Blue -- 7/1/25

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.

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The Big Blue Spot by Dave Holwitz
Way Down Deep in the Deep Blue Sea by Peter Peck

Books:

Blue Boat by Kersten Hamilton
The Blue Table by Christopher Raschka

The Blue Umbrella by Emily Ann Davison
Blueberry Mouse by Alice Low
Dog Blue by Polly Dunbar

Little Blue Truck by Alice Schertle
One Blue Gnu by Danna Smith

Craft: Bird with Birdhouse
- Color pieces (bird, wooden stick, birdhouse)

- Fold roof down to make overhang and glue at top point so stays in place

- Roll wooden strip into loop and glue

- Glue loop to birdhouse next to "hole"

- Glue bird to loop

Extension Activities:

- Have your child squeeze blueberries into water to create an edible paint.

- Create a blue sky picture by adding star stickers to blue paper.

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Colors Story Time -- Blue, Week 2: March 10-11, 2014

Books:
The Big Blue Spot by Peter Holwitz *
Blueberry Mouse by Alice Low *
The Bog Baby by Jeanne Willis
I'm the Best Artist in the Ocean by Kevin Sherry *
In a Blue Room by Jim Averbeck

Craft: Blue Whale
Children glued blue tissue paper to a cardstock cutout of a whale.

Literacy Extensions:
- While reading the books, see how many "B"s your child can point out in the text.
- Look at different art styles and ways of drawing the same object (i.e. I'm the Best Artist in the Ocean)

Colors Story Time -- Blue: March 4, 2014

Books:
Blue Chicken by Debrorah Freedman
Chicken Chuck by Bill Martin, Jr. *
Dog Blue by Polly Dunbar *
Little Blue Truck by Alice Schertle *

Craft: Feather Headband
We made feather handbands so we could be like Chicken Chuck.  Children colored a paper feather that was then glued to narrows strips of paper into a headband.  A large blue sequin was glued to the headband as the blue seed.

Literacy Extensions:
- See how many things your child can list that are the color blue.
- Go over animal sounds (i.e. Little Blue Truck)

Blue Story Time - March 25-26, 2013

Books:

The Big Blue Spot - Peter Holwitz *
Blueberry Mouse by Alice Low
Dog Blue by Polly Dunbar *
Grumpy Bird by Jeremy Tankard *
Little Blue Truck by Alice Schertle
What's the Matter, Blue Bunny? by Nicola Smee

Craft: Blue Bird
I revised this craft slightly from the picture.  For the bird's body, cut a small paper plate in half and then cut a small slit in towards the bottom of the curved side.  The wings is a quarter piece of blue paper accordian-folded and slid through the slit.  Bend the paper up slightly and open up the wings.  The tail was made of blue crepe paper strips and the beak was a yellow triangle.  Instead of covering the bird with tissue paper, we simply colored the birds and then drew on an eye.

Literacy Extensions:
- Talk about how colors can be made be mixing two other colors together (i.e. - yellow and blue make green) like in The Big Blue Spot.
- Try to name as many blue items as you can.