What little kid doesn't love voting? So when local elections came up in our city, we held our own elections at the library with candidates of our own!
Clifford the Big Red Dog VS Doreen Cronin's Duck.
We invited one of the local candidates to read these two stories. Afterwards, kids and parents were invited to participate in our elections by voting for which story/character they liked the best.
We printed off Voter Registration Cards from online which had to be filled out before we let them into our voting booth.
For our voting booth, we pulled out the puppet stage and stuck a table inside. They could pretend like they were going behind the curtain to vote just like in real elections!
Voters had to sign our Voter Registration list before they were given a ballot.
Our ballot!
Inside the booth was a box, where voters could drop their ballot.
Once everyone who wanted to vote had voted, we tallied up the results and shared them with the group.
This program was low-maintenance, exciting and different from our usual story times. Best of all, it's easily repeated.
Feel free to use any of these files! I created the ballot and list, but not the registration cards. (If you made the registration cards let me know so I can give you credit!)
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