Library storytime ideas

Everything you need to know to start a story time program for kids in your community. Book ideas, tips and planning sheets for getting started.

Don't worry if your child isn't paying attention! Please Participate! Story time tips to make the most of your library visit.

Best Story Time Ideas for Preschoolers Do you have daily story time with a classroom of kids? Do you run story time at your library? Do you just enjoy reading stories and doing book inspired activities and songs with your child? If you answered YES to any of these questions then these ideas are for …

Here is my long librarian's list of books about libraries and reading. These books encourage a love for reading in young children. They are great for preschool or kindergarten circle time or library storytime!

The Library Adventure uses affiliate links, see our policies for more information. I have a unique perspective of Story Time behavior. I run Story Times for my local library and I bring my 3 1/2 year old to my preschool programs. I have to say I haven’t seen a lot of these problems in my […]

This storytime was for a visiting preschool class here at my library, after a tour of the building. I wanted to educate them on all things library! Read Aloud Books Read It, Don't Eat It!Written and illustrated by by Ian Schoenherr Now you have the book, what should you do with it? A list of rules in a way, but with a fantastic rhythm and rhyme scheme. It was the perfect way to talk about how we treat our books at the library. We Are in a Book! Written and illustrated by Mo Willems A reader…

Now, I recognize that many caregivers who come to storytime are just as uninformed about how to get the most out of storytime as I was when I first started.

My philosophy for storytime is summed up by a Hallmark ad (of all things!):

The Library Adventure uses affiliate links, see our policies for more information.Many children’s librarians are crafty. They happily pull out the glitter and never bat an eyelash at the thought of allowing the kids to paint. Children come marching out of their story times carrying gorgeously decorated projects, and afterward, those librarians set right to […]

We had 14 kiddos today! What fun! Today we focused on fruit. Welcome Songs The Watermelon Seed by Greg Pizzoli Music Activity: I changed up "Apples and Bananas." Instead of changing vowel sounds, we did actions with scarves. We pretended the scarves were different kinds of fruit "mine is a blueberry! mine's kiwi!" and sang the song. The actions were: I like to eat eat eat apples and bananas.... I like to shake shake shake apples and bananas.... I like to twist twist twist apples and…