Download the Holiday Family Book Club activity guide from our website OR pick up your kit/guide to enjoy holiday books and activities with your family at home. Registration required for kit.
**NOTE: Kits contain supplies for 1 of each craft. If you have multiple children in your family, please register each child separately.**
December is filled with holidays and they are all more fun when you share books and activities with your family! (Note: This is NOT a Zoom meeting event.) We've prepared a Book Party Plan suggesting some fun holiday books to share along with related activities and crafts that you can do together to learn about and celebrate Hanukkah, Las Posadas, Christmas and Kwanzaa over your winter break from school. You'll make 1 craft for each of the four holidays, make a foldable mini-book with "Quick Facts" about the holidays to read, and play 3 games. Suggestions are provided for yummy thematic snacks as well.
This program has supplies to be picked up at the KidSpace Youth Reference Desk at the Main Library (270 N. Grove Ave, Elgin). Program supplies will be ready for pick up between Monday, December 13th through Thursday, December 23rd. The kit will include some of the materials for the suggested craft projects. You will need to secure the ingredients for the snack ideas as well as some basic crafting items listed below. Best for families with children in K-5th grade.
If you would like to pick up the supplies at the Main Library Drive Up Window instead of inside the library at the youth desk, please call the youth desk at 847-429-4685 before arriving at the library.
Program Supplies in the bag:
Book Club Plan Guide
Winter Bunco Cards packet (2 pages)
1 copy Kwanzaa Memory Game (on cardstock)
1 copy dreidel pattern (on white cardstock)
1 strip of dreidel symbols
1 6" skewer
4 strips light brown construction paper
1 rectangle dark brown construction paper
2 googly eyes
1 red pom pom
1 two-page red poinsettia packet
2 green leaves
1 gold brad
1 straw
1 pieces 4 1/2" x 12" tan paper
2 each of the following colors as 2" x 9" paper strips: blue, yellow, purple, green, red, black and white
1 piece of yarn in each of the following colors: tan, black
1 "Kente Colors and Symbols" half sheet
1 foldable mini-book called "We ALL Celebrate- Quick Facts"
Program Supplies to gather at home for CRAFTS:
Scissors
Glue
Markers/crayons/colored pencils (specifically black)
Hole punch (the smaller the better)
Push pin (to make holes)
Program Supplies to gather at home for GAMES:
3 dice (for Winter BUNCO game)
Small items to use as tokens for dreidel game (chocolate chips, pieces of cereal, M&Ms, beads, pennies... anything that you have enough of for 10-15 pieces per player)
Ingredients to gather at home for SNACKS:
Celery
Peanut butter (or nutella, sunflower butter... any spread of your choice.)
Pretzel twists
Candy eyes
Dried cranberries or red M&Ms
Jumbo marshmallows
Pretzel sticks
Nutella (or chocolate frosting or any spread listed above)
Hershey's Kisses
Flour tortillas
Corn oil for frying
Guacamole, sour cream, salsa or any other nacho toppings of your choice
Bananas
Green grapes, blueberries and strawberries (or red grapes)
Optional: sprinkles, cake decorating gel/icing tubes, candy melts, shortening