Kids

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!

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 is easy to make your own cloth face mask. All you need for this project is 100% cotton fabric and either elastic or string to secure the mask to your face. We use a sewing machine to sew the mask in this video but you can hand sew your own mask as well. This design was taken from the New York Times and more information about how to make this mask can be found here: https://www.nytimes.com/article/how-to-make-face-mask-coronavirus.html

Now that it is spring, it is a perfect time to start a garden and we have created a video to show you how to make a newspaper seed planter. Not only is this a great way to upcycle old newspaper but once your seeds have sprouted, you can put the entire newspaper planter into the ground or transfer it to a larger pot and it will simply decompose as your plant grows through the summer.