FAQ

What is Rainbow Storytime?

Rainbow Storytime is a program full of colorful stories, crafts, songs and movements celebrating diversity of every kind.

What happens at this program?

For the first 15min of the program we have a short Storytime. This includes a few of the following activities:

• Singing the “hello song”
• Reading a developmentally appropriate children’s book (often color themed)
• Playing with a parachute
• Dancing with scarves to a song.
• Rhyming to a color themed finger play
• Signing different colors in sign language

Next we take 15 minutes to work on a colorful craft. The program concludes with bubble time and music.

When does this program take place?

This program usually takes place on the first Friday of the month at 10:30 am.

Who can attend this program?

Anyone is welcome to attend this program! The content is geared to be most enjoyable and beneficial for children age birth to five and their families.

What is the goal of the program?

• Providing a space for children in our community to practice early literacy and motor skills.
• Meeting our community’s needs and interests.
• Carving out a specific Storytime space where families can know they will be accepted and included.
• Demonstrating empathy and kindness.

What Books, Songs, Rhymes and Crafts do we use at this program? Here are a few examples:

• Books:
  • The Day the Crayons Quit by Drew Daywalt
  • Mix it up by Herve Tullet
  • Monster’s Love Colors by Mike Austin
  • The All-Together Quilt by Lizzy Rockwell
  • Planting a Rainbow by Lois Ehlert
  • The Artist Who Painted a Blue Horse by Eric Carle
  • Sulwe by Lupita Nyong’o
  • Rainbow Stew by Cathryn Falwell
  • Pink is Not a Color by Lindsay Ward
  • Every Color Soup by Jorey Hurley
  • Chines New Year Colors by Rich Lo
  • Some of These are Snails by Carter Higgins
  • The Black Book of Colors by Menena Cottin
  • Festival of Colors by Kabir Sehgal
  • Happy In Our Skin by Fran Manushkin

• Songs and Rhymes:
  • Rainbow Connection (Our favorite is the version sung by Kermit the Frog)
  • The More We Get Together
  • Make Your Own Kind of Music by Cass Elliott
  • Over The Rainbow/What A Wonderful World By Israel Kamakawiwo'ole
  • Baa Baa Colorful Sheep (an expansion of the familiar nursery song “baa baa black sheep”)
  • We’ve Got A Rainbow by Kimmy Schwimmy
  • Color Game by Jim Gill

• Crafts:
  • Water color painting of a rainbow
  • Wooden sign decorating craft
  • Colored paper weaving
  • Scratch art bookmarks and masks
  • People paper chain 
  • Color your own pinwheels
  • Multicolored Sock Puppets
  • Magic marker chromatography/ “walking water” Experiment 
  • Playdough color mixing
  • Color mixing sensory bags
  • Scented watercolors w/skittles