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Storytime Theme: Construction
It’s been a hot minute since I created a construction storytime theme. Because it’s such a popular topic for little ones, I knew it was time to create an updated storytime theme. With a lot of different ways to go, you can focus on the building, the tools, or even…
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Storytime Theme: Bees
This week’s storytime is about a vital part of our ecosystem – bees! These little creatures are small but mighty and deserve our respect. Share these great picture books with kids to help them understand the importance of bees and not to be too afraid of them. Did you know…
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Storytime Theme: Baking
Personally, I love to cook way more than I love to bake. But, baking with kids is so much fun and it’s a great activity that introduces math and science, creativity, and experimenting all at the same time! Here are a few books, songs, and activities that you can do…
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Storytime Theme: Octopuses
I’m not sure how I got this far into a blog with an octopus mascot and not have a storytime theme on octopuses! They are some really interesting animals – you can learn more about them from my original post about my logo design, for World Octopus Day, and my…
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Storytime Theme: Hiking
I love going on hikes! My favorite part is probably that you never know what you’ll encounter on a hike – a stream, some wild animals, flowers, plants, and my favorite – waterfalls! My parents took us hiking fairly often when we were little. Sometimes it was just little paths…
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Storytime Theme: Sports
With the popularity of little kids’ sports classes like soccer, gymnastics, and more I thought it would be fun to create a sport-themed storytime! I played a lot of different sports growing up and wasn’t particularly great at any of them. I probably played tennis the longest through high school.…
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Storytime Theme: Eggs
Spring has sprung! This means it’s time for eggs to start hatching. Today’s Storytime Theme: Eggs is perfect for spring. It’s also a really great theme to incorporate science and nonfiction titles. Our Preschool Explorers program at work that features a mini-storytime with hands-on science experiments for preschooler is extremely…
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Top Ten Tuesday: April Showers
It’s a freebie week on Top Ten Tuesday! So with the weather forecast in my area showing rain for the next few days, I thought April Showers was the perfect theme! I’m a girl that needs to see the sun. But, I do love a dark and dreary day if…
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25 Versions of Cinderella
Fairytale retellings are some of my most favorite types of books to read. I think because they are equal parts comfortable, I already know the general storyline, and new with different takes and surprises. So, I was originally going to just do a list of fairy tale retellings, but there…
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Storytime Theme: Kites
It’s been really blustery and windy the past few days which made me think of a perfect storytime theme – Kites! I’m always amazed when I see people flying kites at Valley Forge Park or at the beach, they make it look so easy. Today, I’ve also included two different…