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Stuffed Animal Sleepover
Tuesday night our library hosted a Stuffed Animal Story Time and Sleepover for children ages 2 – 5. Although this program can take a lot of hands on work, it is definitely worth it to see the children come back to the library to pick up their stuffed animals and…
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Sensory-Friendly Storytime: Sneezing
We’ve been on a pretty long break from our story times, here at the library. Don’t get me wrong, there has been plenty of story times for the holidays and a lot of special guests will be coming to visit in the next couple of weeks, but I’ve had a…
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Story Time Theme – Grandparents
This was my last week of story times for the fall season and I decided it was high time we celebrated grandparents. My grandparents live half-way across the country and I don’t get to see them as much as I would like. Plus they are getting older and as their…
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Story Time Theme – Fruit
Last week’s story time was fun and healthy! We learned all about fruit! From the jungle all the way to the supermarket and the kids really liked the stories. The first two were a little long – they might be better for a preschool story time rather than the toddler…
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Story Time Theme – Spots and Stripes
This week’s story time theme was so fun! We had a great time with spots and stripes, we began with an oldie, but goodie – Harry the Dirty Dog by, Gene Zion. This is a perfect story to talk about spots because Harry changes from a white dog with black…
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Story Time Theme – Orange
This week’s story time theme is the color and the fruit – ORANGE! I have found that color themes are really easy to do because you can find a bunch of stories that incorporate a certain color. This fall I choses orange for the obivous reason that it works really…
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Story Time Theme – Teddy Bears
I am currently providing three different story times for my library – the first is what I call a toddler traditional story time for 2 – 3 1/2 year olds where we read stories, have fingerplays and dance to music, the second is a parachute story time for the same age…
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Creepy Crawly Bug Story Time
We had a small but enthusiastic crowd at toddler story time this morning. Our theme – creepy-crawly bugs! A couple of the girls started out with an, “ewwwww…. I don’t like bugs!” But, I think the books that I picked worked out really well and everyone had a great time! Today…
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Wooo-Wooo: Train Story Time
This week was out train-themed story time. Our story times run in six-week sessions and I try to make sure to include some sort of “boy” theme each session – whether it’s cars, trucks, construction vehicles, etc. This session I decided on trains. It’s not always easy to find books…
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Whoooo’s at Storytime?
This week’s toddler storytime theme was owls! We learned the sign language word for owl (the same motion is used for binoculars as well!) and we read three owl-themed stories. The first story was called Cock-A-Doodle-HOOOOOO! by Mick Manning about an owl who walks into a henhouse on a rainy…