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Fun Friday: Electricity
Last Friday we ended up with a huge crowd for Fun Friday with a STEM focus on electricity! I had a few kids start the program complaining they didn’t want to do science. But, I like to think we do science in a much more fun and interactive way than…
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Butterfly STEAM Event
Today is an exciting day in our library! We are hosting a butterfly pavilion where children as young as two can experience real-live monarch butterflies. We’re hosting a story time this morning and an afternoon program for elementary school children this afternoon. Throughout the day, the pavilion will be open…
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American Helicopter Museum Visit
Last night was our last big program of the summer (yay!) where we invited the American Helicopter Museum to give the kids some brief information about helicopters and then the kids got the chance to sit in a helicopter, push some buttons and take some photos. For the event, we…
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Catapult Science Workshop
Today we’re going to be creating own very own catapults to test out! I came across this idea from the Libraryland blog and from the Show Me Librarian blog. Both had great ideas and I combined them as well as some ideas of my own to create, what I think,…
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Robot Building – Part 2
I survived our robot building workshop this afternoon! It was a lot of controlled chaos, but I think the kids and many of the parents had a really great time building, exploring, imagining, and just having a really great time together. We ended up with over 100 people for this…
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Robot Building – Part 1
I’m not sure that anyone who isn’t a children’s librarian understands the feelings of being smack in the middle of summer reading with programs happening on a daily (sometimes hourly) schedule, reference questions flying at you a mile a minute, and kids and parents, nannies, grandparents, and tutors in every…
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Slime Science Workshop
Our slime science workshop was definitely a lot of fun – so fun in fact, that I took it with me when I visited summer camp today and we had fun there as well! I started each program reading the story The Secret Science Project that Almost Ate the School by…
