Halloween -- 10/31/23

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.

Happy Owl-Oween by Laura Gehl
We're Off to Find the Witch's House by Richard Krieb

Books:
10 Spooky Pumpkins by Gris Grimly
Bears and Boos by Shirley Parenteau
Click, Clack, Boo! by Doreen Cronin
Dino-Halloween by Lisa Wheeler
Halloween Good Night by Rebecca Grabill
Jungle Halloween by Maryann Cocca-Leffler
Minerva Louise on Halloween by Janet Morgan Stoeke
Pick a Pumpkin by Patricia Toht

Craft:  Craft Stick Mummy
- Color a jumbo craft stick as the mummy's body making sure to color eyes
- Wrap two white pipe cleaners around craft stick (wrapping so can still see eyes) for the mummy's bandages

Extension Activities:

- Before going trick or treating discuss safety issues with your child. (i.e. crossing streets, staying in a group, stranger danger, etc.)

- Use the candy from trick or treating to practice counting and sorting.  Sort the candy into different types and have your child count the pieces.  See which type they have the most, least, etc?

Wild Witches' Ball: A Trick or Treat Story Time: October 29-30, 2018

Books:
10 Trick or Treaters by Janet Schulman
13 Ghosts of Halloween by Robin Muller *
At the Old Haunted House by Helen Ketteman
We're Off to Find the Witch's House by Mr. Krieb *
Wild Witches' Ball by Jack Prelutsky *

Craft: Witch Trick or Treat Bag
Children colored a cutout of witch legs and then glued to a brown paper lunch bag.  The bag was then used to go trick or treating in the library.

Literacy Extensions:
- Almost all of this week's books involve counting in some way.  Practice counting while reading the books by asking your child how many of certain type of monsters are on a page as you read through the book.
- Before going trick or treating discuss safety issues such as walking in the dark, stranger safety, etc.

Trick or Treat Story Time: October 26-27, 2015

Books:
The 13 Nights of Halloween by Guy Vasilouich
The Ghosts Go Haunting by Helen Ketteman
Los Gatos Black on Halloween by Marisa Montes
The Night Before Halloween by Natasha Wing *
The Shivery Shades of Halloween by Mary McKenna Siddals
The Spooky Wheels on the Bus by J. Elizabeth Mills *
We're Off to Find the Witch's House by Mr. Krieb *

Craft: Bat Trick or Treat Bag
This week's craft was based on the picture above.  About 2" of the top of a paper lunch bag was cut off to make the bat's body.  The children colored wings, feet, teeth, eyes, and ears and then glued them to the bag to make a bat.

Literacy Extensions:
- After reading The Shivery Shades of Halloween ask your child to come up with more Halloween items for the different colors.
- Talk about Halloween safety with your child before going trick or treating.


Notes:
I changed the words of The Spooky Wheels on the Bus to "The Halloween Bus goes . . . " to make it even more Halloween appropriate.
The children went trick or treating throughout the library after the story time.