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Showing posts with label car. Show all posts

Tuesday, September 16, 2025

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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Tuesday, June 4, 2024

Adventures on the Road -- 6/4/24

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.

Are We There Yet? by Dandi Daley Mackall
Let's Go for a Drive! by Mo Willems
Moo! by David LaRochelle










Books:
Mrs. Armitage: Queen of the Road by Quentin Blake
Number One Sam by Greg Pizzoli
Sakes Alive! A Cattle Drive by Karma Wilson
Toot Toot Zoom! by Phyllis Root
Tulip Sees America by Cynthia Rylant
The Tweedles Go Electric by Monica Kulling
Vroom! by Barbara McClintock


Craft: Car with Driver Puppet
- Print template onto cardstock or heavy paper
- Cut out car and cut slit along driver's window
- Color car
- Decorate top of craft stick as driver
- Slide craft stick through slit 
- (Optional) - Glue craft stick into place



Extension Activities:
- Play a road trip game in the car such as License Plate BINGO (how many different states license plates do you see) or the Alphabet Game (find the letters of the alphabet on roadside signs).
- Plan a road trip using a map.  Ask your child to find the best route between two cities on a map.


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