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Suggested Family Activity 🦖Dinosaur Arts & Crafts

Do your kids love dinosaurs and doing arts and crafts projects?  If you have some paper plates, you can let them make their own dinosaur today.  Grab a plain white paper plate and cut it in half to be the body of the dino.  Color the body whatever color you want, using crayons, markers, or paint.  (You can also use left-over colored plates from birthday parties to make a body).  Next, draw and cut out Read more…

Suggested Family Activity 🐚 Seashell Crafts

Have you picked up seashells on the beach but don’t know what to do with them now that you are home?  You can turn them into ornaments to decorate your home or put on your Christmas tree by painting them and adding glitter and other sparkly bits like sequins.  Adults can drill a small hole in them to thread ribbon through to be a hanger.  Or you can wear your creations as a necklace by Read more…

dirty socks

Suggested Family Activity 👩‍🔬🧪 Family STEM Experiment

For a fun STEM experiment to do with your family, have everyone wear an old sock over their shoe and then go for a walk outside.  After everyone has walked around, take the old socks off and spritz the bottom of each sock with water.  Then put each sock in a separate resealable plastic bag.  Hang the bags in a sunny window for 2-3 weeks and see what grows.  You might be amazed!  Make sure Read more…

Suggested Family Activity ☁️ Navajo Code Talkers Day

Today is National Navajo Code Talkers Day, a day to honor the contributions of the Native Americans during World War II.  During the war, Navajo speakers were recruited to create a code system based on their language, which had never been written down.  They created a secret code that they used to send and receive messages that the Axis powers were never able to break.  The program was classified until 1968, at which time the Read more…

Suggested Family Activity 🪄 Magic Wand Reading Pointer

To help young children learn how to follow along when they are reading a story, let them make magic wand reading pointers today.  To begin, you will need something to be the handle of the wand, such as a small dowel rod, a chopstick, a wooden skewer, or even a pencil or stick from outside.  For very young children, you can use a popsicle stick or craft stick to give them something wider to hold.  Read more…

Suggested Family Activity • Pickleball

Want to learn to play pickleball?  The library can help!  We have a new kit that you can check out that includes paddles, balls, a netted carry bag, and an instruction sheet.  For more information, we also have the book Pickleball for All: Everything but the “Kitchen” Sink by Rachel Simon.  In it, you will learn everything you need to know about America’s fastest-growing sport.

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Suggested Family Activity 📝 School Supplies

Don’t let your school-age kids have all the fun – let everyone in your family pick out new school supplies this year.  Brand-new pencils, pens, markers, journals, notebooks, colored pencils, stickers, and crayons are fun for everyone.  They can use the items to work on their own craft projects, make a journal, or draw fun pictures.  Dollar stores are heavily stocked with inexpensive school supplies right now, so this treat doesn’t have to be expensive.

Suggested Family Activity 🏅 Summer Olympics

Take inspiration from the Summer Olympics to get your family moving around: Teach young children to do a flip, handstand, or a cartwheel like gymnasts or place a piece of painter’s tape on the floor to mimic a balance beam or tightrope and let them try to walk from one end to the other without ‘falling off’.  Tie lengths of ribbon or crepe paper tied to a stick to mimic the artistic swirls of rhythmic Read more…