April Is Punny: Jokes -- 4/2/24

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 to view this month's Virtual Story Time.

Knock Knock by Tammi Sauer

Chicken Butt! by Erica Perl

Books:

Barnyard Fun by Maureen Wright

Chicken Butt's Return by Eric Perl

Knock Knock by various authors

Max and Ruby's Preschool Pranks by Rosemary Wells

Why Did the Monster Cross the Road? by R.L. Stine

Craft: Chicken Butt

- Draw a squat bowling pin shape for chicken's body and cut out

- Draw two chicken legs (triangles at end of long skinny rectangles and cut out)

- Draw a splat for tail feathers and cut out 

- Cut a skinny cloud like shape for head feathers and cut out

- Color pieces

- Glue together as shown in picture at left

Extension Activities:

- Check out a book of jokes for kids from the library and share the jokes with family and friends.

- The Chicken Butt joke relies on rhymes to work.  See if your child can come up with more rhymes for various chicken body parts to continue on the joke.

Goatilocks and the Three Bears -- 7/25/23

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.

Goatilocks and the Three Bears by Erica S. Perl
Falling for Rapunzel by Leah Wilcox
Hush, Little Monster by Denis Markell

Books: (Fractured Fairy Tales)
Interstellar Cinderella by Deborah Underwood
Kate and the Beanstalk by Mary Pope Osborne
Little Red and the Very Hungry Lion by Alex T. Smith
Ninja Red Riding Hood by Corey Rosen Schwartz
The Princess and the Packet of Frozen Peas by Tony Wilson
Redlocks and the Three Bears by Claudia Rueda
The Three Little Wolves and the Big Bad Pig by Eugenios Trivizas
The True Story of the 3 Little Pigs by Jon Scieszka
Waking Beauty by Leah Wilcox

Craft: Coffee FIlter Flowers

- Color a coffee filter on both sides

- Fold coffee filter in half and then into quarters before twisting bottom point into flower.  You can adjust the edges to open up the flower some.

- Twist pipecleaner around bottom point of flower for stem

Extension Activities:

- Explain what a fractured fairy tale is to your child.  Then ask them how the traditional tales would change if just one thing was changed in them (ex - Jack is scared of heights while climbing the Beanstalk, Cinderella loses her gloves instead of her shoe).

- Hold a fairy tale movie marathon.  Watch different movie versions of the same fairy tales and see how they are different.

Chicken Story Time: May 6-7, 2019

Books:
Chicken Butt by Erica Perl *
Chicken in the Kitchen by Tony Johnson *
Chicken Story Time by Sandy Asher *
Chicken Wants a Nap by Tracy Marchini *
Chickens to the Rescue by John Himmelman
Minerva Louise and the Red Truck by Janet Morgan Stoeke

Craft: Chickens in a Nest
This week's craft is based on the above picture.  Kids colored three chicken cutouts.  They also colored a paper plate cut in half.  The chickens were glued to one half of the plate.  The other half of the plate was either glued or stapled to make it into a nest.

Extension Activities:
- Chicken Butt is a book of rhymes for body parts.  See if your child can come up with more rhymes for various body parts.
- Practice counting while reading the books.  Ask your child to count how many chickens are on each page of Chicken Story Time or Chickens to the Rescue.


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