Infant and Toddler Time – Pumpkins

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This Tuesday we explored books about pumpkins and all things Halloween!  We started by following Batty (our library bat) into the storyhour room!  At the conclusion of storytime, each of the children picked a “felt” pumpkin from the library’s pumpkin patch and placed it onto the felt board!  The end result?  A colorful, […]

Infant and Toddler Time – Play and Pretend

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Last Tuesday we read books about playing and pretending for our Infant and Toddler Storytimes.  Here are some of the stories and activities we shared about our theme! Stories During our infant storytime, we read Meeow and the Little Chairs.  In Sebastian Braun’s story, Meeow and her friends use their colorful chairs […]

Infant & Toddler Time – Apples

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The first meeting of our fall session of Infant and Toddler Storytime was ALL about APPLES – the juicy kind!  Here are some of the stories and activities we shared about our theme! Stories During our infant storytime, we read about Pepo and Lolo’s quest to reach a red, juicy apple stuck […]

Family Storytime – Animals???

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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 – Spiders, Flies & Other Creepy Crawlies…

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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 […]

Family Storytime – Owls & Such – Aug. 6

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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.  […]

Toddler Storytime: Potty

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In Toddler Storytime this week I tried something new: a potty-training theme! We started with Clap Everybody and Say Hello and our Scarf Song and Peekaboo: Then we read a book with pop art/comic book style illustrations called I Use the Potty by Maria van Lieshout. The format lends itself […]

Infant and Toddler Storytimes: Feelings

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We started our storytime today with scarves, and sang a song: One bright scarf waiting for the wind to blow Toss it up high and wave it down low Wiggle it fast and wiggle it slow (hide the scarf) Hey! Where did it go? (Source: adapted from a song found […]

Infant and Todder Storytimes: Animal Sounds

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Today we did a lot of animal talk–woof, meow, ribbit, roar, quack, and oink! We all put on animal hats and played Peekaboo: We read I Can Roar! by Frank Asch, with large holes in each page of this board book so you can stick your face in and “be” […]

Infant and Toddler Storytimes: Food!

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Today’s theme was food, and our tactile thing was shaker eggs. They’re shaped like eggs, and they have beans inside, so…. yeah! I did more books this time than usual. Some themes suggest so many good books I just can’t pick only two! We sang “Clap Everybody and Say Hello” […]