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Introducing Creative Café!

Lay a feast of beautiful ideas with a Creative Café workshop! These workshops are designed to spark each child's creativity and nurture faith for children of all ages.  Creative Café  workshops  are literature & art-based and are great for classroom teachers and homeschooling parents teaching a wide variety of ages.   The basics for our at-home Creative Café are simple– we put on some coffee shop jazz or instrumental music, choose a spot with comfortable seating, and then we get to work on something creative! Sometimes I also offer refreshments.    Regardless of age, Creative Café is a fabulous way to inspire creative writers and thinkers. You can check out my free  Creative Café: The Basics  guide to get started or jump right in by downloading one of my  print-and-go Creative Café workshop guides !   Additionally, I run a website,  CreativeCafe.org , which offers inspiration and "spark your creativity" writing and art-base...

July Favorites

Every month, I put 30-40 picture books on hold at the library (mixed in with early readers and a few chapter books). We love having a variety of read-alouds for the month. 

There are always about 10 books that become our repeat reads for the month. Here are our favorites from our July book flood! 


1. Stellaluna by Janell Cannon 

2. Blackout by John Rocco 

3. The Summer Puppy by Jackie Morris 

4. The Little Blue Cottage by Kelly Jordan 

5. Beach House by Deanna Caswell 

6. Hello Lighthouse by Sophie Blackall 

7. Hello Ocean by Pam Muñoz Ryan 

8. Night of the Moonjellies by Mark Shasha 

9. Pie is for Sharing by Stephanie Parsley Ledyard 

10. Thundercake by Patricia Polacco (not pictured) 







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