Special Collections

Here you will find our newest kits that support CSLP 2025's theme "Color Your World". All items should be ready to pickup or mail around mid-May.

Book Club Kits are list in alphabetical order by title. Each kit will come with 10 copies of the title and a discussion guide.

• Circle Back by Adam Clay
• Danger Days by Catherine Pierce
• Deep Blues: A Musical and Cultural History of the Mississippi Delta by Robert Palmer
• Delta Blues: The Life and Times of the Mississippi Masters Who Revolutionized American Music by Ted Gioia
• Delta Hot Tamales: History, Stories & Recipes (American Palate)        by Anne Martin
• The Delta in the Rearview Mirror: The Life and Death of Mississippi's First Winery by Di Rushing
• Escaping the Delta: Robert Johnson and the Invention of the Blues by Elijah Wald
• How to Read: Poems by Thomas Richardson
• Jim Henson: The Biography by Brian Jay Jones
• Let Us Descend by Jesmyn Ward
• Muscadine by A.H.Jerriod Avant
• Nic Blake and the Remarkables: The Manifestor Prophecy by Angie Thomas
• A Place Like Mississippi: A Journey Through a Real and Imagined Literary Landscape by W. Ralph Eubanks
• South of Somewhere: Recipes and Stories from My Life in South Africa, South Korea, & the American South by Dale Gray

Bonus Book Club Kits - These book club kits have been annotated by a local "expert", so you can get new insights into what another reader was thinking as they read the book. These special book club kits will be in a special category called "Briefly Noted".

• Briefly Noted: Black Boy by Richard Wright; annotated by W. Ralph Eubanks, a MS author and professor at the University of Mississippi
• Briefly Noted: Jubliee by Margaret Walker; annotations by Dr. Robert Luckett, Director of the Margaret Walker Center at JSU
• Briefly Noted: Music of the Swamp by Lewis Nordan, a middle grades YA author from MS

We will have 1 set for each of the following kits. Consumable materials are available while supplies last.

• Candle Making Kit
  • 1 Inventory sheet
  • 1 Instruction sheet
  • 1 Helpful Links sheet
  • 1 Circular Silicone Mold
  • 1 Geometric Silicone Mold
    • If available: wax adhesive, wicks with clips, wooden dowels, soy wax flakes
• Embroidery Kit
  • 10 embroidery hoops
  • 10 fabric pens
  • 10 needles
  • 10 thimbles
  • 1 laminated sheet of paper with QR codes linking to related CreativeBug classes
• Hand Stamping Kit
  • 1 Metal stamping hammer
  • 33-piece Letter stamp set
  • 1 Stamping block
  • 1 Essential Hand Stamping Kit Guidebook
    • If available: 1 Stamp enamel marker, 1 Stamp Guide, Stamp Straight Tape, and Practice Blanks (rectangles, key rings, aluminum blank)
• Pearler Beads Kit
  • 8 large peg boards
  • 5 small peg boards
  • 1 cat peg board
  • 1 dog peg board
  • 2 tweezers
    • If available: pearler beads and ironing paper
• Oven-Bake/Polymer Clay Kit
  • 1 laminated sheet of instructions
  • 1 clay tool set (11 pieces)
  • 19 clay cutters
  • 1 Sculpey oven bake clay adhesive
  • 1 clay gun (20 pieces)
  • 3 clay texture sheets
  • 2 clay texture rollers
• Sizzix Kit
  • 1 Sizzix BigShot Plus cutter tool
  • 2 Cutting Pads
  • 1 Big Shot Plus Platform
  • 1 Adapter A
  • 1 Adapter B
  • 5 Sizzix Die Kits

We will have 3 sets for each of the following kits. Consumable materials are available while supplies last.

• Flower Pressing Kit
  • Microwave Flower Press Set
  • Book: The Art of Pressed Flowers and Leaves by Jennie Ashmore
  • Book: Jump for Joy by Karen Gray Ruelle
• Loom Knitting, Long Kits
  • 12 Long Knitting Looms
  • 12 Knitting Loom crochet hooks
  • 12 large-eye sewing needles
  • Book Loom Knitting Primer: A Beginner's Guide to Knitting on a Loom with Over 35 Fun Projects by Isela Phelps
• Loom Knitting, Round Kits
  • 12 Round Knitting Looms
  • 12 Knitting Loom crochet hooks
  • 12 large-eye sewing needles
  • Book Loom Knitting Primer: A Beginner's Guide to Knitting on a Loom with Over 35 Fun Projects by Isela Phelps
• Relief Printmaking Kits
  • 10 3" foam paint rollers
  • 30 5.5" wooden styluss
  • Book: Swimmy by Leo Lionni
    • If available: 6 bottles of washable poster paint in assorted colors
• Spinning Art Kits
  • 1 Spin and Splatter Machine
  • 1 Spiral Art Design Set
  • 1 Crayola Colourwhirls set (makers available while supplies last)
  • 1 Wiggle Writer
  • Book: The Dot by Peter H. Reynolds

The StoryWalks are listed in alphabetical order by title. We will have 1 StoryWalk for each title.

• Daniel Finds a Poem by Micha Archer - A little boy's animal friends help him discover the poetry to be found in nature.
• The Dot by Peter H. Reynolds - Vashti believes that she cannot draw, but her art teacher's encouragement leads her to change her mind.
• The Gift by Alain Serge Dzotap; illustrated by Delphine Renon - Leo receives a pen for his birthday, and he asks the other animals for help discovering all the wonders inside the tiny tool.
• Mouse Paint by Ellen Stoll Walsh - Three white mice discover jars of red, blue, and yellow paint and explore the world of color.
• Something Wild by Molly Ruttan - Hannah's performance jitters about her violin recital lead to some imaginative what ifs before she finds her confidence.
• Zin! Zin! Zin! A Violin by Lloyd Moss; illustrated by Marjorie Priceman - Ten instruments take their parts one by one in a musical performance.

Miscellaneous Kits are kits that do not fit into the other categories we use (Book Club Kits, Costumes, Crafting Kits, Games, etc.). We should have 3 of each set.

• Music: Kids’ ChromaNote Sets
  • 8-pack of Boomwhackers
  • 8-set of ChromaNote Hand Bells
  • Xylophone
  • Book: 30 Simple Songs for ChromaNotes Musical Instruments: Music for Beginners (Color-Coded Sheet Music for Chromanote Instruments) by Helen Winter
  • Book: The Easiest Songbook. 58 Simple Songs without Musical Notes for Boomwhackers®, Bells, Chimes, Pipes: Just Follow the Color Circles (ChromaNotes™ ... Sheet Music for Chromanote Instruments) by Helen Winters
  • Book: Kat Writes a Song by Greg Foley
• Music: Petting Zoo
  • Kalimba Thumb Piano
  • 6” Steel Tongue Drum
  • Stylophone Pocket Synthesizer
  • Book: Easiest Tongue Drum Songbook Ever!: 100 Songs for Tongue Drum. 100% note-free! By Leroy Harper
  • Book: Kalimba Songbook: 50 Easy Classic Songs by Thomas Balinger and Lena Eckhoff
• Karaoke Machine!
  • Karaoke machine (with Bluetooth, AUX, and USB compatibility)
  • 2 wireless mics