If you've searched for ideas on the internet about outlining your own Lost & Found theme storytime, you might have run across this Storytime In The Stacks post. Check out the link - I used her "Talk: Faces/Feelings" part (more on that below).  Here's my outline: Good Morning SongI Wake Up My Hands With A Clap, Clap , ClapRead: The

Themed story times that you will find on this blog: Baking Breakfast Cars and Trucks / Transportation  Christmas Clouds Elephant Farm Flower Garden Frogs and BugsGet Well Soon HatsKeep TryingLibrary Lost & Found Mail Money Name November Ocean Pirates Skeleton Snow Thanksgiving Trash and Garbage Up, Up and Away Water Wind    

 BOOKSBooks read for this November themed story time were "Thank You Sarah: The Woman Who Saved Thanksgiving" by Laurie Halse Anderson and "In November" by Cythia Rylant. The first one was a little long for the group that showed up but the parents really enjoyed it. Fun Fact: Our newest national holiday is Juneteenth. It was added in 2021.

   Reading book dedications is one of my favorite things to do with our library books! Unlike my first 20 book dedications, there may be some books from the adult fiction section in this collection- not just Young Adult and Juvenile Fiction. A couple are e-book screen shots and will look different. If you missed the first post, My Top

Family story times are generally not my thing. Our library tried Saturday story times for a while and those never took off and those were intended for all ages. The ones I currently do are either for toddlers/babies or PreK kids. This holiday Thanksgiving story time was attended by both groups and elementary school kids and guys . .

 Use these free printable files to create your own Turkey Scavenger Hunt. The turkey images used were found using a quick google search. 💚💛💜

 Yall. I am SO disappointed. I forgot to take pictures of my tabletop activities for Halloween!!!Interactive Bulletin Board The concept for this was: To prevent a vampire from rising, an old slavic tradition was to plant a rosebush over the grave. Kids colored roses, cut them out and placed them in the pocket for me to staple onto the board.

 is October 16th every year, according to Thereisadayforthat.com.  Naming quirky looking cats is a fun and easy way to celebrate!💚💛💜

My inbox receives a steady stream of FANTASTIC educator guides from various publishers. To share this information, I made a display containing books and their accompanying guides. These guides were printed off, stapled together and slide inside books to be checked out. This display was very popular but a handful of books lingered quite a while before being eventually

Talk Like A Pirate Day is every year on September 19th. For this year, I changed my interactive bulletin board to ask library users what their pirate name would be. This is the generator I came up to find your pirate name. It includes my dads childhood nickname for me on the right side - I won't disclose what

Favorites from this list include . . .Matched by Ally CondieDelirium by Lauren OliverAmid Stars and Darkness by Chani Lynn FeenerThe Selection by Keira Cass.If you also are a fan of The Selection, then you might enjoy The Princess Trials by Cordelia K Castel. I've not read that series yet but based on the description, they sound similar.