Trash & Garbage Storytime

Book: Trashy Town by Andrea Zimmerman

A short, repetitive book about Mr. Gilly, the Trashman who drives to different locations and picks up trash. Repeating phrase, "Dump it in, smash it down, drive around the trashy town" was a good, hand clapping, foot stomping part for the group.  

Book: Raccoon Tune by Nancy Shaw

Family of raccoons searching for food during the night find a trash can. 

Also...

I Stink by Kate & Jim McMullan

Here Come the Garbage Barge by Jonah Winter

 Activity: Help clean up Clifford

Clifford the Big Red Dog hangs out in our department and the kids love to play with him. 

Glass bottles, Coke cans, plastic Coke bottles and newspapers were printed off on cardstock and strips of felt glued to their backs, so they would stick to Clifford. Beside me, I had 4 empty containers with each items picture attached to the front.

For this activity, I told the group that Clifford had been helping clean up trash around the library this morning and had gotten trash stuck in his fur. Could they help me pull the trash from his fur and place it in the right container? 

As kids remove a piece of trash, they sorted it into the correct "trash can".

Songs & Rhymes
Driving In My Car
(Tune: The Farmer in the Dell)
I'm driving in my car
I'm driving in my car
Toot, Toot, Beep, Beep
I'm driving in my car

I'm driving very fast...
I'm driving very slow...
The lights have turned to red....
The lights have turned to yellow...
The lights have turned to green...

If You See A Piece Of Litter Pick It Up

(Tune: If You're Happy and You Know It)
If you see a piece of litter pick it up
If you see a piece of litter pick it up
You will make the world look better if you pick up all the litter 
So if you see a piece of litter pick it up. 

OR...
If you see a piece of garbage....

Scarves: Pull out scarves and let the kids pretend to pick up trash with the scarf in hand while singing. Also, write the word "trash" in the air with your scarf.

Garbage
Rhyme that kids can act out. This comes from Sarah H. at Awesome Story Time
Pick up garbage, and throw it in the bin!
Push it down, and stomp it in!
Carry the cans to the street
for the garbage trucks to eat.
When the truck comes roaring by
workers lift the cans up high.
Garbage falls into the back.
Crush it, mash it, smash it flat!
Set the cans down with a thump.
Now drive that garbage to the dump!

See the Litter? Pick It Up
(Tune: London Bridge Is Falling Down)
See the litter? Pick it up
Pick it up, pick it up
See the litter? Pick it up
We're not litterbugs.

Flannel Board
5 Little Raccoons
Five raccoons digging in the trash
To dig in the dirt and play, play, play
1 stopped digging and ran away.
How many are left?
4...
3...
2...
1...

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Harry Potter Book Club - Family Feud and Mandrakes

Harry Potter Book Club's second meeting was so much messier than our first meeting, which made it amazing. This meeting we focused on different Hogwarts Professors through a group game of Family Feud and re-potting Mandrakes.

If you read my first post on our Harry Potter Book Club, you might remember that we're not reading and discussing the books but instead looking at different elements of the Wizarding World. This is because the audience is younger than my previous book club and it would be harder to expect them to read these books every month.

Here's a short run-down on our activities...

DISCLAIMER: I cannot take credit for either of these ideas (Family Feud and re-potting

Mandrakes)

Mandrakes Craft

Cami at The Naptime Reader has a wonderful picture tutorial on how to make these Mandrakes out of clay. I suggest visiting her website for any and all instructions regarding this craft!

To account for time, we did leave out a few of her steps.

For simplicity sake, I printed out the tutorial from her blog to explain to the group what we were doing.

With picture instructions readily available, the kids were able to manage this craft without much intervention on my part. This craft was so self-sufficient, I was able to step back and watch the crafting process. In fact, my main role was just distributing the clay.

This activity does have a bit of clean-up involved when it comes to getting the clay residue off the table.

Family Feud

In lieu of a discussion, we played Harry Potter Family Feud. These questions and answers were pulled from online and when I find the source, that link will be shared here!

A questions/answer sheet was printed off on a sheet of paper for me. Game cards were printed off on card stock. These were sticky tacked to the wall and as kids guessed the correct answer, cards were flipped around to show the answer and point value.

You might notice the stickers in the top right corner of the cards and beside the questions on the answer sheet. These were to help keep the answers organized with the correlating question. Also, each answer card has it's number written in the corner so the answer order doesn't get lost when tacking them to the board.

If I'd had access to a screen in our storyhour room, I would have done this through power point and made it easy.


Click HERE family feud questions
 
Click HERE for family feud answers


I will continue to look for the original publisher of the Family Feud questions.

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