Storytime: Hedgehogs
Storytime: Hedgehogs
Did you know that attending story time will not only help your children develop early literacy skills, but it also helps them with critical thinking skills and will improve their imagination? As they fall into the adventure of character, like a hedgehog who’s back becomes a trap for EVERYTHING, their minds will wander and their imaginations will expand causing them to remember the elements of the story long after story time is over. So, welcome to story time!
Join us Tuesdays, and Wednesdays at 10:30 a.m. or Tuesdays at 6:30 p.m. in the Community Room.
Ages 2-5
Sing, Talk, Read, Write, Play
Tip
Helping children to see the order in which they take place, whether in a book like, “Apple Trouble,” in a recipe, or in the sequence of the day, helps them develop the mathematical concept of sequencing. ~Lambert
Activity
Read a sequencing book like, “Apple Trouble,” or “Pumpkin, Pumpkin,” with your child. Then, using either a flannel board or coloring page, help your child recall the sequence of events using words like first, second, next, last.
Books Presented
Apple Trouble by Ragnhild Scamell
Prickly Hedgehogs! by Jane McGuiness
Hedgehog and the Log by Pam Fong
Hedgehog Howdedo by Lynley Dodd
Songs, Rhymes, and Fingerplays
Two Little Hedgehogs
Two little hedgehogs
Sitting on a hill.
One named Jack
And the other named Jill.
Roll away, Jack.
Roll away, Jill.
Roll back, Jack.
Roll back, Jill.
Source: Johnson County Library
Hedgehog, Hedgehog
Hedgehog, Hedgehog, turn around.
Hedgehog, Hedgehog, touch the ground.
Hedgehog, Hedgehog, stretch up high.
Hedgehog, Hedgehog, search the sky.
Hedgehog, Hedgehog, search down low.
Hedgehog, Hedgehog, touch your toes.
Hedgehog, Hedgehog, sit on the ground.
Hedgehog, Hedgehog, curl up small and round.
Source: Storytime ABC’s
Hedgehog, Hedgehog
Hedgehog, hedgehog
Are you under the ______ log?
Hedgehog Song by Emily Arrow
The garden was so busy and the sky was so sunny
But soon enough the seasons change
And the badgers and the bees and birds and beavers and bunnies
Need a home a place to stay
But the Hedgehog lived in the hedge
All by himself and he liked it that way
And the Grasshopper lived below
And shared her home when they heard them say,
Ding Dong!
The Hedgehog hogs
The Hedgehog hogs
The Hedgehog hogs the hedge
But the Grasshopper says
The Grasshopper says
Come on inside, instead.
The foxes and the squirrels, even the the mouse need a house
There’s one place left they haven’t checked
But the Hedgehog lived in the hedge
All by himself and he liked it that way
But the Grasshopper lived below
And shared her home when they heard them say,
Ding Dong!
The Hedgehog hogs
The Hedgehog hogs
The Hedgehog hogs the hedge
But the Grasshopper says
The Grasshopper says
Come on inside, instead.
Mine mine mine, said the Hedgehog.
Hands off absolutely not!
Mine mine mine, said the Hedgehog.
Slamming the door and turning the lock.
Mine mine mine, said the Hedgehog.
Hands off absolutely not!
Mine mine mine, said the Hedgehog.
Slamming the door… but then the door fell off!
And the Hedgehog ruined his hedge,
Nowhere to go where would he stay?
But the Grasshopper down below
Would share her home when they heard him say,
Ding Dong!
There’s always room for one more friend,
So Hedgehog went inside.
And they settled down, snow on the ground,
And then they shared some pie.
Cause it’s better together, that’s why!
Crafts and Activities
Hedgehog Coloring page
Playdough Hedgehog craft
Additional Books
Malina's Jam by Svetla Radioveoeva
The Hat by Jan Brett
When Lisa hangs her woolen clothes in the sun to air them out for winter, the hedgehog, to the amusement of the other animals, ends up wearing a stocking on his head.
Scorch, Hedgehog of Doom by Cate Berry
