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Since I started here, I’ve been dying to do a cookie storytime.  Two of my all-time favorite authors have books about cookies (Mo Willems and Karma Wilson) but I was stumped for the longest time on what kind of a craft to do.  Just making a big cookie out of a paper plate is so unsatisfying.  BUT! Pinterest to the rescue!  I found something else.

BOOKS:

The Duckling Gets a Cookie by Mo Willems and The Cow Loves Cookies by Karma Wilson

These books are both fabulous storytime reads.  The Cow Loves Cookies works on multiple levels – it’s a bit rhymey and we get our fix of barnyard animals.  I love the colorful illustrations and the last page, of course.  The Duckling Gets a Cookie might not work for everyone, but I LOOOOOOOVE to do voices.  Most of the kids get the references to the other books (“I ask to drive a bus!”) and the Pigeon is so silly.  Overall, two thumbs up to two great books.

SONG:

We were extremely fortunate this week to have received our new sound system (WHAT? YES! A NEW SOUND SYSTEM!) and been able to have it installed before storytime.  So we HAD to listen to a song this week.  I chose (as any respectable children’s librarian would) C is for Cookie.  We got out the shakers and the scarves and had a little dance party.  It was AWESOME.

CRAFT:

We made cookie bakers!  This is a little more rigorous than my usual craft – lots and lots of pieces and lots of gluing.  The kids don’t mind all the gluing – they really like to use the glue sticks.  I think they turned out adorably.  (I did have one mom who saw the blue construction paper and said making cookie monster would really make her little girl’s day – I was sorry to disappoint).