Building Block Award Nominees, Week 2 -- 9/16/25

Story Times are held weekly on Monday and Tuesday mornings at 10:00 am. A monthly virtual Story Time is posted the first Tuesday of the month on the library's Facebook page.  It is available to view for one month before the next video is posted.

Click HERE for this month's virtual Story Time.

Ploof by Ben Clanton
Towed by Toad by Jashar Awan
I Live in a Tree Trunk by Meg Fleming

Books:
Bear's Lost Glasses by Leo Timmers
Dig Dig Dinosaur by Professor Anjali Goswami
Just One Flake by Travis Jonker
Mr. Fox's Game of No by David LaRochelle
Peg Gets Crackin' Jo Renfro
The Quiet Forest by Charlotte Offsay
Simon and the Better Bone by Corey Tabor

Craft: Car with Driver
- Print template onto cardstock or heavy paper
- Cut out pieces (driver, circle/tires)
- Cut a piece of cardstock into quarters
- Cut a slit into the quarter sheet's center for driver
- Color pieces (quarter sheet/car body, tires, driver)
- Glue quarter sheet into a tube
- Glue tires to sides of car
- Slide driver into slit at top of car

Extension Activities:
- Learn more about animal habitats by visiting a zoo or nature area such as Grants Farm or Powder Valley.
- Play a game of Green Light, Red Light.


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Good Afternoon! Story Time: March 20-21, 2017

Books:
Are You Ready to Play Outside? by Mo Willems *
Buddy and the Bunnies in Don't Play With Your Food by Bob Shea
The Doghouse by Jan Thomas
Rex Wrecks It by Ben Clanton *
Winter Woes by Marty Kelley

Craft: Puzzle
The children colored a cardstock color sheet of a playground scene.  They could then cut the picture into 12 pieces of cutting on the lines on the back of the sheet.

Literacy Extensions:
- After reading Rex Wrecks It, have your children practice teamwork by working together to build something out of blocks.
- Play the alphabet game - trying to find all of the letters of the alphabet in a book.

Building Block Award Nominees Story Time: September 12-13, 2016

Books:
I Don't Want to Be a Frog by Dev Petty *
Rex Wrecks It! by Ben Clanton *
Simon's New Bed by Christian Trimmer *

Craft: Frog
The kids colored a frog cutout and a small fly cutout. They then glued on a small strip of paper for a paper tongue and glued the fly to the tongue.



Literacy Extensions:
- After reading Rex Wrecks It, practice teamwork and sharing by building a block tower together.
- After reading I Don't Want to Be a Frog, have your child "rewrite" the story with another animal that would rather be something else.


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