Story Time with Ms. Laura
Ages Birth-5
Thursdays @ 10:30 am
Ages birth to five are welcome to join us for stories, songs, and crafts.
July Themes
July 9: Clothes
July 16: Music
July 23: Celebrations
July 30: Animals
August Themes
August 6: Crafts
August 13: Play
August 20: Art
August 27: Back to School
Click here for a SRC Brochure
Summer Reading Club (SRC): Be Creative @ Your Library
Tuesdays, June 30 - August 4
Activities every Tuesday eventing: 6:30 - 8:00 pm
What is SRC?
Summer Reading Club is for children ages birth to grade 8. It is designed to keep children reading throughout the summer. This year's SRC theme is BE CREATIVE.
What do you have to do?
Register
Set a reading goal
Attend 3 programs
Be Creative
Musical Instruments in the Children's Garden
Tuesday, July 14, 6:00 pm
An art opening to view and experience our new addition to the Children's Garden. 3 interactive, outdoor instruments will be added to the Children's Garden this summer!
Aerophone
Lithophone
Xylophone
Kindermusik: Ages Birth-5
5 Weeks: June 30 - July 28
Age Groups:
Birth - 3 years: 6:30 - 7:00 pm
4-5 years: 7:15 - 7:45 pm
Kindermusik helps your child develop early literacy and language skills, acquire reasoning & early math skills, increase self-control, cultivate a lifelong love of music & have a fun time a the library.
Elementary: Grades K-4
July 7, 6:30 pm: Paint & Design a T-shirt
July 14, 6:30 pm: Tinkertunes' Traveling Instrument Petting Zoo*
July 21, 6:30 pm: Decorate a Journal
July 28, 6:30 pm: Animal Encounters**
August 4, 5:30-7:30 pm: Youth Craft Show***
*At Tinkertunes' Traveling Instrument Petting Zoo, Tom Kaufman shows children how to understand & enjoy musical sound. Children get to experience a wide range of instruments. (Learn more here)
**At Animal Encounters hear stories & music created by animal sounds. Meet artistic animals from around the world. (Learn more here)
Tweens: Grades 5-8
July 7, 6:30 pm: Paint & Design a T-shirt
July 14, 6:30 pm: Jewelry Craft
July 21, 6:30 pm: Improv*
July 28, 6:30 pm: Junk Art**
August 4, 5:30-7:30 pm: Youth Craft Show***
*Improv is learning and doing improvisational acting - just like the show, "Whose Line Is It Anyway?"
**Junk Art is where anything is possible using pieces of found objects to make bookmarks, sculptures, jewelry - you name it.
***Youth Craft Show
Tuesday, August 4, 2009
5:30-7:30 pm
Calling all crafty kids! Here is your chance to Be Creative, make a craft and earn money this summer. Run your own craft booth & sell your craft(s) at the library's first ever craft show for youth.
What is a booth?
Blanket
Table
2 boxes & a board
What is a good price?
The price is up to you. Bring your own money to make change for your customers.
Adult supervision please!
Crafts must be made by youth and booths must be run by youth - no adult crafts or booths please.
Thanks for your continued support for SRC St. Marys cement!
PAWS for a Story
Wednesdays, August 5, 12, 19 & 26
10:30 - 1:00 pm
Spend time with a loving dog @ the library - by reading to it! Dogs are great listeners and they want to hear your stories. Pre-registration required.
LEGO Cars
Ages 8 and older
Tuesday, August 11, 11:00 - 1:00 pm
Build, with a partner, a motorized race car & race against another. Pre-registration required.
Pewabic Pottery
Tuesday, August 18
3:00-5:00 pm
Meet author Marcy Heller Fisher for a unique clay experience. Marcy wrote Fired Magic, Detroit's Pewabic Pottery Treasures, from which she will share secrets. Then work alongside her & the youth staff to make your own tile magnet. Tile pick-up will be the following week
Tween Modern Dance Workshop
Grades 5-8
Saturday, August 29
10:30-12:00 pm
Join the members of Jumping Off the Bandwagon in expressing yourself through dancing. An experience for anyone turning everyday movements into expressions of joy.
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