Crafts | thepodunklibrarian 9/12

Mar 30, 2018

Paper Easter Egg Painting

Our library's town has a well-attended egg hunt at the park every year, with vendors and other organizations setting up tables. This year...

Mar 29, 2018

Easter Story Time and Egg Hunt

Our Story Time books were "Chester's Colorful Easter Eggs" by Theresa Smythe and Leslie Patricello's "Hop! Hop!". Our craft was an...

Mar 21, 2018

Story Time: The Cow Jumped Over the Moon

We started this Story Time by working our Hey Diddle Diddle puzzle from the children's room. Then we read Margaret Wise Brown's...

Mar 7, 2018

Story Time: Pirates

This was my first time with Claire Freedman's "Pirates Love Underpants" and I think it's a little long and a little over the heads of my...

Feb 22, 2018

Story Time: Spiders

We read Eric Carle's "The Very Busy Spider" with "Soup For One" by Ethan Long and the pop-up book "Itsy Bitsy Spider" by Richard...

Feb 15, 2018

Story Time Valentine's Day Party

We read "If You'll Be My Valentine" by Cynthia Rylant and "The Biggest Kiss" by Joanna Walsh. Our craft was a thumbprint heart tree craft...

Feb 14, 2018

Valentine Cookie Decorating

One of the first events I ever did was Cookie Decorating for Christmas. It went over really well, and I've always wanted to do it again,...

Feb 9, 2018

Design Your Own Doll Shirt

This was the most expensive American Girl doll activity I've done. We bought plain white t-shirts (at about $3 a shirt) and let patrons...

Jan 31, 2018

Charlie and the Chocolate Factory Celebration

I would have liked to have had this Charlie and the Chocolate Factory Celebration on February 1st, because that's when the golden ticket...

Jan 24, 2018

Story Time: Magic!

For a magic-themed Story Time, we read "Poof!" by John O'Brien and "The Magic Rabbit" by Richard Jesse Watson. Watson's book matched our...