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Crazy About Cookies!

Welcome to story time! My name is Miss Laura, and I am so happy you are watching at home today. Did you know that August 4 was National Chocolate Chip Cookie Day? National Chocolate Chip Cookie Day is a day celebrating ooey gooey and crispy crunchy chocolate chip cookies. It is never too late to celebrate cookies, so we are going to be reading stories and talking all about cookies for story time today!

But first, let’s get ready for story time by dancing our fingers. Can you dance your fingers along with me?

Movement: Dance Your Fingers Up

Dance your fingers up!

Dance your fingers down

Dance your fingers side to side

Dance them all around

Dance them on your shoulders

Dance them on your head

Dance them in the COOKIE JAR!

And put them into bed

Credit: Early Literacy Storytimes @ Your Library by Saroj Nadkarni Ghoting, Pamela Martin-Diaz

Book: If You Give a Mouse a Cookie written by Laura Numeroff and illustrated by Felicia Bond

Published by Harper Collins. Thanks to Harper Collins for permission to read this book!

Now, I have five chocolatey cookies. Let’s pretend to frost them and then do a flannel board rhyme starring Cookie Monster!

Flannel: Five Chocolate Cookies

Five chocolate cookies, with frosting galore

Cookie Monster ate the pink one, then there were four.

Four chocolate cookies, two and two, you see,

Cookie Monster ate the green one, then there were three.

Three chocolate cookies, but before I knew,

Cookie Monster ate the blue one, then there were two.

Two chocolate cookies, oh, what fun!

Cookie Monster ate the purple one, then there was one.

One chocolate cookie, watch me run!

Cookie Monster ate the red one, then there were none.

Credit: Verona Story Time

Literacy Tip:

Grownups, did you know that baking cookies actually involves a lot of skills kids need for reading and writing? While you’re baking cookies together, run your finger over each step in the recipe to show that you are working in order. Stirring will help develop the motor skills needed for writing. Asking questions like, “What will happen when I put this in the oven?” broadens critical thinking skills.

For now, we are just going to pretend to bake cookies and say a cookie version of patty cake together.

Movement: Patty Cake

Patty cake, patty cake, baker’s man (clap hands together)
Bake me a cookie as fast as you can
Stir it (make a stirring motion with hands)
And Pat it (pat hands on your lap)
And mark it with a “C” (for cookie!) (draw a letter C in the air)
And it in the oven (mime putting tray in oven)
for you (point out)
and me! (point to yourself)

Let’s do that one more time!

Credit: North Mankato Taylor Library Storytime

Book: The Cow Loves Cookies written by Karma Wilson and illustrated by Marcellus Hall

Published by Simon & Schuster. Thank you to Simon & Schuster for permission to read this book!

Craft: Mouse & Cookie Puppet

Pick up a craft kit at the library, available in the Youth Services Department or from the drive-up window while supplies last.

Supplies needed:

– Scissors

– Black marker or crayon

– Glue stick or glue

Included in the kit from the library:

– Pieces to cut out for the mouse’s overalls, ears (pink and brown pieces), nose, hands, tail, and cookie

– Brown paper bag

Instructions:
1. Cut out all of the pieces in your kit.

Use the marker or crayon to color chocolate chips on the cookie piece.
Glue the mouse’s overalls onto the brown paper bag. I put the overall straps a little bit underneath the flap of the bag.
Glue the cookie onto the overalls, then glue the mouse’s hands on the cookie so that it looks like the mouse is holding it.
Glue the pink part of the ears onto the brown part of the ears.
Glue the ear pieces to the top of the paper bag. You can glue them to the back of the flap or to the front.
Glue the mouse’s pink nose to the middle of the bag’s flap.
Use the marker or crayon to draw on the mouse’s eyes, mouth, and whiskers.
Glue the mouse’s tail to the back of the bag.
Have fun!

Literacy Tip:

Make the letter C your letter for the day! What else starts with the letter C? As you go throughout your day, notice how many things you see start with the letter C and celebrate whenever you find something.

Thank you so much for being crazy about cookies with me today! Let’s say goodbye with a rhyme called “tickle the clouds”—another word that starts with C!