Bicycles and Safety

I knew that May was Bicycle Safety month and I wanted to do a bike safety event.  I didn’t know that the organization that usually does such events goes to all of the elementary schools in the region before the end of school.  BUT the ladies were all fired up about coming to storytime and selling VERY discounted bicycle helmets to attendees.

BOOKS:

These are the books I picked out for storytime, but the lady who came had another safety related book she wanted to read.  I have decided that in the future if we have storytime guests, I will let them do their own thing, but I will still read the stories.  No offense to the guest.  She did just fine and her talk about the brain and keeping safe was great (just not her story reading).  In fact, I think her bike helmet demo was the kids’ favorite.  She had eggs and put one in a special egg helmet and let the kids drop an unprotected egg and the helmeted egg into a bucket.  Obviously the unprotected egg broke and the other one didn’t.

Holding a squishy fake brain

SONG:

I borrowed this from Storytime Katie.  I made a ton of different colored bikes and handed them out to all of the kids and then they brought up their bikes as we sang the song.  It was a little chaotic and some forgot which colors to put where and when, but it all ended up working out okay.

CRAFT:

We made our own bicycles with wheels that turned.  I purposefully made the craft easy because I knew that parents would be in and out with their children, getting fitted for bicycle helmets.  It was one that people could just pick up and do at their own pace.  I did print the bike frames out of cardstock, but they were still pretty flimsy.