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I know 3-4 year olds aren't good at sharing. But is this extreme or normal?

Riley screams and cries when he has to "share" things. Things that aren't favorite toys, and sometimes aren't even his. It's kind of random, and he'll share just fine part of the time. Often I think it's because he still has issues with his sister, but other times I have no clue what is going on. Examples from the past few months:

1) we gave Piper some child sized silverware instead of baby silverware
2) I let Piper have a regular cup instead of a sippy.
3) Piper was playing on a queen sized blanket that I wrapped Riley up in when he was sick the other day. It's a blanket for MY bed, not his.
4) Food he doesn't want but was on his plate, no matter who might want it.
5) I lent the little girl down the street one of MY old hats one cold day.
6) We gave a boy a pull-up when he was at our house playing.

DH started a zero tolerance policy on the selfish screaming yesterday (R gets sent to his room until he calms down if he screams over sharing anything that isn't a special toy). I don't know if that will work, but we are getting really frustrated over the behavior. I just don't want to raise a selfish child. We've talked to him about this over and over (using examples from books and movies, even) and it's not sinking in.

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Ann

Missed miscarriage 8/2004 @15 weeks