Libraries are more than books. Some kids need a little direction to get the creative juices flowing. I gleaned the following from PUBYAC contributors. Please add YOUR comments. Your colleagues would appreciate hearing what works, and what didn't!

For more offerings, see: Storytime-Jungle; Jungle (see also: specific animals)

INVITATIONS:

• Come Monkey Around

DRESS:

• Camouflage
• Khakis
• Flowers
• Binoculars (may be a craft)

REFRESHMENTS: see Recipes for Storytime

• Animal Paw Prints
• Butterfly--Cupcake, Pretzel, Sandwiches
• Monkey Face Cupcakes
• Mud Cups
• Safari Dip
• Snake Sub (cut into individual servings)
• Spider Cookies
• Swamp Juice
• Worm Cookies (Instead of chocolate dough, dye sugar cookie dough with green food coloring and make Snake Cookies—red licorice can be the tongue.)

DECORATIONS:

• Green leaves; flowers; butterflies
• Small plastic jungle animals

MUSIC:

• Jungle drums
• Animal sound-effects
• Lion King soundtrack

FAVORS/CRAFTS:

• Lion Paper Plate Faces
• Binoculars
• Drums
• BIG flowers
• Snake/Jungle Mobiles
• Gator Craft 

GAMES:

• PIN—feathers on parrot
• TOSS—coconuts; bananas; frogs; spiders
• FLOOR--One Elephant Went Out to Play…
• Crocodile Alley Obstacle Course 

Encourage kids to cheer each other on through the course by chanting the upcoming obstacle.

               Quicksand: set a blanket across a section for kids to leap over

               Poisonous vines: tape a towel in a doorway to crawl under

               Bat cave: bring together a few chairs and throw a blanket over them for crawling under

               Crocodile territory: warn kids not to step on the floor off the tape

               Spider nests: make dashes with the tape that kids have to hop over

               Piranha pond: lay an area rug on the line for kids to jump over

               Hungry jungle creatures: line up stuffed toys all along the way for kids to avoid

• RELAY--Animal Walk
• Crocodile Dentist

PROGRAM:

• Have various stations for crafts & games before ending with campfire sing-along 
• Read books, poems or share stories about various or specific jungle animals 

VOLUNTEERS:

• Get adult help to “serve” 

COST:

• Most supplies can be purchased in bargain bins at craft stores or Dollar Stores. 

TIME:

• About an hour-and-a-half should be sufficient.(Dependent on the number of families passing through; and how many stations are offered.)