Library storytime ideas

The Dos and Don’ts of Story Time (Tips from a Volunteer)

Best Story Time Ideas for Preschoolers Do you have daily story time with a classroom of kids? Do you run story time at your library? Do you just enjoy reading stories and doing book inspired activities and songs with your child? If you answered YES to any of these questions then these ideas are for …

36 must-read interactive books for an engaging preschool storytime. The best fun and engaging interactive picture books to encourage student participation in preschool or pre-k.

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Themed story times that you will find on this blog: Baking Breakfast Cars and Trucks / Transportation Christmas Clouds Elephant Farm Flow...

Share a delicious storytime with your little readers with this storytime time all about cookies perfect for kids from toddlers to early elementary school.

Bubbles are a fun activity whether you play with them outside on a pretty day or when you're cooped up indoors. This storytime lesson plan will get kid exicted for more bubble fun!

Starting our Color Wheel series with the primary colors, last week was Blue, this week is RED. There are lots of great red things to build our storytime around. First off, I brainstorm what is red …

Themed story times that you will find on this blog: Baking Breakfast Cars and Trucks / Transportation Christmas Clouds Elephant Farm Flow...

How to create a retell literacy center in kindergarten. Plus a list of 20 famous stories and retell props (with printables) to complete this center.

Storytime Theme: Sticky & Slimy – Literacious

This blog post may be a little meta - but WHY NOT do a storytime about libraries? It’s a no-brainer theme if you are an outreach librarian at an event sharing t

If you ask my kids what my favorite animal is, my youngest will answer that my favorite mythical creature is a dragon and my favorite real animal is a rabbit. I love that he makes that distinction and that he knows how much I love dragons! Because of that love, I am sharing a dragon […]

Everything you need to know to start a story time program for kids in your community. Book ideas, tips and planning sheets for getting started.

Now, I recognize that many caregivers who come to storytime are just as uninformed about how to get the most out of storytime as I was when I first started.

Crafts are a great way to visualize stories! In the classroom or homeschool, use these 25+ crafts that were inspired by children's books!

Using interactive picture books in a storytime is a great way to energize your program. It doesn’t just make books more fun, it’s also educational. For younger groups, it creates body…

Welcome, 2024! I was off on medical leave during the month of December, so I’m coming back fresh, with a new theme series – colors! While I was off, I was able to clock in and do some w…

We had 14 kiddos today! What fun! Today we focused on fruit. Welcome Songs The Watermelon Seed by Greg Pizzoli Music Activity: I changed up "Apples and Bananas." Instead of changing vowel sounds, we did actions with scarves. We pretended the scarves were different kinds of fruit "mine is a blueberry! mine's kiwi!" and sang the song. The actions were: I like to eat eat eat apples and bananas.... I like to shake shake shake apples and bananas.... I like to twist twist twist apples and…

A blog about children's books, story time, library service, and literacy activities written by a children's librarian turned stay-at-home mom.