It’s summer! School vacation has begun, the solstice is around the corner, and summer reading starts on the 18th. Time to celebrate! What is Family Storytime? Fun for children and their caregivers with music, movement, and a bit more reading than Rhymetime. The target audience is 5-8 years of age, but ALL are welcome! Questions?…
Come right to the Children’s Department every Friday at 10:30am for songs and stories for babies, toddlers, and their families! The themes for June are: 6/2: Rainbows 6/9: Â Cats 6/16: I Love Dad! 6/23: Be Kind 6/30: Friends As of June, we will not longer be doing new Rhymetime: Sing & Play videos. Videos of…
Discover your child’s next favorite read! Each week on Thursdays at 7pm, Mrs. Liz will read an excerpt from one book off of the New Chapter Book or New Non-Fiction shelves and the recording will be posted on our Facebook! See the video on https://www.facebook.com/watervillelibrary/ FMI: Call 207-872-5433, email [email protected], or go to http://www.watervillelibrary.org
Crafternoons are fun weekly crafts for young children and their families! Come to the Children’s Room between 2:30–4pm to make the craft with help from library staff! Due to time and staffing constraints, kits will no longer be available for pickup. We hope that you can join us for Tuesday afternoons! June 6: Rainbow Lantern…
Join us at the Waterville Public Library on Wednesday, August 9 from 2–3pm! Jump on the Song Toboggan and sing-a-long with Matt Loosigian of Earth Jams. Matt is a Brunswick, ME based folk singer, guitarist, and songwriter specializing in playful, funny songs about ecology and being green. Join him as he works his musical magic…
This week, join the Colby College Museum of Art to create an art project inspired by the artist Sol LeWitt, on view at the Colby College Museum of Art’s campus location. One of the ways Sol LeWitt works is to create a set of instructions, and then collaborate with others to complete what he calls…
The collage illustrations by Alma Fullerton in the book Community Soup, use natural objects like sticks, leaves, and grasses. Each collage she creates has textures that can look sometimes bumpy, or smooth, or rough, or soft. Come create collages with texture, using natural objects and much more! Book: Community Soup by Alma Fullerton Please note…
Did you know you can make stamps out of vegetables? Inspired by the book Our Little Kitchen, we will use vegetables from the farmer’s market to carve designs and patterns for stamps! Each participant will create a vegetable print flag to bring home. Book: Our Little Kitchen by Jillian Tamaki Please note the new location…
Who are the community helpers? We sometimes forget all the workers who keep the city clean, who mow the grasses, empty the trash, or plow the snow. Come help us create a woven art work of thanks for our community helpers! Each participant will help with a collaborative work and create a mini weaving to…
What do you love about your friends? Inspired by the story of friendship in the book I Am You, we will create friendship collages to give to our friends and loved ones. Book: I Am You A Book About Ubuntu by Refiloe Moahloli Please note the new location as Art in the Park and the…
Crafternoons are fun weekly crafts for young children and their families! We are hosting IN-PERSON Crafternoon events again, so come to the Children’s Room between 2:30 and 4PM to make the craft with help from library staff! A limited number of kits will still be available for patrons to pick up, one per child…
Discover your child’s next favorite read! Each week on Thursdays from 7–7:30pm, Mrs. Liz will read an excerpt from one book off of the New Chapter Books shelves. See the video on https://www.facebook.com/watervillelibrary/ FMI: Call 207-872-5433, email [email protected], or go to http://www.watervillelibrary.org.
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