The House That Hansel and Gretel Ate (Storytime Build)

This fall, the story we chose to use for our wall project was Hansel and Gretel. We felt creating the witches gingerbread house would be an exciting project, and would tie in well to the end of the year gingerbread themed holiday event.

Making Gingerbread Houses with Preschoolers

To end our fall storytime session, my partner and I decided to attempt making gingerbread houses as the craft for our preschool storytime. Since we are working with small children, we did a simplified house using a milk carton, graham crackers, and royal icing. The idea is the kids can simply “glue” the crackers to the milk carton with icing, making it much easier for them to create a structure. This ended up becoming a two session project, as we need to give the icing time to dry before decorating.

Our first session was the creation of the houses. They turned out better than we could have expected. All of the kids were able to create their houses, and they got super creative with them. It was exciting to see so many unique structures.

Walking in a Winter Wonderland (Music and Movement)

I went a little overboard this week for music and movement, but it was the last one of the year, plus there are so many good holiday songs!

Hibernation Station Storytime

After reading Knock Knock by Tammi Sauer, my only thought was “I NEED to do this book with my preschoolers!” So, I decided to do a hibernation storytime. It also seemed like a timely theme, as winter is beginning here in Wisconsin.