Tales to Go

Tales-to-go kits are multi-media kits of storytelling ideas, delightful props, stories, songs, flannelboard stories, fingerplays and other ideas needed for a lively, unforgettable story time.

The kits are designed for use by parents, librarians, teachers, and daycare providers.

Each kit is contained in a canvas bag and is available from the Children’s Department at Morrisson-Reeves Library. They may be ckecked out for a four week loan period and there is a limit of one kit per family.

Below is a list of the 11 kits and their contents.

Kit #5 Colors
Story and activity packet
Color seals puppet packet
Wee Red Shoes flannelboard
Books: A Color of His Own
Freight Train
Oh, Were They Ever Happy
Planting a Rainbow

Kit #7 Pigs
Story and activity packet
Pig Puppet
Books: Mrs. Pig’s Bulk Buy
Perfect Little Pig
This Little Piggy
The Three Little Pigs

Kit #8 Food
Story and activity packet
I Know an Old Lady puppet packet
Books: Cloudy With a Chance of Meatballs
Don’t Forget the Bacon
The Very Hungry Caterpillar
Yummers!

Kit #9 Bears
Story and activity packet
Black Bear puppet
Books: Cully Cully and the Bear
Goldilocks and the Three Bears
Jesse Bear, What Will You Wear?
Peace At Last

Kit #11 Dinosaurs
Story and activity packet
5 Dinosaur figures
Dinosaur fingerplay packet
Books: The Dinosaur Eggs
Dinosaur Garden
If the Dinosaurs Came Back
Tyrone the Horrible

Kit #12 Monkeys
Story and activity packet
Five Monkeys and Mr. Alligator puppet packet
A Wise Monkey Tale flannelboard packet
Books: Caps for Sale
Curious George
Five Little Monkeys
The Monkey and the Crocodile
Monkeyshines

Kit #14 Silly Stories
Story and activity packet
The Emperor’s New Clothes puppet packet
Books: The Cut-Ups
Meanwhile Back at the Ranch
Pookins Gets Her Way
The Stupids Have a Ball

Kit #17 Farm Animals 1
Story and activity packet
Old MacDonald Had a Farm flannelboard packet
Books: Farmer Duck
Farmer Goff and his Turkey Sam
Jake and Jenny on the Farm
One Cow Moo Moo

Kit #18 Farm Animals 2
Story and activity packet
The Little Dog Who Forgot How to Bark flannelboard packet
Sheep Doll
Books: EIEIO
Parents in the Pigpen, Pigs in the Tub
Sheep in a Jeep
Spot Goes to the Farm

Kit #19 Health
Story and activity packet
Your Health, Body For Life puppet packet
Books: Doctors, Nurses, Dentists and Me
Germs Make Me Sick
My Dentist
My Doctor

Kit #20 Clothes and Hats
Story and activity packet
Animals Should Definitely Not Wear Clothing flannelboard packet
Books: Froggy Gets Dressed
Jennie’s Hat
Jesse Bear, What Will You Wear?
What Will I Wear?
Who Took the Farmer’s Hat?

Updated 1/2011