Family Literacy Kits
Our Family Literacy Kits have received an upgrade!!
What are Family Literacy Kits?
They are items you can sign out from the library and take home to enjoy with your family!
Each kit promotes literacy in a fun and educational way!
Kits may be borrowed for up to a week, one at a time.
To sign out a kit, you can email Mrs. Francoeur @ sfrancoeur@ksd.mb.ca
Please let us know how many members are in your household and the ages of the children.
Each kit has a check list so you know what is in it.
All items must be returned the way they were sent, except for the supplies that are used up for cooking, crafts, or experiments.
Many of the kits are large, heavy, and may be awkward for a child to carry.
We will make arrangements with you to pick it up. If your child gets picked up after school,
you can also pick it up at that time. The kits may not be ready for pick up the day you request it.
Kits will be disinfected upon return.
Animals
Books - Bone Collection Animals; Ugly Animals
Head to Tail Match It Puzzle
Bucket of Scat
Pipe cleaner animals - glue gun, pipe cleaners, google eyes, pompoms, instructions
Animal masks - printables, scissors, yarn
Move like an animal yoga game
Polar Bear snack - bananas, cheerios, raisins
Communities
Books - Communities, Community Resources, My Community
Community Helpers Hand Puppets
Emergency Rescue Floor Puzzle
Who Am I? Match It Puzzle
My Community Helper book
Construction Sight-Word Game - dice
Community Helpers Bingo
Community Helpers hats craft - scissors, paper, glue, marker
Olympics
Celebrate the Olympics with crafts, literature and your own home games!! This kits comes complete with:
Books – Ancient Olympic Games, Animal Olympics
Creating the Olympic torch in a bottle instructions
Plastic bottle
Food coloring (neon and basic)
Vegetable oil
Clear, plastic cup
Olympic Ring Necklace instructions
Polymer clay
Beading elastic
Build A Torch Instructions
Glue stick
Scissors
Red, orange, yellow tissue paper
Cupcake liners (gold)
Tea light
Edible Medals Instructions
Golden oreos
Fruit by the Foot
Tube of vanilla frosting
Indoor Olympic Games instructions – paper plate ring toss – paper plates, markers, paper towel tube, hot glue; long jump – painter’s tape; balloon tennis – paper plates, paint stir sticks, balloons, hot glue; pompom soccer – straws, pompoms
Metis
There is so much to learn and do in the Metis culture!! Have you tried a eating beaver tail!?
Books – Proud to be Metis, A Name for a Metis, Li Minoush, The Giving Tree, A Fiddle For Angus
Metis Word Search
Finger Weaving – 3 colors wool, 3 dowels, scissors, Instructions
Tactile Kit – rabbit fur, wooden spoons, education word cards lg, education word cards sm, Metis flag, bison hide, beaver fur, sash, carrying bag
Bone game – instructions, popsicle sticks, black, green, red markers
Indigenous artists of Canada kit – chalk, paint brushes, paint, acrylic painting sheets
Beaver Tails – recipe, flour, instant yeast, sugar, milk, salt, vanilla, eggs, oil, cinnamon
PUZZLES
A family fun box full of an exciting variety of puzzles!! Entertainment for hours!!
· Books – Logic Puzzles 115945, Pattern Puzzles 115949; Supersmart Puzzles 115956; Treasure Hunts Pyramid Puzzles 115951
· Out In Space Jumbo Floor Puzzle 50 pieces
· Life Cycle of a Monarch Butterfly Floor Puzzle 48 pieces
· Puzzle Globe and intstructions
· Wooden Mind Teasers
· Roll your puzzle mat
· UKLOO – Treasure Hunt Game – Riddle Edition
· PickTwo Word Game for Word Lovers
Snow Day!
Have some fun learning about snow all year long!! Who doesn't love making snow dough? Watch this mesmerizing snow storm in a jar and make it any color you want!! Salt snowflakes are so much fun to create and the melted snowman popcorn is to die for!!!
· Books – Bramble & Maggie Snow Day 115953, Snow Day! 115954, Step Into Reading - Snow Day! 115955
· Snow Dough – corn starch, lotion, instructions
· Snowstorm in a Jar – clear glass, baby oil, white paint, alka seltzer tablets, silver or blue glitter, blue food coloring
· Salt Snowflakes – white glue, salt, white cardstock, water color paints, paint brushes, instructions
· Melted Snowman Popcorn – popcorn, white chocolate chips, semi-sweet chocolate chips, pretzel sticks, orange coated candy, m&ms, parchment paper, instructions
Coding
Learn all the basics of coding while having a great time playing these fun games and reading these informative books! This kit includes:
· Variety of basic lego in blues, purple, and red
· 2 green lego flat sheets
· 2 decks of cards
· Wooden pieces – cake, corn, cookie, carrot, cupcake, candle, cup
· Botley robot(s)
· Botley construction kit
· Botley accessories
· Books – Think Like A Computer; Coding for Beginners Using Scratch
· Build a robot instructions
· Larger lego girl
· Coding a lego maze instructions, cards, a mazes
· Giant floor game Snakes & Ladders; wooden dice
· Coding game and instructions Feed the Mouse
MERMAIDS
There are many things to learn about mermaids!! This kit includes: ·
Books – The Mermaid 115946; Mermaids – For Real? 115948: Mermaid Puzzles 115947
· Mermaid bingo sheets
· Bean Bag Toss with 6 bean bags
· Empty cereal box
· 2 small paint brushes
· Sponge paint brushes
· Large paint brush
· Pencil
· Glue stick
· Stapler
· Paper plates
· 3 dry erase markers
· Pink, gold, blue glitter
· String
· Ribbon
· Purple, pink, blue, green acrylic paint
· Instructions – paper plate mermaid twirlers
· Instructions – how to make a mermaid tail
Australia
Visit the land down under through these fun activities and recipe!
Books – Australia 115941; Birrarung Wilan 115942; Australia 115940 • Australia lap book
• Australia Honey Joys Recipe Instructions
• Honey • Butter • Sugar • Cornflakes • Cupcake liners
• Animals of Australia cards
• Australian animals matching game
• Names of Australian foods and what we call them
• Kangaroo Craft instructions
• Cardstock • Glue stick • Scissors
• Kangaroo template
• Make an Australian flag instructions
• How to make an Australian rain stick instructions
• Paper towel tubes
• Paper • Paint markers • Tape • Stapler • String • Feathers
Plants
Have fun with plants, all year long!!
· Books – A Seed is Sleeping 115952; What’s That Plant? 115958; Plants 115950; The Tiny Seed 115957
· Roots Experiment
· Pebbles
· Rice
· Clear plastic cups
· Absorbent paper towels
· Food coloring
· Tape
· Scissors
· Parts of a Flower instructions
· Nature Stencils
· Q-tips
· 24 pack acrylic paints
· Green paper
· Card stock
· Glue stick
· Seed and plant matching game
BEES!
Try some pollination activities, play a super fun game, and make a yummy recipe!!
Books – These Bees Count!, Bee Dance, The Grumble Bee
Bee hand puppet
Honeybee Tree Game
Bee unit craft instructions
Pollinator craft instruction s and what’s the problem sheets
Honeybee life cycle sheet and cards
Salted maple honey caramels recipe card
Glitter glue black permanent marker
White glue honey
Wooden toothpicks maple syrup
Yellow and brown paint parchment paper
Whisk coconut oil
Scissors
Card stock
3 large Styrofoam balls
2 small Styrofoam balls
Green, yellow, black pipe cleaners
Wooden dowels
Cornmeal
Pompoms
Cupcake liners
3 paint brushes
2 black, 2 yellow markers
The Gingerbread Boy
Your family will enjoy reading the story of the Gingerbread Boy and be able to bake your own gingerbread! You can also have fun making gingerbread play dough and conducting a gingerbread science experiment!
This kit includes:
· Stuffed horse, cow, grandma, grandpa, and gingerbread boy
· Book The Gingerbread Boy
· 2 recipe cards – gingerbread and gingerbread play dough
· Science activity with data collection sheet
· Cookie cutter
· Clear plastic cups
· Stopwatch
· Pitcher
· Tongs
· Rolling pin
· Flour
· Slat
· Cream of tartar
· Cinnamon
· Ginger
· Nutmeg
· Ground cloves
· Canola oil
· Brown sugar
· Molasses
· Butter
· Baking soda
Rosie's Walk
Learn all about Rosie and what happens to her while on her walk. Your whole family can have many laughs while playing the Egg Scramble Challenge game. Read the books Chickens and From Egg to Chicken and then do the hands on crafts while discussing the life cycle of chickens!!
This kit includes:
· Book Rosie’s Walk
· Childcraft information card
· Stuffed toys – chicken, finger puppets – dog, sheep, pig
· Library books – Chickens 110896; From Eggs to Chicken 13778
· Game – Egg Scramble Challenge 115551
· Life cycle of a chicken booklet
· Life cycle of a chicken folding sheet
· Life cycle of a chicken headbands craft supplies
· Chicken life cycle wheel
· Markers
· Glue
· Metal brads
· Scissors
Signing Time
This ASL signing kit will begin to teach your household some of the basics in sign language.
This kit contains:
· Signing Time book
· Web link card
· 2 signing guides
· 4 finger spelling quote cards
· Signing Time DVD
· 3 erasable markers
· 2 uno decks
· Numbers and letters instructions
· Card game I Have, Who Has with instructions
· ASL Alphabet and number sheet
There Was An Old Lady Who Swallowed the Sea
A great kit with some fun crafts, books, and activities to learn about what happens under the sea!
This kit includes:
· Audio Book (with CD) There Was An Old Lady Who Swallowed the Sea
· Books - Oceans and Seas 109800, Ocean World 113720
· Shark cootie catcher activity instructions and cutouts
· How Do Sharks Float experiment
· Scissors
· Glue
· Balloons
· Sharpie marker
· Oil
· Dish soap
· Clothespin Sharks craft instructions
· Clothespins
· Shark cut outs
Five Little Monkeys Jumping on the Bed
Who doesn't love Five Little Monkeys Jumping on the Bed? Play with the finger puppets while you read or act out the story!! Add to the adventure by making your own monkey mask!! And, did you know that popcorn can jump, too!?
This kit includes:
· Feed the Monkey Game
· Books – Monkeys and Apes K6052, Monkeys K10435
· Five Little Monkeys Jumping on the Bed Book
· Toy bed with 5 finger monkeys, 1 mother, 1 doctor
· Monkey masks craft
· Yarn
· Scissors
· Glue
· Tape
· Hopping Corn experiment and instructions
· Mason jar
· Oil
· Popping corn
· Vinegar
· Baking soda
· crayons
Old MacDonald Had A Farm
There's always so much to do on the farm!! EiEiO!
This kit includes:
· Book – Old MacDonald Had a Farm
· Toys – farmer, finger puppet duck and horse
· Color by letter sheets
· Crayons
· Matching game
· Farm snap
· Life on the Farm trivia card game
· Fuzzy Farm story book and felt pieces
· Lamb wooden puzzle
· John Deere Animal Sounds Hayride toys 114741 (tractor, trailers, animals)
114741
· Milk A Cow activity instructions
· Blue rubber gloves
· Milk
· Bobby pin
· Twine
· Measuring cup
· Funnel
· Paint
Little Rabbit's Loose Tooth
Three enlightening stories about loose teeth and a great experiment will teach your family so much about good dental health!
This kit includes:
· Book Little Rabbit’s Loose Tooth
· Toy bunny puppet
· I can brush & floss my teeth charts
· What do sugary drinks do to your teeth experiment instructions
· 4 sugary drinks
· Eggs
· Plastic cups
· Masking tape
· Marker
· Tooth diagram
· Good/bad game
· Andrew’s Loose Tooth book
· Loose Tooth 113212
Fossils
Who doesn't love to discover a fossil!? Try your hand at making one, too!! This kit includes:
Books – Investigating Fossils, Fossil
Fossil sensory bin instructions and cards
Tin pan for sensory bin
Sand
Non-hardening clay
Cast fossils instructions
Spoon
Small cup
Paper
Lid
Shells
Plaster of paris
Recipe Peanut Butter Fossil Cookies
Eggs
Flour
Sugar
Peanut butter
Plastic insects
From Tadpole to Frog
This is a busy and fun kit with lots to read, try, and see!
This kit includes:
· How to draw a frog instructions
· Facts about frogs sheet
· Changes poem
· Book From Tadpole to Frog
· Book Frogs
· Childcraft instructional sheet
· Toy frog
· 3-D mirascope with frog
· Toilet paper tubes
· Glue stick
· Pink paint
· Paint brushes
· Twine
· Buttons
· Tape
· Stapler
· Ruler
· Scissors
· Green paper 2 shades
· Frog game instructions
· Frog life cycle craft and instructions
· Lily pad in water experiment instructions
· Markers
· Frog on a Log book
· Fun Facts About Frogs book 112350
Gregory the Terrible Eater
Gregory the goat loves his fruits and vegetables which makes his parents worry about his eating habits!! Slowly, they are able to teach him how to eat 'goat healthy' foods.
This kit contains:
· Book Gregory the Terrible Eater
· Childcraft instructions
· Cookbook The Gross Cookbook 114338
· Book Life on a Goat Farm 110878
· Fruits and vegetable chart
· Dinner plates sheets
· Canada’s Food Guide – Eat well. Live well.
· How we taste food chart
· Home- made fruit gummies instructions
· Plastic food – carrots, peas, steak, green beans, salad, baked potato, bun, milk in cup, chicken leg, pudding
· Jello
· Candy silicone mold
· Cut out food pictures
What Lives in a Shell?
Here is a fun kit to learn about shells, play some games, do a craft, an experiment, and hear the ocean from a shell!
This kit includes:
· Toys – hermit crab, crab, oyster
· Book – What Lives in a Shell?
· Childcraft parental instructions
· The Shell Book
· Seashells of North America book
· A House For Hermit Crab K12423
· A house for hermit crab activity with instructions
· Card stock
· Sponges
· Paint
· Pipe cleaners
· Googly eyes
· Glue or tape
· Scissors
· How do crabs breathe under water? Instructions
· Coffee filters
· Elastics
· 2 cups
· Soil
· Crab tic tac toe
· Body parts of a crab sheet
· All about crabs
· Crabs
· 9 seashells
My 5 Senses
Learn all about your 5 senses and some of the fun things they can do!
This kit contains:
· Hand puppet
· Book My 5 Senses, The Magic School Bus Explores the Senses
· Childcraft instructional card
· Sense of touch scavenger hunt sheet
· Sense of smell tea bag game
· Tea – variety of flavours
· Make a 5 senses puppet instructions
· Brown bags
· Markers
· Scissors
· Glue
· Let’s learn 5 senses game and instructions
· Dice
· 5 game counters
· Missing body parts worksheet
· Label the body parts worksheet
· Let’s sort the 5 senses cards
· Mystery bag (for the 5 senses cards)
· Let’s spin the 5 senses
Our Cat Cuddles
Have you ever thought about adopting a pet? This book will have you laughing at what this family does to adopt theirs!
This kit contains:
· Our Cat Cuddles book and CD
· Toys – lion puppet, finger puppets – 5 cats, 1 cow
· Face to Face With Lions book 106671
· Jungle Journey board game 112794
· How to make a surprise big mouth lion instructions and printed lions
· Thor’s facts
· Amazing lions facts
· Why do cat’s eyes glow experiment and instructions
· Wool
· Scissors
· Black plastic
· Tin can
· Elastics
· Markers
· Tape
Money
Lots of money activities for kids of all ages!
This kit contains:
· ATM Machine
· 3 AAA batteries
· ATM Card
· Play money for ATM – 4 - $5.00s, 4 - $10.00s, 5 - $20.00, coins
· Book Canadian Money
· Book My Rows of Coins 109542
· Book The Monster Book of Money 112931
· Monopoly Millionaire
· Hungry Caterpillar game with tokens, dice, instructions
· 2 money sorting mats
· 2 money recognition shopping lists
· Canadian bills card
· Canadian coins card
· Play money and coins
· Chick-fil-a and how much does it cost cards?
· Mystery Money Cash Register – coins, 5 dollar bills, 10 dollar bills, decoder cards
· Wipe clean marker
Rocks and Minerals
Using the enclosed mini-magnifying glasses and information, take a close look at rocks and minerals and even make yourself some igneous rocks to eat!!
This kit includes:
· 2 Rocks and Minerals kits
· Suitcase Science
· Deluxe Canadian Rocks and Minerals
· Rocks and minerals matching game
· Books – Rocks 112811, Rocks & Minerals 114350, Rocks & Stones (How We Use) 106029
· Classifying minerals chart
· Rock cycle chart
· Rock collectors: A Geology Game – instructions, 2 die, board game, 4 rock record cards, 4 rock playing pieces, rock cards
· Igneous rock cookies recipe card and data sheet
· Marker
· Butter
· Rice krispies
· marshmallows
Dinosaurs
This dinosaur themed kit comes with a lot of fun for the whole family!
The kit contains:
· Books – Jurassic Strike Force 5; We Both Read About Dinosaurs 110022; Lego Dino Safari; Dinosaur Babies 14506
· 2 prehistoric park 24 piece puzzles
· Professor Noggins dinosaur trivia card game
· Build Your Own Dinosaur Habitat – 2 small dinosaurs, rocks, world of dinosaurs booklet, back drop photo card, special rock
· Dinosaur feet craft instructions and templates
· Card stock
· Paper
· Markers
· Scissors
· Glue
· Pencil stencils
· Pencils
· Make your own dinosaur fossils and salt dough recipe card
· Flour
· Salt
· Rolling pin
Magnets
Magnets create hours of fun just on their own, but, here is a kit with some fun activities!
This kit contains:
· Super magnet lab – 119 magnetic pieces
· How Far Will a Magnet Jump card
· Masking tape
· 2 magnetic sorting mats and activity card
· 4 magnetic mazes
· What Makes A Magnet? 14502
· Defying gravity with magnets experiment instructions
· 8 blocks
· 2 dowels
· String
· Tape
· scissors
Spy/Detective Kit
This kit is for the mystery loving people in your house! Take your own fingerprints and look at the closely, solve the mysteries, and even make your own!
• Secret spy mission sheet
• Ultimate spy mission box with keep out bag, code maker wheel, voice recorder, spy ear, training manual, folding binoculars
• Books – I Spy A Scary Monster, What If You Could Spy Like a Narwhal, I Spy A School Bus
• Night vision goggles
• Create your own code sheet
• Q’s Gadget Lab Sheets for spy crafts
• Detective Mission sheet
• Case of the missing diamond sheet, 6 ID cards, detective notebook
• Invisible Ink Instructions – q-tips, baking soda
• Fingerprint making – 2 pencils, scotch tape, instructions, recipe cards, magnifying glass
• Top secret box – glasses, pen light, decoder, spy ear, spy 100 mission guide book