Family Storytime/Craft "All Presents Accounted For" - Clarence Dillon Library
Come join us for a STEM Story & Craft --- Saturday 12/21 10:30
Ages 4 and up (siblings welcomed). Saturday, Dec. 21, 10:30 am
Join Carol Levin for a great story plus a fun wrapping paper & card craft afterwards!
Booktalked: Rabbit's Gift (A Fable from China) by George Shannon, Silver Packages (An Appalachian Story) by Cynthia Rylant, and Boxes for Katje (a story of American packages to Europe after WW2) - had kids vote for which one I should read.
Read: Silver Packages by Cynthia Rylant
Song/Flannel pieces: He'll be coming round the mountain when he comes
Read (silly story): The Gift by Gabriela Keselman (a child's parents try to figure out what kind of gift could be big, strong, soft, sweet and other qualities...)
Song (silly verses): I had a little driedel, I made it out of clay... soap, ice, straw, etc.
Booktalked: Gifts by Jo Ellen Bogart (a grandmother brings her granddaughter gifts from all over the world - illustrations created from plasticine), The Carpenter's Gift: A Christmas Tale about the Rockefeller Christmas Tree by David Rubin, Night Tree by Cynthia Rylant (a family decorates a tree with edibles for the forest animals), December by Eve Bunting (a homeless mother and child experience a Christmas miracle), The Extraordinary Gift by Florence Langlois (celebrates all the marvelous imaginary things a kid can find in the pages of a book)
Singable Book: The Marvelous Toy by Tom Paxton
and, in celebration of today's snowfall:
Song/Flannel: In the Freezer by Joe Scruggs
Action Song: I'm a little snowman
Plastic bag snowball fight to the song Sleigh Ride by Leroy Anderson
Crafts: making wrapping paper with stamps & stamp pads, cards with stickers and markers
Lyrics:
https://carolsimonlevin.blogspot.com/2015/01/singalong-winters-day.html
https://carolsimonlevin.blogspot.com/2013/12/singalong-keep-spiritwinter-holiday.html
More info on these books & themes:
https://carolsimonlevin.blogspot.com/search/label/Gifts%20and%20Giving
