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    Storytime Theme: Holi

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    This is the most colorful holiday that I know of and it’s such a great holiday to celebrate at storytime because of all the colors! Come celebrate Holi, a Hindu Festival of Colors, Love, and Spring. Many people celebrate by spreading powdered color on each other and there is music…

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    Storytime Theme: St. Patrick’s Day

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    Celebrate St. Patrick’s Day with this special storytime lesson plan all about leprechauns, clovers, and a little bit of luck! If you want to incorporate the color green into this storytime as well, check out this lesson plan all about green. The picture books below combine both classic titles as…

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    2025 Picture Book Gift Guide

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    Just in time for Black Friday, Small Business Saturday, and Cyber Monday, I’ve curated a list of 36 picture books that were published this year that will make the perfect gifts this holiday season! Books are some of the best gifts you can give loved ones because they are so…

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    Little Kids, Big Emotions: Jealousy

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    We have a few more emotions to hit before this series is over, but if you’ve missed any of the previous posts, please make sure to go back and take a look – happy, sad, mad, shy, enthusiasm, frustrated, silly, calm, anxious, and scared! Today’s emotion is the green-eyed monster of jealousy…

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    Storytime Theme: Eid

    You can’t very well have an Eid storytime without a Ramadan storytime! But, you’re in luck, because you’ll find both lesson plans on Literacious! Celebrate Eid at storytime with these wonderful picture books, a few songs, and some crafts too! I’ve provided both stories as well as few non-fiction books…

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    Storytime Theme: Days of the Week

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    I hadn’t realized (until I had basically written up this entire lesson plan) that I had created a Days of the Week storytime lesson plan just a few years ago. But, alas, here we are and I found a few new titles, songs, and activities to do! I think this…

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    Little Kids, Big Emotions: Scared

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    If you can believe it, we’ve hit our tenth emotion for this series, but if you’ve missed any of the others, please make sure you go back and check them out – happy, sad, mad, shy, enthusiasm, frustrated, silly, calm, and anxious! Today’s emotion, scared, can similar to anxious in many settings,…

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    Storytime Theme: Doors

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    This storytime, like many, started as one thing and then morphed it’s way into this one. I really wanted to do a knocking on the door/ringing the doorbell storytime, but I was really struggling to come up with books to fit the theme. So, instead, I decided to go with…