Toddler Storytime: Library Love
Hello, readers. I am realizing that my new part time schedule with more programming responsibilities is reducing my ability to blog as much. I am still juggling and hopefully it will all settle sooner rather than later. In the meantime I’ll continue plugging away at my back log of themes. I haven’t done a books…
Toddler Storytime: Ice Cream
Who doesn’t like ice cream? No one in my storytime sessions, that’s for sure. We had an enthusiastic bunch for this sweet theme. August was a great time for me to do it, since it’s still summery but since our Summer Reading Program was over I didn’t need to tie it to the overall SRP…
Toddler Storytime: Garbage Trucks
Garbage trucks was a super-fun theme! I was inspired by the book Every Monday Mabel by Jashar Awan, which was one of the nominees for my state’s early literacy book award, the Firefly. It didn’t end up being the winner, but it was definitely my daughter’s favorite of the bunch. It’s an excellent storytime title,…
Toddler Storytime: Art
We are back to our regular indoor storytimes for the fall season, with a few changes. I’ll spare casual readers all the details if you are only interested in the theme activities – feel free to skip the next paragraph! I am surprised that I’ve never done a general Art theme before. It’s definitely broad…
Summer Storytimes: Unearth a Story
Welcome back, readers! I hope you have had a wonderful summer. I personally love summer at the library – even if it is busy and sometimes exhausting. I love seeing how much our families love being here, the excitement of the littles, and the appreciation of grownups for giving them something fun to do. Our…
Stories & Stations: Bugs
Bugs is such a fun theme – there are so many kinds of bugs and so many ways to think about presenting a program on them! Even though “bugs” is not a scientific category, I like using it as it can include all kinds of creepy-crawlies including insects, arachnids, worms, snails, and even terrestrial crustaceans…
Stories & Stations: Five Senses
I’ve never done a five senses storytime before, but doing it as a storytime with stations* was a perfect way to explore this concept! I had a lot of fun creating each of the stations, and they seemed to go over well. *We are doing a new format for our storytimes in a transition period…
Stories & Stations: Earth Day
April 22 is Earth Day! Here is our Stories & Stations* storytime, planned by my wonderful colleague (we alternate planning weeks.) There were a few activities that were planned but for time reasons weren’t ready, so we made adaptations. It was a good reminder that our families like the experience of storytime, and they roll…
Stories & Stations: Garden
This week we celebrated spring with a gardening theme! We are doing a new format for our storytimes in a transition period of personnel change and calling it Stories & Stations (you can read the whole saga of the whys and hows at my last post.) I had worked with a community member earlier in…
Stories & Stations: Baby Animals
My library is in a transition time. Our longtime and beloved preschool programmer just retired after more than 40 years! We won’t be hiring her replacement for several months, so we are doing some creative programming solutions. Rather than splitting age groups for Itty Bitty (0-3.5) and Preschool (3.5-6) ages as we have up until…
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