BuZzZZZZZ BzzZZZZz Bees!
BzZ BZzZ BZzzzzZ B BZzzzzZZzz!
What? What is that?
BZzzzZ BZZ BzzzZZ B BZZZ! BZzzZ BZZ BZZ B BZzzzzZZ!
Oh, could it be? Is it ...
A Bee?
A BIG Bee
A Big BOLD Bee
A Big Bold BUMBLE Bee?
A Big Bold BABY Bumble Bee?
BZZ BzzzZZ BZZ BzzzZZ B BZzzZZ! BZzzzZTTT
I Caught it!
I'm Bringing Home a Baby Bumble Bee
I'm bringing home a baby bumble bee
~'Catch' a bumblebee, swing clasped hands back and forth
Won't my mommy be so proud of me
I'm bringing home a baby bumble bee
Ouch! He stung me!
~Show true stunned surprise, you mean bees sting people!??
I'm squishing up a baby bumble bee
~squish palms together, squish, squish, squish
Won't me mommy be so proud of me
I'm squishing up a baby bumble bee
Ewwww, it's all over me!
~look at palms, gee whiz, I didn't think it would do that!
I'm wiping off a baby bumble bee
~wipe palms on pants, up and back, keep the rythm
Won't my mommy be so proud of me
I'm wiping off a baby bumble bee
ughhhh, it's all yucky!
~look at hands and pants, oh, what a mess!
I'm licking off a baby bumble bee
~pretend to lick palms, the trick is to make it SOUND real ;)
Won't my mommy be so proud of me
I'm licking off a baby bumble bee
bleck! Now that is really yucky!
~shudder like you just tasted something truly terrible!
My mommy won't be proud of me!
~shake finger, on hand on hip, sly little devil look on your face
Oh, I don't think I'll ever catch a bumble bee ever again! Even if it was a baby bumble bee!
Oooo, but look here is a hive...
Here is the Hive
Here is the hive
~hold closed fist up
But where are the bees?
~shrug shoulders
Hidden inside
~point to fist
Where nobody sees
~shake finger, 'nobody', point to eyes, 'see'
expectant pause... closed fist starts to shimmer and shake...
Oh, oh OH!
1 2 3 4 5
~fingers pop up, counting
They're alive! They're alive!
~let your figners go TICKLING!
That's it. I'm never going to play with bee or a hive ever again! I think bees are just not very nice at all.
I know, let's talk about someone nice. Someone who I happen to know is very nice. His name is Eggbert...
~ pull over a flannel board with Eggbert there, sitting and just waiting for us
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This is a long story for Laptime, so I have turned it into a FELT story.
If told with animation and spunk, it works well even for the littlest of storytime attendees.
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Now Eggbert, he is just about the nicest egg you ever saw.
Oh, but one day...
It was discovered...
That Eggbert had a CRACK!
Now, I don't know about how it is in your house kids, but here, where Eggbert lived, cracked eggs were just NOT allowed...
Eggbert the Slightly Cracked Egg by Tom Ross
There is a delightfully nosy and not-so-friendly bee in one part of this story!
The bee part: I stick a finger puppet bee on my finger and it goes out busily collecting delicious nectar from all the kids and flowers. Then, 'Bzzt bzzt BZZ BZZ BZZ B BZZZTTT! And it is discovered that you cannot get nectar from an egg. And that bee tells Eggbert that he cannot stay.'
