Over the Rainbow Preschool Storytime Plan

As a general theme for St. Patrick's Day, we decided to go Over the Rainbow.  I incorporated a holiday themed book into my storytime plan (There Was An Old Lady Who Swallowed A Clover! by Lucille Colandro), but mostly focused on colorful stories and rhymes. 

To download and view the full preschool storytime plan, click here. Please note, to view the files, you will need a version of Adobe Acrobat Reader (get it free here).

Our craft was a fairly simple one.  Using a lovely sky blue colored paper, I copied this rainbow (click here for pdf) that I made a few years ago. The kids could then glue torn pieces of colored paper onto the appropriate bands.  The kids ha a lot of fun with it and several of the adults were thrilled that I incorporated the appropriate number of bands and included indigo.

The finished product.  I made some extras and put them out as a Make-and-Take.

Seeing Green - Storytime Plan

Every mid-March we do a green themed storytime.  It's an open-ended topic that allows us to celebrate Saint Patrick's Day without having to find decent holiday books for preschoolers.  Trust me.  It can be difficult!  Holiday books quickly check out as a holiday approaches, making it difficult to find an available title in the system.  Then there are the books that are just plain blah.  Using a more general theme means we call still share the holiday by using fingerplays and, if we can find a good one, reading one holiday story.  

Click here for the PDF of my storytime plan.


To view the file, you will need a version of Adobe Acrobat Reader (get it free here).