Library storytime

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

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

Storytime Theme: Laughter whether a quick little giggle or a great big guffaw, I love to laugh! Check out these laugh-out-loud stories!

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…

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 …

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 …

Storytime Theme: Robots (2023 update) Beep, beep, boop! This fun STEM-themed storytime is full of great read aloud picture books and more!

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.

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.

Check out this free lesson plan that's perfect for spring - Storytime Theme: Ducks with great read alouds, songs, and activities!

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…

The Library Adventure uses affiliate links, see our policies for more information. I have a unique perspective of Story Time behavior. I run Story Times for my local library and I bring my 3 1/2 year old to my preschool programs. I have to say I haven’t seen a lot of these problems in my […]

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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...

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 library researcher and mum writes reviews of different baby story times and comments on what works and what works less well.

Flannel Friday: Song Cube – storytime katie

Storytime Theme: Art can be a wonderful hands-on program for preschoolers to explore art materials and expand their creativity!

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!