Program Description

Stories, music, and snack...all about mice! Leave your cats at home please!

Ages 3 and under with caregivers

Monday, March 1st, 6 PM

Branches: Family Program, All Ages, Craft

LaRue-Tuesday, March 2nd, 6 PM

Caledonia-Monday, March 8th, 6 PM

Prospect-Monday, March 15th, 6 PM

Books

Lunch by Denise Fleming

Mouse Mess by Linnea Riley

Mouse Went Out to Get a Snack by Lyn Rossiter McFarland

One Dark Night by Lisa Wheeler

Blueberry Mouse by Alice Low (use soft foam balls in shades of purple and blue to play "blueberry fight" if using this book)

Activities

Magboard #0111--"Little Mouse, Little Mouse"

Before kids arrive, hide mouse behind a house...then go through letting children pick a new color to see if mouse is hiding behind that house....have parents and children say, "Little mouse, little mouse, are you in the [color] house?" until they find the mouse...can play a coulple of times if they guess early on the right house.

"Hickory, Dickory, Dock" (w/mouse laminated mice and clocks, 10 of them) [located in puppet closet on hanging rack]

Songs

"Fee Fi Fo, Fee, Fi, Fum" (Robbert Bobbert and the Bubble Machine) w/shaky eggs

"Three Blind Mice" (sing a capella, have 10 mice dolls/puppets to pass out, repeat this song twice if not everyone gets a puppet the first time)

Snack (for 3 and under program)

mouse shaped cheese sandwiches  CLICK THE LINK FOR A PICTURE

food needed per snack: 2 slices bread, 1 slice cheese, 6 small pretzel sticks, 1 gumdrop

assemble cheese sandwich, use heart shaped cookie cutter (or mouse if you have one) to cut out sandwich, place pretzel sticks as whiskers and gumdrop as nose, eat and enjoy!

Craft (for branch programs)

foam mouse/cheese on paper plate

Materials: foam (yellow, white, pink), glue sticks, scissors, crayons/markers, paper plates