Hi friends, it's nice to see all of you. My name's Emily, thanks for joining me
for Storytime with The Met. Today is a special treat: It's The Met's a hundred and fiftieth birthday! Can you believe it?
So we have a very special Storytime in store for you. We're gonna read a
birthday book, look at a work of art together, and then do a simple art
project that you can also do at home. Are you ready? Alright let's find a cozy
spot, and we're gonna start with our Storytime song just like we do with the
museum. It goes to the tune of this old man. I'm gonna sing, and you can clap
along. Maybe by now you know the words are you. Ready, 1, 2, 3, welcome friend get
ready get set for Storytime at 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 let's take a seat and give a shhh. Let's begin with our first book.
Nice job! Ok, our story today is called What's Cookin' A Happy Birthday Counting
Book. It's by Nancy Cofeit. Can you see we're cooking a birthday cake? Let's see
what's cooking in the sunny kitchen. In the sunny kitchen the clock tick tock,
the faucet drip drops, the refrigerator hum, and the cook grabs a spoon. What?
He grabs one spoon,
knock-knock. A second cook soon ambles in. I'm here to
help you let's begin. How many of them are there now, knock knock. There's two knock knock
knock. Stand aside cook coming through! Cook
number three has worked to do. I'm here to sift the flour. Now there's
three of them, what comes next? Number four! Can you knock with me four
times, knock knock knock knock. Good Job! Another cook is at the door.
1, 2, 3, and now here's four! I'm here to measure the sugar. Number 5, knock knock
knock knock knock. The kitchen buzzing like a hive, for cooks make room for
number 5! I'm here to crack the eggs. How many eggs does he have?
Knock-knock-knock knock-knock-knock! Here's number six! I'm here to mix. Seven,
do it with me. knock knock knock knock knock knock knock.
The next one will have to squeeze, make room for number seven please!
I'm here to pour the batter. Eight, knock knock knock knock knock knock knock
knock! Cook number eight arriving late is just
in time to bake the cake!
knock knock knock knock knock knock knock! The door flies open once again here comes
number nine and ten. This place is such an awful mess! We'll
help you clean it up I guess! Let's see what they do. Ten grabs the bucket nine grabs
the mop eight, clears the dishes off the countertop, seven takes the cake out, six cleans,
the spoons, five makes the frosting, four blows balloons, three brings out the candles.Light
them up two cries! Says number one "this cake is done." And they all yell surprise!
and how many candles do you think are on that cake? Remember how old The Met is?
What do you think a hundred and fifty candles look like? Let's see, do you think
you can help me count to 150? Can we give it a shot?
Together we're gonna count an increment up 10, so 10 at a time.
are you ready okay? It's a lot! let's go 10, 20, 30, 40, 50, 60,
70, 80, 90, 100, are we done 110, 120, 130, 140 ,150. Great job! It's a
happy one hundred and fiftieth birthday The Met.
let's see at home why don't you give a try of counting to 150 in different ways.
You can count increments up by or increments of 25. You can also see how
many things could you collect? Could you collect 150 books? Or 150 stickers? Or 150 drawings maybe?
See what you can find. Well this book and celebrating the
The Met's birthday makes me think about a silk tapestry that's in the museum, that
shows a great big birthday celebration. Take a look. What do you notice about
this work of art. Look closely at the mill, there's some children that are
bringing special birthday gifts to maybe some people that are their grandparents.
Can you find it? They're bringing gifts that give them
wishes of long life and good fortune. What do you give people as birthday gifts?
Think about how what you see here is the same or different than the way you
celebrate your birthday or your family member's birthdays. What do you wear that
might be special for a birthday party? What do you eat that special for a
birthday party? Well there's one last thing we're going to do together before
we say goodbye, and I'm gonna invite all of you to make birthday cards for the
museum. Um, maybe 150 birthday cards or for someone that you know that you can
send in the mail and make them feel good while we're all at home. So you can use
any kinds of craft supplies that you have at home. I got out some paper, a
sheet of blue paper. Some collage paper.
I also found a glue stick that I could use to decorate. Some scissors, I
cut a shape in mine and some drawing materials anything you find it good. So I
took my sheet of paper and I folded it in half once, and I can fold it again.
I cut out a shape. I decorated it, and I can write happy birthday inside or whatever
message I want to write you can decorate yours however you want and you can even
decorate the envelope. My daughter decorated this one for me. If you want
you can send your birthday card to us at the Met by emailing a picture of it to
MetKids@metmuseum.org. We'd love to see it and maybe feature it on the
website. So thanks for joining me for a very special birthday Storytime for
the Met. We hope to see you again soon, bye!