Spring Story Time Schedule is set!!

Hi everyone!! Hope you are staying warm on these cold, winter days.
We have lots of new books that have been added to our collection the past few weeks. Stop by and check out the newest selections.
Our spring story time - Barnyard Bash! - will begin the week of March 2. Come by and pick up a schedule at the front desk of your local library. You can also find the schedule on our website calendar.

Pat

Get Creative- Week #10 Photos

Our Week #10 Activity Table included an imaginative picture book, costume items, and story cubes.

A few book selections.

Getting our imaginations ready by reading!

For our activity, we used items in our Story Jar...

to create our own story!

We capped off the story time by making fun imaginary animals!

A finished Planimal!

Ah, the joys of story time... you might get the best seat in the house...

Or get to be a princess for a day!

Keep watching the left-hand column of this blog for an updated Summer 2014 Program Schedule!  You can also pick up a colorful, printed schedule at the front desk of your library.

Keep reading!

Shaen

Get Creative- Week #10

Spring Story Time (Week #10)
Weekly Theme: Get Creative... with Imagination!

Books: Not a Box by Antoinette Portis, Press Here by Herve Tullet, Laura Numeroff's 10-Step Guide to Living with Your Monster by Laura Numeroff, Jeremy Draws a Monster by Peter McCarty, Mail Harry to the Moon by Robie Harris

Activity: story jar

Craft: "Plan-imals" craft

Pictures of the last week of story time are up in the next post, so... 

Keep reading!

Shaen

Get Creative- Week #9 Photos

This week's Activity Table included "flower tower" blocks, paper to make a pretend cocoon, and accordian-fold caterpillars!

A few of our book selections.

We searched for "bugs" in the beans for our gardening game (followed by some pretend flower planting!).

Getting ready to play our game at the Bourbon branch.

Working on the craft at the Viburnum branch.

Getting crafty and creative at Ironton Headquarters.

Some finished pipecleaner flowers at Steelville!

Crafty cuteness at Viburnum!

Beautiful bouquets (for Mother's Day?) at Fredericktown!

More wonderful flowers from some wonderful kiddos.

Posing with his craft (and the tadpole and snail bucket he brought to show off at story time!).

Keep reading!

Shaen

Get Creative- Week #9

Spring Story Time (Week #9)
Weekly Theme: Get Creative... with Gardening!

Books: Don't Worry, Bear! by Greg Foley; Up, Down, and Around by Katherine Ayres, Flower Garden by Eve Bunting, Growing Vegetable Soup by Lois Ehlert, My Garden by Kevin Henkes, Grandpa Green by Lane Smith

Activity: "bugs-in-the-beans" sensory tub search

Craft: pipe cleaner flowers

Pictures of the ninth week of story time are up in the next post, so... 

Keep reading!

Shaen

Get Creative- Week #8 Photos

The week's Activity Table featured jingle sticks, a bucket drum, and loads of musical instruments to try out!

Hmm... which is our favorite?

A few of our book picks: Charlie Parker Played Be Bop, Banjo Granny, and Max Found Two Sticks.

We had lots of fun clapping and stomping through our opening song.

Reading books.

Freeze dancing to music for our game.

Making our craft- paper tube kazoos!

Keep reading!

Shaen

Get Creative- Week #8

Spring Story Time (Week #8)
Weekly Theme: Get Creative... with Music!

Books: Jazz on a Saturday Night by Leo and Diane Dillon, Charlie Parker Played Be-Bop by Chris Raschka, Banjo Granny by Sarah Martin Busse, I Know a Shy Fellow Who Swallowed a Cello by Barbara Garriel

Activity: freeze dancing to music

Craft: cardboard tube kazoo

Pictures of the eighth week of story time are up in the next post, so... 

Keep reading!

Shaen

Get Creative- Week #7 Photos

This week was all about food!  We read books about pizza and cake.

We held an ice cream cone relay race for one of our games...

And tried to be pizza makers, tossing pepperoni and olives onto our pizza slices.

Then we made scent-sational apple pie pictures sprinkled with real cinnamon!

More perfect pies!

What a week!  We had a special guest hop by to visit us at our Fredericktown branch- the Easter Bunny!

Keep reading!

Shaen

Get Creative- Week #7

Spring Story Time (Week #7)
Weekly Theme: Get Creative... with Food!

Books: Whopper Cake by Karma Wilson, Pete's a Pizza by William Steig, Yoko by Rosemary Wells, Daddy Makes the Best Spaghetti by Anna Grossnickle Hines

Activity: ice cream cone relay

Craft: scented apple pie pictures

Pictures of the seventh week of story time are up in the next post, so... 

Keep reading!

Shaen

Get Creative- Week #6 Photos

The Week #6 Activity Table included animal movement cards, movement dice, and ribbon rings.

A few book choices for the week- we got our exercise dancing and grooving!

Reading Giraffes Can't Dance by Giles Andreae and Guy Parker-Rees.

Reading Dancing Feet by Lindsey Craig and Marc Brown.

The kids helped decorate our seasonal wall tree at Recklein Memorial Library at Cuba.

We did parachute play for our game.

We had a blast working together to bounce the pompoms off the parachute!

We used magnets and paint-dipped paper clips to create fun swirl art for our craft.

See ya next week!

Keep reading!

Shaen

Get Creative- Week #6

Spring Story Time (Week #6)
Weekly Theme: Get Creative... with Movement!

Books: Hilda Must Be Dancing by Karma Wilson, Dancing Feet by Lindsey Craig, Giraffes Can't Dance by Giles Andreae, Beetle Bop by Denise Fleming

Activity: parachute play

Craft: magnet painting

Pictures of the sixth week of story time are up in the next post, so... 

Keep reading!

Shaen

Reminder- No Story Time This Week!

Don't worry... Get Creative will be back in a week!

Don't forget!  We're on break from our Get Creative story time this week, while Miss Pat and I start prepping for Summer Reading Program (yep, it'll be that time before you know it!).  We'll be back on the road for story time beginning next Monday, and we'll look forward to seeing you then!

In the meantime... keep reading!

Shaen

Get Creative- Week #5 Photos

Reading It Looked Like Spilt Milk: an oldie but a goodie from Charles G. Shaw.

Reading All You Need for a Snowman by Alice Schertle and Barbara Lavallee.

We raced cotton puff clouds for our activity.

Working on our craft.

Working on our craft.

A few finished 3-D paper strip rainbows.

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Shaen

Get Creative- Week #5

Spring Story Time (Week #5)
Weekly Theme: Get Creative... with Nature!

Books: Snowball Fight by Jimmy Fallon, All You Need for a Snowman by Alice Schertle, It Looked Like Spilt Milk by Charles Shaw, Leaf Man by Lois Ehlert, Cloud Boy by Rhode Montijo

Activity: cottonball cloud race

Craft: 3-D rainbow art

Pictures of the fifth week of story time are up in the next post, so... 

Keep reading!

Shaen

Get Creative- Week #4 Photos

 



Our Get Creative with Drama Activity Table included story cubes, sticker stories, and puppet play!



A few of our Week #4 reading choices.



 

"Acting out" in Simon Says!

 

A packed house at Cuba.

Another great crowd at Fredericktown.

Working on paper plate pigeon puppets.

 

A wide-eyed pigeon from our Mo Willems' book.

 

 

Keep reading!

Shaen