Themed Storytelling Kits

We are pleased to offer a number of valuable resources to help supplement early learning and literacy with children. We have approximately 40 themed storytelling kits that include a combination of books, flannelboard stories, book lists, craft ideas, activity sheets, poems, puppets, CDs and more.

The kit themes listed in this booklet are available for checkout to any patron with a current Portage County Public Library card and are intended for adult use with children. We hope you find these materials useful.

 Kits are checked out for one week.  We accept and encourage kit reservations in advance.  The fine for overdue kits is $1.00 per day.  If you have questions or would like to reserve a kit, visit the Youth Services Department or call 715-346-1549.

Updated: September 2019

Themed Storytelling Kits

ABC's MONSTERS BEARS MOTHER GOOSE BIRDS MULTICULTURAL BUGS & INSECTS OCEANS & SEA LIFE CAMPING POND LIFE CHRISTMAS RHYTHM & MUSIC CIRCUS ST. PATRICK’S DAY COLORS SPACE COOKIES SPRING 1 DINOSAURS SPRING 2 EASTER SUMMERTIME FALL – HARVEST THANKSGIVING FALL – HIBERNATION TRANSPORTATION FALL- LEAVES VALENTINE’S DAY I FAMILIES VALENTINE’S DAY 2 FARMS WEATHER FISH WINTER CLOTHES FOREST FRIENDS WINTER SNOW GARDEN ZOOS HALLOWEEN I

HALLOWEEN II

ABC's (11 items)

BOOKS: Alphabet Match-up Flip Book Bayer, Jane A My Name is Alice Beller, Janet A-B-C-ing Ehlert, Lois Eating the Alphabet Gag, Wanda The ABC Bunny MacDonald, Suse Alphabatics Miller, Edna Mousekin's ABC

CD: Bollinger, Cathy Alphabet Jam

MISCELLANEOUS: 4 Activity Sheets Alphabet tin with 25 letters Booklist

BEARS (11 items)

BOOKS: Asch, Frank Bear Shadow Freeman, Don Corduroy Marshall, James Goldilocks and the Three Bears Wildsmith, Brian Bear's Adventure

CD: Stewart, Georgiana Teddy Bear Tunes

FLANNELBOARD STORY: Goldilocks and the Three Bears (12 figures)

MISCELLANEOUS: 5 Activity sheets Goldilocks and the Three Bears topsy-turvy doll (2 pieces) Bear jumping jack puppet and poem (2 pieces) Booklist Costain, Meredith Grumpy Grizzly (1 piece)

BIRDS (13 items) (updated 2010)

BOOKS: Delafosse, Claude Birds Ehlert, Lois Feathers for Lunch Jonas, Ann Bird Talk Oppenheim, Joanne Have You Seen Birds? Rockwell, Ann My Spring Robin Thaler, Mike Owly Wildsmith, Brian Birds

FLANNELBOARD: Good-Night Owl! (1 book & 14 figures) Ten Little Chickadees (10 figures, 1 string & script) Winter Snow (1 script & 20 figures)

MISCELLANEOUS: 7 Activity Sheets & 1 Booklist Puppets: Bluebirds in Nest and Bluebird

BUGS & INSECTS (19 items) (updated 2012)

BOOKS: Arlon, Penelope First Facts Bugs Edwards, Pamela Clara Caterpillar Gibbons, Gail Spiders Graham, Margaret Be Nice to Spiders Hoose, Phillip Hey, Little Ant Lawton, Caroline Bugs A to Z McDermott, Gerald Anansi the Spider Pallotta, Jerry The Beetle Alphabet Book Stein, Peter Bugs Galore Sturges, Philemon Ten Flashing Fireflies Tatchell, Judy Bugs and Slugs Williams, Rozanne Bugs Go Marching

CD: Miss Spider’s Songs for Little Bugs

MISCELLANEOUS: Booklist and 5 Activity sheets (6 pieces) Bug Movement Cards (1 instruction card, 11 cards) Bumble Bee Song (1 script, 1 puppet)

CAMPING (20 items) (updated 2012)

BOOKS: Bauer, Marion When I Go Camping With Grandma Berry, Lynne Duck Tents Brillhart, Julie When Daddy Took Us Camping Carlson Laurie Kids Camp! Loy, Jessica Follow the Trail Mader, Jan Let’s Go Camping! Mayer, Mercer Just Me and My Dad Rey, Margaret Curious George Goes Camping Ruurs, Margriet When We Go Camping Van Dusen, Chris Camping Spree with Mr. Magee Wargin, Kathy-jo Scare a Bear

CD: 102 Full-Length Camp Songs (3 CD’s with cases)

FLANNELBOARD STORIES: Let’s Go Camping (1 script, 26 pieces)

MISCELLANEOUS: 5 activity sheets Booklist Camping Matching Game (18 pieces) Craft Idea Card Fingerplay/Song Card Finger Puppets and Tent (1 tent, 3 puppets, 2 rhymes) Two-sided Coloring Page

CHRISTMAS (21 items) (updated 2016)

BOOKS: Cousins, Lucy Maisy's Christmas Presents Dewdney, Anna Llama Llama Holiday Drama Dougherty, Brandi The Littlest Elf Garland, Michael Oh, What a Christmas! Moore, Clement C. The Night Before Christmas Pettiford, Rebecca Christmas Schertle, Alice Little Blue Truck's Christmas Wilson, Karma Bear Stays Up for Christmas Wood, Don Merry Christmas Big Hungry Bear Yoon, Salina Penguin's Christmas Wish

CD: A Children’s Christmas With the Learning Station Wiggly, Wiggly Christmas

FLANNELBOARDS: The First Christmas (12 pieces & 2 books) Rudolph, Rudolph (9 pieces & 1 script) Way Up High on the Christmas Tree (20 pieces & 1 script)

MISCELLANEOUS: Activity Cards (12 action cards) Jingle Bell (1 bell & 1 script) Coloring Pages (2) Craft Idea Card Fingerplay/Song Card Santa Clause Finger Puppet

CIRCUS (20 items)

BOOKS: Bemelmans, Ludwig Madeline and the Gypsies Booth, Eugene At the Circus Ehlert, Lois Circus Prelutsky, Jack Circus Rey, Margaret Curious George Goes to the Circus

CD: Corkery, Gayle Circus Day

FLANNELBOARD STORIES: Circus Elephants (1 text, 1 string, 5 figures: 7 pcs.) Five Tall Clowns (5 figures, 1 text: 6pcs.) How to Become a Clown (1 text, 6 items: 7 pcs.) With Flying Colors (10 items, 1 rope, 1 text: 12 pcs.)

MISCELLANEOUS: Activity packet (11 pieces) Booklist Bruna, Dick Circus flip book (13 pgs. 1 script) Clown puppet Dellosa, Janet Circus Fun Book MacDonald, Sharon We Learn All About the Circus Menten, Theodore Circus Stencils (12 pgs. & folder) Pagnucci, Susan Acorn: Circus Acorn: Giggles & Grins Ringling Bros. Activity Packet (16 items)

COLORS (16 items)

BOOKS: Burningham, John John Burningham's Colors Hoban, Tana Is It Red? Is It Yellow? Is It Blue? Martin, Bill Jr. Brown Bear, Brown Bear, What Do You See? Miller, J.P. Do You Know Colors? Savage, Dorothy The Green Peephole Book The Red Peephole Book The Yellow Peephole Book Seuss, Dr. My Many Colored Days Warren, Jean 1-2-3 Colors Six Color Books (National Geographic)

FLANNELBOARDS: The Happy Fruit Tree (1 text, 8 pcs.) Jennie Jenkins (1 text, 6 pcs.) Snowy, the Rabbit (1 book, 6 pcs.)

MISCELLANEOUS: Booklist Activity Sheets (2 pcs.) Puzzle (5 pcs.)

COOKIES (16 items) (*New 2017)

BOOKS: Beaumont, Karen Who Ate All the Cookie Dough? Bitterman, Albert Fortune Cookies Denise, Anika Baking Day at Grandma's Lass, Bonnie Who Took the Cookies from the Cookie Jar? Numeroff, Laura The Best Mouse Cookie Schmidt, Karen The Gingerbread Man (with CD) Wellington, Monica Mr. Cookie Baker Willems, Mo The Cookie Fiasco Wilson, Karma The Cow Loves Cookies

FLANNELBOARDS: Decorate Cookies (25 pieces) Who Took the Cookie…Cookie Jar? (25 pieces & 1 script)

MISCELLANEOUS: Booklist Coloring Pages (2) Craft Idea Card Fingerplay/Song Card

DINOSAURS (19 items) (updated 2015)

BOOKS: Clanton, Ben Rex Wrecks It! Duddle, Jonny Gigantosaurus Gurney, John Steven Dinosaur Train Hughes, Catherine D. First Big Book of Dinosaurs Mitton, Tony Dinosaurumpus Mugford, Simon Dinosaur A-Z Preston-Gannon, Frann Dinosaur Farm Willems, Mo Edwina Zoehfeld, Kathleen W. Dinosaurs

CD: Murphy, Jane Once Upon a Dinosaur

FLANNELBOARDS: I’m a Little Dinosaur (36 pieces and 1 script) Lost Little Dinosaur (6 pieces and 1 script)

MISCELLANEOUS: Booklist Dinosaur Puzzle (7 pieces) Dinosaur Stamps (3 stamps and 1 stamp pad) Fingerplay/Song Card Fossil Rubbings Activity (6 plates and 1 instruction sheet) Two-sided Coloring Page Two Sided Craft Idea Card (1 card with 4 templates)

EASTER (19 items) (updated 2012)

BOOKS: Brett, Jan The Easter Egg Chalmers, Mary Easter Parade Mathieu, Agnes The Easter Bunny Peppas, Lynn Easter Ross, Kathy All New Crafts for Easter Stoeke, Janet Minerva Louise and the Colorful Egg Tegen, Katherine The Story of the Easter Bunny Wiese, Kurt Happy Easter

FLANNELBOARD STORIES: Easter Eggs (1 script & 30 pieces) Five Little Bunnies (1 script & 5 pieces) Chocolate Bunny (1 script & 6 pieces)

MISCELLANEOUS: 1 Craft Idea Card 1 Fingerplay Card/Song Card 1 Booklist 1 Activity: Easter Memory Game (Inst. & 24 pieces) 3 Coloring Sheets 1 Rabbit Stuffed Animal

FALL - HARVEST (20 items) (updated 2013)

BOOKS: Esbaum, Jill Apples for Everyone Esbaum, Jill Seed, Sprout, Pumpkin Pie Goldstone, Bruce Awesome Autumn Hall, Zoe The Apple Pie Tree Harshman, Marc Red Are the Apples Kellogg, Steven Johnny Appleseed Rockwell, Anne Apples and Pumpkins Rustad, Martha E. H. Fall Harvests: Bringing in Food Steers, Billy Tractor Mac Harvest Time

FLANNELBOARD STORIES: Harvest Song (1 script and 20 pieces) Little Red House (1 script and 9 pieces) Two Red Apples (1 script and 4 pieces) What’s Inside? (1 diagram and 6 pieces)

MISCELLANEOUS: Baked Apple Treat Activity Booklist Craft Idea Card (1 card with template) Fingerplay/Song Card Popped Corn on the Cob Craft (1 card and 2 patterns) Roly-Poly Worm (1 script and 1 puppet) Two-sided Coloring Page

FALL - HIBERNATION (18 items) (updated 2013)

BOOKS: Goldstone, Bruce Awesome Autumn Hubery, Julia A Friend for All Seasons Mebane, Jeanie Animal Hibernation Messner, Kate Over and Under the Snow Rustad, Martha E. H. Animals in Fall: Preparing for Winter Stead, Philip C. Bear Has a Story to Tell Tafuri, Nancy The Busy Little Squirrel Wildsmith, Brian Squirrels Wright, Maureen Sleep, Big Bear, Sleep!

FLANNELBOARD STORIES: How Squirrel Became Wise (1 script and 6 pcs) Over and Under the Snow (24 pieces)

MISCELLANEOUS: Booklist Craft Idea Card (1 card with template) Fingerplay/Song Card Squirrel in Tree (1 script and 1 puppet) Squirrel in Tree Craft (1 template) Two-sided Coloring Page

FALL - LEAVES (17 items) (updated 2013)

BOOKS: Ehlert, Lois Red Leaf, Yellow Leaf Gerber, Carole Leaf Jumpers Goldstone, Bruce Awesome Autumn McNaughton, Colin Autumn Metzger, Steve We’re Going on a Leaf Hunt Rawlinson, Julia Fletcher and the Falling Leaves Rustad, Martha Fall Leaves: Colorful and Crunchy Stein, David Ezra Leaves Wright, Maureen Sneeze, Big Bear, Sneeze!

FLANNELBOARD STORIES: Five Autumn Leaves (1 script and 5 pieces) Leaf Counting Flannel Song (1 script and 15 pieces)

MISCELLANEOUS: Booklist Craft Idea Card Falling Leaf Craft (1 double-sided template card) Fall Scavenger Hunt Cards (2 double-sided cards) Fingerplay/Song Card Two-sided Coloring Page

FAMILIES (16 items) (updated 2015)

BOOKS: Bullard, Lisa My Family, Your Family Curato, Mike Little Elliot, Big Family Dustman, Jeanne Families Through Time Fleming, Candace Smile, Lily! Parr, Todd The Family Book Ruurs, Margriet Families Around the World Rylant, Cynthia The Relatives Came Saunders-Smith, Gail We All Have Different Families Shannon, George One Family Sweeney, Joan Me and My Family Tree

FLANNELBOARDS: Blue Ribbon Winners (20 pieces & 1 script) Where is Your Mama? (28 pieces & 1 script)

MISCELLANEOUS: Booklist Fingerplay/Song Card Two-sided Coloring Page Two-sided Craft Idea Card

FARMS (18 items) (updated 2015)

BOOKS: Brown, Margaret Wise Big Red Barn Cronin, Doreen Click, Clack, Moo Cows That Type Dickmann, Nancy Farm Machines Dickmann, Nancy Food from Farms Elliot, David Henry’s Map Gibbs, Edward I Spy on the Farm Hillenbrand, Will Down by the Barn Komiya, Teruyuki Life-Size Farm Krosoczka, Jarrett J. Punk Farm Tickle, Jack The Very Happy Hen Wilson, Karma The Cow Loves Cookies

FLANNELBOARDS: Down By the Barn (24 pieces) I Spy on the Farm (21 pieces)

MISCELLANEOUS: Booklist Fingerplay/Song Card 2 -Two-sided Coloring Pages Two Sided Craft Idea Card

FISH (14 items)

BOOKS: Aliki My Visit to the Aquarium Ehlert, Lois Fish Eyes Lane, Margaret The Fish Pallotta, Jerry The Freshwater Alphabet Book Pfister, Marcus The Rainbow Fish Sharp, N.L. Today I'm Going Fishing with My Dad Wu, Robert Fish Faces

FLANNELBOARD STORIES: Five Little Fish (5 figures, 1 script) Five Little Fish (5 figures & card) Fish (8 figures, 1 poem)

MISCELLANEOUS: Activity sheets (5 sheets) Booklist Game: Building Fish (25 pieces) Rainbow Fish Puppet

FOREST FRIENDS (15 items) (updated 2010)

BOOKS: Arnosky, Jim Crinkleroot’s Nature Almanac Field, Nancy Northwest Trek Book Kilborne, Sarah Peach & Blue Kirk, David Miss Spider’s ABC Schuler, Judy Foxes for Kids Schwartz, David In a Tree In the Forest Steptoe, John The Story of Jumping Mouse Stevens, Janet The Tortoise and the Hare

CASSETTE SET: Ring, Elizabeth Loon at Northwood Lake (2 pieces)

FLANNELBOARD STORY: Roache, Catherine S. What Are Forests For? (1 book, 22 pieces) MISCELLANEOUS: Activity Sheets (9 pieces) Booklist Foot Puppets (4 pieces) Loon - stuffed animal

GARDEN (17 items) (*new 2015)

BOOKS: Ayres, Katherine Up, Down and Around Cole, Henry Jack’s Garden Cousins, Lucy Maisy Grows a Garden Dinardo, Jeff Worm and Farmer Maguire Fine, Edith Hope Water, Weed, and Wait Fleming, Candace Muncha! Muncha! Muncha! Park, Linda Sue What Does Bunny See? Peterson, Cris Seed Soil Sun Rattini, Kristin Baird Seed to Plant Stevens, Janet Tops & Bottoms

FLANNELBOARDS: Up, Down and Around (36 pieces) What Does Bunny See? (21 pieces)

MISCELLANEOUS: Booklist Fingerplay/Song Card Two-sided Activity Page Two-sided Coloring Page Two-sided Craft Idea Card

HALLOWEEN I (14 items)

BOOKS: Balian, Lorna Humbug Witch Brown, Marc Witches Four Brown, Ruth A Dark, Dark Tale Kraus, Robert How Spider Saved Halloween Kroll, Steven The Biggest Pumpkin Ever Marshall, Edward Space Case

FLANNELBOARD STORIES: Four Jack O'Lanterns (2 poems,10 figures) Halloween Subtraction (1 text, 5 pcs.) Queer Company (1 text, 11 figures)

MISCELLANEOUS: Booklist & 6 activity sheets Spider Hand Puppet/ Witch Hand Puppet Witch's hat stamp and black inkpad

HALLOWEEN II (12 items)

BOOKS: Adams, Adrienne A Woggle of Witches Asch, Frank Popcorn Corwin, Judith Hoffman Halloween Fun Foster, John Ghost Poems Greene, Carol The Thirteen Days of Halloween Kunhardt, Edith Trick or Treat, Danny

CD: Halloween Fun

FLANNELBOARD STORY: Halloween Hilda (1 text, 17 figures)

MISCELLANEOUS: Booklist & 5 activity sheets Early Years Thematic Notes Five Little Pumpkins (poem with glove puppet)

MONSTERS (18 items) (*new 2015)

BOOKS: Austin, Mike Monsters Love Colors Bright, Rachel Love Monster Cotter, Bill Don’t Push the Button! Emberley, Ed Glad Monster, Sad Monster Fredrickson, Lane Monster Trouble! Hicks, Barbara Jean Monsters Don’t Eat Broccoli Ketteman, Helen Go to School, Little Monster Noll, Amanda I Need My Monster Smith, AJ Even Monsters… Wing, Natasha Go to Bed, Monster!

FLANNELBOARDS: Glad Monster, Sad Monster (21 pieces) I’m a Little Monster (21 pieces & 1 script) Monsters Love Colors (24 pieces)

MISCELLANEOUS: Booklist Fingerplay/Song Card Glad Monster, Sad Monster (7 masks) Two-sided Coloring Page Two-sided Craft Idea Card

MOTHER GOOSE (11 items)

BOOK: dePaola, Tomie The Comic Adventures of Old Mother Hubbard and Her Dog The Real Mother Goose

FLANNELBOARD STORIES: Hey Diddle Diddle (1 text, 6 figures) Humpty Dumpty (1 text, 11 figures) Mother Goose's Tea Party (1 text, 20 figures: 21 pcs) Sing A Song of Sixpence (1 text 2 figures)

MISCELLANEOUS: Booklist & 2 activity sheets Mary Had a Little Lamb glove puppet Old King Cole glove puppet and poem Rock'n Learn Nursery Rhymes booklet and cassette

MULTICULTURAL (15 items)

BOOKS: Daly, Niki Jamela’s Dress Dooley, Norah Everybody Cooks Rice Fox, Mem Whoever You Are Hamanaka, Sheila All the Colors of the Earth Katz, Karen The Colors of Us Kroll, Virginia Masai and I Morris, Ann Bread, Bread, Bread Smith, Cynthia Jingle Dancer Terzian, Alexandra The Kids’ Multicultural Art Book

FLANNELBOARDS: Anansi and the Rock (1 script and 11 pcs.) The Stonecutter (1 script & 6 figures)

MISCELLANEOUS: 3 Activity Sheets Booklist 1 Bookmark & 1 Educational Activities Book 23

OCEANS & SEA LIFE (21 items) (updated 2012)

BOOKS: Andreae, Giles Commotion in the Ocean Berkes, Marianne Over in the Ocean in a Coral Reef Carle, Eric Mister Seahorse Diesen, Deborah Pout-Pout Fish in the Big-Big Dark Galvin, Laura Gates Alphabet of Ocean Animals Gray, Samantha Ocean Marsh, Laura Weird Sea Creatures Petrone, Valeria Way Down Deep in the Deep… Van Dusen, Chris Down to the Sea with Mr. Magee Worth, Bonnie Wish for a Fish

FLANNELBOARDS: Animals in the Sea (1 script and 16 pieces) Five Little Ocean Friends (1 script and 5 pieces)

MISCELLANEOUS: Booklist Clothespin Ocean Clip Cards (2 instr. cards & 17 clip cards) Craft Idea Card Fingerplay/Song Card Sea Shadows (1 instr. card, 2 shadow cards & 9 pcs.) Sea Shells (1 Container and 1 Gallon Ziplock) Starfish Two-sided Coloring Page

POND LIFE (18 items)

BOOKS: Brown, Ruth Toad Donald, Rhonda Lucas Frogs Fleming, Denise In the Small, Small Pond Kellogg, Steven Frogs Jump Lane, Margaret The Beaver Lane, Margaret The Frog Langstaff, John Frog Went A-Courtin' Tafuri, Nancy Have You Seen My Duckling?

FLANNELBOARD STORY: Five Little Crocodiles (1 poem, 5 figures) Five Little Hoppers (1 poem, 5 figures) Frog Legs and Pollywog Tails (1 script, 20 pieces)

MISCELLANEOUS: Booklist 7 activity sheets, 1 paper bag puppet, Acorn Magazine In the Pond Frog & Turtle figurines / Frog Hand Puppet Poster:“One Small Square of a Pond”/Frog & Tadpole Puppets

RHYTHM AND MUSIC (10 items)

BOOKS: Ackerman, Karen Song and Dance Man Balet, Jan B. What Makes an Orchestra Johnson, Angela Violet’s Music Lionni, Leo Geraldine, the Music Mouse Prokofieff, Serge Peter and the Wolf Stecher, Miriam B. Max, the Music-Maker

MISCELLANEOUS: Activity sheets (3 pieces) 7 instrument identification cards 10 instruments (13 pieces) Booklist

ST. PATRICK’S DAY (19 items) (updated 2012)

BOOKS: Bedeson, Carmen St. Patrick’s Day Berendes, Mary St. Patrick’s Day Shamrocks Edwards, Pamela The Leprechaun’s Gold Gibbons, Gail St. Patrick’s Day Holub, Joan Hooray for St. Patrick’s Day Mc Dermott, Gerald Tim O’Toole and the Wee Folk McGee, Randel Paper Crafts for St. Patrick’s Day Rockwell, Anne St. Patrick’s Day Wing, Natasha Night Before St. Patrick’s Day

FLANNELBOARD: Five Green Shamrocks (1 script & 5 pieces) Five Lucky Leprechauns (1 script & 5 pieces) Little Old Lady and the Leprechaun (1 script & 14 pcs)

MISCELLANEOUS: 1 Craft Idea Card 1 Fingerplay Card/Song Card 1 Booklist 1 Activity: St. Patrick’s Day Bingo (7 bingo cards & 18 pieces) 3 Coloring Sheets

SPACE (19 items) (updated 2015)

BOOKS: Carney, Elizabeth Planets Garton, Sam Otter in Space Haskins Houran, Lori A Trip into Space Hughes, Catherine D. First Big Book of Space Kelly, Mark Mousetronaut Mayo, Margaret Zoom, Rocket, Zoom! Mitton, Tony Roaring Rockets Rabe, Tish There’s No Place Like Space Rustad, Martha E. H. Space Throp, Claire A Visit to a Space Station

CD: Kids in Space and Beyond

FLANNELBOARDS: We’re Flying Off to Space (18 pieces & 1 script) Twinkle, Twinkle Little Star (20 pieces & 1 script)

MISCELLANEOUS: Booklist Craft Idea Card & Four Coloring Pages Fingerplay/Song Card Rocket Craft Template

SPRING 1 (21 items) (updated 2012)

BOOKS: Carr, Jan Splish Splash Spring Costain, Meredith Rainy Day (fold out book) Davis, Rebecca F. Flowers and Shower Esbaum, Jill Everything Spring Gay, Sandy Rain Drops Katz, Jill Spring Krauss, Ruth The Happy Day Rawlinson, Julia Fletcher and the Springtime Blossoms Ross, Kathy Crafts to Make in the Spring Walters, Catherine When Will it be Spring

FLANNELBOARD STORIES: Daddy Duck (1 script & 21 pieces) Flowers and Showers (45 pieces) When March Hats Blow (1 script & 9 pieces)

MISCELLANEOUS: 1 Craft Idea Card 1 Fingerplay Card/Song Card 1 Booklist 1 Activity: Make a Pinwheel (1 how-to card) 2 -Two-sided Coloring Pages 1 Pinwheel

SPRING 2 (21 items) (updated 2012)

BOOKS: Allen, Marie Louise The Wind (fold out book) Dunbar, Joyce The Spring Rabbit Getz, Arthur Hamilton Duck’s Springtime Glaser, Linda It’s Spring Pfister, Marcus Hopper Hunts for Spring Serfozo, Mary Rain Talk Smith, Sian Spring Thompson, Lauren Mouse’s First Spring Ziefert, Harriet Finding Robin Redbreast

FLANNELBOARD STORIES: Kites (1 script & 9 pieces) Mouse’s First Spring A Secret (1 script & 4 pieces)

CD: Raffi: Everything Grows

MISCELLANEOUS: 1 Craft Idea Card &1 Fingerplay Card/Song Card 1 Booklist 1 Activity: Spring Dominoes (instructions & 21 pieces) 3 Coloring Sheets 1 Bunny Finger Puppet

SUMMERTIME (20 items)

BOOKS: Crews, Donald Parade Crews, Donald Sail Away Giovanni, Nikki Knoxville, Tennessee July and August: Idea Booklet and Pocket Folder Organizer Major, Beverly Playing Sardines Martin, Bill Jr. Up and Down On the Merry-Go- Round McCauley, Jane Animals in Summer McNaughton, Colin Summer McPhail, David Emma's Vacation Rockwell, Anne On Our Vacation Summer: Early Years Thematic Notes Wilder, Laura Ingalls Summertime in the Big Woods

FLANNELBOARD STORIES: Five Little Waves (6 pieces, 1 poem) On a Picnic We Will Go (23 pieces, 1 script) Broderick (9 items, 1 text)

MISCELLANEOUS: 7 activity sheets Booklist Fireworks Poem Ladybug Magazine June, 1997 Watermelon puzzle (1 board, 10 pieces)

THANKSGIVING (12 items)

BOOKS: Bunting, Eve How Many Days to America? Child, Lydia Marie Over the River and Through the Woods Gibbons, Gail Thanksgiving Day Hennessy, B.G. One Little, Two Little, Three Little Pilgrims Kroll, Steven One Tough Turkey McDonnell, Janet Thankfulness Ziefert, Harriet What is Thanksgiving?

FLANNELBOARD STORIES: Sometimes It's Turkey, Sometimes It's Feathers (1 book, 12 figures) Five Little Turkeys (1 poem, 5 figures) Thanksgiving Story (1 text, 15 figures)

MISCELLANEOUS: Activity sheets and Booklist (12 pieces)

TRANSPORTATION (24 items) (updated 2015)

BOOKS: Boyd, Ella Hello Bicycle Lyon, Ella Planes Fly! Lyons, Shelly Transportation in My Neighborhood Mayo, Margaret Choo Choo Clickety-Clack McMullan, Kate I’m Mighty Randall, Ronne Let’s Talk About Vehicles Root, Phyllis Rattletrap Car Schertle, Alice Little Blue Truck Shields, Amy Planes Shields, Amy Trains

CD: Most Amazing Truck, Train & Plane Songs

FLANNELBOARDS: This Little Train (24 pieces & 1 script) Stop & Go Songs (22 pieces & 1 script)

MISCELLANEOUS: Booklist Craft Idea Card & Fingerplay/Song Card Two-sided Coloring Pages - 2 Templates: Boat, Car, Train - 3 Transportation Fun -To- Know Fact Cards (26 cards) Transportation Puzzles - 2 (5 pieces & 6 pieces)

VALENTINE’S DAY 1 (16 items) (updated 2014)

BOOKS: Bridwell, Norman Clifford’s Valentine’s Day Brown, Marc Arthur’s Valentine Friedman, Laurie Ruby Valentine Saves the Day Jackson, Alison Ballad of Valentine London, Jonathan Froggy’s First Kiss Miller, Reagan Valentine’s Day Parish, Herman Amelia Bedelia’s First Valentine Roberts, Bethany Valentine Mice Rylant, Cynthia If You’ll Be My Valentine Scotton, Rob Splat the Cat Funny Valentine

FLANNELBOARD STORIES: Queen of Hearts (1 script and 5 pieces) Ten Valentines (1 script and 10 pieces)

MISCELLANEOUS: Booklist Craft Idea Card (1 double-sided card) Fingerplay/Song Card (1 double-sided card) 2 - Two-sided Coloring Pages

VALENTINE’S DAY 2 (16 items) (updated 2014)

BOOKS: Bond, Felicia Day it Rained Hearts Bridwell, Norman Clifford’s Valentine’s Day Brown, Marc Arthur’s Valentine Capucilli, Alyssa Satin Biscuit’s Valentine’s Day Friedman, Laurie Love, Ruby Valentine Jackson, Alison Ballad of Valentine Miller, Reagan Valentine’s Day Parish, Herman Amelia Bedelia’s First Valentine Rylant, Cynthia If You’ll Be My Valentine Scotton, Rob Splat the Cat Funny Valentine

FLANNELBOARD STORIES: Fancy Valentines (1 script and 5 pieces) Six Little Valentines (1 script and 12 pieces)

MISCELLANEOUS: Booklist Craft Idea Card (1 double-sided card) Fingerplay/Song Card (1 double-sided card) 2 - Two-sided Coloring Pages

WEATHER (18 items)

BOOKS: Aardema, Verna Bringing the Rain to Kapiti Plain Anholt, Catherine Sun Snow Stars Sky DeWitt, Lynda What Will the Weather Be? Gibbons, Gail Weather Forecasting Kalan, Robert Rain London, Jonathan Hurricane McMillan, Bruce The Weather Sky Shaw, Charles G. It Looked Like Spilled Milk Simon, Seymour Weather Taylor, Barbara Weather and Climate

FLANNELBOARD STORIES: Dressing For The Seasons (25 pieces) Five Fluffy Clouds (5 pieces, I text) Four Little Raindrops (4 pieces, 1 text) R-A-I-N-Y (6 pieces, 1 text) What’s the Weather (5 pieces)

MISCELLANEOUS: Activity sheets (9 items) Booklist Wooden Weather Puzzle (5 pieces)

WINTER CLOTHES (19 items) (updated 2014)

BOOKS: Barnett, Mac Extra Yarn Elliot, David Knitty Kitty Fleming, Denise The First Day of Winter Melling, David Don’t Worry, Douglas! Murphy, Stuart Missing Mittens Pinkney, Jerry Three Little Kittens Stringer, Lauren Winter is the Warmest Season Tatyana, Feeney Little Owl’s Orange Scarf Vestergaard, Hope Hello, Snow! Wright, Maureen Sneezy Snowman

FLANNELBOARD STORIES: Five Little Hats (1 script and 10 pieces) Matching Mittens (28 pieces)

MISCELLANEOUS: Booklist Craft Idea Card (1 card) Fingerplay/Song Card (1 double-sided card) Snowey Pokey Activity Card Snowman Button Game (1 instruction card, 5 cards & 10 buttons) Two-sided Coloring Pages (2 double-sided cards)

WINTER SNOW (19 items) (updated 2014)

BOOKS: Baker, Keith No Two Alike Cassino, Mark The Story of Snow Esbaum, Jill Winter Wonderland Fleming, Denise The First Day of Winter Gay, Mary-Louise Stella, Queen of the Snow Hubbell, Patricia Snow Happy Keats, Ezra Jack Snowy Day Morgan, Alan Sadie and the Snowman Norman, Kim If it’s Snowy and You Know It, Clap Your Paws! Van Laan, Nancy When Winter Comes Yolen, Jane Owl Moon

FLANNELBOARD STORIES: Five Little Snowflakes (1 script and 5 pieces) I’m a Little Snowman (1 script and 24 pieces)

MISCELLANEOUS: Booklist Craft Idea Card (1 card) Fingerplay/Song Card (1 double-sided card) Snowflake Color Match Activity (1 instr. card & 18 cards) Snowman Sun Catcher Template (1 double-sided card) Two-sided Coloring Pages (2 double-sided cards)

ZOO (18 items) (updated 2015)

BOOKS: Bleiman, Andrew Zoo Borns! Bostrom, Kathleen Long The View at the Zoo Komiya, Teruyuki Life-Size Zoo Martin, Isabel A Zoo Field Trip Rathmann, Peggy Good Night, Gorilla Rey, Margaret & H. A. Curious George Visits the Zoo Shaw, Gina Curious About Zoo Vets Smith, Danna Two at the Zoo Smith, Marie and Roland Z is for Zookeeper Stead, Philip C. A Sick Day for Amos McGee Wilson, Karma Animal Strike…Zoo, It’s True! Wu, Mike Ellie

FLANNELBOARDS: At Night in the Zoo (24 pieces & 1 script) Two at the Zoo (55 pieces)

MISCELLANEOUS: Booklist & Craft Idea Card Fingerplay/Song Card &Two-sided Coloring Page