Embrace a Slow, Creative Childhood: Nature-Based Storytimes & Craft Projects that Follow the Rhythm of the Seasons.
Access our complete collection of home-based learning resources designed for connection, creativity, and joy during the early years.
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Daily Storytime episodes and nature-based projects give your day a gentle rhythm, allowing you to enjoy seasonal songs, stories, and crafts even if you don’t have time to plan and organize it yourself.
Trust me, it won't be long before you and your child start singing about blooming flowers and performing puppet shows in the living room.
If you're not into that kinda thing, stop here.
Our approach to early childhood enrichment...
Developmentally Appropriate
We carefully create our Storytime episodes and accompanying projects for the various ages and development stages of early childhood.
Inspires Creative Play
Storytime inspires creativity and imaginative play beyond the screen.
Meaningful Projects
Our craft, kitchen, and outdoor projects provide children the fulfilling experience of creating something meaningful.
Slow, Gentle Media
Storytime is a wonderful introduction to media. Its simple, slow episodes foster creativity while not overstimulating your child.
Heart-Centered Parenting Model
Storytime models presence and joy. Parents report feeling calmer and more connected to their children with Storytime.
Screentime Parents Can Feel Good About
- Provides enrichment and inspires creativity.
Low-stimulation episodes that inspire singing, storytelling, puppetry, and creative arts. - Gentle, kind, and wholesome.
A real person who loves children is on the other side of the screen. - Stories for every season and occasion.
Nature, folk, fairy, and pedagogical tales crafted for early childhood. - Go beyond the screen.
Pair kitchen, craft, and outdoor projects with each week’s story.
Gentle, Slow, Nature-Based Episodes for Each Weekday
Storytime episodes follow a weekly and monthly rhythm that includes:
- Nature-based stories and puppet shows.
- Seasonal “circle time” songs, poems, and fingerplays.
- Video craft tutorials from our early childhood handwork teacher.
- “Field Trips” to visit wilderness places and community spaces.
Over the moon in love.
Greetings from Fairbanks, Alaska! We joined last week, when Miss Rae taught us how to make these tissue paper lanterns. My little 2.5 year old was over the moon in love with this craft. I couldn’t be happier with starting our storytime journey illuminated by your inspiration and genuine love, we can feel it all the way up here in the cold north. My child has already memorized the songs, the story, and the dragon breathing exercise from last month. Thank you so very much for sharing your light, Miss Becca.
~ Ashley L.
I was skeptical. Now I’m all in.
My 3.5 year old and I have just recently completed the free intro week of Little Round School House. I was a little skeptical because we are a primarily screen-free family. However, the Circle Time was so special and added so much more to our day than I imagined it could!!!! Needless to say, I am “all in."
~Rebekah S.
Unlimited Enjoyment. No Matter Where You Are.
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What's Inside Storytime?
When you purchase Storytime, you can access the online dashboard with all the episodes and resources.
Storytime episodes
Access our complete collection of episodes--four weeks of episodes for each month (that's 240 episodes!).
Seasonal Circle Times
A new, nature-based circle time each month– including seasonal songs, poems, & fingerplays.
Stories & Puppet Shows
Gentle, nature-based stories, including folk tales, nature tales, and teaching tales carefully crafted for early childhood.
"Craft Visits with Ms. Rae"
Our early childhood handwork specialist teaches two video-based craft projects each month as part of the Storytime episodes. We include a materials list and instructions for each project.
Additional Extension Projects
Each month includes 12+ coordinated craft, kitchen, and outdoor projects that align with our stories and themes.
PDF Guidebooks
The monthly guidebooks lay out all the stories, songs, crafts, and other projects in one easy-to-use location.
Miss Becca showed me how.
I knew there were certain things I wanted to incorporate in our homeschooling, including circle time, songs and fingerplays, and self-expression through storytelling and reenactment, but there was nothing available specifically showing me how to do all these things – until I discovered Ms. Becca and Storytime.
~ Megan
More wonder in daily life
The circle time helps me bring more wonder into daily life. I don’t have to remember to research and learn finger plays and songs, or think of seasonal stories. I can watch a few with my child and learn it all and keep doing it outside of Storytime.
~M.D.
🌈 Parents are surprised at what Storytime adds to their lives. 🌈
"It's about more than the videos!"
IMAGINE...
- You have a daily and weekly rhythm that connects you with your child and the world around you.
- You know how to use pedagogical tales to prepare your child for transitions or to help navigate challenging behaviors.
- You learn songs to help you with daily transitions, recognize the seasons, and celebrate the world around you.
- Your connection to your children grows as you create and work together on artistic projects.
Become a Storytime member!
Your children will soon sing about blooming flowers and put on puppet shows in the living room. Oh, the magic of childhood!
Happy Member Guarantee
No commitment. Risk-free. Easy to cancel.
Storytime might be a good fit for your family, but you don’t want to be stuck with a financial commitment or unable to cancel if it's not.
I get it! There are a lot of sneaky subscriptions these days, but this isn’t one of them. I want you to try Storytime with excitement and confidence.
If you don’t like Storytime or it doesn’t work for your family, you can cancel anytime with the click of a button from the Storytime Dashboard or an email to our team. Either way, you won’t be billed again. (Customer support email: [email protected])
Give it a try for a month. It’s easy to cancel if it doesn’t work for you.
Hear what Maggie has to say about Storytime...
"As a mother to two little ones, I have felt my dreams for their childhood often collide with the exhaustion of simply keeping them safe and well-fed.
A childhood full of magic, music, verse, and storytelling has felt hard to prioritize, especially when this type of knowledge was not something I came into motherhood possessing. When would I have the time to read the books? To memorize the songs? To learn the crafts? When would I find the energy to create meaningful rhythms that flowed with us throughout each season?
This vision for my children’s early childhood plastered my Pinterest boards but always felt completely out of reach when it came to the chaos of our daily lives. That was until we discovered Little Round Schoolhouse and Storytime.
The single most valuable gift that Storytime offers is accessibility. It takes many beautiful components of a deeply intentional early childhood education and makes them accessible to all children and their caregivers. You don’t need to have an early childhood education degree, send your children to an expensive private school, have all the fancy Waldorf toys, read all the books, or try to do everything yourself. All you need is Storytime.
Storytime meets you right where you are. In the kitchen, bedraggled after another night of not much sleep, wondering how you will make it through till naptime (or the next 5 years). Storytime is there, offering rhythm, consistency, and beauty to your family. Storytime sparks joy and connection through story and verse, while providing a vision and a step-by-step roadmap to a childhood for my children that no longer feels just out of reach.
It is pure magic."
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I'm Miss Becca.
Early childhood educator ~ Storyteller ~ Puppeteer
For over twelve years, I operated a mixed-aged forest preschool for children 3-6 years old on my property outside of Asheville, NC. Now I reach families with young children around the world through our nature-based, secular, inclusive programming, including Storytime in the Schoolhouse.
