My preschoolers have always loved playing with plastic Easter eggs! It’s fun to put little things inside them, and then open and close the eggs. We’ve also used them to make play dough dinosaur eggs and minions. Here’s a simple egg stacking game that provides a way to work on fine motor skills through play! […]

Adventures In Storytime (and Beyond): Is It Spring Yet? Preschool Storytime

This week I did an Egg theme in story time to coincide with Easter although the theme was not Easter-y at all. All of our books were about eggs and we talked about what different animals might hatch from an egg. The flannel story I did was more of a seek-and-find where we were looking under eggs to find a baby chick. We have a puppet that is a baby chick that curls up into an egg (or pops out of the egg). I told the kids that the chick was looking for his sister and we proceeded to look…

Posts about eggs written by jeninthelibrary

Last week, I had two Head Start classes visit the library for a storytime about spring! To be honest, it does not feel like spring here, but I'm hoping that the more we talk about it, the sooner spring will arrive. Here's what I did: Opening Song: My Hands Say Hello. We practice saying "Hello" with different body parts. I suggest a few and then ask children for their suggestions. Book: First the Egg by Laura Seeger. I have long loved this deceptively simple book about different growing…

Abby the Librarian: Preschool Storytime: Weather

This week's storytime was devoted to all things spring! I don't know about the rest of you guys, but I am ready for spring to be here for good and winter to scram until next year. Texas had it a little easier than the north this year (okay, a lot easier), but even we have…

one little librarian: June 2014

Posts about shaker eggs written by yogibrarian

By day, youth librarian in Southern Indiana. By night, blogger extraordinaire.

Yesterday, I had a Head Start class visit the library for storytime. Since I've started doing preschool science programs, I hardly ever get to do a straight up preschool storytime anymore, so this was a real treat and we had lots of fun! I didn't realize until I started writing up this storytime how much STEM material I went over in this storytime without even realizing it! Here's what we did: Opening Song: My Hands Say Hello. When doing a new song with a new group, I'm careful to sing…

I had a little Uh Oh! moment the morning of this storytime. See, I usually plan all of my storytimes a month in advance. This is partly because I like to be well prepared, but mostly because some…