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?

Red, Yellow, Blue: Colors Story Time: August 20-21, 2018

Books:
Bear Sees Colors by Karma Wilson *
Mix It Up! by Herve Tullet
This Book Is Red by Beck & Matt Stanton
Warthogs Paint: A Messy Color Book by Pamela Duncan Edwards *

Craft: Caterpillar Color Match
The kids were given a caterpillar coloring page with circles outlined in different colors.  They glued matching pieces of paper to the correct color circle.


Literacy Extensions:
- Practice number and color recognition at the same time.  Do some color by number coloring pages.
- Go on a color walk.  Try to find items while walking of the different colors.


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Colors Story Time: August 10-11, 2015

Books:
Baby Shoes by Dashka Slater
Dog's Colorful Day by Emma Dodd
Mix It Up! by Herve Tullet *
Monsters Love Colors by Mike Austin *
Warthogs Paint: A Messy Color Book by Pamela Duncan Edwards *
White Rabbit's Color Book by Alan Baker

Craft: Jester's Hat
Our craft was based on the picture above.  We used two" strips of yellow paper for the headband of the hat.  Then triangles of red, blue, orange, green and purple were glued to the handband.  Small red, blue, orange, green and purple dots were then glued to the ends of the triangles.

Literacy Extensions:
- Play I Spy spotting colors.
- Mix up some paint colors for an art project.