All About Food: Sausage and Bacon Story Time -- November 8-9, 2021

Outdoor Story Times are held weekly on Monday and Tuesday mornings at 10:00 am, weather permitting.  (Registration is required to attend.)  Online Story Times will be posted weekly on Tuesday mornings.  (The video is available to watch for one week before a new one is uploaded.)

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Everyone Loves Bacon by Kelly DiPucchio
On Top of Spaghetti by Paul Brett Johnson

Books:  (Meat)
Gator Gumbo by Candace Fleming
Hello, Hot Dog! by Lily Murray
The Pigeon Finds a Hot Dog by Mo Willems
Ten Fat Sausages by Michelle Robinson

Craft:  Bacon Bookmark
- Print template onto heavy paper or cardstock

- Color and cut out pieces

- Glue wavy stripes to rectangle bookmark to make bacon

- Glue hat to top of bacon

- Glue mustache below hat

- Draw eyes between hat and mustache






Extension Activities:

- Ask your child about their favorite deli lunch meat.  Have your child help make lunch by assisting to make a sandwich using their favorite deli meat.

- Make some food art.  Make a pepperoni pizza using the tiny pepperoni.  Ask your child to "draw" a picture using the pepperoni on the pizza.


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All About Food: Milk, Cheese & Ice Cream Story Time -- November 1-2, 2021

Outdoor Story Times are held weekly on Monday and Tuesday mornings at 10:00 am, weather permitting.  (Registration is required to attend.)  Online Story Times will be posted weekly on Tuesday mornings.  (The video is available to watch for one week before a new one is uploaded.)

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Kitten's First Full Moon by Kevin Henkes
Should I Share My Ice Cream? by Mo Willems

Books:  (Dairy Foods)

The Cheese by Margie Palatini

Cheese Belongs to You by Alexis Deacon

The Cow Loves Cookies by Karma Wilson

Groovy Joe: Ice Cream & Dinosaurs by Eric Litwin

The Little Ice Cream Truck by Margery Cuyler

Mac & Cheese by James Proimos

The Milkman by Carol Cordsen

The Stinky Cheese Man by Jon Scieszka

Yogurt and Cheeses and Ice Cream That Pleases by Brian Cleary

Craft: Mac and Cheese Necklace

- (Optional) Dye dried macaroni noodles yellow/orange.  Visit https://happyhooligans.ca/dye-pasta-easy-way/ for directions.
- Thread pasta onto a long string.

- Tie string to make into a necklace.

Extension Activities:

-  Have a cheese tasting to see which kinds of cheese your child likes.  Cheeses to try include mozzarella, cheddar, American, swiss, colby jack, havarti, etc.

- See if your child can name different kids of dairy products (i.e. milk, yogurt, etc.).

Halloween Story Time -- October 25-26, 2021

Outdoor Story Times are held weekly on Monday and Tuesday mornings at 10:00 am.  (Registration is required to attend.)  Online Story Times will be posted weekly on Tuesday mornings.  (The video is available to watch for one week before a new one is uploaded.)

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Ghost in the House by Ammi-Joan Paquette
Click, Clack, Boo! by Doreen Cronin

Books:
10 Spooky Pumpkins by Gris Grimly

Bears and Boos by Shirley Parenteau

The Hallo-Wiener by Dav Pilkey

Jungle Halloween by Maryann Cocca-Leffler
Minerva Louise at Halloween by Janet Morgan Stoeke
Not Very Scary by Carol Brendler

Pick a Pumpkin by Patricia Toht
Six Creepy Sheep by Judith Ross Enderle

Craft: Mummy Treat Bag

- Cut out circles for eyes and glue onto the top of a brown paper lunchbag

- Cut strips of white paper and glue onto bag for mummy strips

- (Optional)  Go trick or treating to fill bag up

Extension Activities:

- Both books are about fears.  Talk with your child about what things they are scared of.  Then come up with ideas to help settle those fears.

- Ask your child to come up with a Halloween costume using items you have around the house.  (i.e. use a sheet to become a ghost, cut out and tape facial features to an orange shirt to become a jack-o-lantern, etc.)

Pumpkins Story Time -- October 18-19, 2021

Outdoor Story Times are held weekly on Monday and Tuesday mornings at 10:00 am.  (Registration is required to attend.)  Online Story Times will be posted weekly on Tuesday mornings.  (The video is available to watch for one week before a new one is uploaded.)

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Plumply, Dumply Pumpkin by Mary Serfozo
Pumpkin Trouble by Jan Thomas

Books: 

10 Spooky Pumpkins by Gris Grimly

Five Little Pumpkins by Iris Van Rynbach

Froggy Picks a Pumpkin by Jonathan London
Mr. Pumpkin's Tea Party by Erin Barker

Pick a Pumpkin by Patricia Toht

The Pumpkin Fair by Eve Bunting

Sixteen Runaway Pumpkins by Dianne Ochiltree

Ten Orange Pumpkins by Stephen Savage

Craft: Happy Pumpkin
- Print out template onto heavy paper or cardstock and cut out pieces

- Color ovals different pumpkin colors

- Glue ovals together to make pumpkin shape.  (Largest oval in the middle with mid-sized ovals on either side and smallest ovals on the ends.)

- Glue on eyes and draw on smile

- Color and glue on short rectangle stem and leaf to top of pumpkin

- Color long rectangle as vine.  Then curl and glue to top by stem and leaf.

Extension Activities:

- Visit a pumpkin patch.  Select a pumpkin to take home and decorate.

- Roast some pumpkins seeds using a little olive oil and various spices (Visit https://wholefully.com/roasted-pumpkin-seeds-six-ways/ for directions and spice recipes).

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Autumn Leaves Story Time -- October 12, 2021

Outdoor Story Times are held weekly on Monday and Tuesday mornings at 10:00 am.  (Registration is required to attend.)  Online Story Times will be posted weekly on Tuesday mornings.  (The video is available to watch for one week before a new one is uploaded.)

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Fall Leaves Fall by Zoe Hall
Fall Is Not Easy by Marty Kelley

Books: (Leaves)
Leaf Jumpers by Carole Gerber

Leaf Man by Lois Ehlert

Leaves by David Ezra Stein

The Little Yellow Leaf by Carin Berger

Lucky Leaf by Kevin O'Malley

Craft: Fall Leaf

- Cut out a leaf shape from cardstock or heavy paper

- Color leaf

- Crumple up small pieces of tissue paper and glue them to the leaf

- (Optional) Punch a hole in the leaf to tie a piece of yarn for a hanger.

Extension Activities:

- Go on a nature walk and try to find as many different types of leaves as you can.

- Collect fallen leaves and glue them onto paper to make pictures.