Theme Thursday: The Home is Where the Heart Is

Song: Good Morning Dear Earth

Finger Play: I Had a Little Turtle

Book: The Napping House by Don and Audrey Wood

Flannel: A King Lives in a Castle

Baby Bounce: Criss Cross, Line, Line

Song: The Wheels on the Bus

Book: WHOSE HOME IS THIS? by Julie Murphy

Song: Shake Your Sillies Out from The Singable Songs Collection (20th Anniversary Special Edition)

Flannel: 5 Little Ducks

Finger Play: 2 Little Blackbirds

Song: Turn Around from Getting to know Myself

Make and Take Craft: House Painting

Supplies:

-construction paper

-paint

-sponges

-crayons

Process: Before story time I folded the construction paper in half and then cut house shapes, leaving the fold intact. This allowed for the house to be opened and closed like a book or pamphlet. It gave us an inside and an outside! The kids used sponge paints and crayons to decorate the both the interior and the exterior of their houses.

Time: Prep took 10 minutes, craft took 20.