2019 Summer Reading Theme “A Universe of Stories” – Night Sky (revised) This month, we celebrate the night sky! For a simple craft project, make constellation pictures: www.crayola.com/crafts/found!-constellations-in-outer-space-craft/ . Elliot, David. Henry’s Stars. Henry sees [continue reading]
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Astronauts Storytime – Revised
2019 Summer Reading Theme “A Universe of Stories” – Astronauts (revised) “A Universe of Stories’ is the 2019 theme for the Collaborative Summer Library Program, which is used by many libraries: www.cslpreads.org/. Space, astronomy, and [continue reading]
Magicians Storytime – Revised
2019 Summer Reading Theme “It’s Showtime at Your Library” – Magicians Even young children have seen a magic show, probably at your library. For a craft project, make magician hats: www.crayola.com/crafts/whirl–twirl-party-hats-craft/. Agee, Jon. Milo’s Hat [continue reading]
Musicians Storytime
2019 Summer Reading Theme “It’s Showtime at Your Library” – Musicians “It’s Showtime at Your Library” is the theme for iRead’s 2019 summer reading program, which is distributed for free to California libraries: www.ireadprogram.org/ and [continue reading]
Art for Babies Storytime
Art for Babies Storytimes for babies and toddlers offer an opportunity to model great read-aloud techniques for parents and gives them the confidence to read to their children every day. A baby-toddler storytime can be [continue reading]
Stars Storytime – Revised
2019 Summer Reading Theme “A Universe of Stories” – Stars (revised) “A Universe of Stories’ is the 2019 theme for the Collaborative Summer Library Program, which is used by many libraries: www.cslpreads.org/. Space, astronomy, and [continue reading]
Moon Storytime – Revised
2019 Summer Reading Theme “A Universe of Stories” – Moon (revised) This month, we celebrate the moon! For a simple craft project, make Phases of the Moon mobiles out of paper plates: https://creativefamilyfun.net/phases-of-moon-mobile/ . Alborozo. [continue reading]
Movies Storytime
2019 Summer Reading Theme “It’s Showtime at Your Library” – Movies Even young children have attended a movie, so make movie-making the theme for a performing arts storytime. For a craft project, make Zoetropes: www.instructables.com/id/Make-a-Zoetrope-21/. [continue reading]