Book Bag: Friendswood Youth Services Blog

 Ms. Brenda is back with a video filled with your favorite songs, rhymes, and a book recommendation! And your latest craft kit for older kids is available for pick up! Make a House on Stilts! Hope you have a great weekend!

Ms. Kat has a new story with rhymes and bounces for this week's Rattle & Rhyme! Weave a Rainbow Fish or make a Flying Dragon with one of our craft kits today! Pick up at the drive through or in the Children's Dept.  

  Hope you've been staying warm this week! Here is a virtual preschool storytime for the 3-6  year old  (or 0-2 year old or older!)  in your life:  Also, today is Jeff Kinney's (the author of the Diary of a Wimpy Kid series) birthday! Celebrate with a packet of Wimpy Kid activities, from drawing tutorials to a word search to a template to create your own comics! You can pick up a kit from the Children's Dept. or the drive through window while supplies last!

  This is a weekend for celebrating! Valentine's Day and the Lunar New Year are happening!  To help spread love and new beginnings, we have a Valentine's themed virtual storytime from Ms. Brenda and an Ox Envelope to make for the Lunar New Year! After you pick up your Craft Kit, you can follow the very easy to understand tutorial here: https://www.redtedart.com/easy-cow-origami-envelope/

 There is a new Rattle & Rhyme from Ms. Kat today!

We've got some Valentine's themed craft kits for your kiddos this Monday morning! For 2-4 year olds, you can pick up this Stacking Hearts Craft Kit! And for 5-7 year olds, we have a craft that helps little hands work on coordination, matching, and numbers: a Valentine Mosaic Collage.  As usual you can pick up the Craft Kits at the Children's Desk or the drive through while supplies last!  

 This week's Friday Craft Kit is a printmaking craft inspired by the tradition of Adinkra symbols/fabric created by the Ashanti people of what is now Ghana.    1. Choose a design from the list of Adinkra symbols below (or create your own symbol!)  2. Draw your symbol on a piece of foam. 3. Cut out the symbol. 4. Glue the symbol onto cardboard square    5. Use a fork to divide the paper into segments.  6. Paint the symbol (I suggest getting a lot of paint on it with a paintbrush or pouring paint on a plate to use as a stamp pad) 7. Stamp different patterns of your symbol(s) and create your own design!  Here's mine! I chose symbols that represent friendship (I think it looks like a cross-section of a tomato!) and loyalty.  Pick up this craft kit at the Children's Desk or at the drive through window!

  Pick up your craft kits for a Fill My Heart With Love Penguin (2-4 year olds) or an Origami Unicorn (5-7 year olds) at the drive through window or the Children's Dept. until supplies run out! Ms. Brenda will bring extra to our Neighborhood Storytime tomorrow morning at Stevenson Park Pavilion at 10:30am! Be sure to sign up for our Fall in Love with Reading February Challenge on Beanstack! It's easy to make an account and track the time you spend reading at friendswood.beanstack.org  and is designed for all ages! Log time spent reading and write reviews to unlock digital badges. If you choose to share your review publicly, we'll put it on a bookmark in that book to inspire someone to read it!