Chicka-Chicka-Boom-Boom at the Library

We have been on lock-down in the house this week for potty training, and I will be posting quite a detailed post on that probably next week (once I see how she does outside of the house, etc.), however, last week Friday we went to a local library for a fun (and free) event.

Katelyn has now been in soccer and swimming with the city next to ours as their programs seem to line up better with our budget and schedule.  So, I now try to pick up their city guide each quarter and browse it for fun activities.  Their library was having a Chicka-Chicka-Boom-Boom event for 2-5 year olds.  I signed up the girls and we went this past Friday.  (Chicka-Chicka-Boom-Boom is a very popular children's book that tells the story of all the letters of the alphabet climbing up a coconut tree and then falling out because there were too many.)

They started off by coloring by number coconut trees. 

Then they sang some songs and the book was read to them.  The girls love doing songs with motions.

Then they played alphabet bingo. (More Katelyn than Brooklyn who just covered, or uncovered, all the letters.)

Next was decorating the first letter of their name.

Then came watching a video of the book, that was a little bit animated with the book in song, followed by some more singing.  The highlight was that the kids then each made a coconut tree hat.

And to end the morning (a total of 1 hour), they gave the kids Alpha-bits cereal and apple juice for a snack.

Overall I thought it was super cute, very age appropriate and a lot of fun for the girls.  Katelyn especially enjoyed it.  I will be keeping my eye out for more similar events in the future.  They have a winter one planned in December. 

I have signed up the girls for weekly story time at a different library with the same city in the coming months.  I think they will really enjoy it.

Side note:  As you might be able to tell, I had my new phone, so I was snapping more pictures than I usually do with the camera.  However, I had a little trouble figuring out which service to use to upload them to the computer/trying to figure out what works best to link up Kyle & I's photos, and then getting them to link up with the blog, so this post took me a couple days longer to get published than I had hoped.