by Leah Langby | Feb 28, 2018 | Keeping Up With Kids
Thanks so much to the new youth services/programming librarian at Ellsworth, Elise Gregory, for this guest post filled with easy-to-replicate and fun ideas.I’ve been making little grab bags with any of my left-over materials from Preschool Storytime. I also...
by Leah Langby | Jan 26, 2016 | Keeping Up With Kids
Road sign picture, courtesy of PixabayI attended quite a few of the Wild Wisconsin Winter Webinars last week, and I’m looking forward to listening to several more of them–I’m going to put it on my calendar so I actually do it, and I encourage you to...
by Leah Langby | Nov 25, 2015 | Keeping Up With Kids
Kids enjoy scarves at a Bloomer storytimeYou may have already heard that the G.E. Bleskacek Memorial Library in Bloomer won a Standing Up for Rural Schools, Libraries and Communities Award, along with their partner, the Bloomer Area School District. They won the...
by Leah Langby | Jun 17, 2015 | Keeping Up With Kids
Thanks to Valerie from Ladysmith for this great idea/guest post!For our Earth Day storytime, I wanted our craft to be something that we could make reusing materials we already had at the library. We have many DVD cases that can’t be used for circulation...
by Leah Langby | Apr 6, 2015 | Uncategorized
Having fun with homemade ribbon wands in River FallsI really liked this short and sweet explanation in the ALSC blog of how to make your storytimes more inclusive to kids with various physical challenges (some obvious and some invisible). Check out Amanda Moss...