Kids

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:

Have you ever wanted to learn how to design and print objects using a 3D printer? Now is the perfect time to learn. The library is launching a club for kids in grades 3-7 to do just that: the DICE Club! In the DICE Club, short for Design, Innovate, Create, Educate. In the DICE club, our amazing teen volunteer Aditya will teach children how to use the free online software Tinkercad to design their own 3D models that they can later print using the library's brand new 3D printer.

It's storytime again!!! Enjoy another short storytime and sing along with Aaron, a Youth Services Librarian at EBPL. Today's story is Dragons Love Tacos 2: The Sequel by Adam Rubin and by Daniel Salmieri. Watch this video below, check out this book and the original Dragons Love Tacos using your library card on Hoopla, and see all of our storytime videos on our YouTube channel here.

It's storytime again!!! Enjoy another short storytime and sing along with Betsy, a Youth Services Librarian at EBPL. Today's story is Harry the Dirty Dog by Gene Zion and illustrated by Margaret Bloy Graham. Watch this video below and see all of our storytime videos on our YouTube channel here.

This simple origami crown can royalize your whole household! Click here to see the video.

The library may be closed, but we can still have Maker Club! Check out this Youtube video from librarian Dana on how to create comic book panels for your own comic books. Stay tuned, there are more Maker Club videos to come! 

Click here to see the video and all the others on our EBPL Youtube channel.

Did you know April is National Poetry Month? Anyone can create a poem and after listening to Librarian April read some of her favorite poems about cats, why don't you try to write a few poems yourself? Here are some ideas to get started:

Thursday, April 16 at 5:30

Be a Citizen Scientist!

Use your phone and devices to be a participant in science projects to solve world problems and advance scientific knowledge. Be a Citizen Science. Project examples: COVID-19, Gravitational Waves, SETI, Environmental research.  

Click here for more information about joining the session.

Every Spring, our friends from the Rutgers University student chapter of the American Pharmacists Association visit the library for a special event for families.  They play games, bring craft projects, and teach families about storing and dosing medication safely, preventing poisoning from medications and household products, and how immunizations work.  This Spring, they created a fun infographic for families to use when teaching very young children about washing their hands.  View it here and sing a

Let's get creative during Week 2 of our new online LEGO Club!  This week's challenge is to build something with STRIPES!

When you're done building, 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.)

LEGO Club... and GO!