Today's Storytime theme was bubbles - and we had fun with a craft
and an activity! First, we read about a baby who floated in a bubble in
Bubble Trouble by Margaret Mahy, and about pretend-pirates taking a bath in bubbles in
Bubble Bath Pirates by Jarrett J. Krosoczka. We also heard
Strega Nona Takes a Vacation by Tomie DePaola and laughed when Big Anthony flooded the village with bubble bath suds!
For a craft, we all placed several foam stickers on some paper and printed a "bubble" over them, so they looked a bit like the baby in the story. Stars, basketballs, flowers, ladybugs, all floating across our papers inside painted bubbles! We used different sized cups as stamps to make the bubbles. Our watercolors quickly ran together so we're not sure what color those bubbles are!
But outside, the bubbles were rainbow-swirled as we used cups, straws, the tops of bottles, paper tubes, and other objects to make giant bubbles on the lawn. What fun!
Here's the recipe for the bubble solution:
6 cups water
1/2 cup blue Dawn dish soap
1/2 cup corn starch
1 tbsp baking powder
1 tbsp glycerine
(available at pharmacies)
Our biggest bubbles came from wands we quickly made with the help of parents: Use two equal pieces of drinking straw, and a piece of cotton string or yarn about six times longer than the length of one straw. Thread the yarn through the straws and tie a knot. Dip the whole thing in the bubble stuff, then hold by the straws and blow!
Artist, Author, and illustrator Miss. Jessica L. Fligg joined the children at the Gordon Nash Library this morning. Although the children missed Mrs. Hunewell this morning, while she is on vacation, the children enjoyed their time with Miss. Jessica. They listened to one of Miss. Jessica’s original stories titled Susie’s Painting Adventure! A very colorful story about a young girl and her dog. Susie is a little girl who loves to paint. In the story Susie and her dog Rufus help teach the children about mixing colors and learning which colors to mix to achieve the color that is desired. After the story Miss. Jessica guided the children in a project where they had fun recreating Susie’s masterpiece from the story. The children were very excited to complete this project and have a masterpiece of their own to take home with them! 
Continuing with our science themes, this week the Storytime kids listened to books about weather. In Rain or Shine, Curious George learned to look for clues in the air and sky to find out what the weather was going to do. Freddy the Frogcaster did the same thing in the book by Janice Dean, and he saved the town picnic! This Is The Rain by Lola Schaefer tells how water falls from the clouds as rain and eventually makes its way back to the sea. And Brandie read us Rain by Manya Stojic, about animals tracking a storm with their senses!
