Spring is here and tulips are everywhere outside but you can also "grow" a garden inside your house!
When you're done, take a picture of your project. Then click here to add your picture to our Padlet and view everyone else's work!
(Click on the plus sign on the bottom right of the Padlet to add your picture.)
Are you looking to take a break from the screen and listen to something interesting instead? The editors at Booklist have put together an amazing list of podcasts for kids of all ages, from toddlers to tweens. You can check out individual episodes or subscribe to get new content as soon as it is published. And best of all, podcasts are entirely free! Take a look at the list here and let us which ones you like best!
Here's a short storytime with Librarian Suzanne! Today's book is Grumpy Bird by Jeremy Tankard, one of our favorites from storytime programs at the library. After the book, we'll play a quick round of Simon Says. Maybe you can play again with someone at home!
Let's get creative during Week 3 of our online LEGO Club! This week's challenge is to build a VEHICLE!
Join us on our Youtube Channel for virtual Maker Club! If you miss our weekly program of arts and crafts and working with our hands, don't worry! Maker Club continues even with the library closed. We upload videos every Monday of something new. Each week we'll upload this page with links to all of the videos. If you try your hand at anything in the videos, or if you just make something you're really proud of, take a picture and upload it to our Maker Club Padlet!
The library is looking for your short stories -- honestly, your shortest stories -- for the annual 73 Words in the 732 Short Story Competition.
Your short story can be about anything; the only requirement is that it must be 73 words or fewer. This competition is open to all ages so your entire family can submit entries. A panel of library staff selects the best short stories, which are posted on the library's website for the whole community to enjoy.
In celebration of Earth Day, Librarian April is reading a non-fiction book about more environmental ways to create and tend your garden: Green Gardening and Composting by Molly Aloian. Learn about creative ways to start your garden, keep it free of bugs without using pesticides, and how compost is made. Watch this video below and read more books about green gardening from Hoopla.
It's storytime again!!! Enjoy another short storytime and sing along with Betsy, a Youth Services Librarian at EBPL. Today's story is Each Peach Pear Plum by Janet and Allan Ahlberg. This picture book challenges you to find your favorite Mother Goose characters hidden in the pictures of the story - see if you can find them!.
It's storytime again!!! Enjoy another short storytime and sing along with Aaron, a Youth Services Librarian at EBPL. Today's story is Lucy Loves Sherman by Catherine Bailey and illustrated by Meg Walters. Watch this video below, check out this book using your library card on Hoopla, and see all of our storytime videos on our YouTube channel here.
Are you as sad about not having interactive programming as we are? Good news! In addition to all of the programming we've had these last few weeks, we now have a padlet to help us interact more with YOU! Participate in Lego club or try your hand at something you saw on a Maker Club video on YouTube? Use the padlet to post images or write about what you've been doing at home! Keep checking back here as we add more programs and padlets! Links to all our open padlets are below: