We all have our favorite bedtime stories from when we were young, and on Friday, July 20, we had the chance to share (or re-live) these classics with teens and children alike.  We had around 40 kids and teens come to the library in their pajamas for a fun-filled afternoon celebrating favorite bedtime stories.

I had everyone come in and sit down and we read Goodnight Moon together. I told them to listen really well, because we’d have an activity later and they’d need to remember what they heard.

I took everyone on a tour of the room and showed them the stations we had set up:

The Very Hungry Caterpillar table with a clothespin craft:

A Pinkalicious wand table:

Rainbow Fish stickers and coloring page table:

A Photobooth with props to help everyone become characters from their favorite books:

And my personal favorite, the Dr. Seuss Cafe:

with Green “eggs” and “ham” (pretzels, melted white chocolate chips and green m&ms):

Cat In the Hat cookies (oreos, marshmallows and red gummy lifesavers):

And One Fish Two Fish Red Fish goldfish! (rainbow Goldfish crackers):

We let the kids choose what they wanted to do first and let the chaos begin!  I had my teen helpers workthe photo booth camera and they did a great job capturing the insanity:

We did a quiz to remember all the items in Goodnight Moon that we said “goodnight” to and read the Very Hungry Caterpillar and did a quiz on what food he ate.

We played a few more games and quizzes and everyone left tired and happy!

Lots of fun was had by all! Thanks to all the volunteers!

Sharon Long

Teen Services Librarian