Did you know that my one of my favorite albums of all time just got turned into a stage musical? In honor of the Flaming Lips and Yoshimi Battles the Pink Robots (which, incidentally, is my number one pump up song of all time) we had a very robotic story time last week.
Song: Good Morning Dear Earth
Flannel: Alphabet Soup- ROBOT
Finger Play: 10 Little Fingers
Book: Hello, Robots
by Bob Staake

Flannel: Robot Shapes
Song: Do Your Ears Hang Low?
Song: Open, Shut Them
Book: Robots Everywhere
by Dennis Hebson

Song: Shake Your Sillies Out
Song: One Finger, One Thumb, Keep Moving
Flannel: Let's Go Out on a Summer Night
Action Rhyme: Big, Big, Big
Song: Turn Around from Getting to Know Myself
Make and Take Craft: Build Your Own Robot
Supplies:
-paper cups
-tin foil
-googly eyes or eye stickers
-pipe cleaners (cut in half)
-stickers
-glitter glue

Process: Before story time I covered each paper cup in tin foil (if my kids were a little older I would have had them do it themselves), after story time I passed out the cups, stickers, pipe cleaners and eye stickers and let the kids go crazy. Adults helped poke pipe cleaners through the cups and everything else was pretty easy for the kids to handle on their own. The sheer variety of end results from the same starting point was wonderful to see.
Time: Prep took 25 minutes and the craft took 45.
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