{"id":5912,"date":"2016-07-23T11:43:46","date_gmt":"2016-07-23T18:43:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/pasadena-library.net\/kids\/?p=5912"},"modified":"2016-12-06T19:19:55","modified_gmt":"2016-12-07T03:19:55","slug":"family-storytime-food","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/pasadena-library.net\/kids\/2016\/family-storytime-food\/","title":{"rendered":"Family Storytime: Food!"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Today’s theme was food, and all the kids got to hold shaker eggs. I did more books than usual. But even with the distraction of the eggs and more than the usual amount of reading, the group did very well! And I just had to share those books. Some themes suggest so many good books I just can’t pick only three!<\/p>\n

We sang “Clap Your Hands” and then I did a puppet show narrating the classic book The Little Mouse, The Red, Ripe Strawberry and the Big, Hungry Bear<\/a> by Don and Audrey Wood. I used a puppet for the mouse and the kids helped me trick the mouse and convince him that there really is a big, hungry bear going tromp, tromp, tromp<\/em> on big, hungry feet. <\/p>\n

When I previously performed this puppet show for a toddler group I recorded it. Here it is:<\/p>\n