Northeast Regional Library Blog

Suggested Family Activity 🧽 Spring Cleaning

The approaching arrival of spring also means it is time for Spring Cleaning!  Make it into a fun family activity by turning it into a game.  Set timers to see who can clean an area the fastest or create a chart that lists all the areas in your house that need cleaning.  Create a prize or family activity that will reward everyone when all the cleaning is finished, such as a Pizza Night, a special Read more…

Suggested Family Activity ✂ National Children’s Craft Day

Today is National Children’s Craft Day, a day set aside each year to encourage crafting with children.  Crafting as an activity is a great way for children to explore their creativity and imagination.  It also encourages them to learn something new and to explore what inspires them.  You can purchase pre-made kits at most dollar stores or you can challenge your children to take everyday household items to use for their crafting projects.  Popular items Read more…

Suggested Family Activity 🪁 Fly a Kite!

The windy days of March are a great time to fly a kite!  To decide if it is windy enough, ask your family some questions:  Do you feel anything blowing on you face?  Are your clothes moving around?  What about any tress or bushes – what are they doing?  Are they still or are they moving around? If you do not have a kite at home, you can make your own.  The PBS website at Read more…

Suggested Family Activity • Learn with Easter Eggs

Plastic Easter eggs make great learning tools for young children.  In addition to using them to identify colors, if your young ones are just learning the letters of the alphabet, print an upper-case letter on one piece of an egg and a lower-case on the other piece.  Mix all the pieces up and then help children find the matching pairs. Another fun idea is to put a letter on one piece of an egg and Read more…

Suggested Family Activity • Dinosaur Tag

Play a game of dinosaur tag today.  Whoever is ‘it’ has must scrunch up their arms insides their shirt to make their arms short like a T-rex and try to tag the others.  And bonus points for making T-rex noises as you run around!  The variations on this game are endless.  Whoever is ‘it’ could pretend to be an elephant and try to catch others with one arm swinging like an elephant’s trunk or ‘it’ Read more…

Suggested Family Activity 🌨 Snow Globe Craft

Make your own snow globes today by grabbing an empty jar, such as a baby food jar, a mason jar or even an empty peanut butter jar.  Fill it with anything sparkly you have – tiny beads, small plastic spangles, or glitter are all great ideas to use.  Add water to the jar, tighten the lid securely, and have fun shaking the jar to watch all the glitzy stuff swirl around.  You can also glue Read more…

Suggested Family Activity 🧚‍♀️ National Fairy Tale Day

Today is National Tell a Fairy Tale Day so celebrate by sharing fairy tales with your family.  Tell a familiar story, such as one about Snow White and the Seven Dwarves or Rumpelstiltskin or make up one of your own. Family members can also pick their favorite fairy tale and retell it as if they were the main character.  What would they do differently? Would it still take place in the same setting, such as Read more…

Suggested Family Activity ❄ Snowball Letter Game

To make an indoor snowball letter game for young children: Write out the letters of the alphabet on paper and then tape it to a wall or door in your home.  Give your children crumpled up pieces of scrap paper to be ‘snowballs’ that they throw at the letter when you call it out.  For an additional twist on this game, tape pictures you have torn out of old magazines of items and have your Read more…

Suggested Family Activity 😊 Random Acts of Kindness Day

National Random Acts of Kindness Day is today so try to do something totally unexpected to be nice to someone today.  Maybe you can make a special care package for someone or make them a simple card to say, “Thinking of You.”  You could also drop off donations of food and other items to local food banks, homeless shelters, or animal shelters. Random acts of kindness do not require money though.  Just saying “Hello” to Read more…