Preschool Holiday Special
Holiday Specials with Librarians! (Preschool)
Safari Adventure
Make your own lion paper crown
Materials needed:
- Lion paper crown template
- Scissors
- Coloured pencils
- Pencil
- Double-sided tape
Download full instructions for this craft.
Try this: Make paper crowns of your favourite animals!
Recommended Books
Oh, No! Author: Candace Fleming & Eric Rohmann Publisher: Schwartz & Wade Books, c2012
My Book of Animals Author: Nik Afia Publisher: Windmill Books, 2019
The Animal Kingdom is a wild place. It’s home to enormous blue whales and fluttery butterflies, spotty leopards, and wriggly jellyfish. In this engaging book, readers will meet a menageries of adorable creatures in all shapes and sizes. They’ll explore pages of stunning illustrations as they learn basic animal words. Fun, simple questions engage readers and foster confidence. Learning will feel like a game as beginning readers peruse his zoo of animals. This high-interest topic and playful design will intrigue even reluctant readers, making it a valuable addition to any library or classroom.
All synopsis taken from the respective publishers. The book covers are the copyright of the respective publishing companies.
Colourful Garden
Make your own vegetable garden
Materials needed:
- Big paper plate
- Watercolour paint
- Paintbrush
- Scissors
- Foam papers (white, green, orange and brown)
- Transparent tape
- Hole punch
- Brown yarn
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Recommended Books
My Busy Green Garden Author: Terry Pierce Publisher: Tilbury House Publishers, [2017]
Takes a close look at a garden, describing the plants, insects, and birds and their activities throughout the day.
Young children will delight in repeating the refrain “OH NO!” as one animal after another falls into a deep, deep hole in this lively read-aloud. This simple and irresistible picture book by hugely popular picture book creators – Candace Fleming and Caldecott medallist Eric Rohmann – feels like a classic-in-the-making. Fans of Rohmann’s Caldecott Medal-winning My Friend Rabbit will be thrilled to see a new book created in the same expressive and comical style.
Caterpillar and Bean Author: Martin Jenkins Publisher: Candlewick Press, 2019
What’s that wedged in a crack in the ground, small and hard and wrinkly and brown? A bean seed! Soon it develops roots and leaves. And what’s that on the leaf? An egg! The egg hatches a caterpillar, and the caterpillar eats the leaves, getting bigger and bigger until it forms a chrysalis. Meanwhile, the plant is growing, too: it develops flowers, then bean pods, as it reaches up toward the sun. Side by side, plant and insect grow . . . and grow . . . and grow throughout the year, until they come full circle.
All synopsis taken from the respective publishers. The book covers are the copyright of the respective publishing companies.
Zoom into Space
Make your own Solar System mobile
Materials needed:
- Long chopstick or wooden dowel
- White stock paper or drawing block paper
- Tape or white glue
- Thread
- Colouring materials
- Scissors
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Try this: Replace the planets with stars in different sizes and you’ve got a star mobile!
Recommended Books
Aliens Love Underpants Author: Claire Freedman Publisher: Barron’s Educational Series, 2017. OverDrive Link: https://nlb.overdrive.com/media/3303412
With wacky illustrations and hilarious rhyming text, Aliens Love Underpants is already a favorite among toddlers, beginning readers, teachers, parents, big brothers, big sisters, grandparents, and essentially anyone else who cracks open this super-silly book. When little aliens fly down to Earth, they’re not visiting because they want to meet the Earthlings. They simply want to steal everybody’s underpants!
It Started with a Big Bang: The Origin of Earth, You and Everything Else Author: Floor Bal Publisher: Kids Can Press, 2019. OverDrive Link: https://nlb.overdrive.com/media/5018465
An accessible and engaging primer on the history of the universe and life on Earth. In this delightful book, kids can follow the fascinating story of how we got from the beginning of the universe to life today on the “bright blue ball floating in space” called Earth. They’ll learn about the big bang theory, how our solar system and planet were formed, how life on Earth began in the oceans and moved to land, what happened to the dinosaurs and how humans evolved from apes to build communities all over the planet … and even travel to space!
All synopsis taken from the respective publishers. The book covers are the copyright of the respective publishing companies.
Magical World
Make your own Dragon book corner
Materials needed:
- Origami paper of at least 15cm by 15cm, or cut out any paper (e.g. construction paper or wrapping paper) to the same size.
- Scissors
- Glue or tape
- Colouring materials
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Try this: Make book corners based on your favourite magical creatures!
Recommended Books
I’m Casting a Spell! : Meet a Fairy-Tale Witch Author: Lisa Bullard Publisher: Millbrook Press, 2014. OverDrive link: https://nlb.overdrive.com/media/1907919
Meet Hex. She’s a fairy-tale witch! Hex has magic powers. She likes to fly around and play tricks on people. But don’t worry. Hex is not real. She’s one of the monsters you meet in stories. She just wants to tell you about fairy-tale witches. Learn how a witch scares villagers. Meet different kinds of witches around the world. And find out where witch tales come from. You’ll have a creepy time with this monster buddy!
The Paper Bag Princess Author: Robert Munsch Publisher: Annick Press, 2019. OverDrive link: https://nlb.overdrive.com/media/965094
Princess Elizabeth is excited to marry dreamy Prince Ronald, but then a dragon attacks the castle, kidnaps her prince, and burns all her clothes. In resourceful and humorous fashion, Elizabeth dons a paper bag, finds and outsmarts the dragon, and recues Ronald – who is less than pleased at her unprincesslike appearance. What’s a modern-day princess to do? Read this delightful tale to find out.