Summer Bunch: Pirates

Arrrrrrr! The Pirates Life for ME!

Read: Shiver me Letters by June Sobel and Henry and the Buccaneer Bunnies by Carolyn Crimi

Flannel board: Pirate Pete and his Colorful Patches found at Loons and Quines 

Craft: Pirate Hooks found here Pinterest  -- I couldn't find the actually link to this project.

Need: Solo Cups (mine are the smaller size), aluminium foil, Exacto knife and scissors, gemstone stickers (found these at Oriental Trading).

Summer Bunch: Worms

Wiggly Worms 

Read: Wonderful Worms by Linda Glaser

Song: Herman the Worm found at No Time For Flash Cards (I just love her!)

Game: Wiggle Worm Game found here on Pinterest

Craft: Worm Painting with Spaghetti also found at No Time for Flash Cards

Need: Cooked spaghetti, paint, sturdy paper and paint.

• Dip spaghetti into paint and make a wormy design.

Summer Bunch: Burrowers

Hedgehog vs. Porcupine

Do you know the difference between a hedgehog and a porcupine? Well, I didn't! Porcupines have loooooonng "quills" that they shoot-out in defense. Hedgehogs, only found in Europe, have short smooth "spines." These are just a few differences. Learn something everyday!!!

Read: How do You Hug a Porcupine by Laurie Isop

Flannel board: Apple Trouble by Ragnhild Scammell

Craft: Paperplate Hedgehog found via Pinterst

Need: Paper plate, brown crayon, scissors and black marker and sticker-eye.

• Prior to storytime, fold plate in half, and cut out face shape as well as drawer on ears, smile and nose.
• Set-up each craft seat with one hedgehog, a sticker-eye and a brown crayon.
• First they will color their porcupine brown.
• Then adhere sticker-eye.
• We handed-out the scissors and instructed the kiddos to cut their quills.

Summer Bunch: Antics

Antics

Read: The Ants Go Marching (borrowed from Woodbury P.L.)

Flannel Board: Two Bad Ants found in the CSLP Summer Manual pg 156.

Craft: Ant puppet

Need: Heavy cardboard or paint stick, black craft paper, glue, black pipe cleaners and sticker eyes

• Prior to storytime, cut out 3 circles -- two largish and one small
• Place 3 pipe cleaners, 3 circles and a paint stick/cardboard and glue at each craft seat.
• First have kiddos, place LOTS of glue onto the stick/cardboard
• Then place pipe cleaners onto the glue and then adhere the circles on top.
• That is about it!

Summer Bunch: Gardens and Veggies

Let's get our Veg on!

Read: Carrot Seed by Ruth Krauss

Flannel board: Enormous Potato retold by Aubrey Davis

Craft: Carrots in the Dirt found via Pinterest from Along the Way

Need: White, orange and green paper, glue, water, dirt and paintbrushes.

• Prior to storytime, my dear summer volunteer cut out carrot and stem shapes. We also mixed up our "mud" -- old dried-out garden soil, glue and a bit of water.
• At storytime, at each craft seat, we placed sturdy paper, shapes, glue sticks and cups with "mud."
• We asked the kiddos to glue their carrots as if they were growing from the ground.
• Then when they finished, they should "bury" the carrots, with the "mud," leaving the green stems showing.

Summer Bunch: Trucks

Diggin' Trucks

Read: The Little Dump Truck by Margery Cuyler and Dig! by Andrea Zimmerman and David Clemesha

Flannel board: Pick-up Trucks found here at Storytime Sparks check it out here!

For our first Summer Bunch storytime, we will not be making a craft. Instead, I have found a "Friend" of our library that is bringing a tractor to our library for a Touch-a-Truck type storytime. So after we read a few books, the kids will have a chance to sit on the tractor ... We will take a picture and put it in a trucky frame.

Super-fun!