Kits

IFLS-owned Maker Kits

You can view WVLS kits on their website.

Animation/Movie Kit

2 packages.  4 iPads and chargers (with the following apps:  Strip Designer; Animation Desk; Stop Motion Studios; Stikbot Studios; Sock Puppets; iMovie); 3 iPad holders/tripods; 1 smart phone tripod; 7 stikbot action figures.  Large Cloth Bag:  2 pop-up green screens.  Animation Station Idea Sheet.

Audio Kit

1 locked case ; 1 iPad with Garageband, Keezy, & Keezy Drums apps; 1 Snowball Microphone; 1 adaptor; 1 microphone cord.  Audio Kit Idea Sheet.

Baking Extravaganza:  Cake and Cookies Kit

2 bins:  11 specialized bundt pans, 2 ziplock bags with a variety of plastic cookie cutters, 3 specialized cupcake tins, tart pan, pineapple upside-down pan, round bottm cake pan, 6 small holiday-shape pans, 8 large-tipped frosting tips, 15 small-tipped frosting tips, 2 bag cases for frosting

Bloxels Kit

Bloxels require a device (smart phone or tablet) with the Bloxel App (not included), but the Bloxel Kit includes the other pieces needed to create your own video games.  Comes with several challenges, and can also be free-form.

Button-maker:  1 inch

1-inch punch; pinbacks; 2 kinds of metal pieces; plastic covers.  1-inch Button Maker Idea Sheet.

Button Maker:  1.25 inch

1.25 inch button maker; 1.25 inch punch; Instruction sheet; pinbacks; button shells, mylar covers.

Coloring Kit

6 coloring books; 48 gel pens; 48 colored pencils.  For adult/teen coloring programs

Cubelets Kit      

32 Cubelets, 4 Lego toppers, 2 USB connector/charger, Cubelet Descriptor Cards, 1 Robot Builder’s Handbook

Cubelets are designed to allow people to experiment with creating simple robots.  Recommended for ages 5 and up.  It is not necessary, but you can also connect them to a device.  To do that, you will need to provide your own device, and download a free app.  Cubelets Idea Sheet.

Cubelets Kit #2 (smaller)

16 Cubelets, 2 lego toppers, 1 USB connector/charger, Cubelet Descriptor Cards, Robot Builder’s Handbook, Getting Started Guide

Jewelry-Making Kit

7 pairs of different kinds of pliers/handtools, collapsable needles, bead-stoppers, and soldering iron kit (includes solder).  You supply the beads and other expendables.

Lego WeDo Kit

1 Chromebook with Lego WeDo App and charging cord; 1 box of Lego WeDo blocks (15 ziplock bags).   Lego WeDo Idea Sheet.

Lightbox Kit

2 light boxes, letter pieces, agate slices, plastic shapes, regular and metallic calligraphy marker pens, The Calligrapher’s Bible, The Bible of Illuminated Letters

Makey Makey Kit

4 Makey Makey Kits, each including:  7 alligator clips, 30 jumper wires, MakeyMakey board, mini USB cable, and instruction booklet. Makey Makey Idea Sheet.

Needlefelting Kit

5 multi-point needle felting tools; 3 brush pads; 2 containers with 8 felting needles in each; 10 foam felting pads; 20 thimbles; Beginners Guide to Needlefelting book; 1 instruction sheet.  Needlefelting Idea Sheet.

Note:  Contains materials for needlefelting, but borrowers will need to secure their own wool roving and other consumables.

Sphero Kit

2 iPod Touches with Sphero Apps; 2 Spheros(with accessories:  charger base, adaptor, 2 ramps, and holder).    Sphero Idea Sheet.

Woodworking Kit

6 screwdrivers, 1 adjustable wrench, 1 tape measure, 2 pairs of safety glasses, 1 pair of pliers, 21 drill bits, 1 hammer, 1 hand saw, 1 woodburning kit, dremel kit, drill

Science Fun Kit contents:

• Magnets
• Microscope and prepared slides
• Balance scale and weights
• Activity suggestions
• Annotated list of books to share

This kit was created with funding from the Insitute for Museum and Library Services in the form on an LSTA grant.  Good for school age and pre-school programs.

Mathmania Kit contents:

• Building set (LEGOS and Knex)
• Fractiles
• Blockus (game)
• Set (game)
• Ball of Whacks
• Activity suggestions
• Annotated list of books (fiction and nonfiction) to share

This kit was created with funding from the Insitute for Museum and Library Services in the form on an LSTA grant.  Good for school age programs.

Large Motor Kit 1, Drums & Sticks:  6-foot parachute; 18 drums with sticks; 24 sets of rhythm sticks; Greg and Steve Kids in Action CD

Large Motor Kit 2, Bean Bags & Shakers:  12-foot parachute; 24 bean bags; 25 musical instruments; Greg and Steve Kids in Motion CD

Large Motor Kit 3, Scarves & Eggs:  6-foot parachute; 22 scarves; 24 ribbon wands; 30 shaker eggs; Putumayo Kids’ World Playground CD; Ribbons and Rhythm CD; Mix CD

Large Motor Kit 4, More Scarves & Eggs:  6-foot parachute; 46 scarves; 24 shaker eggs; 30 ribbon wands; Mix CD

Animal Play Kit:  Soft and squeezy dinosaurs; soft and squeezy wild animals; 8 Folkmanis puppets  

Baby Play Kit: Eight balls with cool stuff inside; soft and safe building blocks; soft and safe washable alphabet blocks

Home and Community Play Kit:  Magnetic vehicles; tool tote with tools; wooden veggies and other food to cut; pots and pans

Magnet Play Kit:  Iron filing discovery discs; magnet wands; magnetic forces discovery kits; magnet discover board REQUIRES SUPERVISION

Each board book kit includes 20 copies of the same board book, for Unison Reading.

Brown Bear, Brown Bear What Do You See?  by Bill Martin.

I Went Walking  by Sue Williams, illustrated by Julie Vivas

Moo, Baa, La La La by Sandra Boynton

My Amazing Day by Karin Fisher  (funded by LSTA grant from the IMLS)

Zoom, Zoom Baby by Karen Katz  (funded by LSTA grant from the IMLS)

Peek-a-Boo Baby by Margaret Miller  (funded by LSTA grant from the IMLS)

American Babies by Global Fund for Children    (funded by LSTA grant from the IMLS)

Tip Tip Dig Dig by Emma Garcia (funded by LSTA grant from the IMLS)

Everything you need–books, props, music, and large motor materials–to make a storytime work.

ABC-123:  Books:  Anno’s Counting Book (Big Book); Chicka Chicka Boom Boom (Martin); Counting Crocodiles (Sierra); Diez, Nueve, Ocho (Bang); Eating the Alphabet (Ehlert); The Letters are Lost (Ernst); The Lifesize Animal Counting Book; Miss Bindergarten Celebrates the 100th Day of Kindergarten (Slate); Miss Bindergarten Gets Ready for Kindergarten (Slate); One Duck Stuck (Root–Big Book); One Monkey Too Many (Koller); Ten, Nine, Eight (Bang); Tomorrow’s Alphabet (Shannon)  Recordings:  ABC-123 Mix CD; Props:  Alphabet floor puzzle; Chicka Chicka Book Boom tree and letters; Crocodile puppet; Miss Bindergarten doll; One Duck Stuck story kit; Five Green and Speckled Frogs mitt; Count on Me learning game.

Around the World:  Manuals:  Story program manual; The Story Vine (Pellowski)   Picture Books:  Alone in the Foresti (Shyam); Antarctic Antics  (Sierra); The Cazuela that the Farm Maiden Stirred  (Vamos); Chirchir Is Singing (cunnane); Hush!  A thai Lullaby (Ho); Koala Lou (Fox); Moon Rope (Ehlert); One Grain of Rice (Demi); Skip Across the Ocean (Benjamin); So Say the Little Monkeys (van Laan); The Trouble with Trolls (Brett); Who Is the Beast?  (Baker); Who Says a Dog Goes Bow Wow? (De Zutter)   Props:  Who Is the Beast felt kit; Globe; Nesting dolls; Sand molds of world landmarks; Thumb piano; Scarves for dancing   Recordings:  Mix CD; A Child’s Celebration of the World CD; Putumayo World Playground CD.

Babies:  Manual:  Story program manual   Picture Books:  Babies (Asquith); Baby Knows Best (Henderson); Close Your Eyes (Banks); Daddy’s Lullaby (Bradman); The Difference Between Babies and Cookies (Hanson); Found (Yoon); Grump  (Wong); I Kissed the Baby (Murphy); Little Poems for Tiny Ears (Oliver); ‘”More, More, More,” Said the Baby  (Williams); My Big Brother (Fisher); Peekaboo Morning (Isadora); Time to Get Dressed! (Salvadier); The Twins’ Blanket (Yum); What the Baby Hears (Godwin); Where Is My Mommy?  (Downing)   Props:  Dolls; Kittens in a basket puppet; Bag of baby supplies; Five Little Babies felt story; Dinosaur in egg puppet   Recording:  Babies Mix CD

Bears:   Manual:  Story program manual   Picture Books:  Ten Bears in My Bed; The Bear Went Over the Mountain; Copy Me Copycub; Goldilocks and the Three Bears; It’s the Bear; Let’s Go Home, Little Bear; Moon game; Number One, Tickle Your Tun; Poppy the Panda; Sleepy Bears; The Teddy Bears’ Pictnic; Where’s My Teddy?    Props:  Goldilocks and tthe Three Bears felt story; Sleepy Bears felt story; Black bear puppet; Panda puppet with blue ribbon; Stamp pad and 5 bear stamps   Recordings:  Teddy Bear’s Picnic  by Rosen.

Being Brave: Manual:  Story program manual   Picture Books:  999 Tadpoles (Kimura); Brave Little Chicken (Byrd); Bully (Seeger); Can’t Scare Me (Bryan); Don’t Play with Your Food  (Shea); The Firefighters’ Thanksgiving (Boelts); Little Dog Lost  (Carnesi); Loon Baby (Griffin); My First Day (Jenkins and Page); My Lucky Day (Kasza); Ol’Mama Squirrel (Stein); Rhyming Dust Bunnies (Thomas); Spike the Mixed-Up Monster  (Hood); Tiger in My Soup (Sheth); When Lions Roar  (Harris)   Props:  Rhyming Dust Bunnies felt story; The Little Old Lady Who Wasn’t Afraid of Anything felt story; Obstacle course–beams, colored spots, cones, stepping stones   Recording:  Mix CD

Big and Bad:  Manual:  Story program manual   Picture Books:  Do Like Duck Does (Hindley); Duck, Duck, Goose A Coyote’s on the Loose! (Beaumont); Eek!   There’s a Mouse in the House (Yee); Go Away, Big Green Monster (Emberley); Hog-Eye (Meddaugh); How Chipmunk Got His Stripes (Bruchac); Hungry Hen (Warking); It’s a Tiger! (LaRochelle); Mabela the Clever (MacDonald); Mrs. Chicken and the Hungry Crocodile (Paye); The Paper Bag Princess (Munsch); Shrek (Steig); That’s Not a Good Idea (Willems); There’s No Such Thing as a Dragon (Kent); Tippy-Toe Chick, Go! (Shannon); The Wolf Is Coming! (MacDonald); The Wolf Who Cried Boy (Hartman)   Props:  The Paper Bag Princess felt story; Wolf, bear, squirrel, chipmunk, and crocodile puppets   Recording:  Mix CD

Big and Grey:  Picture Books:  Chubbo’s Pool (Lewin); Elmer (McKee); Five Minute’s Peace (Murphy); Have You Seen Elephant?  (Barrow); Hippos Go Berserk (Boynton); How to Catch an Elephant (Schwartz); Just a Little Bit (Tompert); A Porcupine Named Fluffy (Lester); Rhinos Play Soccer (Mammano); The Right Number of Elephants (Sheppard); Seven Little Hippos (Thaler); Strictly No Elephants (Matchev); Who Wants a Cheap Rhinoceros?  (Silverstein)   Props:  Elmer kit; Peanut Butter and Jelly Kit; Elephant and hippopotaumus puppets   Recording:  Mix CD

Birds: MANUAL; PICTURE BOOKS: The Baby BeeBee Bird (Massie); Baby Bird’s First Nest (Asch); Chicken Little (Kellogg); Clever Crow (DeFelice); Cold Little Duck, Duck, Duck (Peters); Come Along, Daisy (Simmons); Edward the Emu (Knowles); Five Little Ducks (Raffi–Board Book); A Hat for Minerva Louise (Stoeke); Henny Penny (Wattenberg); Hoot Owl: Master of Disguise (Taylor); In the Rain with Baby Duck (Hest); The Nesting Quilt (Falwell); Tacky the Penguin (Lester); Wolf’s Chicken Stew (Kasza); You Can Do It, Bert (Konnecke). PROPS: Edward the Emu kit; Owl and owlet puppets; Bluebirds in nest puppet; Penguin puppet; Five Little Ducks mitt; RECORDINGS: Love Is in the Middle CD; Rise and Shine CD

Cats and Mice:  MANUAL; PICTURE BOOKS: Cat Tricks (Baker); Cats by Mother Goose (Lucas); Duncan and Dolores (Samuels); Grumpy Cat (Teckentrup); A Kitten Tale (Rohman); Kitten Up a Tree (Kanao); Kitten’s First Full Moon (Henkes); The Lion and the Mouse (Pinkney); Mama Cat Has Three Kittens (Fleming); Mice; Mouse Paint (Walsh); Posy (Newbery); So Many Cats (DeRegniers); Then Little Mice (Dunbar–Big Book); Three Little Kittens (Galdone); PROPS: Ten Little Mice dolls; Kitten, cat and can, gray mouse, white mouse and cat puppets; Kidstamp and pad; RECORDING: Mix CD

Colors:  MANUALS: Story Program Manual; Colors; Ideas for using mix CD; PICTURE BOOKS: Brown Bear, Brown Bear, What Do You See (Martin); A Color of His Own (Lionni); Fall Is Not Easy (Kelley); Have You Seen My New Blue Socks? (Bunting); Is It Red? Is It Yellow? Is It Blue? (Hoban); Lemons Are Not Red (Seeger); Mix It Up (Tullet); The Mixed-Up Chameleon (Carle); Monkey Colors (Lunde); Mr. Rabbit and the Lovely Present (Zolotow); Planting a Rainbow (Ehlert); Press Here (Tullet); A Rainbow of My Own (Freeman); Ranibow Rhino (Sis); White Is for Blueberry (Shannon); PROPS: Parachute; Scarves; Chameleon puppet; Color seals mitt; Brown Bear felt kit; Traffic light felt kit; Colors in Motion felt kit; Little Mouse, Little Mouse game; RECORDING: Mix CD

Dinosaurs:  MANUAL; PICTURE BOOKS: Can I Have a Stegaosaurus, Mom? (Grambling); Digger Dog (Bee); The Dinosaur Who Lived in My Backyard (Hennessey); Dinotrux (Gall); Encyclopedia Prehistorica Dinosaurs (Sabuda–Pop-up); Four and Twenty Dinosaurs (Most); Goldilocks and the Three Dinosaurs (Willems); How Big Were Dinosaurs (Judge); How Do Dinosaurs Get Well Soon? (Yolen); I’m Bad! (McMullan); Model a Monster (Caket); Patrick;s Dinosaurs (Carrick); Prehistoric Pinkerton (Kellogg); Saturday Night at the Dinosaur Stomp (Shields); T is for Terrible (McCarty); T. Rex (French); PROPS: Funny dinosaurs mitt; T-Rex puppet; Dinosaur fabric; Patrick’s Dinosaurs felt kit; Shape by Shape felt kit; Spinosaurus Tooth; T-Rex Tooth; RECORDING: Mix CD

Farms:  PICTURE BOOKS: The Big Red Barn (Brown); The Big Sneeze (Brown); Bob (Pearson); Clip-Clop (Smee); Don’t Get Lost! (Hutchins); Extra Cheese, Please (Peterson); Farmer Brown Goes Round and Round (Sloat); Farmer Duck (Waddell–Big Book); Farmyard Beat (Craig); Giggle, Giggle, Quack (Cronin); Jack (DePaola); Oh Dear (Campbell); Oh, What a Noisy Farm (Ziefert); Old MacDonald Had a Farm (Pearson); Rosie’s Walk (Hutchins); PROPS: Baa Baa Black Sheet mitt; Hen and Duck puppets; Something in My Garden felt kit; Shaker eggs; RECORDINGS: We All Live Together CD; Mix CD

Feelings:  PICTURE BOOKS: Alexander and the Terrible, Horrible…(Viorst); Come Along, Daisy (Simmons); Don’t Let the Pigeon Drive the Bus! (Willems); Don’t Worry Bear (Foley); Go Away Big Green Monster (Emberley); A Good Day (Henkes); Good Job, Little Bear (Waddell); How Do You Wokka-Wokka (Bluemle); Little Fish, Lost (Van Laan); My Many Colored Days (Seuss); Mr. Tiger Goes Wild (Brown); Pouch! (Stein); Teddy Bear Tears (Aylesworth); Today I Feel Silly (Curtis); Why Do You Cry? Not a Sob Story (Klise); PROPS: Kangaroo and baby puppets; Finger puppets for Pouch–bunny, bird, bee, and joey; Five in the Bed felt kit; Emotions photographs kit; Go Away Big Green Monster felt kit; RECORDING: Mix CD

Imagination:  MANUAL; PICTURE BOOKS: Adventures of Beekle the Unimaginary Friend (Santat); How Do You Wokka Wokka (Bluemle); I Made a Mistake (Nerlove); It’s an Orange Aardvark! (Hall); Jimmy Lee Did It! (Cummings); No Peas for Nellie (Demarest); Not a Box (Portois); Open Me, I’m a Dog (Spiegelman); Pig Pig and the Magic Photo Album (McPhail); Pigs to the Rescue (Himmelman); The Very Worst Monster (Hutchins); Would They Love a Lion (Denton); If You Give a Moose a Muffin (Numeroff–Big Book); PROPS: Props for If You Give a Moose a Muffin; Rabbit in Hat puppet; Dragon puppet; Kidstamp and pad; It Looked Like Spilt Milk felt kit; RECORDING: Tony Chestnut CD

Insects and Spiders:  MANUAL; PICTURE BOOKS: Alpha Bugs (Carter); Hey, Little Ant (Hoose); Hi Butterfly (Gomi); Hi Fly Guy (Arnold); I Love Bugs! (Dodd); If at First You Do Not See (Brown); Inch by Inch (Lionni); Little Miss Spider (Kirk); Spider on the Floor (Raffi); Spiders (Bishop); Ten Little Caterpillars (Martin); Tiny Little Fly (Rosen); UnBEElievables (Florian); The Very Busy Spider (Carle); The Very Hungry Caterpillar (Carle); Waiting for Wings (Ehlert); PROPS: Butterflies and bugs felt kit; 5 Bees/5 Ladybugs felt kit; The Very Hungry Caterpillar felt kit; Caterpillar/butterfly puppet; Spider hand puppet; Butterfly fabric; RECORDINGS: Insects, Bugs & Squiggly Things (CD); Boogy Woogie Bugs CD

Mischief:  MANUALS: Kit Manual; Parachute Play Book; PICTURE BOOKS: Abiyoyo (with CD) (Seeger); Alice the Fairy (Shannon); Anansi and the Moss-Covered Rock (Kimmel); The Day Jimmy’s Boa Ate the Wash (Noble); I Ain’t Gonna Paint No More (Beaumont); Jimmy Lee Did It (Cummings); Nine-in-One, Grr! Grr! (Xiong); Piggies (Wood); Pinkerton, Behave (Kellogg); Tops and Bottoms (Stevens); Where the Wild Things Are (Sendak); PROPS: Goldilocks and the Three Bears felt kit; 5 Little Ducks mitt; 5 Little monkeys finger puppets; 3 Wild Things puppets; Instruments; Parachute RECORDING: Nora’s Room (Harper)

Music:  MANUAL; PICTURE BOOKS: All God’s Critters (Staines); Bantam of the Opera (Auch); Dance Away (Shannon); The Deaf Musicians (Seeger); I Got the Rhythm (Schofield-Morrison); LIttle Pig Joins the Band (Costello); Lizard’s Song (Shannon); The Maestro Plays (Martin); Music Everywhere (Aimera); Peanut Butter and Jelly (Westcott); Sing, Sophie! (Dodds); Shake My Sillies Out (Raffi); What a Wonderful World (Weiss and Thiele); PROPS: BINGO felt kit; The Trumpet Went Toot, Toot felt kit; Rhythm instruments; Musical fabric; Ribbon sticks; RECORDINGS: Mix CD; Kids in Action (Greg and Steve

Nature Trip:  MANUAL; PICTURE BOOKS: Actual Size (Jenkins); All God’s Critters (Staines); Can You See Me? (Lewin); Chameleon, Chameleon (Cowley); If You Find a Rock (Christian); In the Tall, Tall Grass (Fleming); One Little Mouse (Chaconas); Over in the Meadow (Galdone); Owl Lake (Tejima); Possom’s Harvest Moon (Hunter); Rabbits and Raindrops (Arnosky); Waiting for Wings (Ehlert); Where’s Mouse? (Baker); The Wide-Mouthed Frog (Faulkner); PROPS: Over in the Meadow storytelling wheel; Night Creatures felt kit; Frog mitt; Frog, rabbit and chameleon puppets; RECORDING: Mix CD

Noisy Stories:  MANUAL; PICTURE BOOKS: Bear Snores On (Wilson); Bob (Pearson); Daisy Says If You’re Happy and You Know It (Simmons); Dog’s Noisy Day (Dodds); Horace and Morris Join the Chorus (Howe); How Loud Is a Lion? (Beaton); The Loudest Roar (Taylor); Muncha! Muncha! Muncha! (Fleming); No, David! (Shannon); Old MacDonald Had a Workshop (Shulman); Polar Bear, Polar Bear, What Do You Hear? (Martin–Big Book); Quack, Daisy, Quack (Simmons); The Scrubbly-Bubbly Car Wash (O’Garden); The Very Quiet Cricket (Carle–board book); Wiggle Waggle (London); PROPS: Gong and mallet; Polar Bear storytelling kit; Wiggle waggle storytelilng set; Old MacDonald mitt; Rooser and tiger cub puppets; RECORDING: Mix CD

Nonsense:  MANUAL; PICTURE BOOKS: Bark, George (Feiffer); Big Bad Bubble (Rubin); Click, Clack, Moo (Cronin); The Day Jimmy’s Boa At the Wash (Noble); Dog in Charge (Going); Down by the Bay (Raffi); Hattie and the Fox (Fox); In Enzio’s Splendid Gardens (Polacco); Just Another Ordinary Day (Clement); King Bidgood’s in the Bathtub (Wood); Nothing Like a Puffin (Soltis); Silly Sally (Wood–board book); Such a Silly Baby (Lorig); Wiggle (Cronin); PROPS: I Eat My Peas felt kit; Hattie and the Fox felt kit; I Know and Old Lady kit; Silly Sally kit; Five Little Monkeys kit; Cow and Duck finger puppets; Snake puppet; Kidstamp and pad; RECORDINGS: Mix CD; Rumble to the Bottom (Colleen and Uncle Squaty)

Oceans:  MANUAL; PICTURE BOOKS: Baby Beluga (Raffi); Don’t Eat the Teacher (Ward); Fish Eyes (Ehlert); Following Papa’s Song (Marino); House for Hermit Crab (Carle); In the Sea (Elliot); Is this a House for Hermit Crab? (McDonald); Ocean Parade Counting Book (MacCarthy); Rainbow Fish (Pfister–big book); Swim, Fish! (Neuman); Swimmny (Lionni); Ten Little Fish (Wood); This Is Not My Hat (Klassen); Turtle Island (Sherry); What’s in a Deep Blue Sea? (Carter); PROPS: Beluga, fish, octopus, crab puppets; 10 Little Fish felt kit; Folder story; Box of shells; RECORDINGS: Mix CD; Baby Beluga (Raffi)

Outdoors Wisconsin:  MANUALS; PICTURE BOOKS: Antler, Bear, Canoe (Bowen); Feathers for Lunch (Ehlert); The First Snowfall (Rockwell); Fishing at Long Pond (George); Five Little Ducks (Raffi); In Grandpa’s Woods (Addy/Akins); In the Tall, Tall Grass (Fleming); Loon Lake (Hirschi); Otters Under Water (Arnosky); Raccoon on His Own (Arnosky); Red Leaf, Yellow Leaf (Ehlert); Time to Sleep (Fleming); Up North at the Cabin (Chall); We’re Going on a Bear Hunt (Rosen); PROPS: Five Little Ducks (mother and 5 ducklings) puppets; Five little ducks mitt; Raccoon in garbage can puppet; porcupine, chipmunk and otter puppets; RECORDINGS: Loon sounds; Rise and Shine (Raffi)

Outer Space:  MANUALS: Manual; Space Songs for Children; PICTURE BOOKS: Alistair in Outer Space (Sadler); Astro Bunnies (Loomis); Astronaut’s Handbook (McCarthy); Gravity (Shin); The Great Big Green (Gifford); Here in Space (Milgrim); Higher! Higher! (Patricelli); I Want to Be an Astronaut (Barton); Kitten’s First Full Moon (Henkes); Moo Cow Kaboom! (Hurd); Moon Plane (McCarty); Mooncake (Asch); Zoom! Zoom! Zoom! I’m Off to the Moon (Yaccarino); If You Decide to Go to the Moon (McNulty); PROPS: Alien in spaceship puppet; Atomic age finger puppets; Astronaut photo; Four little rockets felt kit; The Earth Turns Around photos (for use with song on CD); RECORDING: Mix CD

Rabbits:  MANUAL; PICTURE BOOKS: Bunny Cakes (Wells); Duck! Rabbit! (Rosenthal); Little Bunny’s Sleepless Night (Roth); Little White Rabbit (Henkes); Max Cleans Up (Wells); My Friend Rabbit (Rohmann); Pat the Bunny (Kunhardt); Peek-a-Boo Bunny (Surplice); Pickin’ Peas (MacDonald); Read to Your Bunny (Wells); Tom Rabbit (Waddell); Tops and Bottoms (Stevens); PROPS: Tops and Bottoms felt kit; Rabbit photographs; Little Nutbrown Hare beanie; Rabbit doll with dress; 5 white rabbit finger puppets; brown rabbit puppet; RECORDING: Mix CD

Sensory Storytime:  MANUALS: Sensory Storytime Guide; Using Contents of this Kit; Suggestions for Games with Riverstones; PICTURE BOOKS: Dog’s Colorful Day (Dodd); Freight Train (Crews); I’m the Biggest Thing in the Ocean (Sherry–one hardcover and 12 board books); Press Here (Tullet); RECORDINGS: 28 Instant Songgames; Cool Bananas; Focusing Rhythms; The Second Line; PROPS: Dog’s Colorful Day felt kit; Freight Train felt kit; SCHEDULING AIDS: Time timer (needs batteries); 18 laminated cards for visual schedule; Velcro scheduling strip for visual schedule; ACTIVITY EQUIPMENT: Bean bags; weighted beanbags; shaker eggs; scarves; river stones; fabric tube; sensory tub with fidgets

Winter:  MANUAL; PICTURE BOOKS: 50 Below Zero (Munsch); All You Need for a Snowman (Schertle); Big Snow (Bean); Charley’s First Night (Hest); Everything for Winter (Charner); Froggy Gets Dressed (London); Frozen Noses (Carr); The Hat (Brett); The Jacket I Wear in the Snow (Neitzel); The Lonely Scarecrow (Preston); Oh! (Henkes); Snip, Snap, Snow (Poydar); Snowballs (Ehlert); Snow Day (Joosse); Winter Eyes (Florain); Winter Lullaby (Seuling); PROPS: The Jacket I Wear in the Snow felt kit; Mittens matching game; Froggy Gets Dressed kit; Polar Bear puppet; RECORDING: Winter Mix CD



Two collections of board games for teen/tween/adult programming (Created with funding from an LSTA grant from the IMLS)

IFLS has an Accu Cut Machine and several dies, but it is housed at the Phillips Public Library.  Please contact  Phillips with die-cutting requests.  Here’s what is required:

1.  Send enough paper, felt, or foamcore with this order form.

2.  Please allow at least 2 weeks to have them cut.

3.  For questions call Phillips at 715-339-2868.

List of Dies:

Animals:

Elephant (Large)
Fish (Large)
Frog (Large)
Monkey   (Large)
Octopus  (Large)
Turtle  (Large)
Whale (Large)
Bee  (Medium)
Bunny (Medium)
Butterfly (Medium)
Caterpilar (Medium)
Chameleon (Medium)
Dragonfly (Medium)
Fish (Medium)
Fly (Medium)
Spider (Medium)
Spider web (Medium)

Music:

Electric Guitar (Jumbo)
Music Note (Jumbo)

Outer Space

Rocket Ship (3D) (Jumbo)
Rocket (2D) (Large)
Astronaut (Large)
Planets–2 die set (Large)

Shapes:

Circle (Large)
Heart (Large)
Heart (Small)
Star (Medium)
Hearts and stars (Mini-shapes)
Pattern blocks–circles  (Mini-shapes)

Other:

Apple (Medium)
Balloon (Medium)
Feather
Flower (nested) (Medium)
Maple Leaf (Medium)
Pumpkin/Jack-o-Lantern (Medium)
Robot (Medium)
Shamrock (Medium)
Snowflake (Medium)

Mini (less than 2″)

Outback (koala, boomerang, ostrich, and kangaroo)
Beach (starfish, fish, shell, sanddollar)

Letters/Numbers

Lower-case numbers (2″)
Upper-case numbers (2″)
2″ numbers
4″ numbers

Bookmarks

Award
Bunny
Dragon
READ
Shamrock
Star
Striped hat (Seuss)

Finger Puppets

Frog
Bat

For Craft Projects

Build-your-own Monsters
Seuss Hat
Toilet Paper Roll Turkey
Clothes Pin Animals (Pets)
Clothes Pin Animals (Zoo)
Cone
Book Accordion
Puzzle
Cat Mask
Glasses (kitty)
Glasses (agent)
Matchbox

Want to borow a costume for a big event?  While IFLS doesn’t have any costumes, libraries in the area are willing to lend you their costumes for library-related functions (don’t plan to use these for your friend’s annual costume party, or lend them out for the high school play).

For book-related costumes, you can also rent from Costume Specialists.

Please contact the library/librarian listed to make arrangements to borrow these costumes:

Cat in the Hat

• Suit, hat, gloves
• Adult size
• Phillips Public Library, contact Jo Hick

Chicken Hat

• Adult or older child size
• Phillips Public Library, contact Jo Hick.

Clown

• Adult size
• Ellsworth Public Library, contact Elise Gregory

Hot Dog, Mustard and Ketchup Bottles (3 costumes)

• Adult size
• Frederic Public Library, contact Marlene Nelson

King AND Queen (2 costumes)

• Red and gold, with crown
• Small/average adult size
• Hudson Public Library, contact Mary Davis

Ladybug

• Adult size
• Hudson Public Library, contact Mary Davis

Pete the Cat

• Adult size
• LEPMPL, contact Alisha Green

Thing One and Thing Two (2 costumes)

• Adult/large size
• Prescott Public Library, contact Danielle Welch or Carissa Langer