Monkey Lost His Bananas

I came to the realization during our fall storytime series that I need to do more activities with children in storytime.  It just breaks it up and gives them something different each week. I follow ALOT of storytime blogs, and found a favorite activity that I used regularly with my Book Babies last spring called "Little Mouse, Little Mouse." I made seven different colored houses and hid the little mouse in a house.  We would then check the houses to see where the mouse was hiding. There are several variations of this- we did a "Little Bird, Little Bird" in the fall to see which color tree the bird was in.

For our winter sotrytime,  I've come up with an activity for each of our six themes.  Going off the same premise of little mouse, I put together "Monkey Lost His Bananas." Preschoolers know that monkeys love bananas. 

Monkey lost his bananas and doesn’t know where they are. Play this feltboard game with the children. Hide the bananas a few times, and see if they can guess where they are.

Monkey, monkey- are your bananas in the tree?

Monkey, monkey- are your bananas in the car?

Monkey, monkey- are your bananas in the house?

Monkey, monkey- does the dog have your bananas?

It's so easy to make and kids love finding out where the monkey put his bananas!