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Life-Size Clue (it’s easier than you think!)
Yesterday morning, we offered Life-Size Candyland for our younger patrons, definitely check out all the fun we had! And in the afternoon, we offered Life-Size Clue for our middle schoolers. The set-up isn’t too difficult, it just requires more than a little math. And some willingness to crawl around on the…
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Life-Size Candyland
The kids have the day off of school, so we decided to take advantage and offer Life-Size Candyland at the library. It was absolutely crazy, but the kids had a great time! We found this idea from the ALSC blog and from a website called Recreation Guy. And what we…
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Sensory-Friendly Storytime Theme: Polka-Dots
Today I have four storytimes at the Montgomery County Intermediate Unit where children with disabilities go to preschool. I see a wide range of disabilities, so the best thing for me to do is bring great tried and true storytime books that are interactive and fun! The kids really loved…
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Storytime Theme: Purple – Part 2 (Yoga)
Today’s storytime used the same books from my toddler storytime on Monday and Tuesday, but were much more successful, even with 22 kids (ages 2 – 5) doing yoga! The storytime as a whole tended toward the crazy side, but the kids did a fairly great job with the yoga poses…
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Storytime Theme: Purple
This was the first storytime of the fall session and I had far, far too much planned. Because it was the first one, I had to explain a lot of who I was, how storytime works, and our storytime rules. This took up so much time that we didn’t even…
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Butterfly STEAM Event
Today is an exciting day in our library! We are hosting a butterfly pavilion where children as young as two can experience real-live monarch butterflies. We’re hosting a story time this morning and an afternoon program for elementary school children this afternoon. Throughout the day, the pavilion will be open…
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Enchanted Library or So It Begins…
This year marks our sixth year transforming our library into a magical place for families to visit. Each November we close the library early on a Friday night and transform it with twinkle lights and backgrounds and props into a tour filled with characters from children’s books. Each year’s theme…
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Preschool Dance Party
I only ended up with six kids for this afternoon’s program (19 were registered), but we had a great time! The kids were super energetic, ready to dance and didn’t stop for over 30 minutes. We took one reading break and with only six kids we spent a lot of time…
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Toddler Dance Party
We had a lot of fun at our toddler dance party this morning. It’s so interesting to see what kids do – some come in ready to dance, others take a while to warm up, but end up dancing in the end. Our program lasted about 45 minutes with some…
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Fun Friday – Yoga
The kids were all a little wired for our Fun Friday program. We ended up with 21 kids for 45 minutes in grades 1 – 4. It’s only the second week of school, the weather was awesome, and it was Friday, so naturally the kids were bouncing off the walls. …
