Shapes Themed Storytime

Opening song: Good Morning/ Buenos Días (See My Storytime Set for song lyrics)
Opening fingerplay: One Little Finger 
Literacy: Lots of Dots by Craig Frazier
Song/movement break: Open Shut Them 
Literacy: What Shapes Do You See? by Begin Smart Books
New song/movement break: 
Do You Know What Shape This Is? (To the tune of Do You Know the Muffin Man, like this YouTube video, but slightly modified.) 

Do you know what shape this is?
What shape this is?
What shape this is?
Do you know what shape this is? 
I think that it’s a ______ 

and/or

Can You Make a Shape (circle/heart/square/diamond/triangle). I learned it from Super Simple Learning, but I modified it slightly. 

A circle! A circle!
Can you make a circle?
A circle! A circle!
Can you make a circle?
Ready…Set…Go!

Literacy: Felt Shape Story
I was trying to use the ArtFelt kit for Mouse Shapes by Ellen Stoll Walsh, but that was more elaborate than I had room in my brain for. So, I found this Little Story Bug video and copied it and cut out my own felt shapes to use.

The Shape Story 
Once there was a blue square but the blue square was very lonely.
One day PLOP! Out of the sky fell a red triangle and landed on top of the blue square. 
They were so happy to meet each other, When PLOP! Out of the sky fell a yellow circle that landed just above them and it brightened up their day and they were all happy together.
Until one day PLOP! PLOP! A brown rectangle and a green triangle fell from the sky and landed right next to them.
They were so happy to meet the new shapes when again, another PLOP! PLOP! And two small squares landed on top of the blue square.
And then suddenly another PLOP! When a small rectangle fell out of the sky and landed right on top of the blue square, too.
Guess what? All together these shapes made something! What did all the shapes make?
A house!
A tree!
A sun!
And they all lived happily ever after.

Closing Fingerplay: Two Little Blackbirds  

Post storytime activity: Shape Collage
I had my assistant for the day sort out different foam shapes and gave each parent/child an amount along with a piece of black construction paper and a glue stick. They knew what to do from there. It was great. Parents were asking their children to identify colors and shapes. Yay! Job well done!