Back to School: Art -- 8/22/23

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.

I Dream of an Elephant by Ami Rubinger
Warthogs Paint by Pamela Duncan Edwards
Mouse Shapes by Ellen Stoll Walsh

Books:
The Dot by Peter Reynolds
I'm the Best Artist in the Ocean by Kevin Sherry
It Looked Like Spilt Milk by Charles G. Shaw
Seen Art? by Jon Scieszka
When Glitter Met Glue by Karne Kilpatrick

Craft: Shapes Collage
- Cut out various shapes of different sizes from colored paper
- Glue shapes onto a piece of white paper to make a picture

Extension Activities:
- Play a game of I Spy or go on a scavenger hunt asking your child to find items of different colors.
- Visit the St. Louis Art Museum. What kind of art there did your child(ren) like?

Shapes Story Time: August 17-18, 2015

Books:
A Circle in the Sky by Zachary Wilson
Circle, Square, Moose by Kelly Bingham
Mouse Shapes by Ellen Stoll Walsh *
Round Is a Tortilla: A Book of Shapes by Roseanne Thong
Shape by Shape by Suse MacDonald *
Shape Spotters by Megan E. Bryant *
Shapes Are Everywhere! by Charles Ghigna *

Craft: Shapes Mouse
This week's craft was the shapes mouse that was made in the book Mouse Shapes by Ellen Stoll Walsh.  The children colored the cardstock cutout shapes and then glued them together to make the mouse.

Literacy Extensions:
- Practice shape recognition by having your child find different shapes wherever you are at.
- Have your child practice drawing shapes.  Don't worry if they are not perfect.  It is the practice that is important.

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