Storytime Theme: Community Helpers

Community Helpers is a popular theme for preschool and there are dozens of books that would work! You can actually make this one storytime into an entire series – choosing just one type of community helper for each week. For today, I chose to provide books about nine different types of community helpers, but you don’t have to stop at just these – what about barbers and hairdressers, chefs, and veterinarians?

As always, take the pieces that work for you and leave the rest! My hope is that you find a little something that will make your planning process easier. Enjoy!

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Storytime Theme: Community Helpers

Books

• Clothesline Clues for Jobs People Do by Kathryn Heling and Deborah Hembrook, illustrated by Andy Robert Davies
• Delivering Your Mail: A Book About Mail Carriers by Ann Owen, illustrated by Eric Thomas
• Fireman Small by Wong Herbert Yee
• I Want to Be a Doctor by Laura Driscoll, illustrated by Catalina Echeverri
• Let’s Meet a Police Officer by by Gina Bellisario, illustrated by Cale Atkinson
• Teachers Rock! by Todd Parr
• Tinyville Town: I’m a Librarian by Brian Biggs
• Tip Tip Dig Dig by Emma Garcia
• Trashy Town by Andrea Zimmerman and David Clemesha, illustrated by Dan Yaccarino

Songs & Rhymes

• What Is My Job? – Storytime Katie
• Hurry Hurry Drive the Fire Truck – Jbrary
• Green Says Go – Jen in the Library

Crafts & Activities

• Community Helper Template – Messy Little Monsters
• Bread in a Bag – Busy Toddler
• Take a Field Trip or Invite a Surprise Guest to storytime