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Children's Services Round Table (CSRT)
Storytelling & Activities
Storytelling & Activities
A to Z Kids Stuff
http://www.atozkidsstuff.com/
A web site that provides themes and activities for toddlers, pre-school and school-age children, with a link to the CDC Health Facts for information on childhood diseases.
ABCTeach
http://www.abcteach.com/index.html
A web site that provides educationally sound suggestions and ideas that help with learning and teaching. Be sure to check out the Theme Units, Games/Puzzles, and Fun Activities, such as Dr. Seuss.
Activity Idea Place
http://www.123child.com/
This site has over 1250 activity ideas for young children, including art, crafts, games and songs--wonderful Holiday Activities.
Babies' Lap Time: a how-to and why-to guide
http://www.itg.uiuc.edu/people/mcdowell/laptime/index.html
A site filled with ideas, themes and sample programs for librarians serving children from ages 24 months to six years old, developed by a graduate student at the school of Library and Information Science at the University of Illinois.
BayNews STorytime Ideas
http://www.bayviews.org/storytime.html
BayNews provides thematic storytime ideas, books, activities, and crafts compiled by Penny Peck, the BayNews editor and performers' showcase maven of the San Leandro Public Library, California.
TheBestKidsBooksite.com: Storytimes and Crafts!
http://www.thebestkidsbooksite.com/storytimes.htm
An interactive site with great storytime ideas, crafts, fingerplays and songs. This site is colorful and fun, with links to book information, authors and illustrators, a book exchange, and Book Wizard Service.
Book Props
http://www.bookprops.com/
Book Props has been making props for books for over twenty years, lending a creative hand to teachers, librarians and storytellers. This site provides a catalog of Show-a-Tale aprons, banners and fabric, most based on specific children's books that add creativity, visual excitement and depth to storytelling.
Children's Services Round Table Storytime Ideas (ULA)
http://www.ula.org/organization/rt/csrt/csrt-storytm.htm
A resource of storytime ideas (book titles, fingerplays, rhymes, songs, crafts and activities) containing links and bibliographies. Created for and by the Children's Services Round Table of the Utah Library Association.
Flannelboard Basics
http://members.aol.com/Ivinsart/handbook.html
An on-line handbook iwth directions for creating your own flannelboards. Also discusses materials and designs.
Hummingbird Educational Resources: Themes
http://www.hummingbirded.com/llp.html
This site has many storytime themes, songs, and craft ideas. There are also some great links to additional resources from storytimes to homeshooling.
The Idea Box: early childhood education and activity resources
http://www.theideabox.com/
A great resource for activities, projects, games, songs, craft ideas, and on-line stories.
Nuttin' But Kids: Themes
http://www.nuttinbutkids.com/themes.html
Wonderful storytime themes, especially Holidays and Seasons.
Perpetual Preschool
http://www.perpetualpreschool.com/
This site has lots of themes, and breaks them down into songs, games and other activities. The books theme links directly into Amazon.com.
Preschool Education: Felt Boards
http://www.preschooleducation.com/felt.shtml
This site provides basic instructions for creating felt board stories. There are also book reviews, crafts. games, and songs. Unfortunetely, the site also has pop-up ads, making some of the pages slow to load.
Preschool Picture Books Listed By Themes
http://www.preschoolrainbow.org/book-themes.htm
A resource of early childhood and preschool education picture books listed by themes.
Reading Rainbow
http://www.canlearn.com/ReadingR/rr-alt.html
List of Reading Rainbow titles, program description, and activity suggestions.
Storytelling with the Flannelboard
http://falcon.jmu.edu/~ramseyil/flannel.htm
This site includes storytelling information and tips for creating your own flannel boards. Information provided by the Internet School Library Media Center, James Madison University, Virginia.
YS Sample Storytimes: baby, toddler, and preschool storytimes
http://www.norweld.lib.oh.us/ys/yssample.htm
YS (Youth Services) Sample Storytimes is a wonderful resource that provides sample storytimes, developed by Sue Nespeca and the Norweld Regional Library System.
Related Bibliography
Bauer, C. F. (1993). New handbook for storytellers: with stories, poems, magic and more. Chicago: ALA.
Briggs, D. (1999). 101 fingerplays, stories, and songs to use with finger puppets. Chicago: ALA.
Carlson, A. and Carlson, M. (1999). Flannelboard stories for infants and toddlers. Chicago: ALA.
Champlin, C. and Renfro, N. (1998). Storytelling with puppets. Chicago: ALA.
Hicks, D. L. (1997). Flannelboard classic tales. Chicago: ALA.
Nichols, J. (1998). Storytime for two-year-olds. Chicago: ALA.
Reid, R. (1999). Family storyime for two-year-olds. Chicago: ALA.
Rhymes and Songs
KIDiddles: Mojo's Musical Mouseum
http://www.kididdles.com/mouseum/index.html
A web site with lyrics to kids' songs. Songs are listed by title or subject, or try out he keyword search engine. Many of the songs include the music by launching a player in a new browser window.
KidzSing Garden of Song
http://www.veeceet.com/kidzsing/
KidzSing is a listing of nursery rhymes and songs. After clicking on the song link from the main page, click on the title of the song with the listing of the lyrics below it, and you can hear the music (opens a new browser window.) The main page also contains a list of Other Childrens' Music Websites.
Mother Goose Pages
http://www-personal.umich.edu/~pfa/dreamhouse/nursery/rhymes.html
Everything you ever wanted to know about Mother Goose! Rhymes are listed alphabetically or grouped by theme. This site also includes a Mother Goose online coloring book and more!
Zelo Nursery Rhymes
http://www.zelo.com/family/nursery/index.asp
Alphabetical listing of nursery rhymes on-line.
Related Bibliography
Briggs, D. (1997). 52 programs for preschoolers: the librarians' year-round planner. Chicago: ALA.
Brown, M. (1985). Hand rhymes. NY: Dutton.
Brown, M. (1980). Finger rhymes. NY: Dutton.
Fiore, C. D. and Nespeca, S. M. (1996). Programming for young children: birth through age five. Chicago: ALA.
Jeffery, D. A. (1995). Literate beginnings: programs for babies and toddlers. Chicago: ALA.
Reid, R. (1999). Family storytime: 24 creative programs for all ages. Chicago: ALA.
Page last updated March 2002
List compiled by Dawn Carroll
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