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Red Letter Day: A Storytime About the Color Red

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2024/05/13

Recently, in the Storytime Solidarity Facebook group, someone posted about doing a series of storytimes based on the colors of the rainbow. Having just finished my series of storytimes based on letters of the alphabet, I thought that would be fun to try too. So last week I started with the color Red in both […]

Blueberries for Sal: A Song for Mother’s Day

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2024/05/13

Several years ago, my mother-in-law sent us some of her old children’s books, including an old copy of Blueberries for Sal by Robert McCloskey. It was a book that I enjoyed reading to my own kids, about a girl named Sal who goes blueberry picking with her mother, and ends up trailing behind a mother […]

Time for Mother Goose: A Storytime About Nursery Rhymes

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2024/05/02

Yesterday (May 1) was National Mother Goose Day, so this week we had a great time celebrating famous nursery rhymes in Family Storytime and Outdoor Musical Storytime. Here’s what we did: Books: Mary Had a Little Lamp by Jack Lechner; illustrated by Bob Staake Hilariously silly parody of Mary Had a Little Lamb, about a […]

A Whale of a Time: A Storytime About Whales

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2024/04/19

Our coastal town is having a Whale Fest this weekend, so I thought it would be fun to do a storytime about whales. Here are the books and songs that I did (a combination of Outdoor Musical Storytime and Family Storytime). I also printed out this brochure of whales and other marine mammals from savethewhales.org. […]

Go Wild: A Storytime for National Wildlife Week

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2024/04/10

Last week was National Wildlife Week, which seemed like a fun theme opportunity, especially for our Outdoor Musical Storytime at the park. For that one, and for Family Storytime, I asked the kids what kinds of animals and insects they have seen outside. They mentioned rabbits, deer, turkeys, and birds. For Outdoor Musical Storytime, I […]

Somebunny Loves You: A Storytime About Rabbits

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2024/03/31

In honor of Easter and Spring, I did a Rabbit Theme for Family Storytime this week. Here’s what we did: Books: Wolfie, the Bunny by Ame Dyckman and Zachariah O’Hora This one is so much fun to read aloud. When a baby wolf is left on their doorstep, Dot’s parents immediately decide to adopt him. […]

Z is for Zebra: A Storytime About the Letter Z

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2024/03/26

We made it to the end of the alphabet today! It’s been a fun experiment, and our storytime families really seemed to enjoy calling out the letter each week, and calling out the words they knew. Today they came up with zebra, zoom, zipper and zoo, before we drew the letter Z in the air […]

Y is for Yarn: A Storytime About the Letter Y

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2024/03/19

Well, my journey through the alphabet was interrupted last week by a bad case of laryngitis, but this week I was finally able to get to the Letter Y. We started by talking about words that begin with the letter Y, and I wrote each one down on a piece of paper: yellow, yak, yawn, […]

X is for X-Ray: A Storytime About the Letter X

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2024/03/05

At last, the letter I have been dreading through my whole alphabet storytime: the Letter X! It actually wasn’t too bad, even though I had to focus on words that included the letter X, rather than words that started with it. We started our storytime by asking the kids if they knew any words that […]

W is for Watermelon: A Storytime About the Letter W

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2024/02/27

As I’ve been planning my Storytime Journey through the Alphabet, I’ve been getting a little nervous about the last few letters, especially X. But the letter W has been a lot of fun! As usual, we started by asking the kids to suggest words that start with the letter W. They came up with water, […]

V is for Van: A Storytime About the Letter V

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2024/02/15

Coincidentally, my Letter V storytime happened to fall on Valentine’s Day last week, at least for my Family Storytime. So I mixed in a few Valentine’s Day stories, and made Valentine’s for the Stay & Play activity at the end. Today, we did the letter V again for Outdoor Musical Storytime, but without the Valentine’s […]

U is for Umbrella: A Storytime About the Letter U

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2024/02/14

Last Wednesday night and today we focused on the letter U for storytime. As usual, I started by asking the kids if they knew any words that started with the letter U, which was a challenge (a lot of them suggested “you.”) With a bit of prompting though, I got them to guess umbrella, unicorn, […]

T is for Tree: A Storytime About the Letter T

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2024/02/06

We’re getting close to the end of the alphabet, although I’m a little nervous about the letters at the end, especially V, X, Y, and Z. Luckily, today we were on the Letter T, which gave me lots of fun options for stories and songs. As usual, at both Outdoor Musical Storytime and Family Storytime, […]

S is for Slug: A Storytime About the Letter S

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2024/01/26

Letter S may be my favorite storytime letter so far (and not just because Storytime starts with S). One of our regular families who comes to Outdoor Musical Storytime, always comes early to see how many banana slugs she can find in the park (today she found 27!). In her honor, I ordered a banana […]

R is for Rocket: A Storytime About the Letter R

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2024/01/22

This week, we featured the letter R in both Family Storytime and Outdoor Musical Storytime. As usual, I started by asking the kids to name any words they knew that started with R. They suggested rain, rabbit, roar, and rainbow. Then we wrote the letter R (upper and lower case) in the air together. Here […]

Q is for Quail: A Storytime About the Letter Q

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2024/01/16

It’s been cold and rainy the past few days, and I had to cancel my Outdoor Musical Storytime last Tuesday. Today we were back in time to celebrate the letter Q. I had also done an abridged version of this storytime last Wednesday night, when most of the families arrived late due to the weather. […]

P is for Paint: A Storytime About the Letter P

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2024/01/02

Happy New Year! This week we had a lot of fun with the letter P in our Outdoor Musical Storytime and Family Storytime. As usual, I started by asking the kids to suggest words that started with the letter P, and I wrote these on my whiteboard. They came up with polar bear, park, pig […]

O is for Octopus: A Storytime About the Letter O

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2023/12/28

This week we celebrated the letter O in both Outdoor Musical Storytime and Family Storytime. I started by asking the kids if they knew any words starting with the letter O. This was a little tricky, but they came up with owl, octopus, and open. I wrote these on my white board. Then we drew […]

N is for Nest: A Storytime About the Letter N

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2023/12/13

Last week, I stumbled across an abandoned hummingbird nest in the library garden, which seemed like the perfect tie-in for our Letter N storytime this week. It was beautifully constructed, with moss and tree bark on the outside, and the kids loved looking at it. As usual I started by asking the kids to suggest […]

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