Hello everyone! We hope you are all excited for Guji Guji by Chih-Yuan Chen!
Leanna and I have put together a bunch of fun activities and crafts for the little ones. Starting on Monday, March 1 (today), the kits will be available to pick up for our online storytime.
Enjoy a borrowed copy of the book, and have fun doing the activities. Please return the book after you are done; everything else is yours to keep!
*We are still waiting on stickers to arrive in the mail. Kits will still be available, if you would like to wait for stickers, we expect them to come sometime later this week.
"Guji Guji" by Chih-Yuan Chen
"Guji Guji is just your ordinary, everyday, run-of-the-mill duck...um, crocodile...um, duck... In this engaging story about identity, loyalty and what it really means to be a family,
Guji, Guji makes some pretty big decisions about who he is, what he is, and what it all means, anyway."
You will have to return this book to the library; everything else is yours to keep!
You will have the book read to you by actor Robert Guillaume. He did such a great job, we hope you enjoy his reading as much as we did!
Kits include:
a borrowed copy of Guji Guji by Chih-Yuan Chen
information page
colors game (5 colored ducks)
a flyer for this website
3 activity pages
3 coloring pages
rhymes/song pages with web links (instruments included)
a craft to make Guji Guji and his 3 duckling siblings
3 magnets from the story
stickers
HANDOUT GAMES – play with included duck handouts
Can You Show Me…?
(tune: “Here We Go Round the Mulberry Bush”)
Can you show me the blue duck?
Blue duck, blue duck?
Can you show me the blue duck?
And wave it in the air?
Brown… yellow… green… orange
Hold It High – Choose one duck from handouts
Hold your duck high and stand
Now wave it around in gestures grand!
Hold your duck below your chin
Now hold it way up high again
Hold your duck against your nose
Now touch the duck to your toes
Touch your duck to the ground
Now wave that duck all around!
Hold your duck in front of you
Now turn around – one time, two!
Hold your duck and jump up high!
Now let your duck fly fly fly (throw it in the air)
SONGS & INSTRUMENT – use included instruments
The Crocodile Snap by Jingaloo Music
Five Little Ducks by Super Simple Songs
Crocodile Song by Little Baby Bum
Ten Little Duckies by CoComelon
BOUNCE RHYME (bounce along with child in lap)
Little Duck
I am a little duck that goes quack, quack, quack.
(bounce and/or clap with each quack)
And I've got lots of feathers on my back, back, back.
(tickle or rub child’s back)
And when I go down to the lake,
I wiggle and I waddle and I shake, shake, shake.
(wiggle child while bouncing on lap)
I am a little duck that goes quack, quack, quack.
(bounce and/or clap with each quack)
Until it’s nighttime and it’s black, black, black
(tilt child to side like they’re sleeping)
But in the morning when I wake,
I wiggle and I waddle and I shake, shake, shake!
(wiggle child while bouncing on lap)
ACTION RHYMES
Teasing Mr. Crocodile
Five little ducklings hiding by a tree
Teasing Mr. Crocodile, "Can't catch me!"
Along comes Mr. Crocodile
Quiet as can be.... SNAP!!
Four little ducklings…
Three little ducklings…
Two little ducklings…
One little duckling…
Crocodile, Crocodile
Crocodile, crocodile turn around
Crocodile, crocodile touch the ground
Crocodile, crocodile dance on your toes
Crocodile, crocodile touch your nose
Crocodile, crocodile jump up now
Crocodile, crocodile take a bow
Crocodile, crocodile snap your jaws
Crocodile, crocodile it’s time for applause!
Crocodile, crocodile stomp your feet
Crocodile, crocodile take a seat
All the Little Ducks
(Tune: “The Wheels on the Bus”)
All the little ducks go upside down,
Upside down, upside down,
All the little ducks go upside down,
At the bottom of the pond.
All their little tails go wiggle, waggle, wiggle,
Wiggle, waggle, wiggle, wiggle, waggle, wiggle,
All their little tails go wiggle, waggle, wiggle,
At the bottom of the pond.
All the little beaks go snap, snap, snap,
Snap, snap, snap, snap, snap, snap,
All the little beaks go snap, snap, snap,
At the bottom of the pond.
Row, Row, Row Your Boat
Row, row, row, your boat
Gently down the stream
Merrily merrily merrily merrily
Life is but a dream
Row, row, row, your boat
Gently down the stream
If you see some swimming ducks
Watch the waters teem
Row, row, row, your boat
Gently down the stream
If you see a crocodile
Don’t forget to scream
AHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH!
MORE LINKS!
Encyclopedia.com’s page on Chih-Yuan Chen:
Reading Is Fundamental’s guide to Guji Guji:
Let us know what your little ones thought of Guji Guji! What did they think of the activities? Do you have any suggestions for us?
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