Interactive storytime ideas

Best Story Time Ideas for Preschoolers Do you have daily story time with a classroom of kids? Do you run story time at your library? Do you just enjoy reading stories and doing book inspired activities and songs with your child? If you answered YES to any of these questions then these ideas are for …

10 Interactive Picture Books to Read if You Love Press Here by Herve Tullet from My Storytime Corner

Storytime Theme: Sticky & Slimy – Literacious

Sensory Friendly storytimes can be daunting to plan, but this lesson plan gives you everything you need to get started!

Guest Post: Making Storytimes More Inclusive - Jbrary

Bubbles: Hello Bubbles/1 Little 2 Little 3 Little Bubbles Hello song (with uke): Hands are clapping/Hey Hey How are You Welcome song (with uke): Willoughby Wallaby Woo Letter of the day. I’v…

BIG RAPIDS — A lot of planning may go into a bear hunt, but staff and volunteers at Eastwood Early Childhood Center rehashed a few of the details of their interactive story walk on Thursday when...

The best interactive books for kids that will make read-aloud time the favorite time of the day.

Have you heard of multi-sensory storytelling? It's a fun way to support engagement and interactions with the story you're reading, as well as vocabulary development! "The cross-study results are clear: a greater number of sensory experiences support early lexical acquisition and recognition" (Seidl et al., 2023).

Everyone loves cookies, right? I did this theme for the first time before starting this blog, but even so, I made a lot of changes to my old plan for this year. I looked for more activities to suit…

The very hungry caterpillar storytelling basket for hours of playful storytelling fun! This is a wonderful resource to go with a classic kids' picture book.

“Ah numbers–the letters of math.” Numbers are integral to any kids development, so a number storytime is a no-brainer. Personally when planning stories and rhymes, I usually sti…

April Showers are supposed to bring May flowers. Right?! I needed a felt board interactive rhyme that included a rainbow concept for our theme. I made up a rhyme; Rainbow Raindrops and cut out a bunch of colored raindrop shapes. I will hand out the colored shapes and the kiddos will bring up the matching color raindrop as I put a glittery raindrop above the big umbrella. The giant umbrella will make another appearance later with my set of children when we do an umbrella theme in June. I have…

This is a fun, interactive storytime lesson plan for toddlers and preschoolers about socks and shoes with great read aloud picture books and transitions that work really well for this age group to practice early literacy skills.

Flannel Friday: Song Cube – storytime katie

36 must-read interactive books for an engaging preschool storytime. The best fun and engaging interactive picture books to encourage student participation in preschool or pre-k.

Movement and other learning are often intertwined in my house because I have two super active kids. Pretty much the only reason they sit still is to listen to a really good story but then they’re off again. For that reason, I’m often looking for ways to build skills or engage them in learning where […]

“Autism … offers a chance for us to glimpse an awe-filled vision of the world that might otherwise pass us by.” Dr. Colin Zimbleman, Ph.D. Sensory Storytime is a fun, interactive, educational story…

This post was inspired by Anne's post at So Tomorrow called Putting it All Together: What My Story Time Prep Looks Like and Lisa's post at Libraryland entitled Story Time Prep 101. Each post outlines how these librarians prepare for their story time programs. My approach is somewhat different, so I wanted to write it all out and share it. I actually really recommend writing a post like this - for me, at least, it provided a much clearer sense of why I do what I do each week. Step 1: Get…