Story Time (Online) – Painting
Welcome to story time. Today’s theme is all about paint! Let’s get started with a song!
Fingerplay: The Itsy-Bitsy Spider
The itsy-bitsy spider,
Went up the water spout.
Down came the rain,
And washed the spider out.
Out came the sun,
And dried up all the rain.
And the itsy-bitsy spider,
Went up the spout again.
Source: dltk-teach
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Scarf Song: Rainbow Color Song
(Tune: Twinkle, Twinkle, Little Star)
First comes red and orange too
Shiny yellow, green, and blue
Purple ends the pretty rays
Only seen on rainy days
First comes red and orange too
Shiny yellow, green, and blue
Source: Jbrary
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Flannel Board: White Rabbit’s Color Book
Written by Alan Baker and published by Kingfisher.
Source: Sunflower Storytime
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Book: Blue Goose
Written by Nancy Tafuri and published by Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers.
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Flannel Board: Paintbrushes
Five little brushes went out to paint.
One painted white, then ran away in fright.
The second painted red and jumped under the bed.
The third painted green then fled the scene.
The fourth painted black than ran around back.
The fifth painted yellow and felt so mellow,
He invited everyone back to begin again!
Source: AnnesLibraryLife
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Book: Sky Color
Written by Peter H. Reynolds and published by Candlewick Press.
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Scarf Song: Wave Your Scarf Up and Down
(Tune: London Bridge)
Wave your scarf up and down,
up and down,
up and down.
Wave your scarf up and down,
wave your scarf.
Verses: left and right…
fast and slow…
high and low…
around and around
wave it goodbye
Source: Jbrary
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Flannel Board: Mr. Pine’s Purple House
Written by Leonard Kessler published by Purple House Press.
Source: Abby the Librarian
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Craft: Craft Stick Easel
Kit Supplies:
- Craft Sticks
- Color Pages
- Watercolor Pallets
Home Supplies:
- Glue
Instructions:
- Glue 2 craft sticks into an inverted V shape. This will become the two front legs of your easel.
- Glue the rear leg to the 2 front legs, as shown.
- Glue easel shelf onto the front legs.
- Let the glue dry.
- Your easel is now complete!
Use it to display all of your favorite masterpieces!
Source: Craft Project Ideas
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Song: We Wave Goodbye like This
We wave goodbye like this.
We wave goodbye like this.
We clap our hands for all our friends.
We wave goodbye like this.
(Repeat)
– Kris, Youth Services Specialist
#FDL: Culinary Arts Month
July is culinary arts month. Fondulac District Library has an awesome selection of cookbooks. Check out some of our newest ones here.
Teatime at Grosvenor Square: An Unofficial Cookbook for Fans of Bridgerton
Food and drink recipes inspired by Netflix’s hit show Bridgerton and Julia Quinn’s bestselling novels. Finger sandwiches, pastries, roasts, desserts, cocktails, and more! From the magnificent macaron towers to the heavenly fruit-topped trifles, the food of Bridgerton steals the show. Teatime at Grosvenor Square brings you 75 tempting recipes inspired by those candy-colored treats and opulent feasts. Now you can create a spread of delicate finger sandwiches, captivating canapés, and bite-sized sweets scrumptious enough to impress Queen Charlotte herself! Plus, you’ll find a few recipes worthy of a Bridgerton family supper.
Easy Meal Prep: The Ultimate Playbook for Make-Ahead Meals
Want to sit down to incredibly tasty, nutritious, homecooked meals every single day? Who doesn’t! But who has the time? Now you do, with this meal-planning guide and cookbook that will help you get yummy dishes on the table in minutes. Whatever your goal — eat better, spend (and waste!) less, get out of a dinner rut — some simple meal prep can make it reality.
The No-Fuss Family Cookbook: Simple Recipes for Everyday Life
A new collection of easy, family-friendly recipes, from popular chef and television personality Ryan Scott. This collection comes straight from his home kitchen’s regular rotation into yours. Reflecting Ryan’s colorful personality and practical approach, the recipes are kid-friendly and packed with clever hacks and pro tips for getting meals on the table (and cleaning up) quickly.
Everyone’s Table: Global Recipes for Modern Health
The beloved Top Chef star revolutionizes healthy eating in this groundbreaking cookbook—the ultimate guide to cooking globally inspired dishes free of gluten, dairy, soy, legumes, and grains that are so delicious you won’t notice the difference. Everyone’s Table features 200 mouth-watering, decadently flavorful recipes carefully designed to focus on superfoods—ingredients with the highest nutrient-density, the best fats, and the most minerals, vitamins, and antioxidants—that will delight and inspire home cooks.
One-Bowl Meals: Simple, Nourishing, Delicious
Whether for breakfast, lunch, or dinner, and complete with protein, fresh fruits or vegetables, and grains, a one-bowl meal checks all the boxes—delicious, nourishing, casual, filling, seasonal. And in the hands of Maria Zizka its possibilities are even more exciting, with thirty brilliant combinations organized by base—oatmeal, chia, or yogurt for breakfast, and grains, noodles, or greens to build mains. Plus, there are tips, tutorials, and substitution rules of thumb throughout, including how to customize your bowl to make it vegan, gluten-free, or protein-forward.
-Annotations from the publishers
–Post by Susie Rivera, Reference Specialist
#FDL is a weekly update on all things Fondulac District Library and East Peoria.
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FDL Reads: The House in the Cerulean Sea
The House in the Cerulean Sea by TJ Klune
Reviewed By: Alice Mitchell, Youth Services Manager
Genre: Fantasy
Suggested Age: Teens and Adults
What is This Book About? As a caseworker for the Department in Charge of Magical Youth, Linus investigates orphanages for magical children to determine if they’re well taken care of, and he is good at his job. Perfectly by-the-book. After all, it would be against the rules to get attached to the children. His life is quiet but lonely.
His routine is disrupted when Extremely Upper Management decides that Linus is the perfect caseworker for a month-long investigation of the highly classified Marsyas Orphanage, where six very dangerous children reside. The children, including a gnome, were-Pomeranian, and a six-year-old Antichrist, are nothing like Linus expected, and the thoughtful, secretive caretaker Arthur Parnassus is just as much of a surprise as his wards. Linus’ understanding of the world and his role in it is quickly challenged in brilliant ways by the surprising people on Marsyas Island.
My Review: This cozy book about the family you create for yourself will uplift your spirits and leave you filled with hope. The themes of acceptance and understanding will resonate with a great many people. Linus gradually growing closer to all of the children is perfectly paired with his sweet love story with Arthur. While Klune doesn’t shy away from topics of racism and child welfare, hearing about it from the perspective of the children keeps the tone light and humorous. Readers will look forward to cuddling into the couch to fall in love with shy Sal, hilariously over-dramatic Lucy, aspirational bellhop Chauncey, and the rest of the family during their trip to Marsyas Island with all the magic it possesses.
Three Words that Describe this Book: comforting, genuine, side-splitting
Give This A Try if You Like… Pushing Daisies (TV), Miss Peregrine’s Home for Peculiar Children by Ransom Riggs, The Umbrella Academy by Gerard Way, The Tea Dragon Society by Kay O’Neill, Howl’s Moving Castle by Dianna Wynne Jones
Rating: 5/5, but only because we can’t go higher
About FDL Reads
FDL Reads is a series of weekly book reviews from Fondulac District Library.
#FDL: Book Giveaway
The One Hundred Years of Lenni and Margot by Marianne Cronin
Life is short. No-one knows that better than seventeen-year-old Lenni living on the terminal ward. But as she is about to learn, it’s not only what you make of life that matters, but who you share it with. Dodging doctor’s orders, she joins an art class where she bumps into fellow patient Margot, a rebel-hearted eight-three-year-old from the next ward. Their bond is instant as they realize that together they have lived an astonishing one hundred years. To celebrate their shared century, they decide to paint their life stories: of growing old and staying young, of giving joy, of receiving kindness, of losing love, of finding the person who is everything. As their extraordinary friendship deepens, it becomes vividly clear that life is not done with Lenni and Margot yet.
An Unlikely Spy by Rebecca Starford
Evelyn Varley has always been ambitious and clever. As a girl, she earned a scholarship to a prestigious academy well above her parents’ means, gaining her a best friend from one of England’s wealthiest families. In 1939, with an Oxford degree in hand and war looming, Evelyn finds herself recruited into an elite MI5 counterintelligence unit. A ruthless secret society seeks an alliance with Germany and, posing as a Nazi sympathizer, Evelyn must build a case to expose their treachery. But as she is drawn deeper into layers of duplicity—perhaps of her own making—some of those closest to her become embroiled in her investigation. With Evelyn’s loyalties placed under extraordinary pressure, she’ll face an impossible choice: save her country or the people who love her. Her decision echoes for years after the war, impacting everyone who thought they knew the real Evelyn Varley. Beguiling and dark, An Unlikely Spy is a fascinating story of deception and sacrifice, based on the history of real people within the British intelligence community.
The Other Black Girl by Zakiya Dalila Harris
Twenty-six-year-old editorial assistant Nella Rogers is tired of being the only Black employee at Wagner Books. Fed up with the isolation and microaggressions, she’s thrilled when Harlem-born and bred Hazel starts working in the cubicle beside hers. They’ve only just started comparing natural hair care regimens, though, when a string of uncomfortable events elevates Hazel to Office Darling, and Nella is left in the dust. Then the notes begin to appear on Nella’s desk: LEAVE WAGNER. NOW. It’s hard to believe Hazel is behind these hostile messages. But as Nella starts to spiral and obsess over the sinister forces at play, she soon realizes that there’s a lot more at stake than just her career. A whip-smart and dynamic thriller and sly social commentary that is perfect for anyone who has ever felt manipulated, threatened, or overlooked in the workplace, The Other Black Girl will keep you on the edge of your seat until the very last twist.
Rock the Boat by Beck Dorey-Smith
When Kate Campbell’s life in Manhattan suddenly implodes, she is forced to return to Sea Point, the small town full of quirky locals, quaint bungalows, and beautiful beaches where she grew up. She knows she won’t be home for long; she’s got every intention (and a three-point plan) to win back everything she thinks she’s lost. Meanwhile, Miles Hoffman–aka “The Prince of Sea Point”–has also returned home to prove to his mother that he’s capable of taking over the family business, and he’s promised to help his childhood best friend, Ziggy Miller, with his own financial struggles at the same time. Kate, Miles, and Ziggy converge in Sea Point as the town faces an identity crisis when a local developer tries to cash in on its potential. The summer swells, and white lies and long-buried secrets prove as corrosive as the salt air, threatening to forever erode not only the bonds between the three friends but also the landscape of the beachside community they call home. Full of heart and humor–and laced with biting wit–Rock the Boat proves that even when you know all the back roads, there aren’t any shortcuts to growing up.
-Annotations from the publishers
–Post by Susie Rivera, Reference Specialist
#FDL is a weekly update on all things Fondulac District Library and East Peoria.
Story Time (Online) – Balloons!
Good morning and welcome to story time. I’m Miss Sharon. Today’s story time is all about balloons! Let’s get started with our opening song.
Song: The More We Get Together
The more we get together, together, together,
the more we get together, the happier we’ll be.
Cause your friends are my friends,
and my friends are your friends,
the more we get together the happier we’ll be!
Source: Supersimple A Place To Learn and Grow
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Book: Perfectly Percy
Written and illustrated by Paul Schmid and read with the permission of Harper Collins.
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Fingerplay/Action Rhyme: Balloon
I’m going to blow up this balloon (make circle with hands)
And never, never stop. (make circle bigger and bigger)
I’ll blow and blow and blow and blow and (pretend to blow)
POP! (clap loudly!)
Source: Annes Library Life
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Little Balloon
I had a little balloon (make a circle with hands)
That I hugged tight to me (hug self tight)
There was a great big BANG! (clap hands loudly)
No more balloon, you see.
But if I had this many more (hold up five fingers)
I wouldn’t hug them tight (shake head “no”)
I’d just hold onto the strings (grasp strings)
And fly them like a kite. (raise both arms high)
Source: Youth Literature
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Book: Where is My Balloon?
Written by Ariel Bernstein illustrated by Scott Magoon and read with the permission of Simon & Schuster.
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Flannel Board: Pete the Clown and His Five Bright Balloons
Pete the Clown bought five bright balloons at the carnival.
He was so excited about them, he sang a song as he walked along.
“I’ve got five balloo-oons! I’ve got five balloo-oons!” (sung to a congo line chant).
But then… POP!
One balloon broke and started to drop. (remove balloon from board.)
Now how many balloons did Pete have?
Did Pete cry? No, never.
He knows balloons don’t last forever.
Pete was still so happy to have four balloons, that he kept walking along and singing his song.
“I’ve got four balloo-oons! I’ve got four balloo-oons!”
(Repeat the same sequence of events until Pete is out of balloons, then add the following ending.)
Pete was out of balloons! What could he do?
Well, he stopped where he was, turned around, and went back to the carnival, where he got five more balloons.
As he walked along, he sang his song:
“I’ve got five balloo-oons! I’ve got five balloo-oons!
Source: Jen in the Library
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Book: A Balloon for Isabel
Written by Deborah Underwood Illustrated by Laura Rankin and read with the permission of Harper Collins.
Song: Skinnamarink
Skinnamarinky dinky-dink (Put your left elbow in right hand, wave.)
Skinnamarinky Doo (Right elbow in left hand, wave.)
I (Point to eye.)
Love (Cross your arms over your heart.)
You! (Point to audience.)
Skinnamarinky dinky-dink (Left elbow in right hand.)
Skinnamarinky Doo (Right elbow in left hand, wave.)
I (Point to your eye.)
Love (Cross arms in front of heart.)
You! (Point to audience.)
I love you in the morning (Cross arms above your head.)
And in the afternoon (Cross arms around your chest.)
I love you in the evening (Cross around your tummy.)
And underneath the moon! (Cross arms above head again.)
Skinnamarinky dinky-dink (Left arm in right hand, wave.)
Skinnamarinky doo (Right arm in left hand, wave.)
I (Point to your eye.)
Love (Cross arms in front of heart.)
You (Point to audience.)
Too (Show two fingers.)
Boo boop we doo! (Wave and kiss!)
Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ix_LyeuYbcI
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Craft: 3D Balloons
Kit Supplies:
- Sky template
- Balloon shapes
- String
Supplies you need from home:
- Crayons, markers or colored pencils
- Glue
Instructions:
Step 1: Color the boy & girl on the sky template.
Step 2: Arrange your balloons on the template.
Step 3: Fold all of the balloon shapes in half. It is your choice if you want to make your balloons one color or multiple colors.
Step 4: Glue one of the folded balloons to the paper (where you have chosen), glue another half on top of that piece. Continue until you have stuck all the balloon shapes together.
Step 5: Glue a string on the bottom of each balloon. Glue the strings into the hands of the boy and girl.
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Closing Song: Thanks for Coming
(Tune: Oh My Darling Clementine)
Thanks for sitting, thanks for listening,
Thanks for coming here today!
Now that story time is over
Hope you have a lovely day!
Source: Literary Hoots
Join Miss Kris next week for story time about Painting!
– Miss Sharon, Youth Services Specialist