Age 2’s and 3’s, 4’s and 5’s
1. Storytime – Welcome Song and Storytime Starting Song.
2. Read first story All for Pie Pie for All, Where is the Cake? or The Cake that Mack Ate
3. Sing: Five little cookies
Five little cookies with frosting galore.
Mother ate the _____ one, and then there were four.Four little cookies, two and two you see.
Father ate the _____ one, and then there were three.
Three little cookies, but before I knew,
Sister ate the _____ one, and then there were two.
Two little cookies, oh, what fun.
Brother ate the _____ one, and then there was one.One little cookie, watch me run.
I ate the _____ one, and then there was none.
4. Fingerplay: Gingerbread Countdown
Five little gingerbread men on the trayOne jumped up and ran away.
Catch me, catch me, catch me if you can!
I’m really fast, I’m the gingerbread man!Continue to zero….
No little gingerbread men on the trayI will have to bake more another day!
5. Read second story When Ruby tried to Grow Candy, Sheila Rae's Peppermint Stick or The Gingerbread Baby.
Pat-a-cake, pat-a-cake, baker's man,
Bake me a cake as fast as you can.
Roll it, and prick it, and mark it with a "B"And put it in the oven for Baby and me!
Fingerplay: Making Cookies
I am making cookie dough. (hold out arms in a circle, like a bowl)Add some flour from a cup. (shake a pretend cup)
Stir and stir the batter up. (stirring motion)
Roll them, cut them nice and neat. (rolling pin motion)
Put them on a cookie sheet. (place pretend cookies)
Bake them, count them 1-2-3. (counting motion)
Serve them to my friends for tea. (take a bite!)
7. Craft: Playdough Cookies
Rolling and patting into pretend cookies.
