Good Night, Sleep Tight is perfect bedtime reading by international bestselling author, Mem Fox. In this beautifully illustrated story, the children beg their favourite babysitter to tell them nursery rhymes. The kids in the book want to hear these old rhymes again and again, and your kids will too!
For our craft we made spiders dangling from a string using beads and pipe cleaners. The kids loved doing the actions to the nursery rhymes in the storybook and then making crawling spider puppets in theme with Halloween!
Congratulations to the winner of our Scholastic book prize! Join your local momstown chapter to enjoy Tales for Tots and other great programs that connect and support local families!
We gave away two great titles from Scholastic Canada at our Sing, Rattle & Read program in September. "Fox and Squirrel" by Ruth Ohi is a delightful story of two very different animals who only see their differences. Yet they become the best of friends and begin to see that they may not be so different after all!
Our baby book of the month was "Giggle!" by beloved author and illustrator Caroline Jayne Church. Our Victoria moms, babies and toddler couldn't get enough of this book, as everyone loved to press the "giggle button," which made a happy giggling sound to complement each new verse and page!
"There's no greater thing to do/Than laugh and giggle here with you!"
Thank you to our member Jane for leading this fun program with puppets and stories borrowed from the Greater Victoria Public Library!
Congratulations to the lucky winners of this month's books! Please join us again for a free drop-in storytime and Scholastic book prize draw at at Chapters Victoria on Wednesday, October 16th from 10-10:30 am. Everyone welcome!
momstown Victoria moms and kids enjoyed the book "Let It Shine," by Maryann Cocca-Leffler, at this month's Scholastic sponsored Tales for Tots at Chapters Victoria! Bring on the summer with this joyfully illustrated soft-cover book, which follows the adventures of a group of children and their parents as they enjoy their summer vacation!
Our momstown curriculum theme this month is the desert, so we chose a cactus-making craft that is easy and fun for all ages! Simply take green clay or fun dough and shape it into a cactus. Next, break uncooked spaghetti pasta into short pieces, and stick them into your cactus to make it spiny. And voilà, instant cactus! We also used sandpaper as the base of our craft, and the kids loved to feel its rough texture!
Next month's Scholastic sponsored Tales for Tots is on Wednesday, August 21st, from 10-11 am at Chapters Victoria! Buy a coffee upstairs at Starbucks and then enjoy a free story time, craft and book prize draw while you connect with other great moms in the children's area. Congratulations to this month's lucky winners!
For a limited time only, our low membership fee of $45/year comes with an added bonus 1-year subscription to Today's Parent magazine! momstown coordinates over 20 monthly events in order to support and connect moms LIKE YOU! So what are you waiting for??? Join momstown today!!!
momstown Victoria shared a simple but fascinating book called "Night Light" by Nicholas Blechman. Our Victoria toddlers and preschool children were so excited to play this guessing game, they could barely hang onto their seats! Part counting book, part guessing game, and a book about vehicles, this book combines some very popular preschool interests and concepts!
Our momstown curriculum theme this month is all about shapes, so we helped our toddlers and preschool kids make pictures using foam cut-out shapes, scissors and glue.
Congratulations to the lucky winners of this great book! Thank you to Scholastic Canada for sponsoring this excellent early literacy program, and thank you Chapters Victoria for providing this great, kid-friendly space to connect and support local moms and kids!
momstown Victoria will be at Tinseltots this month with a Baby Book Club prize from Scholastic Canada to give away! Our book of the month is "Away We Go! A Shape-and-See Book," by Chieu Anh Urban. Children love searching for vehicles in the shapes and shapes in the vehicles in this brightly coloured board book.
Our table will be located in the front entrance of the lobby. Please stop by and enter our draw, ask your questions about momstown or just say hello on your way to enjoy a movie in a baby-friendly theatre!
Tinseltots at the Odeon!
780 Yates St. @Blanshard
Monday, June 10th
- Doors open at 12 p.m. and all movies start at 1 p.m.
- Only $5 per adult - buy your tickets inside at the food concession
- Lowered volume for baby's sensitive ears
- Relax and don't worry if your baby cries!
- Baby change table and stroller parking available
- Choice of 7 films. Subscribe to Tinseltots Movielist at tinseltots@shaw.ca
See you at the movies!
Rain, Rain, go away,
Come again another day!
Beloved children's author Caroline Jayne Church illustrates a favourite preschool song, "Rain, Rain, Go Away!" in this month's baby board book from Scholastic Canada! Adorable toddlers and stuffed animals are drawn in Church's signature style. This full-foil treasure is attractive for babies to hold and delightful to sing and share, rain or shine!
Congratulations to Sarah and Logan for winning this month's Baby Book Club prize from Scholastic Canada! Visit our table at Tinseltots on June 10th for your chance to win our next baby board book, "Away We Go!" by Chieu Anh Urban!
Click here for more info!
In celebration of our "Wet, wet, wet!" theme this month, momstown Victoria shared the book "Split! Splat!" by Amy Gibson at Tales for Tots sponsored by Scholastic Canada! Put the umbrella away and take off your galoshes; it's time to sing, dance and squish in the mud with a little girl and her dog! Amy Gibson's fun poem is brought to life by New York Times bestselling illustrator Steve Bjorkman.
Glitter bottles are a wonderful sensory craft for kids and toddlers! All you need is a small plastic water bottle, water, glitter, and sensory objects of different weight and texture. We used glitter, sparkly pompoms, sequins and foam stickers, and you can add heavier objects like dice and beads to make a rattle sound.
Make your own Glitter Bottle!
- Fill the bottle only half full of water.
- Add the glitter (recommended that the adult does this part.)
- Add sparkly pompoms, sequins, stickers and other items to the bottle.
- Top off with water.
- Seal with hot glue or duct tape.
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Ta da! Simply swirl and shake it to experience the magic of a glitter bottle!
Our Tales for Tots program event is open to the public and hosted downtown at Chapters Victoria from 10-11 am on the 3rd Wednesday of every month! Bring your coffee and meet us downstairs in the children's area for a craft, storytime and a chance to WIN our Scholastic book of the month!
Kristen's mom and dad got lost on the way to the hospital and ended up at the zoo! They bring home a baby that is not Kristen's baby brother. After a few more baby mix-ups, Kristen decides to go to the zoo herself and find her real baby brother to bring home.
"Alligator Baby" by Robert Munsch and illustrated by Michael Martchenko is a hilarious board book that my own toddler, preschooler and school-age kid all love. Congratulations to this month's lucky winners, Melissa & Oliver, who won our Scholastic Baby Book of the month at our Baby Basics: Sharing Circle at Medicine Moves Dance Studio.
Our Baby Basics program will be relaunching at a new time and location in June! You can enter our draw for next month's Scholastic baby board book at our momstown Baby Bucket Brunch at Spoon's Diner on May 13th. Meet up with other wonderful, brilliant moms at this groovy, kid-friendly restaurant and enjoy a special one-time offer of 25% of your bill! May is an AWESOME month to sign up for a FREE 4-week trial membership - and don't forget that for a limited time you'll receive a BONUS 1-year Today's Parent Magazine subscription when you buy a 1-year momstown membership! Contact info.victoria@momstown.ca for more details!
"Lucky Ducklings" by Eva Moore is a classic storybook about a mama duck who goes for a walk with her baby ducklings, but then she gets separated from them as they disappear one by one through the slats of the town's storm drain. Three firemen and a pickup truck rush to their rescue in this wonderful story that also has an environmental message. Children will want to read this exciting tale over and over again.
Our Scholastic sponsored Tales for Tots program at Chapters Victoria is a free monthly drop-in on the third Wednesday of every month from 10-11 am! Join us downstairs in the children's department for a free storytime with Jennifer Ferris, craft and Scholastic book draw!
Congratulations to this month's momstown Victoria lucky ducklings book winners!
momstown Victoria coordinates over 20 events each month to connect and support local moms, and our annual membership fee is only $45 per year! Not a member yet? Try us FREE by registering for your 4-week trial and start signing up for events today! Or contact info.victoria@momstown.ca for more info!
Our momstown Victoria moms were delighted to have our book club sponsored by Scholastic Canada in March and to receive eight copies of "The False Prince" by Jennifer Nielsen to read and discuss.
The novel centres around a defiant but noble young character named Sage. He is one of four teenage orphans chosen by a nobleman named Connor, who plans to use only one of the orphans in an evil plot to impersonate the king's son and prevent a civil war. If Sage is not chosen, he will be killed, and his rivals are equally at risk. Sage must use his cleverness and trust no one in order to survive. Layer upon layer of treachery is revealed, until finally the truth places Sage in the most dangerous situation of all.
Here is what our Victoria moms said about "The False Prince":
"I found it captivating as soon as I opened the book." We all agreed that both the plot and the character of Sage were intriguing, and that once started, the book was hard to put down.
"I honestly felt that it could have been written as an adult novel." Despite the treachery and murder in the plot, the adventure is accessible to most reading ages. We agreed that adult-oriented content could have been added, but that the novel was entertaining enough on its own.
"It was a little predictable, but as a young teenager this is exactly the sort of novel I would have read." Even though we were all able to figure out the final layer of truth before it was revealed, that did not detract from our enjoyment of reading it all the way through. All of the moms agreed that we would be interested in reading the rest of the trilogy to find out what happens to Sage.
Thank you Scholastic Canada for a fun read, and we look forward to reading the next installment of the Ascendance Trilogy by Jennifer Nielsen: "The Runaway King." The book we're reading this month is "Streetsweeper" by Elliot Perlman. Our moms' night out events are just another great reason to join momstown Victoria! Register here for your FREE 4-week trial membership!
Congratulations to the winner of our Scholastic book prize! Join your local momstown chapter to enjoy Tales for Tots and other great programs that connect and support local families!
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In celebration of our "Wet, wet, wet!" theme this month, momstown Victoria shared the book "Split! Splat!" by Amy Gibson at Tales for Tots sponsored by Scholastic Canada! Put the umbrella away and take off your galoshes; it's time to sing, dance and squish in the mud with a little girl and her dog! Amy Gibson's fun poem is brought to life by New York Times bestselling illustrator Steve Bjorkman.
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Our Baby Basics program will be relaunching at a new time and location in June! You can enter our draw for next month's Scholastic baby board book at our momstown Baby Bucket Brunch at Spoon's Diner on May 13th. Meet up with other wonderful, brilliant moms at this groovy, kid-friendly restaurant and enjoy a special one-time offer of 25% of your bill! May is an AWESOME month to sign up for a FREE 4-week trial membership - and don't forget that for a limited time you'll receive a BONUS 1-year Today's Parent Magazine subscription when you buy a 1-year momstown membership! Contact info.victoria@momstown.ca for more details!
