Kids Song: If You're Happy and You Know It -- 1/27/26

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 online Story Time.

If You're Happy and You Know It! by Anna McQuinn
My Friends Make Me Happy! by Jan Thomas

Books:
Happy by Emma Dodd
The Happy Book by Andy Rash
A Happy Place by Britta Teckentrup
I Am Happy! by Michael Rosen
Singing in the Rain by Tim Hopgood
Snow Happy! by Patricia Hubbell

Craft: Silly Smiles

- Draw silly mouths/smiles on cardstock or heavy paper

- Cut out mouths/smiles

- Color mouths/smiles

- Optional: Add sequins if you like

- Glue a craft stick to back mouths/smiles

Extension Activities:

- Extend the song "If You're Happy and You Know" by asking your child(ren) to come up with additional actions and verses.

- Make a collage of Happy Items.  Cut out pictures of things that make you happy from an old magazine.  Glue them onto another sheet of paper as a collage.

Mysteries in the Stacks: My Toothbrush Is Missing -- 5/14/24

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.

My Toothbrush Is Missing! by Jan Thomas
What Is Chasing Duck? by Jan Thomas
My Friends Make Me Happy by Jan Thomas

Books:

Milo Is Missing Something by Vern Kousky

The Missing Pairs by Yvonne Ivinson

Not an Alphabet Book: The Case of the Missing Cake by Eoin McLaughlin

Pete the Kitty and the Unicorn's Missing Colors by Kim Dean

The Web Files by Marge Palatini 

Craft: Squirrel

- Print template onto cardstock or heavy paper

- Cut out pieces (body, arms, legs, ears, and tail) and color.

- Roll body and glue into a ring.

- Glue medium strip onto inside front of ring to make arms that stick out either side.

- Glue feet to bottom of ring.

- Glue ears to top of ring.

- Glue tail to back of ring.

- Optional:  Curl tail if you like.

Extension Activities:

- Play a game of I Spy giving hints of the first letter the items start with.

- A great skill to have to solve mysteries is to pay attention and to remember.  Place several items on a tray and let your child look it over for 30-60 seconds.  Then take the tray away and have them tell you what was on the tray.  Increase the number of items on the tray each time to see how many things they can remember.

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Virtual Story Time: Where Is the Green Sheep? by Mem Fox -- 3/18/21

Join us weekly for an online story time featuring a book read by Miss Amy on Tuesdays at 10:00 am.  The video is available to watch for one week before a new one is uploaded.


Click HERE to view the latest video.


Where Is the Green Sheep? by Mem Fox
My Friends Make Me Happy! by Jan Thomas

Books:  (Sheep)

Another Brother by Matthew Cordell

Brenda Is a Sheep by Morag Hood

Farmer Brown Shears His Sheep by Teri Sloat

The Great Sheep Shenanigans by Peter Bently

Lamby Lamb by Christopher Raschka

Mary Had a Little Lamb by Mary Hoberman

Sheep Go to Sleep by Nancy Shaw

The Sheep Who Hatched an Egg by Gemma Merino

Six Sandy Sheep by Judith Ross Enderle

Ten Little Lambs by Alice McGinty

Craft:  Curly Colorful Sheep

- Print out template of sheep.

- Optional -- Cut out sheep if you like.

- Color sheep.

- Roll small strips of colored paper into curls and glue onto sheep.

- Variation:  Tear colored paper into small pieces and glue onto sheep as if collage.

Extension Activities:

- My Friends Make My Happy has the characters guessing what makes sheep happy that starts with the letter "F".  Ask your child to come up with lists of items that make them happy for each letter of the alphabet.

- Go on a scavenger hunt to find green items like the sheep.

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