The Buckeye Librarian: April 2016

Wednesday, April 27, 2016

Lap Sit Week of 4/25

Next week will be our "Baby's Choice" storytime, so today was our last regular storytime of the season! My department's high school intern got to sit in on lap sit and I think at least a few of the babies were big fans. Here's what we were up to:

If You're Ready For a Story

If you're ready for a story clap your hands (clap clap)

If you're ready for a story, if you're ready for a story

If you're ready for a story clap your hands (clap clap)

If you're ready for a story stomp your feet (stomp stomp)

If you're ready for a story, if you're ready for a story

If you're ready for a story stomp your feet (stomp stomp)

If you're ready for a story wave hello

If you're ready for a story, if you're ready for a story

If you're ready for a story wave hello

Big Big Big

This is big big big, this is small small small

This is short short short, this is tall tall tall

This is fast fast fast, this is slow slow slow

This is yes yes yes, this is no no no

ABCs

Open/Shut Them

Open shut them, open shut them

Give a little clap clap clap

Open shut them, open shut them

Put them in your lap lap lap

Creep them crawl them, creep them crawl them

Right up to your chinny chin chin

Open wide your little mouth-

But do not let them in!

Book #1: Noodle Loves the Park by Marion Billet (group reading)

Roly Poly

Roly poly, roly poly

Fast fast fast, fast fast fast

Roly roly poly, roly roly poly

Slow slow slow, slow slow slow

Roly poly, roly poly

Out out out, out out out

Roly roly poly, roly roly poly

In in in, in in in

Hokey Pokey

Put your hands in, put your hands out

Put your hands in and shake them all about

Do the hokey pokey and you turn yourself around

That's what it's all about

Put your feet in, put your feet out

Put your feet in and shake them all about

Do the hokey pokey and you turn yourself around

That's what it's all about

Put your whole self in, put your whole self out

Put your whole self in and shake it all about

Do the hokey pokey and you turn yourself around

That's what it's all about

Wiggle Waggle

Wiggle waggle went the bear, catching bees in his underwear

One bee out, one bee in

One bee bit him on his big bear skin

Bzzzz!

Book #2: I Can Roar! by Frank Asch

Bounce Our Babies to the Top

We bounce and bounce and bounce and stop

We bounce our babies to the top!

We rock and rock and rock and stop

We rock our babies to the top!

We tickle and tickle and tickle and stop

We tickle our babies to the top!

Baby Put Your Pants On

Baby put your pants on, pants on, pants on

Baby put your pants on, 1 2 3

Baby put your pants on, pants on, pants on

Baby put your pants on, 1 2 3

Leg to the left, leg to the right

Wiggle and jiggle and pull them up tight

Baby put your shirt on, shirt on, shirt on

Baby put your shirt on, 1 2 3

Baby put your shirt on, shirt on, shirt on

Baby put your shirt on, 1 2 3

Arm to the left, arm to the right

Wiggle and jiggle and pull it down tight

Can You Shake Along with Me?

Can you shake along with me, along with me, along with me?

Can you shake along with me?

Put your shaker on your knees

[repeat with as many body parts as you want]

Bubbles in the Air

There are bubbles in the air, in the air

There are bubbles in the air, there are bubbles in the air

There are bubbles in the air, in the air

There are bubbles way up high, way up high

There are bubbles way up high, way up high in the sky

There are bubbles way up high, way up high

There are bubbles way down low, way down low

There are bubbles way down low, and they tickle on your toes

There are bubbles way down low, way down low

Bubbles

Goodbye Song

Storytime is over now, over now, over now

Storytime is over now- see you next time!

Saturday, April 23, 2016

Program: Board Book Book Club

Last December, an especially large board book order combined with the Association for Library Service to Children's Babies Need Words Every Day: Talk, Read, Sing, Play initiative, led to a Board Book Book Club program. The idea was to display all of our new board books and encourage caregivers to make informed choices about their baby's board books.

Although this program was not especially well attended, I still really loved creating it and I think I will try it again the next time a big order comes in.

The categories were:

And some of the displays:

Decorations: Thanksgiving 2015

This was another really fun bulletin board. In early November, our turkey looked like this:

And by the end of the month, he looked like this:

I think kids and parents had a lot of fun deciding what to write on their feathers. I certainly had a lot of fun reading them. Here are some of my favorites:

Decorations: Summer 2015

As we are gearing up for Summer Reading Club 2016 (Lions, and Tigers, and , I found some pictures of decorations from Summer Reading Club 2015 (Read Through Time). I really enjoyed making these:

The Magic Tree House (to help us travel through time):

An Egyptian sarcophagus:

Big Ben:

A medieval castle (my favorite):

A rocket ship:

Prehistoric corner:

Program: Story Walk Summer 2015

I have grown to love Story Walks. The idea is very simple- take a book, disassemble the pages, mount the pages on large signs, hang/plant the signs outdoors, and have families walk through the story. Last summer, I did a Story Walk with I Took My Frog to the Library by Eric Kimmel:

For each stop along the walk, I had a coloring page featuring the animal. By the end of the walk, each child would have made his or her own coloring book to take home. We actually kept the signs assembled and I was able to put it out a few more times over the summer for field trips and other big events. It went well enough that I did another one with The Snowy Day by Ezra Jack Keats over the winter and will do another one this summer. Unfortunately, I forgot to take any close-up pictures, but here are a few of the set-up:

Program: The Very Hungry Caterpillar

I did a program recently based on The Very Hungry Caterpillar by Eric Carle. We've had great luck in the past with programs based on a single book, and this one did not disappoint! We had around 20 kids and their adults (which is just about our capacity for a one-librarian program) and everyone had a ton of fun.

First, everyone collected a felt piece from the story as they checked in for the program. There were exactly 25 pieces in the felt set I made, so I ended up placing the 5 oranges and all the kids got to put up their felt piece:

I was especially fond of my small caterpillar, my big fat caterpillar, and my butterfly:

After the story, we rotated through a few stations:

Making caterpillar hats:

(photo credit and inspiration from Librayland)

Decorating an activity book with various Hungry Caterpillar-themed activity pages from Pinterest

Snack (green grapes and goldfish):

(photo credit and inspiration from The Weekend Homemaker)

Photobooth:

(My own creation, although the model is my coworker, Miss Kaitlin)

This was only a half hour program, and this number of activities seemed just about right. When I submitted this program back in January, I had hoped to do it outside, but we had about 5 inches of snow (in April) so we had to move it indoors. I think we all still had lots of fun, though!