The Plan
Books
Charlie Chick by Nick Denchfield and Ant Parker
Chicka Chicka Boom Boom by Bill Martin Jr. and John Archambault
Dog’s Colorful Day by Emma Dodd
I’m Not Cute by Jonathan Allen
Toot Toot Beep Beep by Emma Garcia
Extension Activities
Flannelboard: “The Very Hungry Caterpillar”
Flannelboard Puzzle: “Letter C”
Finger Puppets: “Ah-Choo!”
Chicken’s nose tingles
Chicken’s nose twitches
Chicken is going to sneeze!
Baa-choo! Baa-choo! Baa-choo!
(Repeat with different animals)
Credit: Modified from SurLaLune Storytime
Song: “Driving Round In My Car”
Driving round in my little red car
Driving round in my little red car
Driving round in my little red car
Beep, beep, beep, beep, beep!
Credit: Childhood
Craft
This was an easy idea that I’ve done before — teen volunteers punched out the circles from cardstock and the kids assembled their own caterpillars and colored them. They had a great time assembling their caterpillars and writing out their names.
How It Went
This was a very loud and rambunctious storytime — the kids loved shouting out colors in “Toot Toot Beep Beep” and “Dog’s Colorful Day.” And this group had NEVER heard “Chicka Chicka Boom Boom” before! I was very glad to fix that and they enjoyed hearing about the letters climbing up the coconut tree. I always love getting to use my “Very Hungry Caterpillar” flannelboard because it was the first one I ever made! The letter puzzles continue to be a huge hit, and I will keep doing it until it gets dull!
storytime katie 
Thank you for posting these storytimes. I have been using/stealing/borrowing many of your ideas. I wanted to let you know how much time you have saved me and I appreciate it. New ideas and comments on “how it went” are great.
Thank you! I’m glad to have helped in any way that I can.
Not sure if you want to fix this/if it’s easy to fix, but your Letter C is not tagged as an “alphabet storytime” so it doesn’t show up with the rest of the letters! I was still able to find it looking under Storytime, though. 🙂
Yes, thank you, for pointing that out! It’s very easy to fix and I’m grateful that you told me about it.