Storytime Stretchers: Tongue Twisters, Choruses, Games, and Charades

By Baltuck and Naomi Baltuck

Book Overview

Includes more than forty selections, including action songs, chants, tongue twisters, musical games, and audience participation tales.

Whether you are working with preschoolers or high schoolers, a story stretcher is a great way to create immediate rapport with your audience and within your group. These "two-minute miracles" from storyteller Naomi Baltuck will have children and adults, singing, moving, laughing, and begging for more. For each stretcher, she has included music, hand motions, tips for telling, or other personal touches developed during the countless times she has used it to hold the attention of her audiences.

Time lengths and target audiences are also included so that you can select the best stretchers for every situation. Naomi has gathered these gems from her own childhood, from other storytellers, as well as from her children who bring home new activities from camp. Tried and true, these stretchers are a wonderful way to bring together family, friends, classes, Scout troops, and audiences everywhere.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0874838045
• ISBN13: 9780874838046
• Release Date: May 2007
• Publisher: August House Publishers
• Length: 144 Pages
• Weight: 1.05 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 7.3" x 10.2"
• Age Range: 4 to 8 years
• Grade Range: Preschool to Grade 3

Customer Reviews

A resource packed cover to cover with "two-minute miracles"

Storytime Stretchers: Tongue Twisters, Choruses, Games, and Charades is a resource packed cover to cover with "two-minute miracles" ideal for working with children from preschool to high school age. Collected from author Naomi Baltuck's own childhood, as well as from other storytellers, and children themselves, these delightful rhymes, tunes, call-and-response chants, and simple games are highly recommended for use anywhere children gather, from family occasions to Scout meetings to keeping young minds awake and alert at school. "Tree Toad Trials": A tree toad loved a she-toad / that lived up in a tree. / She was a three-toed tree toad, / but a two-toed toad was he. / The two-toed toad tried to win / the she-toad's friendly nod, / for the two-toed toad loved the ground / on which the three-toed toad trod. / But no matter how the two-toed toad tried, / he could not please her whim. / In her tree-toad bower, / with her three-toed power, / the she-toad vetoed him.