Not many things chase the chill away as wonderfully as baking, and one of the most wonderfully accessible things to bake with kids are cookies! Of course, the best part of baking cookies is the eating of the cookies! We'll be exploring some chaotic cookie shenanigans all week at our Handley Regional Library storytimes.
Don't forget that you can count those storytime books towards your Winter Reading Challenge! If you haven't signed up yet, head over to our Winter Reading page and learn all about it. Sign up through Beanstack on your computer or phone and head in to Bowman, Handley, or Clarke County library to pick up your sticker sheet.
Did you know you can help us earn up to $50,000 in free books and author visits? We have a goal of 5,000 minutes read and you can also help us by sharing your progress or telling us what you're reading. Just tag @handleyregional and use the hashtag #WinterRead2020 on Facebook or Instagram.
If you'd like a head start on some cookie fun, here's a little inspiration. Watch Cookie Monster help Rosanna Pansino bake cookies!
Finally, here are some cookie songs and rhymes to enjoy while you bake your own cookie masterpieces.
Five Little Cookies
Five little cookies in the bakery shop
Shining, shining with sugar on top
Along came a boy/girl
With a penny to spend
He took one…and away he ran.
(Continue with Four, Three, Two, One, Zero.)
Making Cookies
I am making cookie dough.
(hold out arms in a circle, like a bowl)
Round and round the beaters go. (roll hands)
Add some flour from a cup. (shake a pretend cup)
Stir and stir the batter up. (stirring motion)
Roll them, cut them nice and neat.
(rolling pin motion)
Put them on a cookie sheet.
(place pretend cookies)
Bake them, count them 1-2-3. (counting motion)
Serve them to my friends for tea. (take a bite!)
Great Big Cookie
I am a great big cookie,
(circle hands over head)
Chocolatey and round,
(extend hands out to sides)
Filled with lots of chocolate chips,
(point to chips)
The best that can be found. (rub tummy)
I am a great big cookie,
(circle hands over head)
Take a bite of me. (make chewing motions)
Tasty, sweet, delicious,
(extend hands out to sides)
I’m oh-so-yummy! (rub tummy)
I WAS a great big cookie,
(circle hands over head)
The very best around.
(extend hands out to sides)
Now there’s nothing left of me, (shake head)
Just crumbs upon the ground. (sit down)
Who Took the Cookies?
Who took the cookies from the cookie jar?
(He/She) took the cookies from the cookie jar.
Who me?
Yes, you!
Couldn’t be!
Then who?