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Tuesday, April 15, 2025

Royal Stories: The Princess and the Pit Stop -- 4/15/25

Each month, Miss Amy records a virtual Story Time that goes along with the monthly theme.  It will be posted monthly in the morning of the first Tuesday of the month.  (The video is available to watch for one month before a new one is uploaded.) 

Click HERE for this month's Story Time video.

The Princess and the Pit Stop by Tom Angleberger
Dragon Was Terrible by Kelly DiPucchio
Falling for Rapunzel by Leah Wilcox











Books:
The Big Princess by Taro Miura
Good Knight, Mustache Baby by Bridget Heos
Lovabye Dragon by Barbara Joosse
The Paper Bag Princess by Robert Munsch
Reading Beauty by Deborah Underwood
Sleeping Bobby by Will Osborne


Craft: Crown
- Print template (at left) onto cardstock or heavy paper
- Cut out crown pieces
- Color pieces
- Optional -- Glue on sequins for jewels
- Glue pieces together into headband to fit head



Extension Activities:
- At the end of the The Princess and the Pit Stop they had a dance contest.  Have a fun royal dance party.  Try out different dances.
- Play a game of Telephone.  Have several children line up in a row.  Whisper a sentence into the first child's ear.  Have them then whisper that sentence into the next child's ear and so on through the line.  See how the sentence changed by the end of the line.

Tuesday, July 25, 2023

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.