I present to you, Ms. Jana, the story teller!! Yup, let me introduce you to my once a month gig at our favorite library, Ashville Library. You can call it "wetting my toes" as I creep slowly back into the working world! HA HA This is just a volunteer thing, and I secretly love it and get to play preschool teacher for a mere hour a month!
The librarian and I have become pretty good friends and she asked me to do story time every month. It was my idea to do a monthly theme along with a craft and snack to match! December was my first story time. We had a GREAT turnout! 8 kids, and their parents. Whom might I end are all my friends! Nice to have my friends and community there supporting me. I did a Christmas Story time, complete with gingerbread baby cookie decorating and eating! My friend Christy played on her guitar when we sang Christmas songs. It was a blast, and I love that my boys get to participate and enjoy this experience with me!
The January story time turned out to be even bigger: 10 kids! Some of the same kids and some new friends that heard about the last one and joined in this month! I did a Snowman Winter theme, so all of the books I read were about snow and winter play! We made a yummy marshmallow snowman on a pretzel stick snack. The kids put the marshmallows on the big pretzel stick, added little pretzel sticks for the arms, a gummie hat, and the mommies helped decorate the face and buttons with a cake marker. The kids began munching on their snowmen so fast I couldn't get a single photo of the snowmen's head! We also had hot cocoa I cooked the morning of story time.
Next month's story time is all about Valentine's Day, love, kisses, hugs, hearts, and all that mushy stuff since my story time falls on the tuesday right before V-day. Looking forward to putting on my Pinterest hat again and coming up with a fun craft/ snack!
