Storytime, Friends

Spring means more storytime friends, so I did a friendship theme. We had 30 people today, which is a lot, especially considering the size of our storytime room can usually only accommodate 25.


I love this story, and am waiting for a personal copy to come any day now :) The illustrations are gorgeous, and I have been wanting to read this in storytime for a while. Dan Santat is one of my favorite authors!

Song:Make New Friends via ScoutSongs
Make new friends,
but keep the old.
One is silver,
the other is gold.

A circle is round,
it has no end.
That's how long,
I will be your friend.

We only sang the first two verses, and repeated twice.

We only read the first half of the book, I would love to someday learn enough Japanese to read both sides and sing the song in the middle of the text. 

Craft: Crowns! Our friend Beekle wore a crown, so we can too! I found the printable at Firstpallette crafts.I pre-cut all of the crowns and set out crayons and foam shapes for decoration. We had so many gorgeous crowns fit for princes and princesses!