Storytime Themes

During my two years working youth services at the library, I recorded almost every storytime plan I made for our 2-5 year old kids. Each of these features books, songs, flannelboards, and often a craft. Feel free to use any of my ideas for your own storytime groups or just as activities for your own children!

• 5 Senses
• Animals
• Apples
• Bears
• Big Machines/Trucks/Diggers
• Birthdays
• Blue
• Cats
• Colors
• Dinosaurs
• Dogs
• Donuts
• Ducks
• Eyes
• Fall/Leaves
• Fall/Squirrels
• Family/Families
• Frogs
• Gardening
• Giraffes
• Green
• Halloween
• Houses
• Ice/Igloos
• Jingle Bells (Christmas)
• Kangaroos
• Ladybugs
• Light
• Moon & Night
• Movement/Kinetics
• Mud
• Music & Sound
• Olympics (winter 2014)
• Orange/Pumpkins
• Owls
• Penguins
• Pigs
• Pirates
• Purple
• Rabbits
• Red
• Squirrels & Trees
• Snow
• St. Patrick's Day
• Thanksgiving
• Trains
• Travel
• Trees
• Underwater
• Valentine's Day
• Vehicles/Travel
• Water
• Weather
• Wings
• X-rays
• Yarn
• Yellow
• Zoo

My very last storytime before leaving my library job I did a collection of my favorites.

An easy filler between storytime sessions is a Music & Movement program.

Click here to read some Reflections on my first full year of storytime