Native American Heritage Month: Jingle Dancer

Join us for a celebration of Native American Heritage month focusing on the Cynthia Leitich Smith book Jingle Dancer. Miss Tess was on Indigenous Storytime Tuesday on Facebook Live reading the book and this kit will have accompanying activities for both early childhood and childhood registrants. If you missed the video a link is included in the powerpoint and pdf on the event page, or you locate the video on the Metropolitan Library System Facebook page. Participants will be given materials to design their own jingle dress! They can create their own unique color story and focus on color naming and matching. Older elementary age kids will have an educational extension activity, including a PowerPoint on learning the history of Jingle Dance and how to do it themselves. Early childhood participants can listen to their parents read them the Muscogee Creek story of bat, and then make their very own bat craft. Regardless of age this kit provides an opportunity to look and learn more about Native American culture. While the kit activities will focus on elementary age and below, included in the kit will be reading lists for the whole family with a variety of Native American authors focusing on different subjects.

This kit will include digital only components. If you do not want to access the digital components (PowerPoint with embedded video links), you will still be able to complete the crafts without them.

Kits are one per FAMILY. Any duplicate registrations will be deleted. Kits can be picked up at Northwest Library from Wednesday November 18th through Saturday November 21st. Registered customers must pick up kits by Saturday 4 PM or call the library at (405) 231-8650 to make alternate pick up arrangements as any remaining kits will be made available to waitlisted customers on Sunday. Due to high demand for these kits, all print outs and instructions will be posted here on the SUNDAY after the last day of pickup so that families with siblings or others who may not have had the opportunity to register can reproduce the kit at home.