with cardboard and elastic
Foam stickers or other supplies to decorate the visor

Instructions: Use the art supplies to decorate the visor to reflect you.