In short, I am busy: Story Celebration

 This is just a loose mixture of crafts and activities for Children's Book Week. Several of them are adapted from Mo Willems/Elephant and Piggie programs from the past.

Activity: Let's Go for a Drive

• Description: Kids decorate boxes and "drive" them up and down the tiled lobby, powered by teenagers, each other, and their grown-ups. We use masking tape to make road lines.
• Books from the transportation neighborhood
• Supplies
• masking tape
• B&T boxes
• stickers and markers

Activity: Show your sparkle

• Description: A staff member helps kids make tutus and wands using hot glue (we've sewed these in the past, but I don't have someone to handle the sewing machine). We'll hot glue tulle to ribbons to make tutus/cloaks.
• Supplies
• colored tulle, sewing scissors, ribbon
• hot glue, glue dots
• dowels, stars die-cut from glitter paper
• Books
• Itty-bitty kitty-corn, Julian is a mermaid, Princess Truly, plus unicorn, mermaid, and fairy books.

Activity: Rainbow animals

• "No-Mess" version: Description: A staff member stands by with the die cut machine and a selection of animal and shape dies. As requested, they cut shapes and then the kids "paint" them with bleeding art tissue paper.
• "Messy" version: Description: Die cut diffusing paper shapes, paint with liquid watercolors (in ice cube trays)
• Books: Eric Carle books
• Supplies
• Die cut machine on cart, dies
• White construction paper
• Bleeding art tissue paper, paint brushes, water bowls
• Plastic for tables, sink to rinse hands, aprons and towels, paper towels

Activity: What kind of hero are you?

• Description: Decorate superhero masks.
• Books: Zero the hero, Superhero ABC, Timothy and the strong pajamas, books about being kind etc.
• Supplies
• Die cut masks (it's a butterfly shape)
• Thin ribbon and jumbo popsicle sticks (to tie on or hold up the masks). Tape.
• Markers, glue sticks, sequins, glitter paper scraps

Activity: Elephant and Piggie puppets

• Description: Pre-cut pieces to make brown paper bag puppets.
• Books: Elephant and Piggie
• Supplies
• Pre-cut and printed Elephant and Piggie puppet pieces
• glue sticks, markers

Activity: Storytelling Math

• Description: Activities to tie in with the Storytelling Math series. Beads and pipe cleaners go with making patterns and snacks with dividing/measuring/comparing.
• Books: Storytelling Math and Pitter Pattern
• Supplies
• Beads, pipe cleaners, bowls for the beads
• Cookies, cereal, small cups, napkins

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