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.

Get Out and Play!

Sunday 8/7/2016 

1:30-3:00 PM

All Ages

Join us for outdoor games on the library lawn! We will be playing mini golf, pool noodle croquet, soda bottle bowling and more! 

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!

Weekend Story Times

Attention: Families who cannot make it to story times during the weekdays, can join us on the weekend instead! This summer we will offer two weekend story times on Saturdays, July 16 and August 20 from 10:30 to 11:30.  We're going to start out by making animal masks, and then weather permitting, take our stories outside! Get ready to run, jump and play with stories and songs. We will head outside promptly at 10:45, so if you want a chance to make your mask, be sure to be punctual. We'll start out in the Puett Room.

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!

Imagination Yoga, Again

If you missed the first session of Imagination Yoga, you can still register for the next!

Take a journey through a summer night with yoga teacher Carrie Young. Carrie has a special certification in Imagination Yoga.

The class will be held Saturday, July 9 at 1:30-2:15 and again 2:30-3:15. Choose which time you want to sign up for and call 503-718-2656 to register. Bring your own mat or towel.

Imagination Yoga

It's not too soon to register for Imagination Yoga!

Take an imaginary camping trip or a journey through a summer night with yoga teacher Carrie Young. Carrie has a special certification in Imagination Yoga.

The classes will be held Saturdays, June 18 (camping trip) and July 9 (summer night) at 1:30-2:15 and again 2:30-3:15. Choose which class you'd like to take and call 503-718-2656 to register. You can also get on the waiting list for the other class, and if they don't fill up, we'll give you a call! Bring your own mat or towel.

It's the Last Week of Spring Story Time!

Parents and Caregivers--just a reminder that this week, May 23-27 will be our last week of our Spring Story Time session.  We will take a 2-week break starting May 31st so we can get ready for promoting the summer reading program at local schools.  And don't forget...Summer Reading sign-ups start on June 1st!

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!

Hi! I'm an Engineer. What Do You Do?

In honor of Natinal Engineers Week, introduce your inner engineer to the world. Design and build a bridge with paper, build a tower with toothpicks and gumdrops, give software coding a whirl with Scratch, Jr. on an iPad, and program a little robot to go through a maze. Join us this Sunday, February 21 between 1:30 and 3:00 in the Puett Room.

January LEGO® Construction Zone

Drop in to the Puett room on Sunday January 23 from 1:30-3:00 pm to work on your LEGO® creations with other builders and give our race track a spin!  We'll supply all the building blocks; you bring the creativity! Kids ages 5 and up are welcome to attend. 

School's Out Drop-in Monday

This Drop-in Monday join us is celebrating the life and legacy of Dr. Martin Luther King!

We will be watching the movie Our Friend, Martin and doing a craft activity.

Monday, January 18th @ 2pm 

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!

6th Annual Family Story Time Costume Parade

Join us this Friday, October 30 at 10:15 or 11:15 in the Puett Room for our 6th Annual Family Story Time Costume Parade. We will get together for a regular story time, and then go trick-or-treating around the library after. Don't worry, grown-ups, no candy will be handed out! This is the one story time of the year that I do not limit the number of participants. It would take a pretty mean librarian to turn away a kid in a costume!

5th Annual Costume Parade

5th Annual Costume Parade

The future is now the past

Just want to show off the AWESOME DeLorean that helped make our Back to the Future program a success on October 21, 2015. For those of you who don't know, Wednesday was the day 30 years in the future that Marty McFly arrived. A special thanks to Ben Berry for letting us sit in, climb all over, take pictures with, and just enjoy his car!

Library Staff from Left to Right David, Becky, Lisa and Molly
 

Little Ol'Me

What's special about October 21, 2015?

Today is the day 30 years in the future when Marty McFly arrives! Watch family-friendly clips from the movie, try your hand at some trivia, compare the different eras that Marty visits, enjoy the future coloring station, dance like it's 1955, even see a real DeLorean! There will be photo opportunities with the car and with Marty's vest. Collect a prize if you come in costume. This program will have something for everyone, no matter your age. Join us in the Community Room this Wednesday, October 21, 2015 from 4:30 to 6:00.

Dog Safety School

In honor of Adopt a Shelter Dog Month, join us this Sunday, October 11 from 1:30 to 2:30 in the Puett Room to learn from a Humane Society educator about how to stay safe around dogs. Practice what you learn with real-live trained therapy dogs and then make dog and cat toys to either donate to the Humane Society or take to your own fuzzies at home.

Blue Bell will be there!

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!