January 27, 2020 | strande
Did you miss our Knitting Storytime this week? Don't worry, here's what you missed, plus a few more suggestions so you can create your own cozy storytime at home, complete with songs and stories.
Don't need a full storytime? Borrow a rhyme when you need a short distraction, or check out these materials and spend a few minutes reading together.
From Storytime
With a supply of yarn that never runs out, Annabelle knits for everyone and everything in town until an evil archduke decides he wants the yarn for himself.
FIVE BALLS OF YARN
Five balls of yarn, sitting in a bowl
One fell out and started to…. ROLL
It bounced on my foot and there it sits
How many balls are left to knit?
[Count down until all the balls of yarn are on the floor.]
MITTENS UP (from One Little Librarian)
Put your mittens UP, put your mittens DOWN
Hold your mittens together, and turn around!
Put your mittens UP, put your mittens DOWN
Put your mittens flat down on the ground.
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Cat struggles to adjust and find a way to overcome his disappointment when his best friend, Yarn, is transformed into an itchy, stuffy sweater that Cat despises.
CLICK CLACK WENT THE KNITTING NEEDLES (inspired by jbrary)
Click Clack went the knitting needles one day, Click Clack went the knitting needles.
Click Clack went the knitting needles one day, and they all went click clack click. But…
We know knitting needles go [clap] la de la de la [wavey arms]
[clap] la de la de la [wavey arms], [clap] la de la de la [wavey arms]
We know knitting needles go [clap] la de la de la [wavey arms], they don’t go click clack click.
Roll roll went the big ball of yarn one day, roll roll went the big ball of yarn.
Roll roll went the big ball of yarn one day, and they all went roll roll roll. But…
We know yarn goes [clap] rub a dub a dub [running arms]
[clap] rub a dub a dub [running arms], [clap] rub a dub a dub [running arms]
We know yarn goes [clap] rub a dub a dub [running arms], they don’t go roll roll roll.
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More Songs and Stories to Enjoy
When Ogilvy moves to a new town, he discovers that bunnies who wear dresses play ball and knit socks, and bunnies in sweaters make art and climb rocks. Can Ogilvy figure out a way to do it all?
A little girl who loves to draw but cannot knit, and her mother who loves to knit but cannot draw, collaborate on a special project neither of them could have done alone.
I LOST A MITTEN
I lost a blue mitten on the ground. It is nowhere to be found.
I looked all over for that silly fellow, but the only mitten I found was… YELLOW.
I lost a blue mitten on the ground. It is nowhere to be found.
I searched high, and low, and under my bed, but the only mitten I found was… RED.
I lost a blue mitten on the ground. It is nowhere to be found.
I even peeked underneath my turtle, but the only mitten I found was… PURPLE.
I lost a blue mitten on the ground. It is nowhere to be found.
I kept my eyes open while eating porridge, but the only mitten I found was… ORANGE.
I lost a blue mitten on the ground. It is nowhere to be found.
This blue mitten simply has not been seen: the only mitten I found was… GREEN.
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Llama knits while considering what special thing she wants to do, and soon all of her friends have joined her except Beaver, who only likes to make things that are useful.
When mean Mrs. Sheep insults Greta the goat's knitting, Greta quickly knits a wolf that swallows Mrs. Sheep whole, but how will she get rid of the wolf?
In this almost wordless picture book, a troupe of baby forest animals borrows a child's hat, until all that is left is a long piece of red string.
Mrs. Goldman always knits hats for everyone in the neighborhood, and Sophia, who thinks knitting is too hard, helps by making the pom-poms. But now winter is here, and Mrs. Goldman doesn't have a hat! Will Sophia rise to the challenge?
One day, Penguin goes looking for love and finds, instead, a mitten but as he tries to locate the mitten's owner, he knits his way through a blizzard to an unexpected meeting.