Welcome to the world of Storytime Kids!

Create the perfect event for your child and their guests!  Customized StoryParties add a fun and unique element to any celebration.

StoryParties are lively, kid-friendly adventures that combine interactive storytelling and books with singing, dancing and all kinds of entertaining activities that your child will love.

You can select from a wide variety of themes for your StoryParty, which include princess/prince parties, pirate parties, science experiment parties, train parties, booklover parties, fairy tale parties, I Spy parties and so many more!  You can even suggest your own theme.  Click here for more information on StoryParty themes.

Each theme has a set of activities in the following categories:  stories and books, songs, dancing, games and activities, and crafts.

Once you select a theme,  a list of activities will be prepared for you, based on the age and specific wishes of your child.  From this list, you can choose the activities that will be used to create your very own StoryParty!

Book Some Fun

There is nothing like cuddling up on the couch or huddling over your child’s bed and reading a book together.  But you can go one step further and expand reading a book into a fun adventure.  Each Book Some Fun entry will give you some great ideas on how you and your child can go beyond reading and fully experience a book.  Most importantly, reading together becomes a way to not only develop literacy skills and have fun but to create the memories of a lifetime.

Book some fun with a fish named Swimmy!

First, read the classic picture book Swimmy by Leo Lionni (Lane Library info here) and find out just how fun swimming and cooperating can be.   If you have fish at home, gather everyone around and watch them swim.  Very relaxing!

After you have read the book with your child, get ready for some fun Swimmy activities.   First talk with your child about cooperation and how important it is to work together.  Then help them cut several red fish and one black fish out of construction paper (or use white paper and then color the fish with crayons).  Turn to the page in the book where the fish work together to form one large fish shape.  Guide your child in using the small cutout fish to make one giant fish, just like in the book.  Ask your child to count them as you place the fish in formation.  Now gather up some paint and bubble wrap and get ready to make your own Swimmy.  Draw (or help your child draw) a large fish shape onto heavy paper.  Pour various colors of paint (or use foam paint) onto paper plates.   With your child, dip large pieces of bubble wrap into the paint, then gently press them onto the fish shape.  Be careful not to overload the bubble wrap with paint–you don’t need much!  The bubble wrap’s shape will give the effect of scales on the fish.  Be sure to let the fish dry thoroughly.  Then do fishy theater!  Tape a craft stick or small ruler to your child’s fish to make it into a puppet and watch it swim away!  If you need a fishy snack during the puppet show, try yummy Goldfish crackers.

Have fun “getting Swimmy with it”!