Elephant & Piggie: Are You Ready to Play Outside? Story Time: June 3-4, 2019

Books:
Are You Ready to Play Outside? by Mo Willems *
Not a Stick by Antoinette Portis
The Nuts: Bedtime at the Nut House by Eric Litwin *
Peek-A-Boo Bunny by Holly Surplice *
Please Play Safe! Penguin's Guide to Playground Safety by Margery Cuyler

Craft: Elephant & Piggie Rainsock
Children colored a half sheet with Elephant on it and Piggie cutout.  They glued the half sheet into a cylinder and glued 3 crepe paper strips to the bottom to make a windsock.  Cutout raindrops and Piggie were glued to the crepe paper.

Extension Activities:
- Take a trip to a local playground.  Go over playground safety beforehand (maybe by reading Please Play Safe).
- Not a Stick imagines all the different things you can imagine a stick to be.  Stretch imaginations by asking your child to come up with different things an object (i.e. - box, rock, ball, etc.) can be.


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Naughty or Nice? Play Story Time: November 20-21, 2017

Books:
Come Along, Daisy! by Jane Simmons *
Five Little Monkeys Sitting in a Tree by Eileen Christelow *
Follow the Leader! by Emma Chichester Clark
Hooray for Today! by Brian Won *
One Busy Day by Lola M. Schaefer


Craft: Five Little Monkeys Picture
Children colored a coloring sheet with a tree and crocodile on it.  They then colored five monkey cutouts and glued them onto the picture.

Literacy Extensions:
- Use the book Come Along, Daisy to talk about safety while in public.  It is a great book for discussing why we need to stay close to our adults.
- Play a game of Follow the Leader. 


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