2024 NATIONAL MEDAL
for Museum and Library Service Finalist

Kids

Unity Craft: Kindness Quilt Squares

Drop in to participate in this special community art project, in partnership with the Lost Souls Public Memorial Project.  Tweens entering grades 4-7 are invited to create quilt squares conveying uplifting messages of love, kindness, and an appreciation for our diverse community.  Our teen volunteers will laminate your quilt square and add it to the display case in the children's section of the library, where it will remain for the month of September.  Grown-ups, please let children know in advance that they will not bring their quilt square ho

Kids Save the World!

Drop by anytime between 12:00 and 2:30 to visit stations and learn about different environmental issues and how kids hold the key to saving our planet. This program is presented by Divya and Aanya, local Girl Scouts committed to educating kids about environmental challenges so that today's young, creative thinkers can develop solutions.  To learn more about them and this important initiative, visit the Kids Save the World website.  For kids in 1st grade and up.

 

 

Unity Craft: Diversity Rocks!

Drop in to participate in this special community art project, in partnership with the Lost Souls Public Memorial Project.  Decorate a rock with paint pens to convey a message of kindness and appreciation for our diverse community.  Once the rocks are dry, our teen volunteers will add them to displays inside the library and eventually, they'll be added to the Human Relations Council's Diversity Rocks area outside, near the municipal pond, Grown-ups, please let children know in advance that their rocks will not be returned to them.

Unity Craft: Paper Flower Bouquets

Drop in to participate in this special community art project, in partnership with the Lost Souls Public Memorial Project.  Learn how to make a tissue paper flower with our teen volunteers, then make several to leave at the library.  Our teen volunteers will create beautiful bouquets that will be displayed in September.  Your flowers, in bouquets of flowers made by other people in our community, will represent you and the contributions you make to our great town.  All ages are welcome to join in.  Grown-ups, please let children know in advance t