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Art Story Time – Preschool

Opening Song

Book: Arty!: The Greatest Artist in the World by William Bee
The cover of the book Arty!: The Greatest Artist in the World. The illustration is of a green frog wearing a blue beret and striped top and pants who is splattered with paint and carrying large brushes and pails of paint.

Action Song: “This Is the Way We Stir the Paint”
This is the way we stir the paint,
Stir the paint, stir the paint,
This is the way we stir the paint
So early in the morning.

Additional verses:
Dip our brush
Splatter the paint
Paint a circle
Paint a square
Paint a triangle
Clean our brush
(Credit: Adapted from Storytime Katie)

Book: Making Art by Diana Ejaita
The cover of the book Making Art. The title's letters look like paper cutouts taped to the black background and are next to a child who is cutting out shapes with scissors.

Song: “Art Supply Song” (Tune: “The Wheels On the Bus”)
The paintbrush on the paper goes swish, swish, swish,
Swish, swish, swish, swish, swish, swish.
The paintbrush on the paper goes swish, swish, swish
All day long.

Additional verses:
Pencil/skritch, scratch, skritch
Crayon/scribble
Scissors/snip
Play-dough on the table/squish
(Credit: Adapted from Storytime Hooligans)

Song: “Paint with Me” (Tune: “Twinkle, Twinkle, Little Star”)
Grab your brush and paint with me.
Paint a flower, paint a tree.
Paint it fast and paint it slow.
Paint it high, then paint it low.
Paint in zig-zags, circles, too.
How I love to paint with you!
(Credit: The Loudest Librarian)

Big Book: Mouse Paint by Ellen Stoll Walsh
The cover of the book Mouse Paint. The illustration is of three white mice painting the cover, one painting red, one painting yellow, and one painting blue.

Closing Rhyme

Art Story Time – Baby

Opening Song

Sign Language: Art, draw, paint, craft

Book: Lines That Wiggle by Candace Whitman, illustrated by Steve Wilson
Lines That Wiggle book cover

Rhyme:
Balloon goes up, (lift)
Balloon goes down, (lap)
Balloon goes up to reach the clouds. (lift high)
Storm rolls by, (wiggle side to side)
Babe rocks down. (sway to lap)
Made it home
Safe and sound. (hug and kiss)
(Credit: Leah Portz)

Rhyme:
Trot, trot, trot to Boston. (gently bounce baby on your knees)
Trot, trot, trot to Lynn.
Look out baby,
You’re going to fall in. (lower knees)

Book: The Artist Who Painted a Blue Horse by Eric Carle
The Artist Who Painted a Blue Horse

Scarf Song: “Colors” – Kira Willey: Dance for the Sun

Song: “Did You Ever See a Baby?”
Did you ever see a baby, a baby, a baby?
Did you ever see a baby go this way and that? (lean side to side)
Go this way and that way, and this way and that way, (lean front to back, side to side)
Did you ever see a baby go this way and that? (lean front to back)

Rhyme: “Away Up High in the Apple Tree”
Away up high in the apple tree, (lift baby)
I saw a little baby smiling at me.
I shook that tree as hard as I could. (shake gently)
Down came the baby. (bring down)
Mmm, was she good! (kiss)

Pop-up Book: 600 Black Spots by David A. Carter
600 Black Spots

Shaker Eggs: “Hey Hey! Big Line” – Handwriting Without Tears: Rock, Rap, Tap & Learn

Closing Rhyme