Your child may play a part in a wonderful tale when Mother Goose and her Friends visit the Hinsdale Public Library, 20 E. Maple St. 2-3 p.m. Sunday, April 26.
“It’s interactive storytelling,” said Mary Jane Haley, better known as Mother Goose. “I bring the children up out of the audience and I turn them into the characters in the story. The audience is included because they become the storytellers.”
Haley has been enchanting families as Mother Goose for over 30 years, with the help of her puppets.
She wants kids to learn that literature is fun.
“Really this is about listening,” Haley said. “It’s a pre-reading skill. And Mother Goose rhymes are such a great thing because they’re fun to say, they’re fun to hear and it helps children to remember. And because the characters in the Mother Goose stories are fun and memorable, and their friends are taking part in the story, they do remember it.”
Registration is required.
For details, call (630) 986-1976 or go to http://www.hinsdalelibrary.info.
MAKE MUSIC AT MALL
While the DuPage Children’s Museum is recovering from a flood, kids ages 15-24 months can become Music Makers & Shakers at the museum’s temporary home at Westfield Fox Valley Mall in Aurora, 10:30-11 a.m. Thursday, April 30. The cost is $14 for a member and child; $20 for a nonmember and child. Registration is required.
For details, call (630) 637-8000,ext. 0 or go to dupagechildrens.org
GREAT SHAKES
Kids ages 1 to 2-1/2 will make friends at Shake It Up Baby!, 9:15-10 a.m. Wednesdays, May 6-20 at the Burr Ridge Community Center, 15 W 400 Harvester Drive. There will be a song circle and a snack. The cost is $28 for residents; $33 for nonresidents.
For details, call (630) 920-1969 or go to http://www.brparks.org.
PLAY BALL!
The baseball season will be in full swing during a Take Me Out to the Ball Game Storytime, 11 a.m. Wednesday, April 29 at the Oak Brook Barnes and Noble, 297 Oakbrook Center. Kids will hear “Curious George at the Baseball Game” by Margret and H. A. Rey and “Goodnight Baseball” by Michael Dahl.
For details, call (630) 684-0586 or go to http://www.barnesandnoble.com.
PRESCHOOL PLAYTIME
There will be books, flannel boards, music and a simple craft project at Toddling 2s and 3s, 10:30 a.m. Thursday, April 30 at Oak Brook Public Library, 600 Oak Brook Road. Parents must stay with their children.
For details, call (630) 368-7700 or go to http://www.oak-brook.org.
