Storytime-to-Go and Play 'n Learn Kits include everything you need for a great at-home or classroom program and are designed around a number of popular early literacy themes, including ABCs, 123s, Colors, Transportation, Farm, and Dinosaurs. The kits check out for two weeks on an adult library card and can be renewed three times as long as there are no holds on them. They're packaged in backpacks and include, along with 4 or 6 books on the selected theme, bags of manipulatives and storytelling materials, a folder of songs and rhymes, and several take-home activities. Each kit also includes a list of related internet sites and children's music groups and artists. To see them in our online catalog click here.
Below are the contents of some of the kits. Click on the title of a kit in the online catalog to see a list of items and titles included with it.
123’s Kit
Number Books
Bear Counts by Karma Wilson
Kindness Counts 123 by R. A. Strong
Pete the Cat: Five Little Ducks by James Dean
Somewhere in the Ocean by Jennifer Ward
Ten Little Fish by Audrey Wood
Ten Red Apples by Pat Hutchins
Dry Erase Board Stories – use the laminated pieces to share these stories
Five Green and Speckled Frogs by Priscilla Burris
Ten in the Bed
Ten Little Caterpillars
Songs and Rhymes
1 Little 2 Little 3 Little Numbers
Five Fat Sausages
Five Little Monkeys Jumping on the Bed
Jumping
I Have Two
Wiggle Them
Shake the Sillies Out
There’s a Little Bean Bag Sitting on My Nose
Head Shoulders Knees and Toes
Roll Your Hands
Take Homes – items to keep
1 coloring page
2 activity sheets
ABC’s Kit
ABC Books
ABCs of Kindness by Samantha Berger
Chicka Chicka Boom Boom by Bill Martin
LMNO Peas by Keith Baker
Square Cat ABC by Elizabeth Schoonmaker
The Turn-Around Upside-Down Alphabet Book by Lisa Ernst
Z is for Moose by Kelly Bingham
Dry Erase Board Stories – use the laminated pieces to share these stories
R is for Robot – A Noisy Alphabet by Adam F. Watkins
Twinkle Twinkle ABC by Barney Saltzberg
A-P-P-L-E (sung to BINGO)
Songs and Rhymes
Wave Your Letter in the Air
Alphabet Song
Apples and Bananas
A You’re Adorable
Wiggle Them
Shake the Sillies Out
There’s a Little Bean Bag Sitting on My Nose
Head Shoulders Knees and Toes
Roll Your Hands
Take Homes – items to keep
1 coloring page
2 activity sheets
Colors Kit
Color Books
Bear Sees Colors by Karma Wilson
Brown Bear Brown Bear by Bill Martin Jr.
Mix It Up by Herve Tullet
Monsters Love Colors by Mike Austin
Pete the Cat I Love My White Shoes by Eric Litwin
Planting a Rainbow by Lois Ehlert
Dry Erase Board Stories – use the laminated pieces to share these stories
Dog’s Colorful Day by Emma Dodd
Five Little Crayons
Butterfly Colors
Songs and Rhymes
Five Green and Speckled Frogs
If You See Something….Colors
There’s a Little Rainbow Sitting on My Nose
Five Red Ladybugs
Wiggle Them
Shake the Sillies Out
Head Shoulders Knees and Toes
Roll Your Hands
Take Homes – items to keep
1 coloring page
2 activity sheets
Dinosaurs Kit
Dinosaur Books
Crunch the Shy Dinosaur by Cirocco Dunlap
Dinosaur Kisses by David Ezra Stein
Dinosaurs on Kitty Island by Michael Slack
One-osaurus Two-osaurus by Kim Norman
What Kind of Car Does a T. Rex Drive? by Mark Lee
We Are the Dinosaurs by Laurie Berkner
Dry Erase Board Stories – use the laminated pieces to share these stories
Dinosaurs Dinosaurs by Byron Barton
Five Enormous Dinosaurs
One Dinosaur Went Out to Play (sung to 5 Little Ducks)
Songs and Rhymes
Dinosaur Dinosaur (sung to Teddy Bear, Teddy Bear)
Five Giant Dinosaurs
1 Big 2 Big 3 Big Dinosaurs
Dinosaurs
Going on a Dinosaur Hunt
I’m an Old Dinosaur
Here He Comes Just A’Stompin’
Wiggle Them
Shake the Sillies Out
There’s a Little Bean Bag Sitting on My Nose
Head Shoulders Knees and Toes
Roll Your Hands
Take Homes – items to keep
1 coloring page
2 activity sheets
Farm Kit
Farm Books
Big Red Barn by Margaret Wise Brown
The Cow Who Clucked by Denise Fleming
Hello Day by Anita Lobel
Moo Moo Chew Chew by Jennifer Shand
Old McDonald Had a Farm by Jane Cabrera
Time for Bed by Mem Fox
Dry Erase Board Stories – use the laminated pieces to share these stories
The Noisy Way to Bed by Ian Whybrow
Old MacDonald Had a Farm
The Cow in the Barn
Songs and Rhymes
Little Boy Blue
This Little Piggy
I’m a Little Chicken (sung to I’m a Little Teapot)
Five Little Ducks
B-I-N-G-O
Wiggle Them
Shake the Sillies Out
There’s a Little Bean Bag Sitting on My Nose
Head Shoulders Knees and Toes
Roll Your Hands
Take Homes – items to keep
1 coloring page
2 activity sheets
Transportation Kit
Transportation Books
Cars Signs and Porcupines by Ethan Long
Don’t Let the Pigeon Drive the Bus by Mo Willems
Go Go Go Stop by Charise Harper
Goodnight Goodnight Construction Site by Sherri Rinker
Last Stop on Market Street by Matt De la Pena
Twinkle Twinkle Little Car by Kate Dopirak
Dry Erase Board Stories – use the laminated pieces to share these stories
We’re All in the Same Boat by Barney Saltzberg
Lonely Bus Driver by Pam S.
At the Car Wash
Songs and Rhymes
Let’s Wiggle Our Fingers
The Wheels on the Bus
The Wheels on the Train (sung to The Wheels on the Bus)
‘Lap song’ for Transportation
Traffic Light
Wiggle Them
Shake the Sillies Out
There’s a Little Bean Bag Sitting on My Nose
Head Shoulders Knees and Toes
Roll Your Hands
Take Homes – items to keep
1 coloring page
2 activity sheets
