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    Storytime Theme: Letter “B”

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    This was a really easy lesson plan to create – apparently there are A LOT of great words that start with the letter “b” for toddlers and preschoolers! Whether you decide to focus on just one theme or use a little bit of everything, this is a great introduction to…

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    Storytime Theme: Butterflies

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    How have I been doing storytime for years and never posted a butterfly theme? This seems like an obvious choice and I’ve read butterfly books within my bug theme, but I guess I’ve never highlighted them alone! There are so many great books about butterflies and this theme could easily…

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    #blogbookaday: My Busy Green Garden

    Summary:  “So begins this lyrical tribute to the bugs, bees, and birds that make the garden such a busy place. With each turned page, more visitors appear, and all the while the “surprise”—a chrysalis—changes unnoticed until, on the last page, a butterfly emerges and flies away across the garden’s well-tended borders.…

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    Flannel Friday: Colorful Butterflies

    These butterflies were so easy to make – our Ellison die-cut machine is a wonder with felt, making flannelboards a lot easier when I can find a template for the pieces I need.  And I figured out that a little bit of puffy paint can make your flannelboards just a…

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    Butterfly STEAM Event

    Today is an exciting day in our library!  We are hosting a butterfly pavilion where children as young as two can experience real-live monarch butterflies.  We’re hosting a story time this morning and an afternoon program for elementary school children this afternoon.  Throughout the day, the pavilion will be open…

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    Read! Build! Play! Lego Duplo Story Time

    My library participated in the Read! Build! Play! Project back in October and we received a library toolkit from the Lego company with a box full of Duplos and 10 kits and a big book of Grow Caterpillar Grow.  You can see the kit from Amazon, here.  This afternoon I…