This post contains 2 separate Eric Carle inspired crafts. The first is a Little Cloud parfait, based on "Little Cloud". The second is a paper craft based on Mr. Carle's art technique and "The Very Hungry Caterpillar".  Little Cloud ParfaitThis activity was part of an online Youtube series our library did called "Bookie Bakes". In this series, we

 Pictures of the Black History Month YA display. Only a small portion of the books from our collection are being shown on display. The bulk are waiting in the story hour room to be used for a book talk. After that, they'll be added to the display.The 3D flowers that were used in this display were recycled from my

This interactive bulletin board is all about guessing which first line goes in which book.It was simple to design and create the pieces for but it did take some time. Browsing shelves for the great first-liners was fun though. I chose to spotlight 30 different books that were in the collection. A few are newer, more obscure titles that

 During Covid, our library did a series of Author Focus videos in a series called "Bookie Bakes".The idea of this video was to focus on a children's book author and then I would demonstrate how to make a quick and easy snack to go along with the series. This handsome lug got to come with me to the library.