Notes from the Story Room

I wrote a version of this story for a "Night Animals" storytime in 2012. It is based on the popular folktale theme, be careful w...

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...

The Little Old Lady Who Was Not Afraid of Anything by Linda Williams is another story that is popular with Flannel Friday folk this time o...

While I was searching for worm stories for an upcoming program I came across a story called "The Art Contest" told by an ESL stud...

This post is part of a series of posts about "Telling One Story Five Ways." It is also my Flannel Friday contribution for this ...

Originally I was going to use "Pippa's Penguin" by Susan Daily for my penguin program. Then I decided to use a similiar con...

This activity was inspired by a Flannel Friday post by Lucy of the In the Children's Room blog. Her "Monster Lunch"  flanne...

This prop story was created for my upcoming "Monsters!" family storytime. Since I do an all ages program, I like to use material ...

This summer I will be doing a Pajama Story Time. Bedtime will be the focus of this program. I thought it would be fun to add some aliens ...

This prop story takes a bit of effort to prepare but the end result was well worth it.  It was the hit of my March Family Story Time progra...

I have a confession to make.  In the 15 years that I had a flannel board, I never once made a figure out of felt.  I truly admire those who...

My Pete likes to "help" me whenever he can.  Today he is helping me prepare for tonight's Family Story Time program.  (The ca...

As I have mentioned before, I often take elements that I like from different versions of a story and put them together in a version that I ...

Winter is the topic this month.  I will be a substitute librarian for Toddler Time next week and telling winter stories at Family Story Tim...