Snow falls in winter

Now that it is 80 degrees outside - let me post my story time about SNOW!!!

Opening Song: Shake My Sillies Out - Raffi

Book: Ten on the Sled by Kim Norman

Song: I'm a Little Snowman

Book: All You Need for a Snowman by Alice Schertle

Song: 1 Little, 2 Little, 3 Little Snowflakes

Book: Mouse's First Snow by Lauren Thompson


Craft: Cotton Ball Snowman

Watch out for the Monsters!!

It was very exciting for me to find some fun books about Monsters. They're not really so scary, I promise!!

Opening Song: Shake My Sillies Out - Raffi

Book: My Monster Mama Loves Me So by Laura Leuck

Song: 1 Little, 2 Little, 3 Little Monsters

Book: Big Scary Monster by Thomas Docherty

Rhyme: Five Little Monsters Jumping on the Bed (just like 5 little monkeys!)

Book: If You're a Monster and You Know It by Rebecca and Ed Emberly


Craft: Monsters!! (Taken from All Kids Network - Shape Monster Crafts)

Hats off!!

I happen to own a HUGE box of awesome random hats that my parents and their friends collected for me. I was SUPER excited to bring them all to story time and pass them along to my kids for this awesome Hat story time!!! They LOVED picking out a hat to wear and it was super amazing!!!

Opening Song: Shake My Sillies Out - Raffi

Book: Where's Mary's Hat? by Stephane Barroux

Song: On my head (we put the hat on your head, on your knee, on your foot, on your elbow)

Book: Which Hat is That? by Anna Grossnickle Hines

Song: If You're Happy and You Know It

Book: Whose Hat? by Margaret Miller


Craft: Paper Plate Crowns

Thanks for Thanksgiving

**yes, this is how behind I am...**

I found a couple really great Thanksgiving books this year!! I love finding new things I haven't seen before and I extra love sharing them with my kids!!

Opening Song: Shake My Sillies Out - Raffi

Book: Thanksgiving in the Barn by Nadine Bernard Westcott

Rhyme: 5 Little Turkeys (Taken from Preschool Education - Thanksgiving Songs) I turned it into a flannel board!!


Book: Run, Turkey, Run! by Diane Mayr

Song: I'm a Little Teapot

Book: Thanks for Thanksgiving by Julie Markes



Craft: Paper Plate Turkeys

Special Bedtime Stories

I had a special request from a school to do a parents night! I was so excited, and broke out some of my favorite bedtime stories!!

Opening Song: Shake My Sillies Out - Raffi

Book: Froggy Goes to Bed by Jonathan London


Song: Twinkle Twinkle

Book: The Caterpillow Fight by Sam McBratney

Song: Tooty-Ta by Dr Jean and Friends

Book: The Woods by Paule Hoppe


Craft: Paper plate Moon and Star (I can't remember where I got the Moon pattern - so sorry!!)

Major slacker

I have to apologize - I know it has been a really long time since I've updated, and especially since I posted a story time update. Things at work have been awesome and insane all at the same time. Couple this with the fact that I don't have internet at home right now it makes it really hard to update.

But, I have some story time posts in progress, I just need to add a few details to each. I am going to try to work on those this week and get them up soon!!!

Thank you to those of you who are still around and holding out for some new material. I promise it's coming. I miss blogging a lot, so I want to make this a priority.

And now, I'll leave you with two of my favorite clips...

The Evolution of Dance


The Muppets - Mahna Mahna

Dealing with the Dealers

It's that time of year again. The time of year when the Perky Little Crack Dealers run around all willy nilly trying to get unsuspecting innocent bystanders sucked into their evil world.

Again, you might remember this post...or this post...about the Perky Little Crack Dealers (aka Girl Scouts). Now that I've been at this library for over a year (!!!), I've actually gotten to know these particular PLCD's quite well...and they have also come to find out that Ms. Real...? Is a SUCKER for some Thin Mints and Samoas. It didn't take them much time to convince me to buy their delicious treats.

See, all they had to do was walk in the door. I was actually standing at the information desk, and saw them walk in - with their Girl Scout Cookie forms waving in the air. They didn't even have to say anything this time - not a word.

Now I'm just waiting on delivery... ***trying to ward off the withdrawal shakes***