Paint by Number Gallery (September 2025)
Teens attempted some beginner-friendly paint by number kits at our Art After Dark event this September. (If this is beginner, I’d hate to see advanced!) Enjoy our works in progress below!
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Crafty Kids: Fidget Snake July 2025 Gallery
Kids gathered on a rainy day and had a great time making their own fidget snake out of beads and cord.
Color Shift Potions Gallery (January 2025)
Teens made the most amazing color-shifting potions using food coloring and mica powder in a water-rubbing alcohol solution, then decorated their bottles with various labels and sealing wax. These make great props for parties, or D&D, or cosplay! Lots of ideas and recipes and designs can be found here. Check out some of the potions we made!
Jim May Storyteller November 2024 Gallery
Storytelling is a time-honored traditions, and great storytelling has a magical way of weaving words to captivate and audiences. Emmy Award winning storyteller, Jim May, invoked imagination and transported the kids with his stories.
Super Builders December 2024 Gallery
Kids had a great time learning how to use various STEM materials: Ozobots, Keva Planks, and Snap Circuits!
Wreaths of Khan Gallery (December 2024)
A most excellent variety of wreaths were created by participants at the library’s Wreaths of Khan event this December. To Khan or not to Khan, that was the question. Check out our creations below!
Little Steamers Gallery November 2024
For Little Steamers, Miss Melanie provided several items for each child to see which one was heavier. Was a bracelet or a piece of wood heavier? How many pennies weighed as much as a colored stone? So many questions we had to answer. The kids did great and went home with a colorful bracelet.
Creative Kids Gallery November 2024
In Creative Kids, Miss Julie taught the kids about Wassily Kandinsky, a Russian abstract painter. He believed “everything starts with a dot.” Here is some of the art from the two sessions, along with the amazing artists. Enjoy!
Draw Monsters with graphic novelist Lisa Naffziger Gallery October 2024
Did you know people have seen cryptids (a creature that is said to exist but has not been proven to do so) in every state? Yikes! We learned about the comic-making process. Then, we heard excerpts from Lisa’s new book Deja Ross Speaks to Freaks. Next, we drew our own monsters! Kids rolled dice to tell what body parts to add to their scary friends. Thank you, Lisa for sharing your love of monsters with … Read more
Who’s Ready for a Hot Mess? (Wimpy Kid’s 19th Book Party) Gallery October 2024
Nineteen kids showed up to welcome the 19th book of the popular series Diary of a Wimpy Kid, Hot Mess. We played Manny Cereal Toss, did a scavenger hunt, trivia, and posed for fun pictures with the characters. Two lucky winners took home the new book and two others won a stuffed Greg. We can’t wait for the next book to come out!