Designed for children ages 1 to 3 years old, the book’s 52 storytimes promote pre-reading skills such as print motivation, vocabulary, and narrative skills.

For toddlers, every storytime can be a new adventure, while art activities are important for developing impulse control, hand-eye coordination, and fine motor dexterity in the hands. Hopkins’ new book fuses them together. Designed for children ages 1 to 3 years old, the book’s 52 storytimes promote pre-reading skills such as print motivation, vocabulary, and narrative skills. Based on themes familiar to children, including bears, bugs, springtime,clothing and hats, flowers and gardens, weather, music, pets, transportation, pirates, and many more, each storytime includes a list of books, action songs or rhymes along with their words, a flannelboard experience, plus instruction for two to three art activities. This complete toddler storytime resource also includesAn introduction which discusses the differences between art activities and craft activities, a toddler’s ability in creating art, and why children this age should be exposed to art activitiesAdvice for using different art mediums, such as food, plus important safety considerationsPointers on conducting playful yet educational storytimesTips for finding inexpensive art materials, with a list of recommended supplies to keep on handMore than 100 drawings, all easy to reproduce and modifyWeblinks to “Artsy Helper Sheets,” downloadable supplements complete with phrases, tips, and tricks that inform parents and caregivers about the benefits of doing art activities with toddlersPick up Hopkins' book and you'll be ready to conduct a storytime within moments!

Table of ContentsPrefacePart I: Toddler Art FundamentalsUsing Different Mediums to Exercise a Toddler’s Ability in ArtArt Supplies to Have on HandUsing Food as a Medium and Other ConsiderationsA Few Words about SafetyA Look at Coloring SheetsPart II: Making the Most of Your Artsy Storytime ProgramStorytime Themes Are for Organizational Purposes OnlySome Tips for Working with Toddlers at StorytimePart III: A Year’s Worth of StorytimesTheme 1 Apple MunchingTheme 2 AutumnTheme 3 AviationTheme 4 Bath Time BubblesTheme 5 BearsTheme 6 Berry DeliciousTheme 7 Birds of a FeatherTheme 8 Boats in the WaterTheme 9 Bugs and Other Creepy CrawliesTheme 10 Cats and KittensTheme 11 ChickensTheme 12 Clothing and HatsTheme 13 Colors and PatternsTheme 14 Community WorkersTheme 15 Construction SiteTheme 16 Cool Pool of WaterTheme 17 CountingTheme 18 DinosaursTheme 19 Dogs and PuppiesTheme 20 Farm AnimalsTheme 21 Fire Trucks and FirefightersTheme 22 Flowers and GardensTheme 23 Food, Yummy FoodTheme 24 Frogs and ToadsTheme 25 Garbage and RecyclingTheme 26 Gingerbread and Other CookiesTheme 27 Green for St. Patrick’s DayTheme 28 HalloweenTheme 29 Lunar New YearTheme 30 MonstersTheme 31 Music and MovementTheme 32 My Body and MeTheme 33 NighttimeTheme 34 Nocturnal AnimalsTheme 35 OppositesTheme 36 Pet ParadeTheme 37 Pirate TreasureTheme 38 Rabbits and BunniesTheme 39 RoyaltyTheme 40 Silly FunTheme 41 SpidersTheme 42 SpringtimeTheme 43 Summer in the SunTheme 44 Thanksgiving TurkeysTheme 45 ToysTheme 46 Trains on the TrackTheme 47 Under the SeaTheme 48 Valentine Hugs and KissesTheme 49 WeatherTheme 50 Wheels on the RoadTheme 51 Wild AnimalsTheme 52 Winter SnowAbout the AuthorIndex

For toddlers, every storytime can be a new adventure, while art activities are important for developing impulse control, hand-eye coordination, and fine motor dexterity in the hands. Hopkins’ new book fuses them together. Designed for children ages 1 to 3 years old, the book’s 52 storytimes promote pre-reading skills such as print motivation, vocabulary, and narrative skills. Based on themes familiar to children, including bears, bugs, springtime,clothing and hats, flowers and gardens, weather, music, pets, transportation, pirates, and many more, each storytime includes a list of books, action songs or rhymes along with their words, a flannelboard experience, plus instruction for two to three art activities. This complete toddler storytime resource also includesAn introduction which discusses the differences between art activities and craft activities, a toddler’s ability in creating art, and why children this age should be exposed to art activitiesAdvice for using different art mediums, such as food, plus important safety considerationsPointers on conducting playful yet educational storytimesTips for finding inexpensive art materials, with a list of recommended supplies to keep on handMore than 100 drawings, all easy to reproduce and modifyWeblinks to “Artsy Helper Sheets,” downloadable supplements complete with phrases, tips, and tricks that inform parents and caregivers about the benefits of doing art activities with toddlersPick up Hopkins' book and you'll be ready to conduct a storytime within moments!