LITTLE BEDS FOR LITTLE READERS: AN INTERACTIVE STORY TIME

A Big Bed for Little Snow is now available! Have fun reading the book with this guide and craft!


The best of story times engage children with dialogue, movement, and other hands-on play. This guide and companion craft puts a bed-shaped envelope filled with paper feathers into the hands of children at story time. In the story when a tear in the bed sets feathers flying, your readers can tear open their bed/envelope and create a snowstorm of feathers. Don’t worry, the story time includes a prompt to clean up those fallen feathers!.

 

DOWNLOAD THE STORYTIME GUIDE AND CRAFT HERE!

LITTLE SNOW'S SNOWSTORM

HOORAY! A Big Bed for Little Snow is now available! Here's another fun activity you can do with the book!


Are those feathers falling from Little Snow's bed or snowflakes falling from a blue gray cloud? From the point of view of the children in the apartments below, it is a snowy day in the city. With this activity, a sandwich bag, and a handful of confetti, you can make it snow on the buildings of Grace Lin's magical city.

Download this craft activity HERE!

MEASURE LITTLE SNOW'S SNOW!

Hooray! A Big Bed for Little Snow is out now! Here's a fun activity to to do with the book!

When the feathery flakes fall from the sky in your city, use a ruler to measure how deep the flakes are on the ground. Keep track of the snowfall on this chart using your high-jumping math skills. According to picture book meteorologists, one inch of snow = five Little Snow jumps. Let's do the math!

Download the Snow Chart HERE!

SEW LITTLE SNOW'S BED!

Jumping for joy because A Big Bed for Little Snow is out now! Here's a fun way activity to to do with the book! Little Snow's Mommy stuffs his Big Bed with feathers and sews it shut. With this activity you can stuff a small paper bed with feathery tissues and "sew" it shut with a two-sided sewing card. There is even a jumping Little Snow cut-out to insert in the top of the bed. Hang this craft from the ceiling to remind your young reader that one boy's bed may be another child's storm cloud.

Download the instructions for this craft: HERE 

Happy Birthday, Little Snow!

 

Thanks so much for coming! A Big Bed for Little Snow had a lovely birthday party  at Porter Square Books with homemade, kid-decorated blue and white cupcakes:

 

 People came (hooray!):

 I read the book:

and special guests Mommy and Little Snow came to the party, too:

Hooray! The book comes out officially tomorrow! Stay tuned for more fun!