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Favorite Crafts

Make a clothespin Fairy!

Make a 4th of July Wand!

Make a Christmas Ornament!

Make an Awesome Animal Mask!

Make a Halloween Skeleton Marionette! 



 


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        Family Fun Crafts


I recommend Family Fun as a resource for wonderful crafts and activities.  
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 Favorite Books

                   One  by Kathryn Otoshi

                       Blue is a quiet color. Red’s a hothead who likes to pick on Blue. Yellow, Orange, Green, and Purple don’t like what they see, but what can they do? When no one speaks up, things get out of hand — until One comes along and shows all the colors how to stand up, stand together, and count. As budding young readers learn about numbers, counting, and primary and secondary colors, they also learn about accepting each other's differences and how it sometimes just takes one voice to make everyone count. Great for anti-bully curriculum.

                   Zero by Kathryn Otoshi

                        Zero is a big round number. When she looks at herself, she just sees a hole right in her center. Every day she watches the other numbers line up to count: "1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7 . . . !" "Those numbers have value. That's why they count," she thinks. But how could a number worth nothing become something? Zero feels empty inside. She watches One having fun with the other numbers. One has bold strokes and squared corners. Zero is big and round with no corners at all. "If I were like One, then I can count too," she thinks. So she pushes and pulls, stretches and straightens, forces and flattens herself, but in the end she realizes that she can only be Zero. As budding young readers learn about numbers and counting, they are also introduced to accepting different body types, developing social skills and character, and learning what it means to find value in yourself and in others.





No! That's Wrong!   by Zhaohua Ji and Cui Xu

This delightful story about a newly discovered "hat" (NO - That's wrong they're underwear!!)  will have young children giggling and interacting with the narrator as rabbit and her animal friends try on this fabulous hat.  Recommended for fashionable animals everywhere.  ages 4 -8

This deceptively simple story takes a humorous look at fashion, peer pressure, friendship, and the value of believing in oneself. Younger children will delight in the hilarious premise of animals wearing underwear on their heads. Older children will appreciate the more subtle concepts of the book, and will root for rabbit as she searches for a way to silence that critical voice once and for all.


Don't Let The Pigeon Drive the Bus by Mo Willems

When a bus driver goes on break, he asks the readers to keep an eye on his bus and the crazy bird who desperately wants to drive it. The pigeon then relentlessly begs readers to let him behind the wheel. Children love to say NO! to pigeon.  Willems hooks his audience quickly with the pigeon-to-reader approach and simple lovable cartoons.


Pigeon wants a Puppy by Mo Willems

School Library Journal

PreS-Gr 3- The incorrigible bird returns in his fourth full-length romp. This time, Pigeon voices another common childhood dream: he wants a puppy. And he wants it NOW. He even promises to take care of it: "I'll water it once a month." He argues his case so forcefully that a puppy appears, but it's more than he expects: "The teeth! The hair! That wet nose!...I mentioned the teeth, right?" So he sets his sights on a different pet. Kids will love this perfectly paced picture book, which offers both the expected (breaking the fourth wall, Pigeon's classic temper tantrum) and a new twist (Pigeon actually gets what he wants? Impossible!). Willems's hilariously expressive illustrations and engaging text are cinematic in their interplay. Maybe kids won't appreciate the genius behind it the way adults will, but that won't stop them from asking for this book again and again.-Kathleen Kelly MacMillan, Carroll County Public Library, MD