Storytime Theme: Eggs
Spring has sprung! This means it’s time for eggs to start hatching. Today’s Storytime Theme: Eggs is perfect for spring. It’s also a really great theme to incorporate science and nonfiction titles. Our Preschool Explorers program at work that features a mini-storytime with hands-on science experiments for preschooler is extremely popular. This theme could fit right into that type of program.
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Storytime Theme: Eggs
Books
- Chickens Aren’t the Only Ones: A Book About Animals Who Lay Eggs by Ruth Heller
- Egg by Kevin Henkes
- Egg: Nature’s Perfect Package by Steven Jenkins & Robin Page
- An Egg is Quiet by Dianna Hutts Aston, illustrated by Sylvia Long
- First the Egg by Laura Vaccaro Seeger
- Guess What IS Growing Inside This Egg? by Mia Posada
- Hank Finds an Egg by Rebecca Dudley
- Hurry, Hurry! by Eve Bunting
- The Odd Egg by Emily Gravett
Songs
- Can you Shake Along With Me? – Jbrary
To the tune of London Bridges. - Shake Shake – Mr. Eric
A simple follow the leader song with shaker eggs! - Shake It to the East – Jbrary
A perfect song for settling down for another story!
Activities
- Shaving Cream Dyed Eggs – Better Homes & Gardens
These are such a fun take on dyed eggs! - Easter Egg Tissue Paper Stainglass – Three Little Ferns
This is such a simple craft and can be done with really any silhouette! - Floating Egg Experiment – Cool Science Experiments Headquarters
Bring a little science into storytime -with this easy science experiment!
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