Hop, Hop, Horray!

It's Frog Jumping Day!  (May 13th!)  So most of the month of May we focused on FROGS at our Do It Yourself Table!

Here are the five activities children could when they visited the library...

Create a jumping frog craft (from freekidscrafts.com)  I fell in love with these adorable frogs!!

Play the Frog Food File Folder Game (from File Folder Fun)

Do a frog crossword puzzle (from dltk-kids.com)

Put the life cycle of a frog in order (from MontessoriMom.com)

Color a frog picture (from education.com)

Keep a Poem in Your Pocket

April has been National Poetry Day!  We celebrated this month at our Do It Yourself Table!  And April 24th was "Keep a Poem in Your Pocket" Day.  It was a little challenging to come up with a craft to go with poetry...but a kangaroo has a pocket to carry a poem in.  So a kangaroo became our "mascot" for poetry month!

Here's our kangaroo craft--with short (4 line poems) to put into its pocket!  (Idea adapted from this site)

Children were also invited to make up their own poems by cutting out words from old magazines and gluing them onto a paper.

 We also had a kangaroo maze and a kangaroo coloring page.

Keep a Poem in Your Pocket

April is National Poetry Month!  At the Do It Yourself Table this month we will be celebrating poetry in a special way!  Children are invited to make a kangaroo and put a poem in its pocket!

Children can make up their own poem using words cut from magazines and old  book covers.

We also have a kangaroo coloring sheet and a kangaroo maze.

So stop by the Do It Yourself table anytime this month to make a kangaroo and a poem!

Popcorn Poppin'!

March 13 is Popcorn Lover's Day!

So let's celebrate popcorn!!

Here are the four activities children can do this month any time they visit the library!

 Make a "popcorn" craft

How many new words can you make from the letters in "Fresh Popcorn"?  Use the letter tiles to help.

Write a Five Senses poem about popcorn.

Color a popcorn picture!

Go for the Gold!

We're celebrating the 2014 Winter Olympics this month at the Do It Yourself table for the whole month of February!!

We have four different activities you can do anytime you visit the library

* Make an Olympic Torch!

* Learn more about the Olympics by doing the Scavenger Hunt! (from Teacher Pay Teachers)

*Play the Winter Olympics Sports Matching Game! (adapted from Classroom Jr.)

* Do the word search, maze, or coloring page! (from Activity Village)

Also keep up with the medal count of 6 countries on our bulletin board and 15 countries in our booklet!

I wrote the event the gold medal was won for on the circle before hanging it up.
Russia won the gold medal count with 13!!

Got Snow?

At the January Do It Yourself Table we will be celebrating SNOWMEN!!  Since we haven't had much of a chance to build a snowman outside...you will get a chance to "build" on inside!

Here are the four activities you can do anytime you visit the library in January!

Build a Star Snowman 

(to take home or leave for the bulletin board)

Color a snowman page

Do the snowman maze

Discover your Snowman Name 

(and get a prize...while supplies last)

Can't wait to see you at the library this month!!  From your friendly neighborhood children's librarian:

~ Blizzard Cold-snap

Sweet Treats!

National Cookie Day is December 4!  National Cookie Cutter Week is always the first week in December!  So what better time to celebrate COOKIES!!  All month we will have several cookie related activities at our DIY table!  Remember, you can do these activities anytime you visit the library!

Make a plate of "cookies" (trace a variety of cookie cutters, cut them out, decorate them, then glue them to a plate!)

Decorate the gingerbread man! (Jan Brett)

Roll the dice and color cookies--will you beat your partner?

Play a cookie file folder game

Don't forget to join us on Wednesday, December 4th for your chance to decorate (and eat) a real cookie!!