StoryBox Kits Page

By librarian, September 26, 2011 8:45 am

StoryBox Kits

Here at NWKLS we have worked hard on assembling some wonderful ready made StoryBox Kits for use in your libraries. Each kit contains an award winning children’s book, as well as an interactive reading readiness activity and all the supplies to complete the project with your children.

Click on each activity for a printable version.

Kit#1: The Easter Egg

By: Jan Brett

Activity: Dyed Egg

Materials Needed: Poster Board Egg Cut Out, Paint Brushes, Glue, Tissue Paper, Aluminum Foil, Paint Cups, Magnetic Strips, Children’s Scissors, and Plastic Tablecloth

Kit #2: The Curious Garden

By: Peter Brown

Activity: Grass Hair People

Materials Needed: Knee-Highs, Potting Soil, Grass Seed, Plastic Spoons, Plastic Plant Pots, Small Watering Pail, Google Eyes, and Plastic Table Cloth

Kit #3 City Dog, Country Frog

By: Mo Willems

Activity: Friendship Bracelet

Materials Needed: Cording, Colorful Beads

Provide the children with appropriate lengths of stretchy, clear cording and a variety of beads. Tie a bead on one end of the cording to keep the beads from falling off as the children string them. Encourage the children to lay out a pattern before stringing the beads, but most of all it should be beautiful to them! Allow the children to make two of each bracelet – one for a friend and one to keep like the friendship we saw in Country Dog and City Frog.

Kit #4 Help Me Mr. Mutt

By: Janet Stevens and Susan Stevens Crummel

Activity: Paper Plate Dog or Cat

Materials Needed: Paper Plates, Pompoms, Yarn, Glitter Glue, Construction Paper, and Chenille Stems, Google Eyes, and Plastic Table Cloth

Kit #5 Dirt on My Shirt

By: Jeff Foxworthy

Activity: Cornstarch Suspension Activity and Observation

Materials Needed: 1 Cup Cornstarch, bowl, ABOUT 1/2 cup water, spoon, Pie Plate, food coloring

Kit #6 Tales from Old Ireland

By: Malachy Doyle

Activity: Green on Green Activity

Materials Needed: Green Construction Paper, White Paint, Paint Brushes, Green Crayons, Paint Cups, and Plastic Tablecloth

Kit #7 Gingerbread Friends

By: Jan Brett

Activity: Gingerbread Man Activity

Materials Needed: Sandpaper, Patterns, M&M’s, Glue, Hard Candy, Ribbon, Hole Punch, White Crayons, and Cinnamon Sticks

Gingerbread Man-Gingerman Tracing Pattern

Print and cut out gingerbread man pattern. Trace onto the back of the sandpaper and cut out. Use white crayon to trace around the outline of the gingerbread man. Rub a cinnamon stick all over the gingerbread man and finish decorating gingerbread man with M&Ms and crayons. Make a hole to the top and attach a ribbon.

Kit #8 Little Polar Bear