Children's Books and CDs

 Children's Books and CDs

• The Lion King Read-Along Storybook and CD - Disney Books
• Cars Read-Along Storybook and CD - Disney Books
• Frozen Read-Along Storybook and CD - Nolan North
• Wall-E (Read Along) - Tino Insana
• 101 Dalmations Read-Along Storybook and CD - Disney Books
• The Good Dinosaur Read-Along Storybook and CD - Disney Books
• Finding Nemo Read-Along Storybook and CD - Disney Books
• Toy Story Read-Along Storybook and CD - Disney Books
• World of Reading Marvel 3-in-1 Listen-Along Reader: 3 Tales of Adventure with CD! - Marvel Press Book Group
• Brown Bear, Brown Bear, What Do You See? - Bill Martin Jr & Eric Carle
• Jack and the Beanstalk - (Read Along With Me Book & CD) - Anna Award
• Jack and the Beanstalk Audiobook - Donald Kasen
• The Little Red Hen (Book and CD) - Paul Galdone
• Chicka Chicka Boom Boom (Book and CD) - Bill Martin Jr & John Archambault
• Over in the Meadow - Jill McDonald & Susan Reed 
• The Little House (Book and CD) - Virginia Lee Burton
• Giraffes Can't Dance - Giles Andreae
• The Pout-Pout Fish (Book and CD) - Deborah Diesen
• Nursery Rhymes: With a Sing-Along Music CD - Roger Priddy
• Sing-along Songs: With a Sing-Along Music CD - Roger Priddy
• Read-along Fairy Tales: With a Read-Along Audio CD - Roger Priddy
• Puff, the Magic Dragon - Peter Yarrow & Lenny Lipton
• Little Red Riding Hood (Book and CD) - Charles Perrault
• Is Your Mama a Llama - Deborah Guarino
• Katy and the Big Snow (Book and CD) - Virginia Lee Burton
• The Caboose Who Got Loose (Book and CD) - Bill Peet
• The Tortoise & Hare Audiobook- Donald Kasen
• The Gingerbread Man Audiobook - Bruce Bailey Johnson
• Blinky The Lighthouse Ship Audiobook - Ruth Roberts
• Goldilocks and the Three Bears (Book and CD) - Anna Award
• The Three Little Pigs (Book and CD) - Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
• Three Billy Goats Gruff (Book and CD) - Alison Edgson

Fourth of July Activities

MAKE (Arts and Crafts)

• Flags
• Sun Catcher Stars, and Flags
• Free Art (Have art materials accessible to children such as a coloring page, a stencil, an easel, markers, stamps, colored pencils, crayons, play-dough, and tissue paper/construction paper/fabric squares for children to work with if they'd like as well)

EXPLORE (Sensory Bins)

• Red, White, and Blue Rice with Stars
• Red, White, and Blue Pasta with Stars
• Red White and Blue Pom Poms
• Red, White, and Blue Water beads
• Jello Red, White and Blue Stars 
• Patriotic Science Ice Melt
• Shaving Cream and Paint Fireworks
• Fourth of July Color Lab
• Fourth of July Skittles
• Pop Rocks Fireworks

CREATE (Play Doh - Mats, Cookie Cutters, Invitations to Play)

• Patriotic
• Fireworks
• Stars

PLAY (Inside and Outside Games/Activities)

• Puzzles/Board Games
• Block Center/Building Ideas
• Dramatic Play
• Quiet Activities
• File Folder Activities/Worksheets
• Active Games/Outside Play Activities

READ (Books for the Seasonal Book Basket or Shelf)

• The Declaration of Independence
• F is For Flag
• You’re My Little Firecracker
• The Story of America’s Birthday
• The Night Before the Fourth of July
• Fourth of July
• Apple Pie Fourth of July
• The Fourth of July Story
• Red, White, and Boom
• Pie is for Sharing
• This Land is Your Land
• Blue Sky White Stars
• The Flag We Love
• America the Beautiful
• Happy Birthday America

SING (Songs/Poems)

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EAT (Snacks)

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• Monthly Holiday Snacks (Sandwiches, Waffles, Pancakes, French Toast, Sugar Cookies, Brownies, Candy, Cake Pops, Donuts, Muffins, Popsicles, Cheese and Lunch Meat)

VISIT  (Visitor/Field Trip Ideas)

• Field Trips

Earth Day Activities

MAKE (Arts and Crafts)

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• Free Art (Have art materials accessible to children such as a coloring page, a stencil, an easel, markers, stamps, colored pencils, crayons, play-dough, and tissue paper/construction paper/fabric squares for children to work with if they'd like as well)

EXPLORE (Sensory Bins)

• Plant the Trees
• Recycle Sort
• Earth Water Beads (blue and green)
• Digging for Worms (real or fake)
• Earth Day Oobleck
• Recycle Bin
• Shaving Cream Ocean and Land Animals
• Bug Bin
• Planting Flowers (real or fake)
• Rocks and Water Beads

CREATE (Play Doh - Mats, Cookie Cutters, Invitations to Play)

• Earth
• Plants

PLAY (Inside and Outside Games/Activities)

• Puzzles/Board Games
• Block Center/Building Ideas
• Dramatic Play
• Quiet Activities
• File Folder Activities/Worksheets
• Active Games/Outside Play Activities

READ (Books for the Seasonal Book Basket or Shelf)

• The Lorax
• I Am Earth
• Trees Are Made of Gas
• Thank You Earth
• The Earth Book
• What If Everybody Did This
• Here We Are
• One Earth
• Curious George Plants a Tree
• The Earth and I
• The Curious Garden

SING (Songs/Poems)

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EAT (Snacks)

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• Monthly Holiday Snacks (Sandwiches, Waffles, Pancakes, French Toast, Sugar Cookies, Brownies, Candy, Cake Pops, Donuts, Muffins, Popsicles, Cheese and Lunch Meat)

VISIT  (Visitor/Field Trip Ideas)

• Field Trips

Father's Day Activities

 MAKE (Arts and Crafts)

• Father’s Day Interview
• Father’s Day Cards
• Free Art (Have art materials accessible to children such as a coloring page, a stencil, an easel, markers, stamps, colored pencils, crayons, play-dough, and tissue paper/construction paper/fabric squares for children to work with if they'd like as well)

EXPLORE (Sensory Bins)

• Ties, and Bowties
• Foam Ties and Bowties
• Family (Little People, Playmobile, wooden)
• Father’s Day Feely Box
• Dad and Baby Animals

CREATE (Play Doh - Mats, Cookie Cutters, Invitations to Play)

• Ties and Bowties

PLAY (Inside and Outside Games/Activities)

• Puzzles/Board Games
• Block Center/Building Ideas
• Dramatic Play
• Quiet Activities
• File Folder Activities/Worksheets
• Active Games/Outside Play Activities

READ (Books for the Seasonal Book Basket or Shelf)

• Just Me and My Dad
• I Love Dad with The Very Hungry Caterpillar
• Why a Son Needs a Dad
• My Dad is Amazing
• I Love You Daddy
•  Berenstein Bears We Love our Dad
• A Perfect Father’s Day
• Daddy and Me
• Daddy is My Hero
• Hero Dad
• Your Baby’s First Word Will Be Dada

SING (Songs/Poems)

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EAT (Snacks)

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• Monthly Holiday Snacks (Sandwiches, Waffles, Pancakes, French Toast, Sugar Cookies, Brownies, Candy, Cake Pops, Donuts, Muffins, Popsicles, Cheese and Lunch Meat)

VISIT  (Visitor/Field Trip Ideas)

• Field Trips

Mother's Day Activities

 MAKE (Arts and Crafts)

• Mother’s Day Interview
• Mother’s Day Cards
• Free Art (Have art materials accessible to children such as a coloring page, a stencil, an easel, markers, stamps, colored pencils, crayons, play-dough, and tissue paper/construction paper/fabric squares for children to work with if they'd like as well)

EXPLORE (Sensory Bins)

• Tea Party
• Flowers
• Garden
• Color Changing Flowers
• Family (Little People, Playmobile, wooden)
• Mother’s Day Feely Box
• Mom and Baby Animals

CREATE (Play Doh - Mats, Cookie Cutters, Invitations to Play)

• Flowers
• Butterflies

PLAY (Inside and Outside Games/Activities)

• Puzzles/Board Games
• Block Center/Building Ideas
• Dramatic Play
• Quiet Activities
• File Folder Activities/Worksheets
• Active Games/Outside Play Activities

READ (Books for the Seasonal Book Basket or Shelf)

• Berenstein Bears We Love our Mom
• The Night Before Mother’s Day
• I Love Mom with The Very Hungry Caterpillar
• Biscuit Loves Mother’s Day
• Just Me and My Mom
• Are You My Mother
• Does Kangaroo Have a Mother Too
• A Mother’s Love
• I Love My Mommy Because…
• I Love You Mommy
• My Mother is Mine
• Everything is Mama

SING (Songs/Poems)

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EAT (Snacks)

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• Monthly Holiday Snacks (Sandwiches, Waffles, Pancakes, French Toast, Sugar Cookies, Brownies, Candy, Cake Pops, Donuts, Muffins, Popsicles, Cheese and Lunch Meat)

VISIT  (Visitor/Field Trip Ideas)

• Field Trips

Easter Activities

 MAKE (Arts and Crafts)

• Tissue Paper Egg
• Design/Decorate an Easter Egg
• Bunny with Cotton Ball Tail
• Bunny Hats
• Free Art (Have art materials accessible to children such as a coloring page, a stencil, an easel, markers, stamps, colored pencils, crayons, play-dough, and tissue paper/construction paper/fabric squares for children to work with if they'd like as well)

EXPLORE (Sensory Bins)

• Easter Egg Hunt (Easter eggs and grass)
• Bunny tails (Pom poms)
• Ducks (soap, water, plastic eggs, and ducks/bath toys)
• Bendy Bunnies
• Squishy Eggs (water beads and shiny eggs)
• Fizzing Easter
• Shaving Cream and Eggs
• Silly String and Eggs
• Oats and Eggs
• Jelly Beans and Eggs
• Christian Related

CREATE (Play Doh - Mats, Cookie Cutters, Invitations to Play)

• Egg
• Bunny
• Chick

PLAY (Inside and Outside Games/Activities)

• Puzzles/Board Games
• Block Center/Building Ideas
• Dramatic Play
• Quiet Activities
• File Folder Activities/Worksheets
• Active Games/Outside Play Activities

READ (Books for the Seasonal Book Basket or Shelf)

• Little Blue Truck's Springtime - Alice Schertle
• The Story of Jesus - Jane Werner Watson
• Pat the Bunny - Dorothy Kunhardt
• The Garden, the Curtain and the Cross - Carl Laferton
• Marshmallow - Clare Turkey Newberry
• Horton Hatches the Egg - Dr. Seuss
• Home for a Bunny - Margaret Wise Brown
• How to Catch the Easter Bunny - Adam Wallace
• Pete the Cat: Big Easter Adventure - James Dean
• Llama Llama Easter Egg - Anna Dewdney
• It's Not Easy Being a Bunny - Marilyn Sadler
• God Gave Us Easter - Lisa Tawn Bergren
• Five Little Ducks - Natalie Marshall
• The Berenstein Bears and the Easter Story - Mike Berenstein
• Happy Easter, Mouse! - Laura Numeroff
• Happy Easter, Little Critter - Mercer Mayer
• Duck & Goose, Here Comes the Easter Bunny! - Tad Hills
• The Itsy Bitsy Bunny - Jeffrey Burton
• The Easter Egg - Jan Brett
• The Golden Egg Book - Margaret Wise Brown
• You're My Little Honey Bunny - Natalie Marshall
• The Country Bunny and the Little God Shoes - DuBose Heyward
• The Best Nest - P.D. Eastman
• The Tale of Peter Rabbit - Beatrix Potter

SING (Songs/Poems)

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EAT (Snacks)

• Hard Boiled Eggs
• Cookies
• Monthly Holiday Snacks (Sandwiches, Waffles, Pancakes, French Toast, Sugar Cookies, Brownies, Candy, Cake Pops, Donuts, Muffins, Popsicles, Cheese and Lunch Meat)

VISIT  (Visitor/Field Trip Ideas)

• Field Trips

St. Patrick's Day Activities

 MAKE (Arts and Crafts)

• Leprechauns
• Shamrocks
• Rainbows
• Gold Coins
• How to Catch a Leprechaun
• Free Art (Have art materials accessible to children such as a coloring page, a stencil, an easel, markers, stamps, colored pencils, crayons, play-dough, and tissue paper/construction paper/fabric squares for children to work with if they'd like as well)

EXPLORE (Sensory Bins)

• St. Patrick’s Day Soup (green water - bath tablets, coins, foam shamrocks)
• Rainbow and Gold Pom Pom water
• Find the Gold in the Rainbow (colorful beads)
• Lucky Charms
• Felt Shamrocks and Green Pom Poms
• Rainbow Pasta
• Green Water Beads and Coins
• Shamrock Foam Dough

CREATE (Play Doh - Mats, Cookie Cutters, Invitations to Play)

• Leprechaun
• Shamrock
• Rainbow
• Coins

PLAY (Inside and Outside Games/Activities)

• Puzzles/Board Games
• Block Center/Building Ideas
• Dramatic Play
• Quiet Activities
• File Folder Activities/Worksheets
• Active Games/Outside Play Activities

READ (Books for the Seasonal Book Basket or Shelf)

• How to Catch a Leprechaun - Adam Wallace
• There Was an Old Lady Who Swallowed a Clover! - Lucille Colandro
• The Night Before St. Patrick's Day - Natasha Wing
• You're My Little Lucky Charm - Natalie Marshall
• The Berenstein Bear's St. Patrick's Day - Mike Berenstein
• Pete the Cat: The Great Leprechaun Chase - James Dean
• Jamie O'Rourke and the Big Potato - Tomie dePaola
• The Itsy Bitsy Leprechaun - Jeffrey Burton
• Happy St. Patrick's Day, Curious George - H. A. Rey
• Patrick: Patron Saint of Ireland - Tomie dePaola
• Ten Lucky Leprechauns - Kathryn Heling
• The Story of Saint Patrick's Day - Patricia A. Pingry
• St. Patrick's Day - Gail Gibbons
• Happy St. Patrick's Day - Roger Priddy
• St. Patrick's Day in the Morning - Eve Bunting

SING (Songs/Poems)

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EAT (Snacks)

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• Monthly Holiday Snacks (Sandwiches, Waffles, Pancakes, French Toast, Sugar Cookies, Brownies, Candy, Cake Pops, Donuts, Muffins, Popsicles, Cheese and Lunch Meat)

VISIT  (Visitor/Field Trip Ideas)

• Field Trips