Halloween Story Time -- October 25-26, 2021

Outdoor Story Times are held weekly on Monday and Tuesday mornings at 10:00 am.  (Registration is required to attend.)  Online Story Times will be posted weekly on Tuesday mornings.  (The video is available to watch for one week before a new one is uploaded.)

Click HERE for this week's Story Time video.

Ghost in the House by Ammi-Joan Paquette
Click, Clack, Boo! by Doreen Cronin

Books:
10 Spooky Pumpkins by Gris Grimly

Bears and Boos by Shirley Parenteau

The Hallo-Wiener by Dav Pilkey

Jungle Halloween by Maryann Cocca-Leffler
Minerva Louise at Halloween by Janet Morgan Stoeke
Not Very Scary by Carol Brendler

Pick a Pumpkin by Patricia Toht
Six Creepy Sheep by Judith Ross Enderle

Craft: Mummy Treat Bag

- Cut out circles for eyes and glue onto the top of a brown paper lunchbag

- Cut strips of white paper and glue onto bag for mummy strips

- (Optional)  Go trick or treating to fill bag up

Extension Activities:

- Both books are about fears.  Talk with your child about what things they are scared of.  Then come up with ideas to help settle those fears.

- Ask your child to come up with a Halloween costume using items you have around the house.  (i.e. use a sheet to become a ghost, cut out and tape facial features to an orange shirt to become a jack-o-lantern, etc.)

Pumpkins Story Time -- October 18-19, 2021

Outdoor Story Times are held weekly on Monday and Tuesday mornings at 10:00 am.  (Registration is required to attend.)  Online Story Times will be posted weekly on Tuesday mornings.  (The video is available to watch for one week before a new one is uploaded.)

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Plumply, Dumply Pumpkin by Mary Serfozo
Pumpkin Trouble by Jan Thomas

Books: 

10 Spooky Pumpkins by Gris Grimly

Five Little Pumpkins by Iris Van Rynbach

Froggy Picks a Pumpkin by Jonathan London
Mr. Pumpkin's Tea Party by Erin Barker

Pick a Pumpkin by Patricia Toht

The Pumpkin Fair by Eve Bunting

Sixteen Runaway Pumpkins by Dianne Ochiltree

Ten Orange Pumpkins by Stephen Savage

Craft: Happy Pumpkin
- Print out template onto heavy paper or cardstock and cut out pieces

- Color ovals different pumpkin colors

- Glue ovals together to make pumpkin shape.  (Largest oval in the middle with mid-sized ovals on either side and smallest ovals on the ends.)

- Glue on eyes and draw on smile

- Color and glue on short rectangle stem and leaf to top of pumpkin

- Color long rectangle as vine.  Then curl and glue to top by stem and leaf.

Extension Activities:

- Visit a pumpkin patch.  Select a pumpkin to take home and decorate.

- Roast some pumpkins seeds using a little olive oil and various spices (Visit https://wholefully.com/roasted-pumpkin-seeds-six-ways/ for directions and spice recipes).

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Autumn Leaves Story Time -- October 12, 2021

Outdoor Story Times are held weekly on Monday and Tuesday mornings at 10:00 am.  (Registration is required to attend.)  Online Story Times will be posted weekly on Tuesday mornings.  (The video is available to watch for one week before a new one is uploaded.)

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Fall Leaves Fall by Zoe Hall
Fall Is Not Easy by Marty Kelley

Books: (Leaves)
Leaf Jumpers by Carole Gerber

Leaf Man by Lois Ehlert

Leaves by David Ezra Stein

The Little Yellow Leaf by Carin Berger

Lucky Leaf by Kevin O'Malley

Craft: Fall Leaf

- Cut out a leaf shape from cardstock or heavy paper

- Color leaf

- Crumple up small pieces of tissue paper and glue them to the leaf

- (Optional) Punch a hole in the leaf to tie a piece of yarn for a hanger.

Extension Activities:

- Go on a nature walk and try to find as many different types of leaves as you can.

- Collect fallen leaves and glue them onto paper to make pictures.

Fall Story Time -- October 4-5, 2021

Outdoor Story Times are held weekly on Monday and Tuesday mornings at 10:00 am.  (Registration is required to attend.)  Online Story Times will be posted weekly on Tuesday mornings.  (The video is available to watch for one week before a new one is uploaded.)

I See Fall by Charles Ghigna
Red Are the Apples by Marc Harshman

Books:  (Fall)

Every Autumn Comes the Bear by Jim Arnosky
Fall Mixed Up by Bob Raczka

I Know It's Autumn by Eileen Spinelli

In the Middle of Fall by Kevin Henkes

It's Fall by Linda Glaser

My Autumn Book by Wong Herbert Yee

When Autumn Falls by Kelly Nidey

Craft: Fall Puzzle

- Print picture at left onto heavy paper or cardstock

- Color picture

- Cut along the straight lines to make a 16 piece puzzle

Extension Activities:

- Go on a fall nature walk.  Look for fall items including fallen leaves, acorns, etc.

- Make an apple birdseed feeder for the fall birds.  Core an apple.  String through a piece of string, rope, etc with a stick tied at the end for a hanger.  Fill the hole with peanut butter mixed with bird seed.  Hang on a tree branch.