March Story Time Themes

In addition to St. Patrick's Day, there are lots of other great themes to use at story time in March. Here are my favorites.

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Colors of the Rainbow

Suggested Books

• A Rainbow of My Own by Don Freeman
• Freight Train by Donald Crews
• Blue Chameleon by Emily Gravett
• Baby Bear Sees Blue by Ashley Wolff
• Brown Bear Brown Bear What Do You See? by Bill Martin, Jr. and Eric Carle

Extension Activities 

• I Can Sing a Rainbow
• Red and Yellow, Green and Blue
• Blue is the Lake
• Colorful Morning 
• The Artist's Crayons

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Up, Up, and Away

Suggested Books

• Higher Higher by Leslie Patricelli
• I Want to be an Astronaut by Byron Barton
• Stuck by Oliver Jeffers
• The Grumpalump by Sarah Hayes and Barbara Firth
• Molly Who Flew Away by Valeri Gorbachev

Extension Activities

• Pete the Clown and his Five Bright Balloons
• Aikendrum
• Moon Moon Moon
• I'm a Little Red Kite
• Here We Go Up Up Up 
• Five Astronauts Went up in Space

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The Color Green

Suggested Books

• Green by Laura Vaccaro Seeger
• Little Green by Keith Baker
• In the Tall Tall Grass by Denise Fleming
• Stanley Mows the Lawn by Craig Frazier
• Go Away, Big Green Monster by Ed Emberley

Extension Activities 

• The King of Green
• I'm a Little Green Frog
• One Seed
• One Green Shamrock

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Lions

Suggested Books

• Little Lions by Jim Arnosky
• How Loud is a Lion? by Claire Beaton
• We're Going on a Lion Hunt by Margery Cuyler 
• Pierre by Maurice Sendak

Extension Activities

• Lots of Lions 
• One Little Lion (based on One Little Monster)
• Lion Prowl 
• The Lion Sleeps Tonight 

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Lambs

Suggested Books 

• No Sleep for the Sheep by Karen Beaumont and Jackie Urbanovic
• Where is the Green Sheep? by Mem Fox
• When Sleep Sheep by Laura Numeroff and David McPhail
• Mary Had a Little Lamb by Iza Trapani
• Wee Little Lamb by Lauren Thompson

Extension Activities 

• Baa Baa _____ Sheep
• Mary Had a Little Lamb 
• Little Bo Peep
• Five Little Sheep