Hi friends welcome to story time with The Met. My name is Emily, and I'm so glad
to see all of you. While the museum is closed we'll be hosting Storytime
remotely. I hope you'll join me every Thursday for a new story and a new art
making activity that we can do together. We're going to start just like we do at
Storytime at the Museum so find a spot, get cozy, and let's begin with our
Storytime song. Are you ready? It goes to the tune of this old man.
Clap along with me, ready 1, 2, 3, Singing: Welcome friends, get ready get set for Storytime
at The Met, where we love to read and sing look at works of art and picture books.
We'll use our eyes to look and see. We use our ears to hear stories. Now let's
take a seat and give a shhh, let's begin with our first book. Nice job. Okay,
our story today is called "I Ain't Gonna Paint No More!" It's written by Karen
Beaumont and the illustrations are right David Catrow. I'm gonna read the words
,we'll look at the pictures together, and if you know this book, you can read along
with me. Are you ready?
I ain't gonna paint no more! One day my Mama taught me painting pictures on the
floor and the ceilings of the wall and the curtains and the doors, and I heard
my momma holler like I never did before.
Ya ain't gonna paint no more. I ain't gonna paint no more, no more. I ain't
gonna paint no more. What's happening to his paint. Is he putting away?
That's what I say, but there ain't no way that I ain't gonna paint no more. So I
take some red, and I paint my head, you can point along with me. Now I ain't gonna pay no
more. Oh what the heck, I’m gonna paint my neck, now I ain't gonna pay no more.
still I just can't rest until I paint my chest, now I ain't gonna paint no more.
Guess there ain't no harm if I paint my arm!
Now I ain't gonna paint no more. I ain't gonna paint no more no more I ain't
gonna paint no more. But I just can't stand not to paint my hand. Now I ain't
gonna paint no more. Then I see some black so I paint my back.
What's he doing to get it back you see, the roller. Now I'm gonna paint no more,
like an easter egg gonna paint my leg.
Now I ain't any paint no more. Still, I ain't complete till I paint my feet. You've
gotten head to toe. Now I ain't gonna paint no more. I ain't gonna paint no
more, no more, I ain't gonna paint no more, but I'm such a nut I gotta paint
my what!? Y'all don't faint because there ain't no paint.
paint, so I ain't gonna paint no more.
Nice reading friends. Now I can't help but think about a song when I read that
story. Can you think of what I might be coming up with? "Head, Shoulders, Knees and
Toes." Do you think you can sing along with? me? Are you ready? We can count to three
and can go together. Singing: one, two, three, head shoulders, knees, and toes, knees and toes.
Head, shoulders, knees, and toes, knees and toes. And eyes and ears and mouth and
nose. Head, shoulders, knees, and toes knees and toes. Now one thing we like to do at
the museum is see how fast we can do that. Do you think you can try to do it
even faster? Try it out with your adults at home see how fast you can go like
lightning speed without mixing up your body parts. Now,
this book also makes me think about one of my favorite paintings in the museum.
It's called pond in sunlight by the artist Arthur Dove.
Take a look, what do you notice about the painting?
I see lots of color, the lines that he painted in tempera paint that move in
all sorts of directions. I'm going to choose one of those lines one of those
lines or shapes that you see. Do you have it? Okay now let's take our fingers, our
hands, our arms, our whole body, and let's see if we can make the shape that we see. You ready?
Move along with that line goes like this, you can even make a sound.
Very nice moving friend. Now before we say goodbye I have an art project that you
can do together to experiment with painting yourself. Let's see, so you need
any kinds of artists tools that you can find. I'm going to show you an
assortment. You use paint any kind will do this is like tempera paint just like
Arthur Dove used. A paintbrush, I picked a paint brush. I also picked a
fork. Let's see what else I found that I could use in my house to paint with. A
popsicle stick. I tried experimenting with a feather, a
q-tip. I cut up a little piece of cardboard to
apply my paint, and I cut up a piece of sponge but let's see what I came up with
so I dipped all those different tools in paint and put them on my paper you
could use cardboard paper or canvas anything you can find, and I try to see
what different kinds of lines or marks or shapes do the tools make. Let's see
what you come up. Well friends, I hope that you had fun joining me for
Storytime and an art activity. We hope to see you again next Thursday for a new
book, bye!