Storytime: Happy Holidays

Storytime for kids ages 3-8 and their families, with a craft.

Books:

Merry Christmas, Splat

by Rob Scotton

 

It's Christmas, David!

by David Shannon

Christmas for 10

by Cathryn Falwell

Minerva Louise on Christmas Eve

by Janet Morgan Stoeke

This Is the Dreidel

by Abby Levine and pictures by Paige Billin-Frye

Hoppy Hanukkah

by Linda Glaser and pictures by Daniel Howarth

Craft:

Candy Cane Mouse Craft

 

From Amazingmoms.com

Storytime: Hot Chocolate and Cocoa

Family storytime for ages 3-8 and their families, with craft.

Books:

Lucky Pennies and Hot Chocolate

by Carol Diggory Shields and pictures by Hiroe Nakata

Winter Is the Warmest Season

by Lauren Stringer

Snowmen at Night

by Caroline Buehner and pictures by Mark Buehner

Additional Books:
The Bears We Know by Brenda Silsbe and pictures by Vlasta van Kampen

Chocolatina by Erik Kraft and pictures by Denise Brunkus

First Snow by Bernette Ford and pictures by Sebastien Braun
Jingle-Jingle by Nicola Smee (no hot chocolate, but a festive non-holiday specific story)

Snow Day! by Lester L. Laminack and pictures by Adam Gustavson
added 3/4/11 There Was an Old Monkey Who Swallowed a Frog by Jennifer Ward

Songs:

"Hot Chocolate" from John McCutcheon's Wintersongs

We also sang along to "Jingle Bells" and "Winter Wonderland".

Craft:

Gingerbread Fun

Nice and simple before the holidays we decorated gingerbread people, pre-cut from an Ellison die.

Storytime: Soup

Family storytime for ages 3-8 with craft

Books:

Martha Blah Blah

By Susan Meddaugh

Soup Day

By Melissa Iwai

Additional Books:

Carrot Soup by John Segal

Chicken Soup by Jean Van Leeuwen and pictures by David Gavril

Growing Vegetable Soup by Lois Ehlert

Surprise Soup by Mary Ann Rodman and pictures by G. Brian Karas

Interactive Story:

Stone Soup

I printed pictures from DLTK and laminated them.  You could also use plastic vegetables if you have them available.  I let the children put the food into a pot one by one, and then let them stir with a spoon.

Songs:

Not soup related but I love "Tooty Ta" from Dr. Jean and Friends

Vegetable Soup

(to the tune of: "London Bridge")

We are making vegetable soup,

vegetable soup, vegetable soup.

We are making vegetable soup.

Now put in the ______.

Take the _______ and stir it up,

stir it up, stir it up.

Take the ______ and stir it up.

We are making vegetable soup.

From www.childfun.com

Craft:

Savory Alphabet Soup

Print out the bowl from www.thebestkidsbooksite.com.  I had the kids cut them out and paste them onto paper and add tissue paper "seasoning" and sticky letters.