All You Need for a Snowman -- 1/24/23

Story Times are held weekly on Monday and Tuesday mornings at 10:00 am.  Online Story Times will be posted monthly in the morning of the first Tuesday of the month.  (The video is available to watch for one month before a new one is uploaded.)

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All You Need for a Snowman by Alice Schertle

Books:

The Biggest, Best Snowman by Margery Cuyler

The First Day of Winter by Denise Fleming

Froggy Builds a Snowman by Jonathan London

Martin MacGregor's Snowman by Lisa Broadie Cook

A Really Good Snowman by Daniel J. Mahoney

Sneezy the Snowman by Maureen Wright

Snowballs by Lois Ehlert

Snowmen All Year by Caralyn Buehner

Craft: Looped Snowman

- Print template onto heavy paper or cardstock

- Color pieces

- Glue strips into tear-shaped loops

- Glue small loop to back of snowman's head

- Glue larger loop to back of the smaller loop

Extension Activities:

- Snowmen All Year imagines what a snowman might do for fun.  Ask your child to imagine what a snowman might do throughout the day.

- Try an exercise in creativity by asking your child to find unusual items around the house that could be incorporated into a snowman.

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Virtual Story Time: Snowmen -- 1/26/21

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.

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All You Need for a Snowman by Alice Schertle

Snowmen at Night by Caralyn Buehner

Books:  (Snowmen)

100 Snowmen by Jen Arena

The Biggest, Best Snowman by Margery Cuyler

The First Day of Winter by Denise Fleming

Froggy Builds a Snowman by Jonathan London

Martin MacGregor's Snowman by Lisa Broadie Cook

One Snowy Morning by Kevin Tseng

Snowballs by Lois Ehlert

Snowmen at Work by Caralyn Buehner

Craft: Snowman Match

- Print and cut out template pieces

- Color pieces of snowmen

- Match shapes together along with the hat that fits those shapes

- Glue shapes together to make three snowmen

Extension Activities:

- Make a snowman by stuffing a water bottle with cotton balls.  Have your child stuff as many cotton balls as they can into the bottle.  Decorate by gluing on buttons, yarn, and paper pieces for the snowman's features.

- Do a science experiment to make a Melting Foam Snowman using baking soda, dish soap, salt, vinegar, and waterproof snowman accessories.  For directions on how to make and melt the Foam Snowman visit https://www.funathomewithkids.com/2013/12/foaming-dough-recipe-magic-foaming.html.  

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Snowmen Story Time: January 28-29, 2018

Books:
100 Snowmen by Jen Arena *
All You Need for a Snowman by Alice Schertle *
Sneezy the Snowman by Maureen Wright *
Snowballs by Lois Ehlert
Snowmen All Year by Caralyn Buehner
Snowmen At Night by Caralyn Buehner


Craft: Melting Snowman Picture
This week's craft is pictured to the left.  Children glued squares of white paper to colored paper to make a melted snowman.  They then could color and glue a hat, two eyes, a nose, and two branch arms to the picture.

Extension Activities --
- Build a snowman.  If you do not have snow outside, you can do a human snowman with plastic trash bags or toilet paper.
- Snowmen at Night and Snowman All Year imagines what snowmen might do for fun.  Ask your child to imagine what their snowman might do throughout the day.

Snowmen Story Time: January 25-26, 2016

Books:
100 Snowmen by Jen Arena
All You Need for a Snowman by Alice Schertle *
Sneezy the Snowman by Maureen Wright *
Snowballs by Lois Ehlert *
Snowzilla by Janet Lawler

Craft: Name Snowman
This week's craft was based on the picture at right.  Each child was given enough paper circle snowballs to write out their name.  They also got a snowman's head to color.  All the snowballs were then glued onto a long strip of paper.

Literacy Extension:
- Practice spelling by having your child spell the names of their family members.
- After reading Snowballs and looking at the back of the book at the various items used to make their snowmen, ask your child to gather a bag's worth of items to use for snowmen.


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Snowmen Story Time: January 27-28, 2014

Books:
** Note:  Since our Snow Story Time was cancelled earlier this month, I also included a couple of general "snow" books in our story time this week.
All You Need for a Snowman by Alice Schertle *
Sneezy the Snowman by Maureen Wright
Snow by Uri Shulevitz *
Snowmen at Night by Caralyn Buehner *
Snowmen All Year by Caralyn Buehner
Snowzilla by Janet Lawlor
Winter Woes by Marty Kelley *

Craft: Snowman
We made a very simple snowman this week.  Children glued together a large circle and a small circle to make the snowman's body.  They then glued on a hat, two boots, and a two long strips for arms.  They could then decorate their snowman by either coloring on its features or gluing on sequins.

Literacy Extensions:
- Try an exercise in creativity by asking your child to find unusual items around the house that could be incorporated into a snowman.
- Work with your child on identifying letters.  Have them point out all the letters that make up the world "snow" on a certain page of a book.  For example, find all the "O"s on the cover of the book, all the "S"s on the title page, etc.

Snowmen Story Time - January 28-29, 2013

Books:
Snowmen All Year by Caralyn Buehner *
Sneezy the Snowman by Maureen Wright *
All You Need for a Snowman by Alice Schertle *
Snowmen at Night by Caralyn Buehner
On the First Day of Winter by Denise Fleming
Snow Balls by Lois Ehlert

Craft: Sparkly Snowman
I used the snowman template to the left for the snowman's body.  I also cut out a top hat to be glued to the snowman's head.  Children can color and glue sequins onto their snowman.

Literacy Expanders:
- Play with onomatopoeia and coming up with words that express the sound they describe. (i.e. achoo, etc.)
- Talk about what items you would add to a snowmen you might build.