LibraryButterfly

I have been doing a tiny tot story time program for the past 3 years in my library. It’s every Friday in the morning.  It has been pretty slow getting a following.  I used to have only 3 kids coming!  Today I had my biggest group yet…seven!  It was great!  Today we read about and made baby owls with pinecones and cotton!  They turned out really cute!  We started by reading Owl Babies by Martin Waddell.  It’s about 3 owls who wake up to find Mother Owl gone.  They worry but try to be brave.  The kids loved it everytime Bill the littlest owl would always say, “I want my mommy!”  We also sang “If you want to be an owl, shout – WHO!, WHO!” an off shoot of “If you’re happy and you know it!”  The pinecone owls were very easy to make.  Get a pinecone (cinnamon scented is best!) then tear cotton apart and put into every nook and cranny of the pinecone…add eyes and an orange beak and TA DAH!  You have a fluffy baby owl that smells nice!  The kids loved them!  Then we checked out our books and the parents had time to sit with their little one to read.  We all met back on the carpet for our second story, which was Good Night Owl by Pat Hutchins.  This story is about an owl trying to sleep but is kept awake by several day birds…but he gets his say that night when they are all asleep…WHOOO! WHOOOO!  October is always a fun month for stories and activities at Tiny Toro Time!