LEGO® Construction Zone

Sunday February 26 
1:30-3 p.m. Puett Room

Ages 5 and up

Future engineers and mathematicians! Drop in to work on your LEGO^® creations with other builders and give our race track a spin. We’ll supply the building blocks; you bring your creativity. 

Kitchen Café Play

Stop by the Puett Room Monday February 20 through Friday, February 24 during story time break and use your imagination! From 10 a.m.-3 p.m. each day explore our cardboard kitchen and pantry stuffed with toy pots,pans and food.  Cook fabulous meals and make your own recipe cards.  Everyone can become a famous chef, just stir your imagination into the mix and serve up something marvelous.  Don't forget to check out our great selection of cookbooks before you go home! 

Thinker Tinker Lab: Magnets Push and Magnets Pull

Let's play with S.T.E.A.M.! (Science, Technology, Engineering, Arts and Math)

Join us in the Library Puett Room for our last Thinker Tinker Lab of the summer with "Magnets Push and Magnets Pull"!  It's happening on Monday, August 15th, 2-4 p.m.  All ages are welcome to attend.

Thinker Tinker Lab - Squishy Circuits!

Monday August 8th, 2016

2-4 PM

Puett Room

All Ages

Explore circuits while letting your imagination run wild! We will use conductive and insulating dough to create art that really lights up. We will also have our Snap Circuit board and our Bee Bot out for more S.T.E.M play. 

Colorful dough will also be out and available for our youngest friends to explore and create with.

Thinker Tinker Lab- Bubble Mania!

2-4 PM

Library Courtyard/Lawn (enter through the Puett Room)

All Ages

Come experiment with bubbles! Blow the tallest bubble tower, try out different bubble wand shapes and sizes, and try your hand at making a square bubble! Play for a minute or the whole 2 hours! The choice is yours!

July LEGO® Construction Zone!

Sunday July 24th 

1:30-3:00 PM

Puett Room

Drop in to work on making your own LEGO® creations with other builders. We'll supply all the building blocks; you bring the creativity! Come and play for a few minutes or play for the whole 90 minutes. The choice is yours!

Thinker Tinker Lab ~ Geoboard String Art

S.T.E.A.M.

Science, Technology, Engineering, Arts and Math
Join us in the Library Puett Room 2-4 pm * July 18 * All ages

Egyptian mathematician Dr. Caleb Gattegno inventor of the geoboard believed education should be process of enhancing knowledge through problem based learning.

Exploring mathematical concepts and puzzles with geoboards is a fun way to develop understanding of the mathematical tapestry of geometric shapes and how art and geometry go hand in hand.


Playing with geoboards enhances fine motor skills, visual co-ordination and depth perception.  Participants seamlessly gain understanding of shapes, rotation, similarity, counting, angles, patterns, perimeters and just plain all kinds of hands on fun!

Thinker Tinker Lab ~ Pendulums and Towers

Monday, July 11 from 2-4 PM

All Ages

Explore force and motion through play! Swing a wrecking (beach) ball to knock down a box tower, create an out of this world painting with a funnel on a string, try your hand at making figure 8's with colorful sand, or make your own mini pendulum wrecking ball that you can tinker with until it's just right. It's science...it's engineering...it's art...it's PENDULUMS!

Stomp Rockets!

Sunday, July 10th 

1:30-3 pm

All Ages

3...2...1 blast off! Design and construct your own paper rocket, then see how high you can blast it! We'll provide the stomp rocket apparatus. You provide the power of your own two feet.

LEGO® Construction Zone

 Calling All Future engineers and mathematicians ages 5 and up!

Drop in at the Library Puett Room April 24 from 1:30-3 p.m. to work on your LEGO®creations with Master builder Blair Archer.  Blair will provide his expertise and building challenges for all. Don't forget to give our race track a spin with your wheeled designs. We’ll supply the building blocks; you bring your creativity.

Operation S.T.E.A.M. Break

Hey, remember this game? Now tweens ages 10-14 can make their own at our Operation S.T.E.A.M. Break program on Wednesday, March 23 from 2-4:30 in the Puett Room. S.T.E.A.M. stands for Science Technology Engineering Art and Math. We'll be using all of those things to design, construct, code and play custom Operation games! No previous coding experience is required. Call 503-718-2656 or stop by the reference desk to sign up.

Squishy Circuits Workshop

Sunday March 13th
1:30-3:00 PM
Ages 5+

Join us this Sunday and get creative with circuits. Use conductive play dough, LED lights and battery packs to explore electronic circuitry. Build unique sculptures that buzz and light up!

February LEGO® Construction Zone!

Drop in to work on making your own LEGO® creations with other builders.  We'll supply all the building blocks; you bring the creativity! This month we'll play on Sunday February 28th at 1:30-3:00 p.m. in the Puett Room. Kids ages 5 and up are welcome to attend.  Come and play for a few minutes or play for the whole 90 minutes.  The choice is yours!

Feed The Birds!

Join us on Sunday, January 10th from 1:30-2:30 p.m. to create bird feeders from pinecones and recycled materials for your neighborhood birds. Learn a little about the different types of birds you may find in your backyard and play the bird beak game. Arts and science fun for the whole family!

Dr. Torley's Terrific Trek Through the Universe

Join us for the our final Virtual Planetarium Show Series with Dr. Torley's Terrific Trek through the Universe on Friday November 13th, 7-8 p.m. in the Burgess Community Room.  All ages are welcome to attend as Dr. Roy Torley takes you on a tour in his starship of the imagination to the far reaches of the universe.  Visit galaxies, black holes, double stars, and more! 
This program is generously sponsored by the Friends of the Tigard Library.

Roy's Royal Romp Through the Solar System

Join us for our next Virtual Planetarium Show Series with Roy's Royal Romp through the Solar System on Friday October 30th, 7-8 p.m. in the Burgess Community Room.  All ages are welcome as Dr. Torley takes you on a tour above the earth, to the moon, Mars, Jupiter, the rings of Saturn and a few other places in our solar system.  The good doctor guarantees you a safe trip home! 
This program is generously sponsored by the Friends of the Tigard Library.

Thinker Tinker Lab - Water!

The world of water fun is just a few days away. Join us in the courtyard off the Puett Room for all kinds of water play time.

Thinker Tinker Lab - Structures

Let's build bridges and other sturdy structures out of spaghetti and gumdrops. Will your bridge collapse or stay strong.
Monday, August 3 from 2-4pm. All ages!

Walk 'N' Words Story Time

The City of Tigard's strategic plan is all about being active and living interconnected lives.
What better way to get action and feel interconnected than by coming to a walking story time. We'll start in Puett Room and head down the nature path behind the library. We'll go on a bear hunt, hop like frogs and much more, all while wearing animal masks and shaking music shakers made by participants before the story time.

Thinker Tinker Lab - Kitchen Science

Let's get messy with stuff around the kitchen!
Join us Monday for this all ages program in the Puett Room. 
This messy fun begins at 2pm and lasts until 4pm.