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Program Goals:  Encourage creativity and problem-solving Allow children to experience different art products and styles Develop fine motor abilities Attendance: 35 Project: Monster Boxes Supplies Recycled tissue boxes, egg cartons Bookmark templates (if doing bookmarks) Colored/patterned paper, paper scraps  Decorations (pipe cleaners are very popular) Glue, scissors, tape Instructions and Notes I originally got this idea from a display idea on Keeping up with kids : Monster boxes and I sometimes do  Monster bookmarks  although those aren't always popular. Project: Bottle Cap Art Supplies Bottle caps (donated, a large box full) Permanent markers Paint; paintbrushes Recycled card stock Glue Tablecloths Instructions and Notes How it works: Kids decorate bottle caps with permanent markers or paint, glue to card stock to create pictures. Project: 3-D Collage Sculptures Supplies : Styrofoam balls from S&S Worldwide pipe cleaners (teacher packs from Discount School Su...

Program Goals Pass on early literacy message and encourage families to continue early literacy at home Encourage circulation and storytime attendance Reach families who are unable to attend storytime Notes for the future Last used December 2016 Miss storytime? You can practice many of the early literacy concepts we use in storytime at home! Don't forget to sign up for text alerts so you can make it to the next storytime! Theme: Winter holidays Use the five early literacy practices; talking, singing, reading, playing and writing with these books and projects! TALK about the books. What characters do you see in the books? What do they do for the holidays? What does your family do for the holidays? How are you the same and different? Get ready to WRITE by using fine motor skills to decorate your holiday craft. SING a holiday song or rhyme. Rhyming and clapping rhythms helps children hear the sounds in words, part of phonological awareness. The following rhymes are great for recognizin...

Program Goals Pass on early literacy message and encourage families to continue early literacy at home Encourage circulation and storytime attendance Reach families who are unable to attend storytime Notes for the future Last used: 9-1-16 Miss storytime? You can practice many of the early literacy concepts we use in storytime at home! Don't forget to sign up for text alerts so you can make it to the next storytime! Theme: Let it snow! Use the five early literacy practices; talking, singing, reading, playing and writing with these books and projects! TALK about the books you read together. Look for fiction and nonfiction stories about the snow in the Nature: Seasons neighborhood. Practice narrative stories by retelling the story after you read it. Get ready to WRITE by drawing on your snowflakes with crayons or markers. SING along with Kathy Reid-Naiman on her winter CD, "Sing the cold winter away" which includes traditional rhymes and fingerplays as well as holiday songs....

Program Goals Introduce kids to folktales Complement school curriculum focusing on folktales Distribute handout to encourage kids to visit the library Toddlers (*nonfiction) Preschool and Kindergarten (*nonfiction) No dinner by Jessica Souhami Foxy by Jessica Souhami That's good, that's bad by Aliki Goldilocks and the three dinosaurs by Mo Willems Long Stories (*nonfiction) The Princess and the Pig by Jonathan Emmett The great race by Nathan Scott Footprints in the snow by Mei Matsuoka Flannelboard/Movement/Activity Opening: The more we get together (kids say names when I point to them) The Enormous Carrot Red Hen by Emberley The old woman and her pig The Gingerbread Boy (fractured) The squeaky door by Margaret Read MacDonald Closing: Sunny Day Cultures introduced Indonesian, Scandinavian, Jewish

Balloon monsters are always popular Program Goals Get people into the library before winter Saturday program for working families Catch leftover enthusiasm of Halloween Encourage families to check out fairy tales Attendance: 50 Enchanted Forest (lobby) Create wings and masks Supplies Cardboard wings from  Discount School Supply Cardboard and paper masks (die cut) Decorations Large popsicle sticks Regular tape, staples, scissors, glue dots, glue Wipes, paper towels Deep in the Enchanted Forest (community room) Half of the community room was set up to make swords (and decorate shields they collected on their journey) the other half was for fighting balloon monsters. Supplies Pasteboard strips (donated) Duct tape (silver, gold, grey) Balloons, markers Gingerbread house (storyroom) This was for puppet and block play with a few extra crafts. Supplies Die-cut gingerbread people Markers, crayons, glitter glue Pencils (for wands) Ribbon Tape, scissors Fairy Tale Journey (throughout library...