Love Your Library!
April 5 - 9
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Activity 1 - Make a Maraca
The library is a great place to spark creativity and try something new! Try making your own maraca, then play along with some music.
Materials needed:
Plastic spoons
Craft or masking tape
Rice, beans, or small rocks
Plastic egg
Directions:
Step 1: Use crayons or markers to decorate the wooden spoons. Color the convex side—the part facing out. The concave side (the one you would eat off of) can be left blank.
Step 2: Add a little more tape to the egg for decoration and to make sure it will stay closed.
Step 3: Adults, place the egg in between the two spoons, pointy side down, and pinch the spoons tightly together. Have your tape ready so you can do step 4.
Step 4: Keeping the spoons pinched tightly together, wrap some tape around the two spoons to hold them together. This is a little tricky, so don’t get discouraged. Consider having a helper!
Step 5: Wrap some additional tape around the bottom to keep the spoons from sliding around.
Find some books featuring musical instruments here.
Activity 2 - Color a picture
Coloring is fun and builds fine motor control, decreases stress, and promotes creativity, among other benefits. Click the image to visit Classroom Doodles for some fun library themed coloring pages.
Or, click these links for some individual pages.
Coloring pages are protected by copyright and are for personal home use only.
Library alphabet books.pdfActivity 3 - Letter Matching
Here is your own set of books, one for each letter of the alphabet! Adults, cut the books out. Using one word sheet at a time, have your child cover the letters of each word up with the matching book. There are four sheets of words to practice with.
Print the two PDF documents to get started.
Library alphabet books 2.pdfActivity 4 - Jam about the Library!
We love all of these things about the library. We are looking forward to being able to welcome you back in person for storytimes some day soon! (Go away, Covid-19!)
Activity 5 - Read a Magazine!
Did you know that you can read children's magazines using your library card and Flipster?
To try it out, go to our digital resource page.
From there, select Flipster Digital Magazines.
On the left under Categories, click on Family and Kids to see the magazine titles specifically for kids.
Ms. Jenny shared this book on April 8.
She shared this one, too!