Storytime Plans
Here’s a comprehensive list of my storytime lesson plans. Each lesson plan has books, music, fingerplays, flannel boards, and wiggles songs for the theme, some even have crafts and other extension activities. Take a look at the list below for great “traditional” storytimes, but also some really special programs like Sensory, Parachute, and Yoga storytimes that are noted below.
These lists are perfect for a library storytime, but could also be used in preschools or childcare centers, or at home! I hope you find this list helpful in coming up with new ideas for your own storytime or reading to your little one!
5 Early Literacy Practices
Although not storytime plans, this is a series of posts on the Every Child Ready to Read of the five early literacy practices and my views and thoughts on the matter, plus (a few) great resources to find more information.
Storytime Themes
- Acorns
- Airplanes
- Aliens
- All About Me
- Alligators
- Alligators & Crocodiles
- Alphabet
- America’s 250th Anniversary
- Animals
- Animal Sounds
- Animals from Down Under
- Apartment Living
- Apples
- April Fool’s Day
- Arctic Animals
- Art
- Authors
- Baby
- Baby Animals
- Badgers
- Bake Cookies Day
- Baking
- Balloons
- Baseball
- Basketball
- Bathtime
- Bats
- Beach
- Bears
- Bears & Berries
- Bedtime
- Bees
- Bicycles
- Big Cats
- Big Machines
- Birds
- Birthdays
- Black Authors
- Black History Month
- Black Voices
- Blankets
- Bluey
- Boats
- Body Movement
- Bones
- Boxes
- Brothers
- Bubbles
- Bugs
- Building
- Bunny Rabbits
- Buses
- Butterflies
- Camping
- Candy
- Carrots
- Cars
- Castle
- Cats
- Chalk
- Chameleons
- Characters with Name that Begin with “C”
- Cheese
- Chickens
- Chicks
- Christmas
- Cinderella
- Circles
- Cities
- Clap, Tap & Drum (parachute/yoga)
- Clothing
- Clouds
- Colors
- Community Helpers
- Concept Books
- Cookies
- Cooking
- Construction
- Counting
- Cowpoke
- Cows
- Crows
- Crustaceans
- Dance
- Days of the Week
- Daytime, Nighttime
- Dental Health
- Desert
- Día de los Muertos
- Digging
- Dinosaurs
- Dirt & Mud
- Disability Pride Month
- Diwali
- Doctors & Nurses
- Dogs
- Dolphins & Sharks
- Donuts
- Doors
- Down on the Farm
- Dragons
- Ducks
- Earth Day
- Easter
- Eggs
- Eid
- Elephants
- Emotions (Frustration)
- Endangered Animals
- Exercise
- Fairy Tales
- Fall
- Fall Leaves
- Family
- Farm
- Father’s Day
- Favorites
- Feelings
- Fire Safety
- Firefighters
- Fish
- Five Senses
- Flamingos
- Float or Sink
- Flowers
- Food
- Football
- Foxes
- Friendship
- Frogs & Toads
- Frozen Treats
- Fruit
- Gardens
- Ghosts
- Giraffes
- Goats
- Going to the Park
- Grandparents
- Grandparents Day
- Gratitude
- Hair
- Halloween
- Hanukkah
- Hats
- Hedgehogs & Porcupines
- Hibernation
- Hibernation & Migration
- Hiking
- Hispanic Creators
- Hispanic Heritage Month
- Holes
- Holi
- Home
- Horses
- Hugs
- Hugs & Kisses
- Human Body
- I Can Do It!
- Ice
- Ice Cream
- I Like Me
- Imaginary Creatures
- Imagination
- Indigenous Peoples’ Day
- Interactive
- Inventions
- Jazz
- Juneteenth
- Jungle
- Kindness
- Kites
- Kwanzaa
- Ladybugs
- Laughter
- Lego Duplo
- LGBT Pride Month
- Libraries
- Light & Shadow
- Lion & Mouse
- Lizards
- Lost & Found
- Loud
- Love
- Lunar New Year
- Manners
- Measurement
- Mess
- Mice
- Mid-Autumn Festival
- Mindfulness
- Mittens
- Monkeys
- Monsters
- Moon
- Moose
- Mother Goose
- Mother’s Day
- Mountains
- Movement
- Music
- Music & Movement
- Mustaches & Beards
- Naps
- National Llama Day
- Nature
- New Year’s
- Nighttime Adventure
- Ninjas
- Nocturnal Animals
- Nonfiction Exclusive
- Noodles
- Noses
- Nursery Rhymes
- Ocean
- Octopuses
- Olympics
- Onomatopoeia
- Opposites
- Outdoor Adventure
- Outdoors
- Outer Space
- Owls
- PA’s One Book, Every Young Child
- Painting
- Pajamas
- Pancakes
- Pandas
- Patterns
- Peacocks
- Peas & Carrots
- Peekaboo
- Penguins
- Perspective
- Pete the Cat
- Pets
- Picnic
- Piggies
- Pinecones
- Pi Day
- Pirates
- Pizza
- Playground
- Playing
- Poetry
- Pointillism & Georges Seurat
- Polar Bears
- Polar Friends
- Polka Dots
- Pond
- Preschool
- President’s Day
- Pumpkins & Squash
- Quiet
- Rain
- Rainbows
- Rainforest
- Ramadan
- Read Alouds
- Reading
- Rhyming
- Rivers & Streams
- Robots
- Rocket Ship
- Rocks
- Royalty
- Safari
- St. Patrick’s Day
- Sand
- Say “Hello”
- Scarecrows
- Seahorses
- Seasons
- Self-Esteem
- Senses
- Shapes
- Sharks
- Sheep
- Sing-a-long Books
- Singing
- Sisters
- Sleep
- Slow Animals
- Snakes
- Sneezes
- Sniffles & Sneezes
- Snow
- Socks
- Socks & Shoes
- Sound
- Soup
- Spiders
- Spring
- Spring Animals
- Spooky, Not Scary
- Spots & Stripes
- Sports
- Squirrels
- St. Patrick’s Day
- Stars
- Sticky & Slimy
- Stinky Things
- Summer
- Sun
- Sunflowers
- Superheroes
- Sweets
- Swimming
- Tacos
- Tails
- Talking
- Teddy Bears
- Thanksgiving
- Themeless Storytimes
- April 15, 2015
- April 28, 2015 (preschool)
- April 28, 2015 (toddler)
- May 12, 2015
- June 24, 2916 (toddler)
- June 24, 2016 (yoga)
- July 1, 2016 (toddler)
- July 1, 2016 (yoga)
- July 7, 2016 (toddler)
- July 7, 2016 (yoga)
- July 15, 2016 (toddler)
- July 15, 2016 (yoga)
- July 23, 2016 (toddler)
- July 23, 2016 (yoga)
- July 28, 2016 (toddler)
- July 28, 2016 (yoga)
- November 10, 2015
- Fun Favorites
- Fun Read Alouds
- Miss Laura’s Favorites #1
- Miss Laura’s Favorites #2
- Miss Laura’s Favorites #3
- Miss Laura’s Favorites #4
- Miss Laura’s Favorites #5
- Miss Laura’s Favorites #6
- Tigers
- Tools
- Toys
- Trains
- Transportation
- Travel
- Travel Adventure
- Treehouses
- Trees
- Triangles
- Trucks
- Turtles
- Umbrellas
- Underwater
- Underwear
- Unexpected
- Unicorns
- Valentine’s Day
- Vegetables
- Water
- Watermelons
- Weather
- Whales
- Wheels
- Wind & Clouds
- Winter Animals
- Winter Clothing
- Winter Solstice
- Winter Wonderland
- Wishes
- Women’s History Month
- Woodland Creatures
- Worms
- Writing
- Yarn
- Yes & No
- Yoga
- Zoo