Plant a Seed: Summer Reading Kids (2)

Last week, I shared some craft ideas.

This week, I'm sharing some STEAM ideas - all from Pinterest

Host a paint night for kids

Make your own paint brush from nature

Leaf butterflies or any leaf animal

Lemon Volcanos

Sensory Garden Bin

Paint with Vegetables 

Lego Flowers

Dandelion playdough 

Bird Treat

Build a Bug Hotel

Make Plant paints (you can make spice paints too)

Come back next week for some great books for summer reading! 

Plant a Seed: Kids Summer Reading (1)

 This summer, we're doing the Plant a Story, Read for our theme. Mostly because we've done     Dino-vember for years and it's hard to come up with more ideas. Plant a Story seemed easier for us. Right now, we could use a little easy. It's time to start planning.

Here are a few ideas from Pinterest:

Dragonfly Painting

Paper Flowers

More paper flowers

Pipe cleaner flowers

Flowers behind a gate

Sunflower (can also create other flowers and use dotters for the middle)

Flower wreath

Design your own bouquet

Create a nest

Fairy House

Check back next week for more summer reading program ideas! 

Summer Reading Ideas: Kids (5)

Even though it's winter outside, in the library world, it's time to start planning summer reading. This year's theme is all about fantasy and fairy tales in Imagine Your Story.

Three weeks ago I looked at Castles, two weeks I looked at Fairy Tale Crafts, last week I looked at STEAM programs, and this week I'm talking about food programs.

All the ideas come from Pinterest.

Magic Want Fruit Kabobs:

"Poison" Apples

Unicorn Horns

Dragon Poop:

Mermaid Jello:

Summer Reading Ideas Kids (3)

Even though it's winter outside, in the library world, it's time to start planning summer reading. This year's theme is all about fantasy and fairy tales in Imagine Your Story.

Two weeks ago I looked at Castles, last week I looked at Fairy Tale Crafts, and this week I'm looking at STEAM programs.

All the ideas come from Pinterest.

Unicorn Experiments:

Fairy Tale Creation:

Help Jack Escape from the Beanstalk

Design a Fantasy Creature:

Working Drawbridge:

I did these two last year and they worked well:

Catapults:

Goldilock's Bed:

Summer Reading Ideas: Kids (2)

Even though it's winter outside, in the library world, it's time to start planning summer reading. This year's theme is all about fantasy and fairy tales in Imagine Your Story.

Last week I looked at Castles, this week I'm looking at Fairy Tale Crafts.

All the craft ideas come from Pinterest.

Snow White's Apple:

Frog from Princess and the Frog:

Glitter Wands:

Magic Wand:

Cinderella's Carriage:

Snow White (or Belle's) Magic Mirror:

Another Magic Mirror

Big Bad Wolf:

Not Fairy Tale, but I couldn't resist:

Unicorn:

Dragon:

Dragon Face:

Summer Reading Ideas: Kids (1)

Even though it's winter outside, in the library world, it's time to start planning summer reading. This year's theme is all about fantasy and fairy tales in Imagine Your Story.

Here are some program ideas about Castle Construction from Pinterest that caught my eye:

Large 3D Castle

More 3D Castle Ideas

Newspaper Castle

Castle Surprise

Fairy Tale Castle

Shape Castle

Beach Castle

Playing with Castles