Title: Symphony Storytime

Day of the week/Time: Sunday, 3-4. Twice a year in February and August.

Ages: 2-5

Goals: Expose children to a professional musician. Enhance storytelling through music. Allow children to make their own instrument and play music.

Reasoning for Program: This program blends together reading, singing, music, and play in order to help develop literacy skills.

Activities: Members of the Oregon Symphony will introduce the audience to their instruments and music by accompanying a library staff member as they read two stories. As library staff read the story the musicians will enhance the experience with music. Children will make their own musical instrument, either a shaker or a guitar, with the help of library staff. The musicians will work with children to explore instruments they have brought for them to play. Finally, the program will end with a concert. The musicians will play accompanied by the children playing the instruments they made or the toy instruments.

Supplies: Books from library collection, craft materials to make instruments, sample instruments, toy instruments.

Staff: Two library staff, musicians from the Oregon Symphony

Community Partners: Oregon Symphony

Budget: $200, for craft supplies and payment to the Oregon Symphony. Half will be paid by a donation from the Friends of the Library.

Video Credit: ShawTVOkanagan (Creator). (2014). Symphony Storytime [Video file]. Retrieved from https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2Ea22iLjTUw