Social Media, blogs and Pinterest have helped me so many
times as a librarian, I couldn’t count.
So in an effort to share and share alike, I’ll start posting
my own ideas for storytimes here on my blog. Please feel free to share, use and adapt for your storytimes
at your library, childcare or home. Library books are free and sharing the love
of reading should be free too.
For reference, I run the toddler storytime at my library and
my age group is 2-3 year olds ( everyone seems to have a different classification
for toddlers) So the idea posted here are geared towards that age group and are
often packed into a fast pace 20-25 minute session
Mad About Hats
Inspiration: Being a child of the 80’s-90’s I was addicted to Care Bears and one of my favorite silly songs was from “Care Bears Adventure in Wonderland” sung by the Mad Hatter himself “Mad about Hats”
To this day it is an inside joke in my family. If you ask “Do
you like hats?” or mention hats in a conversation , my mother and/or myself
will reply “I’m Mad about hats!” (that’s the insanity talking)
Hats was a theme I knew I wanted to tackle and it was one of
the first story times I created. I repeated it in January after two years and some
sprucing up.
BOOKS:
Do You Have a Hat? By Eileen Spinelli
A longer book to start out, you can skip a few pages to shorten it. I've read this one before but I switched it out for this next one
A longer book to start out, you can skip a few pages to shorten it. I've read this one before but I switched it out for this next one
Okay, so the hat is a small part of this story, but it is an adorable book to read for winter. Kids can really relate to the clothes and the simple text. It's fairly simple to ask kids at this age if they wore a coat, hat, mittens today and what color they are.
