Women’s History Month: Videos & activities for early learners

By Children’s Librarian Shelley Harris

How young is too young to introduce kids to history? There’s no such thing as too young!

There are so many delightful and age-appropriate ways to share information on fascinating people from all time periods. Below are some suggestions for videos, books, and activities to share with your early learners!

Watch these videos

For young kids, history doesn’t have to be a decade or a century in the past. The start of the pandemic in March 2020 is history. So is last summer! This video about making a memory book can help kids think about past vs. present. What was different two years ago? What was the same? Things are always changing.

We have a robust historical fiction area in the picture book section at the Main Library. This video that includes a picture book adaptation of All of a Kind Family by Sydney Taylor is one example.

Read these books & check out American Girl dolls

March is Women’s History Month, so why not dive into history and historical fiction? 

Shelley Harris

About Shelley

Shelley is a children’s librarian with a passion for early literacy, serving and celebrating the disability community, and exploring technology. She can often be found practicing storytime songs with her black lab, Bingo.