Here’s what we did for Fun Friday on July 22nd.

The Stories & Songs

Leonardo the Terrible Monster by Mo Willems

Action Rhyme: “Monster Stomp”

If you want to be a monster, now’s your chance.

‘Cause everybody’s doing the monster dance.

You just stamp your feet, wave your arms around. (Stomp, wave arms.)

Stretch ‘em up, stretch ‘em up, (Stretch up arms.)

Then put them on the ground. (Put hands on the floor.) 

‘Cause you’re doing the monster stomp. (Stomp feet.)

That’s right! You’re doing the monster stomp. (Stomp feet.)

Glad Monster Sad Monster by Ed Emberley

Action Rhyme: “If I Were a Monster”

If I were a happy monster, I’d go ha! ha! ha! (laugh)

If I were a sad monster, I’d go boo, hoo, hoo! (rub eyes)

If I were a mad monster, I’d go stomp, stomp, stomp! (stomp feet)

If I were a scared monster, I’d go AHH! AHH! AHH! (scream)

But I’m just me, you see, so I’ll just read, read, read (sit down)

Go Away, Big Green Monster by Ed Emberley

Ten Little Monsters” (Tune: “Ten Little Indians”) 

One little, two little, three little monsters

Four little, five little, six little monsters

Seven little, eight little, nine little monsters

Ten monsters roaring at me!

Monster Hug by David Ezra Stein

“Monsters Galore”

Monsters galore, can you roar? (Roar.)

Monsters galore, can you soar? (Flying motions.)

Monsters galore please shut the door. (Clap.)

Monsters galore, sit on the floor! (Sit down.)

The Craft: Monster Mask

Supplies:

• Card stock or heavy paper
• Various colors of paper (scraps work great)
• Paper punch (optional)
• Craft stick
• Crayons or markers
• Scissors
• Glue

Instructions:

1. Cut out a monster face pattern
2. Glue on craft stick
3. Use paper punch or scissors to cut out various sizes of circles
4. Decorate your monster anyway you want.

Here’s what we did for Fun Friday on July 15th

The Stories

The book was Duck! Rabbit! by Amy Krouse Rosenthal

We also read Don’t Let the Pigeon Drive the Bus by Mo Willems

And Yes Day! by Amy Krouse Rosenthal

The Songs

All the Little Ducklings
all the little ducklings, 

Line up in a row. (Stand up)

Quack, quack, quack, (clap three times) 

and away they go. (Walk in place)

They follow their mother, (put hands behind back like a tail) 

Waddling to and fro. (Waddle)

Quack, quack, quack (clap three times) 

and away they go.

Down to the big pond (make large circles with both arms) 

Happy as can be. (Smile)

Quack, quack, quack (clap three times) 

they are full of glee.
They jump in the water (jump up and down) 

and bob up and down, 

Quack, quack, quack, (clap three times) 

They all swim around.

All the little ducklings

swimming far away (make swimming motions) 

Quack, quack, quack (clap three times) 

they’ll play another day.

FINGERPLAY: Here is a bunny

Here is a bunny (hold up two fingers slightly bent) 

and here is his home (make circle with other hand) 

When a noise he hears, he pricks up his ears (straighten fingers) 

and he jumps into his home (two fingers dive into circle)

If You’re Hoppy and You Know It

If you’re hoppy and you know it,
hop around
If you’re hoppy and you know it,
hop around
If you’re hoppy and you know it

And you really want to show it

If you’re hoppy and you know it, hop around.
…hop around

…shake your tail

…stomp your feet

…wiggle your nose

The Craft: Rabbit & Duck

On one side the Rabbit.

And on the other a duck!

Supplies:

• Outline of Duck/Rabbit on cardstock
• Yellow feathers
• Cotton Ball
• Small black pom pom
• 2 Wiggle Eyes
• Craft stick
• Crayons or markers
• Scissors
• Glue

Instructions:

1. Cut out bunny/duck pattern
2. Color the duck side yellow with orange beak
3. Color bunny side (or you can leave white)
4. On bunny side add one wiggle eye, cotton ball tail and pom pom nose
5. On duck side add one wiggle eye and yellow feathers
6. Use crayons or markers to add other features
7. Glue poem on bunny side
8. Glue on craft stick

Idea for this craft via Sunflower Storytime

Here’s what we did for Fun Friday on July 8th.

The Stories

The book was Clip Clop by Nicola Smee

We also read Rose’s Walk by Pat Hutchins

The Songs

Five Clean Squeaky Pigs
Sing it to “Five Green and Speckled Frogs”
Five pigs so squeaky clean

Wanted to go outside and play

Oink! Oink! (clap, clap)

One jumped into the mud

Landed with a great big thud

Then there were four clean squeaky pigs.

Down on Grandpa’s farm from Raffi’s album One Light, One Sun

We’re on our way, we’re on our way (clap in rhythm)

On our way to Grandpa’s farm.

We’re on our way, we’re on our way (continue clapping)

On our way to Grandpa’s farm.
Down on Grandpa’s farm there is a big, brown cow.

Down on Grandpa’s farm there is a big, brown cow.

The cow, she makes a sound like this….Moooooo.

The cow, she makes a sound like this….Moooooo.

Brown Cow…Mooooo

Red Hen ….Cluck-cluck

White Sheep….Baaaaa

Black Dog…..Woof

Brown Horse…..Neigh

Rooster’s feathers

(Tune: Do You Know the Muffin Man)

Place a rooster on the flannel board and explain that he has lost his feathers. Hand out different colored paper feathers to children. Then sing the following song:

Do you have a red feather,

A red feather, a red feather?

If you have a red feather,

Bring it up here now.

Repeat with other colors.

The Craft: Little Piggy

Here’s what you’ll need…

• Paper plate
• Dessert sized paper plate*
• Pink construction paper
• Pink pipe cleaner

• Black Marker
• Scissors
• Glue
• Google eyes (optional)

• Hole punch (optional)

*If you don’t have a small paper plate you can always make a circle with pink construction paper.



Here’s how you make it…

1. Paint both paper plates pink. Glue the small plate onto the large plate, not in the center, but off set (as shown in the picture).





2. Cut out all of your shapes from pink construction paper. You will need: 4 pig feet, 1 round snout, and 2 triangle ears.





3. Glue all of your paper parts onto your pig’s body. Glue on your google eyes (or use a marker to draw them on). Don’t forget to draw on your pig’s nostrils!





4. Make a hole at the top of your paper plate with a hole punch or scissors. Thread the pink pipe cleaner through the hole and curl it.




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 July 1st.

The Stories

The book was Hats Off for the Fourth of July! by Harriet Ziefert

We also read Happy 4th of July, Jenny Sweeney! by Leslie Kimmelman

The Songs

The Flag (The Muffin Man)
We l-o-v-e, love the flag.

We love the flag.

We love the flag.

We l-o-v-e, love the flag.

It’s red and white and blue.

(To the tune of I’m a Little Teapot)
I’m a little firework

Up in the sky.

I dance and I shimmer

Way up, up high.



Sometimes I’m red.

Sometimes I’m blue.

But I always sparkle

Just for you.



I’m a little firework

Up in the sky.

I dance and I shimmer

Way up, up high

The Craft: Fourth of July Sparkler

Supplies needed:

• 1 Capped flower pick (available at craft stores)
• 1 drinking straw
• Silver pipe cleaners
• Blue glue – paint (mix equal parts of glue and paint)
• Paint brush
• Blue glitter
• Red, white and blue curling ribbon

Directions:

Paint the tube and cap of flower pick with glue paint. Sprinkle glitter on paint while still wet. Let dry.
Put the end of the flower pick into the straw to make a handle.

Twist the pipe cleaners together and poke the twisted pipe cleaners into the cap of the flower pick. Spread the piper cleaners in different directions to form the sparkler.

Tie ribbons around the straw and curl the ends.

Idea:
If doing this with younger children you can decorate the flower pick with glitter stickers instead of paint.

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.

For more than a year now we have kept our doors open seven days a week. After much consideration, we have decided to modify it to six days a week.

Please note our new store hours.

Starting July we will be closed on Sundays. We plan on resuming Sunday hours again closer to Christmas. Our hours for Monday through Saturday remains the same: open from 10 AM to 7 PM.

The good news is that we are planning on a few Saturday events over the next few months! Yay!

Here’s what we did today for Fun Friday on June 17th.

The Story

The book was The Daddy Book by Todd Parr.

The songs

I Love Daddy (Frere Jacques)
I Love Daddy, I Love Daddy,
Yes, I do, yes, I do.
Daddy’s are for hugging, (Hug self)
Daddy’s are for kissing, (Blow a kiss)
I love you, yes I do.

Daddy Loves Me (Mary Had a Little Lamb)
Daddy loves me
Yes he does.
Yes he does.
Yes he does.
Daddy loves me
Yes he does.
He loves me every day.

Daddy gives me
hugs and kisses,
hugs and kisses,
hugs and kisses.
Daddy gives me hugs and kisses.
Because he loves me so.

I love my daddy,
my daddy,
my daddy.
I love my daddy
and daddy loves me too.

The Craft: Father’s Day Card

Supplies needed:

• Cardstock
• Small bear or cutout
• Printed message
• Pipe cleaner for spring
• Scissors
• Glue or tape
• Crayons or markers

Instructions:

1. Fold one sheet of cardstock in half to form a card.
2. Cut out bear shape and small spring from card stock (see note below). We made the shape of a man instead, so that we could make him look like dad!
3. Color or decorate the bear.
4. Attach the outside end of the spring to the card and the inside end to the bear.
5. Glue or write poem on the card.
6. Decorate the card as desired.

Options: You can find patterns for bear, spring and poem at daniellesplace.com. You can also create a spring from a pipe cleaner.

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 today for Fun Friday on June 10th. We had lots of fun this morning!

The Story

The book was From Caterpillar to Butterfly by Deborah Heiligman.

The songs

Fuzzy Caterpillar
Fuzzy caterpillar,
(wiggle both index fingers)
Wiggled up a tree.
(Wiggle them up to the air)
He wiggled long, wiggled short, then wiggled right at me.
(Wiggle fingers arms outstretched, then 6 inches apart, then close to your face)
Hi there!
(Wave hello)
I put him in a box.
(Clap hands together)
Don’t go away I said.
(Shake finger)
But when I opened up the box,
(open hands slowly)
There was a butterfly!
(Cross hands at wrists and “flutter” your butterfly)

Tiny Caterpillar (If you’re Happy and You Know It)
There’s a tiny caterpillar on a leaf, wiggle, wiggle,
there’s a tiny caterpillar on a leaf, wiggle, wiggle,
there’s a tiny caterpillar, a tiny caterpillar, a tiny caterpillar on a leaf, wiggle, wiggle.
There’s a big fat caterpillar on a leaf, munch, munch,
There’s a big fat caterpillar on a leaf, munch, munch,
There’s a big fat caterpillar, a big fat caterpillar, a big fat caterpillar on a leaf, munch, munch.
There’s a pretty butterfly flying around, flutter, flutter
There’s a pretty butterfly flying around, flutter, flutter.
There’s a pretty butterfly, a pretty butterfly, a pretty butterfly flying around, flutter, flutter.

Caterpillar (Wheels on the Bus melody)
The caterpillars are wriggling around, wriggling around, wriggling around.
The caterpillars are wriggling around, all over the yard.
The caterpillars are building a cocoon, building a cocoon, building a cocoon.
The caterpillars are building a cocoon all around the yard.
The butterflies are flying around, flying around, flying around.
The butterflies are flying around all around the yard.

The Craft

Supplies needed:

• Construction paper – any colors
• Shoe strings, ribbon or string (36 inches long)
• Uncooked rigatoni
• Two 3 inch pieces of ribbon or small pieces of construction paper
• Pencil or small hole punch
• Scissors
• Glue or tape
• Crayons or markers

Instructions:

1. Cut circles from construction paper. You will need 8 circles of the same size. You can trace around a small paper cup or round lid. The size of your circles determines the size of your caterpillar.
2. Punch a hole in the center of each circle using a pencil or hole punch.
3. Draw eyes and mouth on one of the circles. This circle will be the head.
4. Thread the head circle on the shoe string followed by a rigatoni. Continue the pattern until you have used all of the circles. Add the ribbon strips to make the antennae on the head circle.
5. Tie the ends of the shoe string together to form your necklace.

Options: You can add pipe cleaner or construction paper legs to your caterpillar. For the eyes you can use wiggle eyes or brads. Be creative and make your caterpillar your own.

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 June 3rd.

The Story

The book was Baby Bird’s First Nest by Frank Asch

The Songs

Little Green Frog
Mm, Mm went the little green frog one day,
Mm, Mm went the little green frog,
Mm, Mm went the little green frog one day,
And they all went Mm, Mm, Aahh!
But!
We all know frogs go, Lahdeedahdeedah!
We all know frogs go, Lahdeedahdeedah!
We all know frogs go, Lahdeedahdeedah!
They don’t go Mm, Mm, Aahh!

Little birdie in your nest.
Little birdie it’s time to rest.
When the sun comes out to play,
little birdie – fly away!

From the book and I Heard Said the Bird by Polly Berrien Berends

To the Tune of I’m a Little Teapot
I’m a little birdie
Cute and fat.
I eat worms.
I don’t like cats.
When I see a cat come out to play,
I spread my wings,
And I fly away!

Little bird, little bird,
Fly around,
Up to the sky,
Down to the ground.
Little bird, little bird,
Flap your wings.
Open your beak
and sweetly sing.
Little bird, little bird,
Fly to your nest.
Now it is time
to take a rest.

The Craft: Bird

What you’ll need:

• Large paper plate
• Tissue paper (assorted colors)
• Orange construction paper
• Scissors
• 2 googly eyes or stickers
• Glue
• Crayons or markers
• Feathers (optional)

How to make it:

1. Fold paper plate in half to make the birds body.
2. Using crayons or markers, color feathers on the body. Option – glue on feathers.
3. Cut beak from of orange construction paper and glue on the plate.
4. Add googly eyes or stickers for eyes.
5. Cut strips of tissue paper and attach to the inside of the fold for the tail feathers.

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.