Check out our January kid and tween STEAM Take N’ Go kits below. Each will be available through curbside pickup. Instructions will be available on our website and our YouTube channel.
Butcher Paper craft – available starting January 5th
See what you can make with some sheets of colored butcher paper.
Bowling for Penguins craft – available starting January 19
Cut out and color paper penguins and use them as bowling pins.
For those who do not have preschool story time craft supplies at home, we have Story Time Supply Kits available starting January 4th. This kit will provide child safety scissors, liquid glue, tape, 3 markers, and a glue stick. It also has a small “flannel board” on the lid to recreate flannel stories at story time.
Pick up your kit through curbside pickup, along with our usual Story Time craft kits.
Each winter we host a month long community reading event we call On the Same Page. Basically, we hand out hundreds of copies of a selected book and then spend a month exploring it through activities, lectures, concerts, and contests. Think of it as a county-wide book club. Read with your neighbors and friends, talk about what you read, and come and join in the fun.
Our Kick-Off Kits will be available starting Friday, January 29th, so make sure to come pick them up!
Join us for episode 3 of Read, Look, Learn!
About twice a month we’ll take a look at a topic with books from our catalog, then go out into our neighborhood and see if we can find someone to tell us more about it.
This time we’re talking about machinery at Fat Cats! Many thanks to them for sharing with us.
Happy New Years! We’ll be closed December 31 – January 1. No items will be due. As always, the book drop will remain open. Thank you!
Did you know that Mele Kalikimaka is how they say, “Merry Christmas” in Hawaii? It looks like Santa went to Hawaii for a quick vacation before the holidays. Check out some of these books about Hawaii and take a “book” vacation with Santa!
Ages 2-5
Letters to Santa are a great way to promote early literacy skills during the holiday season. Color pictures to leave for Santa or to give as gifts. Organize Christmas cookies by shape or color. Line up presents by size on Christmas morning.
Write a letter or draw a picture for Santa. You can drop it by the library and you will receive a fun activity and a treat! (while supplies last)
Presents the well-known poem about an important Christmas visitor.
When Froggy goes on vacation to Hawaii, he’s too excited to pay much attention to his parents.
Christmas Day in Hawaii is a special day the sun shines brighter, the birds sing louder, and the palm trees sway and beckon ‘ohana outside to celebrate.
An alphabet rhyme/chant that relates what happens when the whole alphabet tries to climb a coconut tree.
Learn numbers one through ten with Hawaiian animals, plants and more in this fun-filled book.
Take a trip through Hawaii as Hannah, the humpback whale and Millie, the monk seal race around the islands. Along the way Hannah and Millie have to solve clues about Hawaii and learn about the animals, plants, geography, and culture that make Hawaii a great state!