Notes from the Story Room

One of the challenges of presenting a family storytime is engaging multiple ages - not just children but parents and grandparents as well. ...

Use card stock and clip art to create a simple scene (or draw it if you wish). Put the animals in size order with the smallest on top and t...

Although it is not an original idea, I decided to post a version of a popular and easily adaptable flannel board game. The theme for Januar...

Inspired by a recent addition to my library's non-fiction collection, Talented Tails Up Close  by Melissa Stewart (Enslow, 2012), I cre...

Flannel Friday is probably my main source of storytime ideas now. I finally got to use the "Alphabet Soup" idea. I used the rhyme...

While catching up on my backlog of  PUBYAC digests, I came across a reference to some Native American games.  One of the games mentioned w...

Summer programs are winding down and planning has started for fall. One of the most popular flannel board activities for toddlers and ...

One spring I was invited by an elementary school librarian to come talk about the public library's summer reading program.  Since I di...