Fairy Tales & Folk Songs: Week 4 -- 2/27/24

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.

Seven Blind Mice by Ed Young
This Little Piggy by Tim Harrington
Do Your Ears Hang Low? by Jenny Cooper

Books:

The Brave Little Seamstress by Mary Pope Osborne

The Completed Hickory Dickory Dock by Jim Aylesworth

The Farmer in the Dell by John O'Brien

Jack and Jill by Daniel Kirk

Little Good Wolf by Janet Stevens

Mary Had a Little Lamb by Mary Ann Hoberman

One, Two, Buckle My Shoe by Jane Cabrera

Craft: Elephant

- Print template on cardstock or heavy paper

- Cut out pieces

- Color pieces

- Glue pieces together as shown in picture

Extension Activities:

- Have your child try to identify some common objects just by touch while blindfolded.

- Extend This Little Piggy by coming up with more activities the piggies could do.

Fairy Tales & Folk Songs: Week 3 -- 2/20/24

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.

The Little Red Hen (Makes a Pizza) by Philemon Sturges
On Top of Spaghetti by Paul Brett Johnson

Books:

The Cheese by Margie Palatini

Hansel and Gretel by Bethann Wollvin

Here We Go Round the Mulberry Bush by Jane Cabrera

Little Bunny Foo Foo: The Real Story by Cori Doerrfeld

The Princess and the Packet of Frozen Peas by Tony Wilson

Who Took the Cookies from the Cookie Jar? by Bonnie Lass

Craft: Little Red Hen with Pizza

- Print template at left onto cardstock or heavy paper

- Cut out

- Color 

- Fold wings to cover pizza

Extension Activities:

- After reading Hansel and Gretel, make a gingerbread house decorating it with various candies.

- On a trip to the grocery store, ask your child to point out foods while walking through the store that are in different folk tales, folk songs, and nursery rhymes.

Fairy Tales & Folk Songs: Week 2 -- 2/13/24

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.

Hare and Tortoise by Alison Murray
The Itsy Bitsy Spider by Iza Trapani
Old Mikamba Had a Farm by Rachel Isadora

Books:

The Bear Went Over the Mountain by Iza Trapani

Frog Went A-Courtin' by John Langstaff
Old MacDonald Had a Farm by Gus Grimly

Peter and the Wolf by Christopher Raschka

Redlocks and the Three Bears by Claudia Rueda

There Was an Old Lady Who Swallowed a Fly by Simms Taback

Three Little Kittens (and One Little Mouse!) by Barbara McClintock

Craft: Tortoise

- Print template onto cardstock or heavy paper

- Color pieces (body, shell circles)

- Glue together as shown in picture at left

Extension Activities:

- After reading Hare and Tortoise, hold some races.  Try different types of races (ex - relay race, hopping, complete activity, etc.).

- Learn about the different animals on farms in Africa versus the US.  Which animals are different?  Which animals are the same?

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Picture Book Genres: Folk & Fairy Tales -- 6/28/22

Story Times are held weekly on Monday and Tuesday mornings at 10:00 am and Tuesday evenings at 6:00 pm.  Online Story Times will be posted weekly on Tuesday mornings.  (The video is available to watch for one week before a new one is uploaded.)

Click HERE for this week's Story Time video.

The True Story of the 3 Little Pigs by Jon Scieszka

The Completed Hickory Dickory Dock by Jim Aylesworth

Books:  (Folk Tales, Fairy Tales, Nursery Rhymes, Folk Songs, Fables, etc.)

5 Little Ducks by Denise Fleming

And There Was Morning and There Was Evening by Harriet Helfand

The Croaky Pokey! by Ethan Long

Little Bunny Foo: The Real Story by Cori Doerrfeld

The Little Red Hen by John Escott

Mary Had a Little Lamb by Mary Ann Hoberman

Old MacDonald Had a Farm by Jane Cabrera

This Little Piggy by Tim Harrington

You're A Grand Old Flag by George M. Cohan

Zomo the Rabbit by Gerald McDermott

Wolf Headband

- Color head/face and extra strip

- Glue strips together to make headband

- Color and glue ears to head

Extension Activities:

- Watch one of the many animated adaptations of a fairy tale or folk tales (i.e. Chicken Little, Sleeping Beauty, etc.).

- After reading a traditional fairy or folk tale, ask your child to retell the story from one of the other character's point of view.