Hello friends! Welcome to Story Time with The Met. My name is Chloe and I'm so
excited to be here to read with you today.
Please join us every Thursday at noon for a new Story Time and activity. Now
let's get started! Find a cozy spot, turn on your listening ears, and we'll start
with our Story Time song just like we do at the Museum. For those of you who know
it and those of you who don't, our Story Time song goes nice and slow to
the tune of "This Old Man." We'll start singing on the count of three. Can you
hold up three fingers? Okay, ready- one, two, three. Welcome friends, get ready, get set for
Story Time with The Met where we love to read and sing and look at works of art and
picture books. We'll use our eyes to look and see, we'll use our ears to hear
stories. Now we'll take a seat and give a "shhh!" Let's begin with our first book. Yay!
Great job singing, friends! Now we're gonna start with our first book. I'll
read the words but I'll need your help looking at the pictures. Our book today
is Llama Llama Time to Share by Anna Dewdney. Okay, let's get started. Llama
Llama Time to Share. Llama Llama playing trains, driving trucks, and flying planes.
Someone's at the door ...who is it? Brand new neighbors come to visit.
Llama, this is Nelly Gnu. She has a dolly, too
Mrs. Gnu, would you like tea? Come and have a cup
with me. You two kids can play in there... and Llama, don't forget to share.
Trains and trucks and puzzles, too. What's the Gnu girl want to do? Play with kitchen?
Build with blocks? Llama opens up his box. Which game would you like to play?
I think I would like to build some blocks Nelly starts to build a town. Llama Llama
starts to frown... Can you frown like Llama Llama? Nelly Gnu
makes walls and stairs. Llama watches from a chair.
Nelly stacks the blocks up high. Fuzzy Llama wants to try. It's a castle! Make it
tall. Fuzzy Llama jumps the wall! Build a tower. Make a moat. Nelly's dolly rows a
boat. Can you row a boat? What can Llama Llama add? Maybe sharing is not so bad.
Little baby Gnu makes noise. Mrs. Gnu gets jingly toys. Baby screams and
kicks his feet. Mama thinks it's time to eat. Moms are talking, baby's chewing...
Where's that Gnu girl? What's she doing? Where do you think Nelly Gnu went?
Oh disaster! Dolly drama! Nelly Gnu has Fuzzy Llama! He's not hers! This isn't fair!
Uh-oh, do you think Llama is upset? Llama doesn't like to share! It looks like
Llama pulled off Fuzzy Llama's arm and now they're both sad. Fuzzy Llama ripped
in two...all because of Nellie Gnu! It's a llama emergency! Mama! Fix his arm for me!
A bit of thread and good as new...but this is what we're going to do: I'll put
Fuzzy on the stairs until you're sure that you can share.
Nelly's sorry. Llama, too. It's time for something else to do. And there they are
saying sorry to each other and they're both so sad that they don't get to play
with Fuzzy Llama. "Maybe tractors?" says Llama. Maybe not .
Like to dress up? Not a lot. Let's play kitchen and make a cake!
Nelly mixes. Llama bakes. Can you see their pretend kitchen and
their cake? Look- our fancy cake is done! Hmm... what would make this game more fun?
Fuzzy Llama, on the stairs! Llama thinks it's time to share.
Playtime's over. It's the end... but Llama has a brand new friend. Nelly will be
back and then... Llama wants to share again! The End. Great job reading, friends! Give
yourselves a round of applause. In this book, Llama learned how to share and he
wasn't very happy about it to begin with. This reminds me of a work of art from
The Met's collection of a portrait of a boy from 1805. You can see in this
portrait that this little boy is holding on to so many toys and looks a little
scared that someone's gonna take them away. Have you ever wanted to keep your
toys and not share? But we all know that sharing is really important so I'd love
to sing a song together about sharing. It goes to the tune of "She'll Be Coming
Around the Mountain" and we'll get started on the count of five. One, two
three, four, five! Oh we like to share our toys with our friends, oh we like to
share our toys with our friends, oh we like to share our toys, we like to share
our toys, we like to share our toys with our friends! Great job, friends! You did a
great job singing and I hope you'll sing that next time that you want to share
with your friends. It's very catchy. Before we say goodbye for today, I have a
quick activity that you and your grown-up you do can do to make a really
fun shareable toy for you and your friends or your brothers and sisters or
just for yourself! So I took some paper and I made a paper doll. My paper doll is
a brown bear so I drew this brown bear in this kind of gingerbread cookie
shape and then I cut it out, so you may have to ask your grown-up to help you
cut it out. Then the brown bear needed clothes so I made
him a set of overalls! You and your grown-up can draw your clothes and
you'll need to make these extra tabs that fold over so you can put your
clothes on your paper doll by folding over the tabs over the paper and voila!
You have a fully dressed doll and you can make as many clothes or as many
paper dolls as you want and they can all share clothes and they can play with
each other and you can switch them with your friends and it's a great way to
share. Thank you so much for joining me today for Story Time. It was so fun to see you. I hope you'll come back next week for
another story and another activity but until then have a great week, friends!