Outer Space Storytime

With our summer reading theme: A Universe of Stories, we are fully celebrating outer space right now! Here are just a few titles and some great songs and rhymes that are perfect for a storytime at the library or even to check out and take home!

Storytime Plan

Introduction

Bread & Butter
Bread and butter
Marmalade and Jam
Let’s say hello as quiet as we can (whisper: hello)
…loud as we can

…slow as we can
…fast as we can
…high as we can
…low as we can
…nice as we can (big smile!)

Books

• Sheep Blast Off! by Nancy Shaw
• On the Launch Pad: A Counting Book about Rockets by Michael Dahl
• How to Catch a Star by Oliver Jeffers
• Hello World! Solar System by Jill McDonald

Transitions

Five Little Astronauts
Five little astronauts, sitting on the stars.
The first one said, “Let’s go to Mars!”
The second one said, “There are spaceships in the air!”
The third one said, “But, we don’t care!”
The fourth one said, “Let’s fly up in the sky!”
The fifth one said, “Let’s fly, fly, fly!”

Then WHOOSH went the spaceship into the night,
And the five little astronauts zoomed out of sight!

Zoom, Zoom, Zoom
Zoom, zoom, zoom
We’re going to the moon.

Zoom, zoom, zoom
We’re going to the moon.

If you want to take a trip
Climb aboard my rocket ship.

Zoom, zoom, zoom
We’re going to the moon.
In 5, 4, 3, 2, 1 Blast off!

Closing

Bread & Butter
Bread and butter
Marmalade and Jam
Let’s say goodbye as quiet as we can (whisper: goodbye)
…loud as we can

…slow as we can
…fast as we can
…high as we can
…low as we can
…nice as we can (big smile!)