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.