Storytime: Fall
Storytime: Fall
The air gets crisp, the nights grow longer, the leaves turn warm hues of yellow, orange, and red, and the scents of harvest ride the wind! It must be fall! There are so many sensory experiences associated with autumn that can last a lifetime. In addition to the items listed below, you might try some fall literacy activities here.
Also, September is National Library Card Sign-Up Month! It’s a great time to visit the library and sign-up your young reader for their very own library card!
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
Scarves are very versatile and can be almost anything. Today we are going to pretend that our scarves are leaves falling to the ground along with the song, “Leaves Are Falling.” When you play with scarves at home, talk about what else the scarf can be and what you can do with it. This will help develop your child’s imagination and creativity.
Activity
Using a scarf, follow the actions indicated by the song, “Leaves Are Falling.”
Books Presented
Who Loves the Fall? by Bob Raczka
Rhyming text and illustrations portray the sights and sounds of autumn, from “rakers, leapers, and corn crop reapers” to “trickers, treaters, and turkey eaters.”
Fall Leaves: Colorful and Crunchy by Martha E. H. Rustad
Pick a Circle, Gather Squares: A Fall Harvest of Shapes by Felicia Sanzari Chernesky
Fall is here, with all its wonderful visual delights–not just colors, but shapes! This clever concept book follows a family on a trip to a pumpkin patch and invites children to pick out shapes from the seasonal scenery–apple bushel circles, square hay bales, diamond kites in the autumn sky!
The Leaf Thief by Alice Hemming
Songs, Rhymes, and Fingerplays
Leaves Are Falling
(Tune: London Bridge)
Autumn leaves are falling down, falling down, falling down
Autumn leaves are falling down, all around the town.
The wind will blow them round and round, round and round, round and round
The wind will blow them round and round all around the town.
They’re drifting gently to the ground, to the ground, to the ground
They’re drifting gently to the ground, all around the town.
Take a rake a rake them up, rake them up, rake them up,
Take a rake and rake them up all around the town.
Source: Jbrary
Leaves Are Turning
(Tune: The Farmer in the Dell)
The leaves are turning red,
The leaves are turning red,
Hi, ho, the derrio,
The leaves are turning red.
The leaves are turning yellow,
The leaves are turning yellow,
Hi, ho, the derrio,
The leaves are turning yellow.
The leaves are turning orange,
The leaves are turning orange,
Hi, ho, the derrio,
The leaves are turning orange.
The leaves are turning brown,
The leaves are turning brown,
Hi, ho, the derrio,
The leaves are turning brown.
Source: King County Library System
Pumpkin, Pumpkin
Pumpkin, pumpkin on the ground (touch the ground)
How’d you get so big and round? (make a big circle)
Once you were a seed so small (pinch fingers together)
Now you are a great big ball (make a big circle overhead)
Pumpkin, pumpkin on the ground (touch the ground)
How’d you get so big and round? (make a big circle)
Source: Storytime Katie
Look and see
Look and see, look and see!
Can you find my leaf for me?
Is it under the ___ ?
Source: The Librarian Is on The Loose
Head, Shoulders, Knees and Toes
Head, shoulders, knees and toes, knees and toes.
Head, shoulders, knees and toes, knees and toes.
Eyes and ears and mouth and nose,
Head, shoulders, knees and toes, knees and toes.
Source: King County Library System
Crafts and Activities
Fall Squirrel Coloring Page
Fall Leaf Craft
Additional Books
Full of Fall by April Pulley Sayre
Simple text and photographs explore the science behind the transformation that trees undergo in the fall.
Leaves by David Ezra Stein
A curious bear observes how leaves change throughout the seasons.
Leaf Man by Lois Ehlert
A man made of leaves blows away, traveling wherever the wind may take him. On die-cut pages.
