Whose Shoes? Traveling Trunk

Our celebration of Whose Shoes? A Shoe for Every Job (the Pennsylvania One Book Every Young Child selection for 2011) continued with exploration of the Traveling Trunk. The Traveling Trunk is developed by museum educators to help expand upon the concepts in Whose Shoes? A Shoe for Every Job. Each trunk is filled with fun book-related activities, games and manipulatives for young children, as well as a guide for librarians and educators that encourages use of the trunk contents in activities that are aligned with the Pennsylvania Early Learning Standards.

For Sleepytime Tales and Wee Reads we set up stations for our library friends to explore. Thursday morning we also had the added benefit of Polskie Bajki (Polish Tales) and we had special guest Ms. Margaret read Whose Shoes and A Pair of Socks by Stuart J. Murphy in Polish.

Concepts from the trunk we explored:

Literacy
-books

Shoes/socks
-lacing
-tying
-matching

Careers/Community Helpers
-Storybook Puppet Theater
-puzzles

Math and Measuring
-graphing what size our feet are
-matching
-patterns

Art
-Photography
-designing our own shoes







The stage for Storybook Puppet Theater



Office Friday and Firefighter Frank





More puppets to use in the theater




Lacing area to get lots of practice




Another lacing puzzle




Match the shoes!




Lacing and tying activities to take home




Decorate your own footwear...using animal stamps!




More matching games




Safety materials from a Grandkit




Joey...ready for his next career!




Graphing and measuring station




How big are your feet?




Library friends exploring the stations



Ms Margaret showing us her lacing skills



Storybook Puppet Theater
"We're Friends!"




Ms. Margaret helped us tie and lace




A budding photographer