The Youth Services team at ImagineIF Libraries plans and implements early literacy programs for babies, toddlers, and preschoolers in Kalispell, Bigfork, and Columbia Falls. Our goal in every Storytime is to connect with young children and their caregivers through books, songs, and interactive activities that foster early literacy and social emotional skills.

Explore the Storytime Schedule

BRRR- it’s cold outside! Pull on your mittens and grab a snow shovel! It’s time to explore some of our favorite winter time books and activities!

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Books Read:

The Littlest Yak

by Lu Fraser
ISBN: 9781682632826

A Hat For Minerva Louise

by Janet Morgan Stoeke
ISBN: 9780140556667

Just One Flake

by Travis Jonker
ISBN: 9781419760112

Songs & Interactives:

I’m a Little Penguin Song (To the tune of I’m a little Teapot)

I’m a Little Penguin
Black and white
I waddle to the left
And I waddle to the right
When I’m feeling hungry
I splash and splish
I jump into the water
And I catch a fish!
(repeat)

Warm clothes for when it snows (To the tune of the farmer in the dell)

My hat goes on my head
My hat goes on my head
Warm clothes for when it snows
My hat goes on my head
(repeat: My scarf goes round my neck, my gloves go on my hands,
my boots go on my feet)

Snowky Pokey

You put your right mitten in
You put your right mitten out
You put your right mitten in,
And you shake it all about!
You do the snowky pokey,
And you turn yourself around,
BRRRRR! (shiver)
That’s what its all about!
(repeat: left mitten, right boot, left boot, snowself)

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Activities:

Snowflakes in the Wind Tunnel

The wind tunnel is one of our most popular play stations all year round, and we have a special set of fabric snowflakes to put in during wintertime. We can release handfuls in the tunnel to create our own little snowstorms, or play a game and try to catch one flake at a time!

Paint stick snowpeople art

We covered our storytime tables with butcher paper and drew the outlines for a few snowpeople. The kids decorated the snowpeople, made a few of their own, and created a beautiful wintry scene using paint sticks and jumbo crayons!

Snow as a sensory material

Throughout this winter, we’ve been bringing tubs of fresh snow into the library for a variety of sensory tubs and process art projects! We’ve hosted a “snow kitchen” with pots, pans, and utensils, played with toy trucks in the snow, and painted snow with brushes and washable paint.

Snow shoveling gross motor game

This winter, we have been practicing how to shovel snow with a gross motor game using tiny snow shovels and white loofas. We also used our white loofas as “snowballs” on our parachute during storytime!