Storytime Theme: Baseball

It’s officially baseball season and I’m surprised that I’ve never written a storytime lesson plan for baseball! It was much harder than I expected to find baseball geared toward toddlers and preschoolers. I found a lot more for an elementary school-age audience, but I think you’d be able to pull something together for any age you needed with the books below. As always, I’ve tried to include some songs and rhymes as well as some craft ideas too to hit a home run at storytime.

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Storytime Theme: Baseball

Books

• Bats at the Ballgame by Brian Lies
• Casey Back at Bat by Dan Gutman, illustrated by Steve Johnson and Lou Fancher
• Dino-Baseball by Lisa Wheeler, illustrated by Barry Gott
• Froggy Plays T-Ball by Jonathan London, illustrated by Frank Remkiewicz
• Goodnight Baseball by Michael Dahl, illustrated by Christina E. Forshay
• Hit the Ball Duck by Jez Alborough
• If I Were a Major League Baseball Player by Eric Mark Braun, illustrated by Sharon Harmer
• Randy Riley’s Really Big Hit by Chris Van Dusen
• Take Me Out to the Ball Game by Jack Norworth, illustrated by Amiko Hirao

Songs & Rhymes

• Take Me Out to the Ballgame – Super Simple Songs
• This is the Way We Hit the Ball – Everything Storytime
• Baseball Player – Adventures of a Bookworm

Crafts & Activities

• Paper Plate Baseball Craft – Glued to My Crafts
• Handprint Baseball Card – Simple Everyday Mom
• Hands-On Counting Baseball Puzzle – 3 Dinosaurs