Now is the time for winter crafts.  We are surrounded by snow and rather than moping about how cold it is  I decided to share some of our winter crafts and suggestions for books to go with them.

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Today I have a fun Bingo game that you can play with your preschooler or kindergartner to help them memorize their sight words. This is one of the crafts that is included in my 10 Free Sight Word Mailing List. Sign up now to get more of the fun sight word crafts all in one place.

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The Chilly weather is here and it is time for autumn activities for kids. Today’s post is about squirrels. Kids love squirrels with their bushy tails and quick movements.  I found three books about squirrels that are fun to read:

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Fall is in the air and I LOVE it! Fall is my favorite time of the year! The air is cooling and getting a chill, the leaves are turning and the lawn doesn’t need constant mowing!  It is also time for animals to get ready for migration. The bears and turtles and frogs and other animals are getting ready for a long winter sleep. What a fun storytime to do about Fall in the Air and animals getting ready to hibernate.  I found some super cute books to go with both of those themes and couldn’t decide which theme to pick so I picked them both. Read on for book suggestions, story time activity ideas and printouts and some poetry about fall and hibernation.

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Today’s post is all about Autumn and books to share for Autumn,or Fall,  Storytime. Before you start you can get creative and do a little Fall decorating in your Storytime area. You could place pumpkins, goards and apples around, maybe add some of that colorful Indian corn and some of the leaves that are falling everywhere.

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Fall is finally here. My favorite season of the year. It isn’t too cold yet, but it is no longer hot. All around the colors are changing and there is bite to the air that tells us change is coming and Santa is on his way!

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Today on Crafts for Storytime, we have some Halloween story time  ideas to share. We have book suggestions, poems and craft ideas in the form of coloring pages with that can be printed out for free!

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The Ghost’s Dinner by Jacques Duquennoy is about a ghost named Henry who makes a colorful dinner for his friends. His food is magical and turns each dinner guest the color of the food they’re eating.  The dessert is even more magical because it makes them disappear all together. But don’t worry, everyone gets put back to rights. It is a book for children ages 4-7 and will delight the ones just learning their colors!
Storytime Stickers: It’s Halloween with Spookley the Square Pumpkin This book is full of fun stickers to dress up Spookley and his friends, decorate their parties and play games. I don’t know one child who doesn’t love stickers! You can hand them out to be stuck on whatever tickles the child’s fancy or they can decorate the pages with the stickers.
There Are Monsters Everywhere by Maurice Sendak The cute boy in this book bemoans his life because there are monsters everywhere, but his parents can’t see them. They are near when he empties the garbage, hiding when he takes a shower and they are all over his room.  He decides to take karate lessons to fight them off

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Teddy Bear

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Halloween is almost here, so I have some free Halloween craft ideas for you to use for storytime or just for fun with your kids! Two great books that have ideas are:
Pumpkin Decorating, by Vicki Rhodes
The Family Book of Halloween Fun by Fuller, Grover, Kawasaki, O’Sullivan & Rhodes

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