Today is my seventh wedding anniversary! To celebrate, we did a wedding-themed storytime, Hokey Pokey and all! \ud83d\ude09<\/p>\n
OPENING:
\nOpening Song: If You Want to Hear a Story<\/p>\n
PROGRAM: CLOSING: *Make a Cake<\/em> **The Love Bug<\/em> (source unknown) ***My Eyes Can See<\/em> Today is my seventh wedding anniversary! To celebrate, we did a wedding-themed storytime, Hokey Pokey and all! \ud83d\ude09 OPENING: Opening Song: If You Want to Hear a Story PROGRAM: Read-aloud #1: Jake Baked the Cake by B.G. Hennessy *Fingerplay: Make a Cake Action Song: Tony Chestnut Read-aloud #2: The Ring Bearer by Laura Godwin Flannel: […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"spay_email":""},"categories":[192,5],"tags":[86,90,95,146,252],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sillylibrarian.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/912"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sillylibrarian.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sillylibrarian.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sillylibrarian.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sillylibrarian.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=912"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/sillylibrarian.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/912\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":914,"href":"https:\/\/sillylibrarian.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/912\/revisions\/914"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sillylibrarian.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=912"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sillylibrarian.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=912"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sillylibrarian.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=912"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
\nRead-aloud #1: Jake Baked the Cake by B.G. Hennessy
\n*Fingerplay: Make a Cake
\nAction Song: Tony Chestnut
\nRead-aloud #2: The Ring Bearer by Laura Godwin
\nFlannel: The Little Cockroach Martina (from The Flannel Storytelling Book by Judy Sierra)
\n**Fingerplay: The Love Bug
\nRead-aloud #3 (Story Cards): A Kiss from Little Bear by Else Holmelund Minarik
\nFlannel: Brown Bear, Brown Bear, What Do You See? by Bill Martin Jr. (Templates available here<\/a>.)
\nFingerplay: My Eyes Can See
\nSong (with dog puppet): Snuggle Puppy from Sandra Boynton: Philadelphia Chickens
\nRead-aloud #4: Stop Kissing Me! By Ethan Long
\nDancing Song: \u201cHokey Pokey\u201d from Carole Peterson: Sticky Bubble Gum and Other Tasty Tunes<\/p>\n
\nClosing song: We Wave Goodbye <\/p>\n
\nMix the batter, stir the batter
\n(make a stirring motion with one arm\/hand)
\nShake some flour in
\n(make a shaking motion with one arm\/hand)
\nMix the batter, stir the batter
\n(make a stirring motion with one arm\/hand)
\nPlace it in a tin
\n(pretend to pour)
\nSprinkle some candy in
\n(pretend to sprinkle)
\nPop it in the oven
\n(open both hands, palms up, and slide them forward)
\nOpen wide the oven door
\n(pretend to open door)
\nAnd out comes the cake!
\n(open both hands, palms up, and slide them forward)<\/p>\n
\nIt begins with a grin (smile Broadly)
\nIt turns to giggle (put both hands on mouth and giggle)
\nYou start to laugh (throw head back and laugh out loud)
\nYour legs start to wiggle (put feet in the air and shake)
\nYou look all around for someone to hug (move eyes back and forth)
\nWhat can you do (shrug shoulders)
\nYou’ve caught the love bug (hug another child or yourself)
\nACHOOO!<\/p>\n
\n(Suit actions to words.)
\nMy eyes can see.
\nMy mouth can talk.
\nMy ears can hear.
\nMy feet can walk.
\nMy nose can sniff.
\nMy teeth can chew.
\nMy lids can flutter.
\nMy arms hug you!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"