February 22nd Story Hour: Dragons

I have been waiting and waiting and WAITING to do a story hour on dragons. There are so many good dragon books out there. The ones I used are

• Lovabye Dragon by Barbara Joossee
• When a Dragon Moves in by Jodi Moore
• Dragons Love Tacos By Adam Rubin
• Me and my Dragon by David Biedrzycki 

I got the craft from THIS blog, and the kids LOVED it.

Dragons are so popular. Kids will go nuts over them. There are so many awesome books about dragons out there.
One really awesome thing about this craft is it's easy to make. It's just some folding and gluing. And of course kids love the wiggly eyes.



Lessons Learned from today's story hour:
1: Dragons love tacos
2: Kids LOVE dragons
3: Kids love making puppets

I've done one other story time where we made puppets. The results of that one were the same as this one: The kids went wild with their puppets.

Here's an excerpt of the aftermath:
Kid 1: Rawr: Give me some tacos!
Kid 2: Rararar! Not until you build me a sand castle!
*both attack each other in the face with their puppets*









Next time: I haven't decided if I want to do St. Patrick's Day or some other theme. I guess you'll have to wait and see!

February 8: Valentine's Day

It's Valentine's Day (almost). Here is what we did on February 8th for Valentine's Day:

Books:

• Ruby Valentine and the Sweet Surprise 
• Love is all around North Dakota by Wendy Silvano (we live in ND, but there are other state versions of this book)
• Love Monster by Rachel Bright
• Froggy's First Kiss by Jonathan London 

My favorite part of story time is the kids' reaction to the stories. 

Love Monster was all around the kids' favorite book. The first page reads "This is a monster (hello Monster)." All the kids said "hello monster" with me. A few pages on, the book reads "poor monster" and of course the kids had to say poor monster. 

I read Froggy's First Kiss and of course every kid said "EWWWWW!" when Frogalina kisses Froggy. They loved it. 

Craft: Heart Window Clings

Materials:

• Washi Tape (Valentine's Day themed or other)
• Heart cut-outs 
• Glue

Instructions:

• Each child will need two heart cut-outs and some washi tape.
• decorate one heart with the tape
• once the hole is covered, glue the second heart over the first, so that the sticky side is down.
• Stick your completed craft to a window!

I had the kids make their heart on a ziplock bag, that way they could take the bag, peel the heart off, and stick it right on the window.


And of course we had to have a treat after story time, so I got these heart shaped suckers from our local Candy store (buy locally if you can!) and added a little extra to them with foam graphics I got at Hobby Lobby.