Read: Lola at the Library by Anna McQuinn and Maisy Goes to the Library by Lucy Cousins
Song: Welcome, Welcome Everyone (our storytime theme song)
Discuss libraries and library cards. (Let parents in on the "secret" that these are pretend library cards)
Craft: Make your own "library card"
- Print out template
- Provide crayons and stickers for child to design card
- Cut and laminate for child.
Our library does not give library cards to children patrons -- I completely disagree, but this policy is old and we are a small library, so.... We make "dummy" cards for the students in the nearby Burnham School, who frequent our library twice a month. These cards are kept at the library and when the child "graduates" fifth grade they are given a real library card. Otherwise, children patrons use their parents cards. Oh, well.....
