So in my family we do this thing called Gag Gifts. Basically this is where we give each other themed gifts (this year the theme was Dr. Seuss) that are funny. The person getting the gift isn’t really supposed to want the gift. It is just to make everyone laugh. It is better explained by…
For the transportation story time I wanted a “science experiment” that let me talk about how things “go”. So I turned to a favorite craft of mine that I call the jumping cups. I decided to do a rocket for the picture (since it went along with the transportation theme). When I first showed the…
I told you I was changing up my story times this summer by adding a digital literacy game. But I also decided to be more particular about what I am doing after story time. For the bug story time week I decided to do an optical illusion type of craft. But I didn’t tell them…
So because I started my story times in January (I started my new job in the Fall), I couldn’t get all the alphabet letters done unless I squished them all together. Thus the crazy amount of doubles and triple letters featured in one story time. Well, this was the end and next Fall I can…
I love summer. And I love watermelon. And I love crafts that my puppet Freddy can “wear” or use when I pull him out of the “Clubhouse” to talk about each letter with the kiddos. So the craft for this go-round was a watermelon wristband. Basically it looked like this. If I was a superhero…
So for the craft for the “S” story time I wanted to use straws…because that starts with the letter “S”. So I made this picture in Microsoft Publisher. It is a spaceship in one side of a rectangle. Then there are stars on the other side. Then I did another one (because I wanted two…
For the craft at story time this week I did a robot puppet. I made some eyes. And some hands taped to arms taped to the body. And some feet taped to the legs taped to the robot body. And the mouth is open under the paper bag puppet and not on top. So the…
Since I had to combine “o” and “p” this week for story time (and I did a “o” literacy game), I wanted to do a craft that had to do with the letter “p”. So I came up with a song called The Pirate on the Ship. It is sung to the tune of The…
For my “N” story time I wanted to do a craft that had something to do with ninjas….mostly because my 5-year-old nephew LOVES ninjago and ninjas of all sorts. So I came up with this particular craft. I also wanted the craft to be given out all on one sheet of paper. So I drew…
So for my “M” story time I wanted to do a mask. Seeing how kids love those. But I wanted to make something a little more than just a mask. So I brainstormed and came up with a Moose Mask. With a lot of cutting and tracing I finally came up with a pattern that…