Storytime Play Day!

We have a tradition here at the Bellevue Public Library.  During the last week of programming for the summer we host a Storytime Play Day.  It started out, many years ago, as "Water Fun Day" but has developed into so much more!  We invite all children who have attended our Baby & Me or Preschool/Toddler storytimes this summer to join us as we celebrate childhood with water, games, activities, and snacks! This is our second year of having both indoor and outdoor activities.

A special thanks to our Jr. Friends who helped set-up and clean-up!

Here are some pictures of the fun the children had!

Older siblings had fun too!

A great big "Thank You" to all of our wonderful storytime families, children and caregivers!!  Library children's programming will resume in September.  Stop by and say "Hi!" whenever you're at the library!  Have a wonderful "rest of your summer!!"

I Dig the Earth!

Our final Do It Yourself table with a summer theme!!

This week children can do four different activities anytime they stop into the library!

• Build a paper volcano  (here are a few the kids made!)

• Color and decorate a paper shovel 

• Fill in a Mad Lib 
• Do a word search 

The Do It Yourself Table will continue...however, beginning in August it will again have month-long activities versus weekly activities.

July 22-August 4    Dig Into Reading

August 5-August 31    Ladybugs

Park and Read/Lunchbox Storytime

Our final outdoor storytimes of the summer was held yesterday!  It was a warm and sticky day...but we had a great turn out for both events!!  Here are the brand, brand new books we shared today (no barcode or spine label yet--fresh out of the box!)

Cowpoke Clyde and Dirty Dawg
by Lori Mortensen; illustrated by Michael Allen Austin

Not Your Typical Dragon
by Dan Bar-el; illustrated by Tim Bowers

Count the Monkeys
by Mac Barnett and Kevin Cornell

Legos @ Your Library News

Today was our last Legos @ your library event for the summer!  We had 7 events with a total attendance of 437!!!!

At each Lego event children could put their name in for a drawing (that is how I gathered statistics).  We gave away these Lego books to these 5 lucky winners!!

Here are some highlights from our events!  To see all the pictures you can visit the library Lego Blog!

Legos @ your library events will begin again in the fall!

I Dig Dinosaurs!

Our Do It Yourself Table this week features the ever popular DINOSAUR!!!

We have four activities you can do any time you stop by the library this week!

Go on a color dinosaur hunt!

Be a paleontologist and put together a dinosaur skeleton!

Do a dinosaur word find!

Play with the dinosaur cube puzzle!

Park and Read/Lunchbox Storytime

We continued our popular "picnic storytime" events this week with a noon event at Washington Park and an evening event at the library.  Here are the books we shared while children/families ate their meal:

Dinosaurs Love Underpants
by: Claire Freedman and Ben Cort

Dog Loves Drawing
by: Louise Yates

It's Monday, Mrs. Jolly Bones!
by: Warren Hanson; illustrated by Tricia Tusa

Lunch Box Storytime

The library hosted two "picnic" style storytimes today.  Our first was at noon at Washington Park.  We had 101 people in attendance, including two daycare centers!  Tonight we had a modest gathering of 16 on the library lawn for the same books.

Big Mean Mike
by Michelle Knudsen; illustrated by Scott Magoon

My Crocodile Does Not Bite
by Joe Kulka

Horseplay!
by Karma Wilson; illustrated by Jim McMullan