Story Time at Home: Let's Visit France!

Today’s Story Time at Home theme is France!  If you would like to share a picture of your story-time-at-home experience (i.e. You might send a picture of a finished craft project), just shoot us an email at ozarkregionallibraryyouth@gmail.com, and it might get included on our blog!  No names will be included with submissions for privacy reasons.

Let's Visit France Story Time

Books: 

The Cat Who Walked Across France

by Kate Banks and

Georg Hallensleben

Cover image from Goodreads.

Anatole by Eve Titus and

Paul Galdone

Cover image from Goodreads.

Game/Activity: France is recognized as being a hub for perfume-making.  Test your nose with this fun sensory activity!  Gather approximately half-a-dozen small paper Dixie cups, and with a sharp needle, poke a small hole in bottom of each cup.  Put one item in each cup that has a strong scent (i.e. a banana slice, a cotton ball soaked in peppermint extract, a piece of a gingersnap cookie).  Turn the cups upside down on the tables with the items still tucked inside.  Let kids smell the scent wafting from the pinhole in the cups, and guess what the scents are.

Snack: Make crepes!  To make the crepe batter, combine 1 ½ cups of milk, 1 ½ cups of flour, 3 eggs, ¼ teaspoon salt, and 2 tablespoons of melted butter or margarine in a bowl until smooth.  A hand-held mixer will yield the best consistency.  Let the batter sit for an hour.  Then, heat a small skillet.  Pour ¼ cup of the batter into the pan, and tilt from side to side until the bottom of the pan is covered.  When the crepe is cooked, remove it from the pan, and stack on a plate.  Make as many crepes as you would like, and then add your favorite topping– chocolate, whipped cream, diced fruit– before eating!

Craft: Recreate the Eiffel Tower– from toothpicks!

• Gather a box of toothpicks, a sheet of construction paper (preferably black), and glue.  Glitter is optional, but nice!
• Find a picture of the Eiffel Tower, and recreate its shape simply with toothpicks (hint: try making a triangle for the top of the Tower, and more toothpicks to create the “legs” the Tower stands on).
• Glue your toothpicks to your paper.  
• Add more glue to your Parisian scene, and sprinkle on some glitter for extra sparkle.  

I hope you enjoyed this idea for how you can recreate story time at home!  Check back in a few days for more fun, travel-themed ideas focusing on a new area of the world!

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Shaen