Flowers -- 4/25/23

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.

Bloom Boom! by April Pulley Sayre
Planting a Rainbow by Lois Ehlert
Plant the Tiny Seed by Christie Matheson

Books:
Counting Wildflowers by Bruce McMillan
Dandelion's Dream by Yoko Tanaka
The Happy Day by Ruth Krauss
Have You Ever Seen a Flower? by Shawn Harris
The Hidden Rainbow by Christie Matheson
Sidewalk Flowers by JonArno Lawson

Craft: Flower Clip

- Print template onto heavy paper or cardstock

- Color tulip and leaves before cutting out pieces

- Color clothespin as stem

- Glue tulip to top of clothespin

- Glue leaves to bottom sides of clothespin

Extension Activities:

- Plant a small flower garden with your children.  Purchase plants from garden center or check out some seeds from JCL's seed library to plant and grow.  Let your children be in charge of watering and weeding the flower garden as needed.

- Take a field trip to the Botanical Gardens.  

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Virtual Story Time: Planting a Rainbow by Lois Ehlert -- 8/18/20

 This is a weekly 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.

Planting a Rainbow by Lois Ehlert

Related Books:  (Colors)

Blue Goose by Nancy Tafuri

Dog's Colorful Day by Emma Dodd

Every Color Soup by Jorey Hurley

Freight Train by Donald Crews

The Hidden Rainbow by Christie Matheson

I Dream of an Elephant by Ami Rubinger

Monkey Colors by Darrin Lunde

Monsters Love Colors by Mike Austin

Press Here by Herve Tullet

Vincent Paints His House by Tedd Arnold

TumbleBook Stories: (Available through www.jeffcolib.org by clicking on E-Content.)

Red Is a Dragon by Roseanne Thong

Craft: Rainbow Flower

- Color flower's center and craft stick (stem)

- Glue colored strips in a starburst pattern

- Glue flower's center in middle of rainbow starburst

- Glue craft stick to back of starburst

- Glue green leaves to craft stick stem

Option -- Print out a picture of your child and cut into a circle.  Glue to middle of starburst as the flower's center.

Extension Activities:

- Play a game of I Spy looking for items based on colors.

- Go on a color scavenger hunt.  See how many items of each color you can find.

- Sort items (i.e. MMs, Fruit Loops, buttons, etc) by color.

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Flowers Story Time: April 18-19, 2016

Books:
Dandelions by Mia Posada
Little Seeds by Charles Ghigna
Planting a Rainbow by Lois Ehlert *
Spring Blossoms by Carole Gerber
Ten Seeds by Ruth Brown *
This is the Sunflower by Lola M. Schaefer
What Does Bunny See? by Linda Sue Park *

Craft: CD Sunflower
The craft is pictured above.  First children glued strips of yellow paper onto the CD looping it over the sides to make the petals.  They then colored a 3-1/2" circle and glued it to the center over the petals.  They could then pick either red, blue, or green glitter for me to put onto the center of the flower for them.

Literacy Extensions:
- Go on a nature walk to see what kind of flowers you can find.  This can be done in your neighborhood, local park or botanical area.
- Try growing some flowers.  Pick out either seeds or seedlings together to plant and hopefully grow.


Notes:
This is probably the first time in over 15 years that I have done glitter during story time.  I just hate the mess of glitter.  However this went really well.  The children chose the color and added the glue to the center of the flower while I added the glitter and then shook it off being giving it back to them.