Category: Sensory Friendly Story time

Snake Story Time – Sensory Friendly

Opening Song

Book: Snakes Have No Legs! by Kelly Tills

Song: “All the Snakes” (Tune: “London Bridge”)
All the snakes are slithering, slithering, slithering.
All the snakes are slithering across the grass.

All the snakes make a hiss, make a hiss, make a hiss.
All the snakes make a hiss, and smile at the sun.

All the snakes smell with their tongues, with their tongues, with their tongues.
All the snakes smell with their tongues, and they can smell you!

Book: Hide and Snake by Keith Baker

Song: “Mat Man” – Cathy Fink and Marcy Marxer: Get Set for School Sing Along

Yoga: Snake pose

Social Story: Can I Play Too? by Mo Willems

Closing Song

Craft: Shape snakes

Bug Story Time – Sensory Friendly

Opening Song

Book: Firefly Home by Jane Clarke, illustrated by Britta Teckentrup

Song: “Bodies 1-2-3” – Peter and Ellen Allard: Sing It! Say It! Stamp It! Sway It! Vol. 2

Book: Caterpillar’s Wish by Mary Murphy

Song: “Tap, Tap, Tap” – Cathy Fink and Marcy Marxer: Get Set for School Sing Along

Movement: Learn the yoga pose “butterfly”

Social Story: Try a Bite, Trilobite! by Jonathan Fenske

Closing Song

Craft: Paper chain caterpillar

Earth Story Time – Sensory Friendly

Opening Song

Book: Red House, Tree House, Little Bitty Brown Mouse by Jane Godwin, illustrated by Blanca Gómez

Song: “Tree Song” (Tune: “Head, Shoulders, Knees and Toes”)
Movements:
Hands and fingers are the leaves – wiggle high in the air
Move arms straight out for the branches
Touch upper body with hands when saying “trunk”
Touch legs when saying “roots”

Leaves, branches, trunk and roots, trunk and roots,
Leaves, branches, trunk and roots, trunk and roots,
Trees are important to me and to you,
Leaves, branches, trunk and roots, trunk and roots.
(Credit: KinderNature)

Book: Reuse This Book! published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company

Song: “Mat Man” – Cathy Fink and Marcy Marxer: Get Set for School Sing Along

Yoga: Tree

Social Story: Quiet by Tomie dePaola

Closing Song

Craft: Earth suncatchers

Shapes Story Time – Sensory Friendly

Opening Song

Book: Mouse Shapes by Ellen Stoll Walsh

Rhyme: “Star Chant” (pass out star cutouts to each of the children)
Put your star shape in the air, (hold in the air)
Hold it high and keep it there.
Put your star shape on your back, (reach back and put star on back)
Now lay it on your lap. (put star on lap)
Put your star shape on your toes, (touch star to toes)
Now hold it by your nose. (touch star to nose)
Hold your star shape in your hand, (stretch hand out in front of you)
Now everyone please stand. (have children stand up)
Wave your star shape at the door, (face door and shake star)
Now touch your star to the floor. (touch star to floor in front of you)
Hold your star in your hand and jump, jump, jump, (hold star and jump up and down)
Now toss your star shape way, way, up! (toss star up in front of you)

Book: A Starfish: A Shapes Book by Britta Teckentrup

Yoga/Breathing: Learn the yoga pose “triangle”

Song/Video: “Dance for the Sun” – Kira Willey: Dance for the Sun

Social Story: Thank You by Janet Riehecky

Closing Song

Craft: Pictures made from different shapes