Today we celebrated scheming, sneaky foxes! Books We Shared The first book we shared was the inspiration for this storytime: Fox and the Jumping Contest by Corey R. Tabor. Fox isn’t the best jumper, but he really wants to win the jumping contest. So, like any scheming fox, he decides […]
Family Storytime – Animals???
Published on :What happens when you find a giraffe in your soup? When your dog sleepwalks? When you find an elephant and make him your pet? Some very funny shenanigans!!! We read stories about those subjects, sang a song with our egg shakers, participated in some action rhymes, a flannel board story and […]
Family Storytime: Birds
Published on :I started out storytime with a puppet show using a bunch of our Folkmanis puppets of all kinds of birds. I used them to tell the story of Hello, My Name is Ruby by Phillip C. Stead. In my telling, Ruby is a chicken (because I have more chickens than […]
Family Storytime – Spiders, Flies & Other Creepy Crawlies…
Published on :We had fun during our family storytime today! We explored stories about spiders, flies & other creepy crawly creatures. There was even a little bug eating going on…(well we didn’t really eat any bugs, but we did pretend). Below are some of the books, songs & fun activities we shared. BOOKS: Okay…why […]
Books! Books! Books! Storytime
Published on :We started storytime today with Clap Your Hands and told a story with puppets, based on Book! Book! Book! by Deborah Bruss and illustrated by Tiphanie Beeke. All the animals at the farm are bored because the kids are back in school, so they go to the public library and […]
Family Storytime – Owls & Such – Aug. 6
Published on :Our Family Storytime started with a hoot and a holler! Well, maybe not a holler but a hoot! Sorry, couldn’t resist the “owl” humor. We read books about some very eccentric owls. We also watched as a few bits of paper (blown around by the wind) were transformed into various creatures. […]
Family Storytime: Food!
Published on :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 […]
Family Storytime – Bears & Such! – June 11
Published on :We read some fun BOOKS about bears! THERE was a bear bored with his surroundings who visited his friends in their natural habitats, a bear who loves red, ripe strawberries and STOMPS through the forest when he smells one, and a bear who remembers a wondrous place that is now only a distant dream until a little girl […]
Preschool Storytime: Hair!
Published on :On Saturday our preschool storytime crowd had fun with silly books about hair! We started storytime with the Wiggleworms Love You song “Clap Your Hands” and then read the book Mustache Baby by Bridget Heos. I think the parents liked the tongue-in-cheek humor in this one! It’s a funny book […]
Family Storytime – Silly Animal Stories – April 2
Published on :We read some pretty funny animal stories in our family storytime! Here are some of the books & activities we shared: OUR BOOKS: Clarabella’s Teeth by An Vrombaut Which is Round? Which is Bigger? by Mineka Mamada The Baby That Roared by Simon Puttock OUR FLANNEL BOARD: Teasing Mr. Crocodile […]