I Am A Wolf

Dogs and families are so much Fun with Friends at Storytime!  

Beach Riddle Game

Here's a fun guessing game for Storytime!  I originally posted about this riddle game HERE.  I used it again this week and it was a big hit! 

What I Saw at the Beach Riddle Game

July 2014

I like to go to the beach to swim and play all day.

I dig in the sand and take a walk. I like to stay and stay.

There's so many things to see there. I'll play a game with you.

You guess the thing I saw at the beach when I give you a clue!

1. This shines in the sky at the beach (sun)

2. You wear these on your eyes because it's so sunny at the beach (sunglasses)

3. This is fun to throw and bounce and play with at the beach (beach ball) 

4. You pick these up from the sand at the beach (seashells)

5.This sea creature has flippers and crawls across the sand to go swim in the ocean (sea turtle)

6.This is a round sea creature and has a star shape on the outside (sand dollar)

7. You can make this with sand a a pail and shovel (sand castle)

8. This sea creature has 5 arms and swims in the ocean at the beach. (starfish)

9. This little sea creature has claws and lives in a seashell (hermit crab)

10. You wear these on your feet to walk on the hot sand at the beach. (flip flops)

Riddle games are so much Fun with Friends at Storytime!

Let's Find a Pearl for the Pail

I saw this cute shell game at Storytime in the Stacks and wanted to tweak it a little and use it this summer with our kiddos at Storytime! We have a lot of really young kiddos so we need to keep it fairly simple but they love to interact with the felt board. This kind of game helps them learn to wait for their turn, follow instructions and enjoy the anticipation and fun of discovery!  Plus...I love watching them play these games 😍.  My plan is to call them by name to come choose a shell. When they discover the 'pearl' they put it in my beach pail! If they can I'll ask them to tell me the color too. I'll take the shell shape down as it's chosen just to speed up the process.  I made 21 shells so we should be good! I did add a piece of velcro to the back of the grey back to hold it on the board as we try to lift the colored front shape.  I did make an alternate rhyme instead of my naming the color shell, I changed it to "Little Clam, Little Clam"  Here's a link to my doc.   Little Shell, Little Shell.

Going to the beach at storytime is so much Fun with Friends!