On the Same Page 2020 – Treasure Hunt

On the Same Page 2020 – Treasure Hunt

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How Well Do You Know Your Library?

Friday, February 7, starting at 7:00 pm in the Community Room
ages 12 and older

This On the Same Page activity will test you as we use the entire library for a treasure hunt. Who will be the first to find the prize? May the best team win!

There is more treasure in books than in all the pirates’ loot on Treasure Island and best of all, you can enjoy these riches every day of your life.

Disney's Peter Pan

The Treasure Hunt

I’m sure as a child you always wanted to experience a real treasure hunt. Think back to those sunny days with your siblings as you scribbled on a piece of paper to make your map, gathered your mismatched but exciting treasure and placed them in a box, then crafted little things along the way. Come live that childhood fantasy as we take you on a journey through the library. We’ve crafted clues and maps to test your knowledge of our library, which will lead you to a chest full of jewels, coins, and things you’ve never known you needed or wanted.

I don’t know if you have ever seem a map of a person’s mind. Doctors sometimes draw maps of other parts of you, and your own map can become intensely interesting, but catch them trying to draw a map of a child’s mind, which is not only confused, but keeps going round all the time. There are zigzag lines on it, just like your temperature on a card, and these are probably roads in the island; for the Neverland is always more or less and island, with astonishing splashes of colour here and there, and coral reefs and rakish-looking craft in the offing, and savages and lonely lairs, and gnomes who are mostly tailors, and caves through which a river runs, and princes with six elder brothers, and a hut fast going to decay, and one very small old lady with a hooked nose.

February Life Hacks @ Your Library

February Life Hacks @ Your Library

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February Life Hacks @ Your Library 

The Credit Score Game

Lance Hansen from the University of Idaho Extension Office will lead us through an entertaining inter-active game that will help us understand credit scores and how they affect our lives.

Get credit smart and have some fun in the process!

Thursday February 6th, @ 7:00 PM

Activity Room

January Adult Maker

January Adult Maker

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Woodburned Box

Friday, January 24th, 7:00 PM

Community Room

Make a mess and create something neat!

Tonight we’ll be embellishing a small keepsake box using a wood-burner and our imaginative skills.

The possibilities are endless. Bring a friend and leave the kids home for a night of creativity!

All supplies will be provided.

Please no infants or children under 18.

On the Same Page 2020 – Fairy and Mermaid Crafts

On the Same Page 2020 – Fairy and Mermaid Crafts

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Fairy and Mermaid Crafts

Saturday, February 1, starting at 2:00 pm in the Community Room

We'll kick off this year's On the Same Page activities with
fairy and mermaid crafts for all skill levels.

When the first baby laughed for the first time, its laugh broke into a thousand pieces, and they all went skipping about, and that was the beginning of fairies.

Choose Your Level and Choose Your Craft!

For the younger or less nimble fingered, we'll make mermaid tails from craft sticks and bright papers. Intermediate crafters can decorate a fairy house. More advanced hands may choose the luminary jar with a fairy, mermaid, or Peter Pan design.

Mermaid Tails

Your kids can’t get enough of mermaids? Come make mermaid tails! Super easy to make and you can even glue on some magnets and put on your fridge! Click Here to see how to make them. This is the easiest of the crafts we'll be doing tonight.

Fairy Houses

Let your imagination grow and create a house for those magical fairies to rest. Use things you have at home and come enjoy making these cute fairy houses. This craft is the intermediate level activity.

Fairy / Mermaid Lanterns

Upcycle mason jars and turn them into a set of lanterns with magical silhouettes of mermaids and fairies set against the luminescent background of the sea or a luscious green forest. These charming fairy / mermaid lanterns are not only easy to make, but look adorable in a garden or when used as a night light. They'll be sure to spark your child's imagination or your childish imagination. Click Here to see how to make them. This is the most difficult of the three crafts.

There was another light in the room now, A thousand times brighter than the night-lights…. It was not really a light; it made this light by flshing about so quickly but when it came to rest for a second you saw it was a fairy, no longer than your hand, but still growing. It was a girl called Tinker Bell, exquisitely gowned in a skeleton leaf, cut low and square, through which her figure could be seen to the best advantage. She was slightly inclined to embonpoint…. The loveliest tinkle as of golden bells… It is the fairy language. You ordinary children can never hear it, but if you were to hear it you would know that you had heard it before.

Story Time – January 7 and 8, 2020

Story Time – January 7 and 8, 2020

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10:30 am in the Community Room - ages 2 to 5

In January, we learned about the letter "S."

This Week, We Were Introduced the Word "Snake."

Snakes are important members in the web of life as both predators and prey. They feed on mice and other small rodents which helps to control the pest population.

Craft Activity

You can decorate a paper plate snake by cutting magazine squares into triangles. 1 square will make 2 triangles.

Find full instructions

Songs, Rhymes, and Fingerplays

S-N-A-K-E

I had a snake
he was so green
as green as snakes can be!
S-N-A-K-E, S-N-A-K-E, S-N-A-K-E,
he is my favorite snake!

Snakes Slither

Snakes slither on the ground,
Snakes slither all around.
Some are short, some are long.
Some have fangs,
and some have none.
-1001 Rhymes and Fingerplays

I’m Being Swallowed by a Boa Constrictor

I'm being swallowed by a boa constrictor
a boa constrictor, a boa constrictor
I'm being swallowed by a boa constrictor
And I don't like it very much!

Oh no, oh no, he swallowed my toe,
he swallowed my toe, he swallowed my toe,
Oh no, oh no, he swallowed my toe,
And I don’t like it very much!

Oh gee, oh gee, he's up to my knee,
he's up to my knee...

Oh fiddle, oh fiddle, he's reached my middle,
he's reached my middle...

Oh bleck, oh bleck, he's up to my neck,
he's up to my neck...

Oh dread, oh dread, he swallowed my....
Schlirppp!
-Shel Silverstein

Books Presented

Snakes
by Valerie Boden

A basic exploration of the appearance, behavior, and habitat of snakes, a family of scaly reptiles. Also included is a story from folklore explaining why snakes do not have legs.

Find it in our Catalog

Can I Play Too?
by Mo Willems

In Can I Play Too? Gerald and Piggie meet a new snake friend who wants to join in a game of catch. But don't you need arms to catch?

Find it in our Catalog

Hide and Snake
by Keith Baker

A brightly colored snake challenges readers to a game of hide and seek as he hides among familiar objects.

Find it in our Catalog

Additional Books

They Thought They Saw Him
by Craig Strete

A little chameleon successfully avoids a number of dangers by changing colors to match his surroundings.

Find it in our Catalog

Mouse Count
by Ellen Stoll Walsh

In this charming companion to Mouse Paint, Ellen Stoll Walsh introduces the concept of counting forward and backward in a suspenseful story that will keep young readers guessing

Find it in our Catalog

The Rattlesnake Who Went to School
by Craig Strete

On his first day of school, Crowboy pretends he is a rattlesnake, but then he meets a girl in his class who wants to be a rattlesnake too.

Find it in our Catalog

Early Literacy Tip:

When your children have happy experiences, they want to repeat them. Starting kindergarten can seem as an extension of informal library “classes.” Children who have had joyful experiences in the public library often approach school with a positive attitude, ready and excited to learn.

-Megan Dowd Lambert
Reading Picture Books With Children

On the Same Page 2020 – Book Release Party!

On the Same Page 2020 – Book Release Party!

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All Things Pirate with Peter Pan!

Friday, January 17, from 7:00 to 8:30 pm in the Community Room

This is the night! We'll start giving away free copies of J. M. Barrie's Peter Pan.* This is our book for our annual February community reading series On the Same Page.

*One per household, please.

Captain Hook's eyes were the blue of the forget-me-not, and of a profound melancholy, save when he was plunging his hook into you, at which time two red spots appeared in them and lit them up horribly. 

Loads of Fun for All Ages!

We will have treats, a craft, a few games, sneak peeks at the upcoming activities which will take place all through the month of February. Feel free to dress as a pirate (we will) to make the most of this arrrrrsome experience!

Come eat and enjoy some exotic sharks, fish and chips, mini cannonballs and ginger ale as we dress up as a pirate from making hooks to eyepatches and even get a tattoo! We will be walking the plank, playing Loot and ring toss using swords, we even have pirate coloring pages for your little ones!

All children, except one, grow up. They soon know that they will grow up, and the way Wendy knew was this. One day when she was two years old she was playing in a garden, and she plucked another flower and ran with it to her mother. I suppose she must have looked rather delightful, for Mrs Darling put her hand to her heart and cried, ‘Oh, why can’t you remain like this for ever!’ This was all that passed between them on the subject, but henceforth Wendy knew that she must grow up. You always know after you are two. Two is the beginning of the end.