It may not be
exactly
the same, but our children's librarians are bringing everything you love about the Children's Room right into your homes!
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Kevin's bringing you one of the mental challenges he's famous for, with a simple physics challenge designed to get your children's brains going at home.
Watch Kevin here and follow along at home!
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What You’ll Need:
- Plain paper, thicker than newsprint. Printer paper is perfect.
- A bunch of pennies. If you don’t have any, you could use other coins or any small object with a little weight like washers, screws, dice, or bits from a game. Look around the house and be creative!
- An eight inch gap. You can create this by lining up two chairs or boxes. I’m using two board game boxes for my experiment.
The Challenge:
Using only one piece of paper make a bridge across your gap, then see how many pennies it can support. To get the most pennies, make sure to place them only a few at a time and very gently. Don’t forget you can fold your paper however you like. Do you think you can make a bridge that holds 50 pennies? 100?
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Did you know that the Children’s Room recently reorganized its folk and fairy tales? We have a dedicated picture books section of fairy and folk tales complete with a guide for finding stories from specific cultures. We also have longer tales and collected works in our non-fiction section.
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Is this the cutest holiday or what?!
March 25th is National Puppy Day
and we've compiled a list of activities that are doggone adorable.
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This week's
I ♥ Art
is about Dutch artist
Leo Lionni
, who published his first picture book for children in 1959. Today’s art is inspired by his book,
Swimmy
.
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What You'll Need:
- Paper
- Paint
- Paintbrushes
- Kitchen sponge
- Cotton balls
- Cotton swabs
- Waxed paper
- Aluminum foil
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If you loved Trish's Facebook Live storytime this week (we did! And a toddler member of our household loved it so much that he cried for an hour after it ended), you're in luck: we have Trish's flannel version of
The Paper Bag Princess
for you! Stay tuned for more information about our next virtual storytimes, and enjoy this classic story in the meantime.
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The importance of wellness right now can't be overstated, and especially wellness for kids. Luckily, Joy created a special edition Family Yoga Time for us!
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Some of our most beloved authors are making the best of this situation, and providing kids with online storytimes!
Oliver Jeffers
, illustrator of
The Day the Crayons Quit,
is reading a story on his
Instagram
, every day at 2:00 p.m. and archiving it on his
website
.
A variety of authors are participating in
Story Time! with Penguin Kids
on their
Instagram
, every day at 11:00 a.m.
Mac Barnett
is doing a daily reading on his
Instagram page
at 3:00 p.m.
Kate Messner
has been hosting a variety of read alouds on YouTube.
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Enjoy live streams and web cams from some amazing zoos and aquariums. Our favorites:
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Did you know your library card gives you access to
TumbleBooks
? It's an online collection of animated, talking picture books, reading comprehension quizzes, educational games and teacher resources for libraries.
Click here to login and explore their collection.
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We've compiled a list of resources about the Coronavirus crisis on our brand new
Stuck at Home? page on our website
, and have listed a few resources for
discussing Coronavirus with kids
.
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