How To Make Early Literacy Fun And Easy

Thank you so much to Kid Talk for sponsoring this post. May is literacy month and we are so excited to share fun and amazing ideas to make literacy fun for you and your family! Kid Talk is an incredible resource to help you with fun, simple and effective tools to make literacy a part of your
Michelle
May 7, 2018
How To Make Early Literacy Fun And Easy

Thank you so much to Kid Talk for sponsoring this post.

May is literacy month and we are so excited to share fun and amazing ideas to make literacy fun for you and your family!

Kid Talk is an incredible resource to help you with fun, simple and effective tools to make literacy a part of your everyday life! Please watch this video we produced at the Peterborough Public Library to talk about how easy and fun literacy can be for your family.

We have FREE bibs for you to pickup (locations are outlined below) and we want you to snap pictures of your kids wearing the bibs and show us how you incorporate literacy into your family’s routine!

Do you read cereal boxes?

Read street signs?

Colour?

Draw?

Sing?

Dance?

Literacy is so much more than just reading a book and we want you to share your ideas with us, for a chance to WIN an amazing GIVEAWAY!

Rebekah Littlejohn is an incredible photographer who specializes in family photography and she is offering an outdoor session (valued at $125) and a $275 print credit that can be used for prints or canvas! That’s a $400 giveaway, and more importantly it’s a gift of your life and family as art! Check out Rebekah on Facebook too.

Our family photo session with the talented Rebekah Littlejohn.

How To Enter

Watch the video and comment to be entered! We want you to engage, share, and take away some amazing tips for bringing literacy into your family. Click here to watch the video on Facebook and make sure to leave your comments, share with friends, tag people who would love to get their free bibs, and just have FUN!


How To Make Early Literacy Fun And Easy

Where To Get Your FREE #ReadWithMe Bibs

Peterborough

Libraries

Asphodel-Norwood Main – 2363 County Road 24
Cavan Monaghan Millbrook – 1 Dufferin St.
Cavan Monaghan Bruce Johnston – 2199 Davis Road
Curve Lake First Nation – 65 Chemong St. S
Douro-Dummer – 435 Douro 4th Line
Trent Lakes Main – 5 George St, Buckhorn
Havelock-Belmont-Methuen Main – 13 Quebec St. Havelock
North Kawartha Apsley – 175 Burleigh St.
Otonabee-South-Monaghan – 3252 County Road 2, Keene
Otonabee-South-Monaghan – Hwy #28, Bailbeboro
Peterborough Public Main – 345 Aylmer St. North
Ptbo De la Fosse – 729 Park St. South
Smith Ennismore-Lakefield – 8 Queen St. Lakefield
Smith Ennismore-Lakefield – 836 Charles St. Bridgenorth
Smith Ennismore-Lakefield – 551 Ennis Road, Ennismore

Food Banks/Thrift Stores 

Click here for a list of Food Programs and Food Banks

Apsley – 135 Burleigh St.
Asphodel-Norwood – (Norwood Town Hall-upstairs)
Bridgenorth (United Chruch) 832 Charles St.
Buckhorn (Trent Lakes Outreach Centre), County Road #36
Good Neighbours Care Centre – 164 Sherbrooke St. Ptbo
Havelock (Havelock Town Hall)
Lakefield (St. John’s Anglican Church) – corner of Queen and Regent
Millbrook (Old Millbrook School) 1 Dufferin St.
Otonabee-South Monaghan (Keene United Church) – 30 North St.
Salvation Army – 219 Simcoe St. Peterborough
Vinnies (St. Vincent de Paul, Peterborough) – 799 Erskine Ave
Vinnies (St. Vincent de Paul, Lakefield) – 144 Queen St.

Northumberland

Libraries

Alderville First Nation – 11696 Second Line Rd, Roseneath
Brighton – 35 Alice St.
Cobourg – 200 Ontario St.
Port Hope – 31 Queen St.
Trent Hills (Campbellford) – 98 Bridge St. E.

Foodbanks

Northumberland Fare Share Foodbank(Cobourg) – Northam Industrial Park, 740 Division St., Unit 17
Northumberland Fare Share Foodbank (Port Hope United Church) – 34 South St.
Salvation Army (Cobourg) – 66 Swayne St.
Salvation Army (Port Hope) – 100 Peter St., Upper Level

EarlyON

Campbellford (Rotary Hall)- 179 Saskatoon Ave.
Cobourg (YMCA Northumberland)- 339 Elgin St. W.
Colborne (Colborne Public School) – 8 Alfred St.
Hastings (Hastings Civic Centre) – 6 Albert St.
Port Hope (Beatrice Strong Public School) – 90 Rose Glen Rd.

Other

Five Counties Children’s Centre (Cobourg)- 800 Division St.
Northumberland Child Development Centre – 205 Peter St.

City of Kawartha Lakes

Libraries

Lindsay – 190 Kent St. W
Fenelon Falls – 19 Market St.
Bobcaygeon – 21 Canal St. E.

Foodbanks

Lindsay Salvation Army- 30 Peel St.

EarlyON

Lindsay – 55 Mary St W, Unit 106
Fenelon Falls (Fenelon Falls Secondary School)- 66 Lindsay St, Rm 133

Haliburton

Libraries

Haliburton – 78 Maple Ave.
Minden – 176 Bobcaygeon Rd.

EarlyON Centres

Haliburton (J.D. Hodgson School) – 1020 Grass Lake Rd, Rm 204
Minden (Archie Stouffer School)- 12 Vintage Cr., Rm 125B

Other

Lily Ann Thrift Store- 33 York St.

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