This Month in Children's Services

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Join us for age appropriate stories, songs, and activities geared toward kindergarten readiness.

This program is designed for children 3 and up and their caregiver. Siblings are always welcome.

This program will be held inside. 

No registration is required for this program.

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Exploration and art creation for grades K-5

Nov: Salvador Dali Surrealistic Collages and Self Portraits

We will be making collages and self portraits in the surrealistic style while learning about this type of art and the artist that made it famous.

This is an in-person program. Space is limited. Registration required.

A drop-in building program for K-5.

Come between 4 and 5:30pm on Thursdays to build, construct, engineer, design, assemble. erect, fabricate....

YEAH, we are going to build stuff...all kinds of stuff.

Every week will have a different theme and materials and LEGOS...because...LEGOS.

No program the week of Nov 24.

Fun and exploration for toddlers aged 2-4 at LaGrange Library

Saturdays, 11:30am

No sign-up needed!

FRIDAYS 10-11:30 AM

LaGrange Library

Drop-in LOOSE PARTS play for ages 3 & up! No registration required. 

What is loose parts play?

Loose parts are open ended materials that can be moved around and used in imaginative ways. Let your child take the lead and engage with them as you play together. Each week will feature different loose parts.

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Calling all Wings of Fire Fans. Answer trivia, make a dragon eye, create a comic, and sample dragon food.

This program is designed for children K-5 graders. This program will be held inside. 

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South Oldham Library

Do you love Legos?  Do you like building & creating?  If you do, then the Lego Club at South is the place for you!  This program is designed for elementary age (K-5th) children to explore and create with Legos.  Join us on Thursday, September 8 at 4:00 p.m. for a Lego challenge and show what you can build.

Grades K-5 welcome. Registration is required. Please sign each child up separately. Space is limited. Mask use based on individual preference, informed by individual risk. (Masks recommended indoors following exposures.)

Email Ms. Jeanie at jeaniec@oldhampl.org with any questions.

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A gaming program for elementary aged children.

We are going to play boards games and build on our knowledge of what makes a good game.

This is an in-person program. Space is limited. Registration required.

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Exploration of the scientific method over a variety of projects and themes. We will build, experiments, test, question, succeed wonderfully, fail spectacularly and have a good time learning new things.

Create a creature from cardboard that uses gravity to walk!

Then take what you have learned experiment with beads and dowels.

This is an in-person program. Space is limited. Registration required.

Please feel free to contact me at cherig@oldhampl.org if you have any questions.

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Goshen Library

Lego Robotics is for K-5th graders who love to build and are curious about coding. Participants will build a helicopter and use coding to make it move. 

Registration is required for the program. Please contact Abby, abigailb@oldhampl.org for more information.

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Are you a natural creator, filled with curiosity and imagination? Do you like creating art & other beautiful things?  Creative Kids is a club for grades kindergarten through fifth that will nurture creativity and help develop a lifelong love for arts and crafts!

Grades K-5 welcome. Registration is required. Please sign each child up separately. Space is limited. Mask use based on individual preference, informed by individual risk. (Masks recommended indoors following exposures.)

Email Ms. Jeanie at jeaniec@oldhampl.org with any questions.

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A program for struggling readers to gain confidence while reading to a non-judgmental listener : a certified therapy dog. 

Each session is 15 minutes. 

Please contact Cheri at cherig@oldhampl.org if you have any questions.

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Pop Culture for Elementary Ages.

DRAGONS!!!

K-2: Dragons Love Tacos - games, crafts and dragon good fun

Grades 3-5: Wings of Fire - trivia, comics, crafts....FUN!

This is an in-person program. Space is limited. Registration required.

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A STEAM program designed for Homeschooling families  - themes rotate monthly. Grades K-5

Please email me at cherig@oldhampl.org if you have any questions regarding this program.

Space is limited. Registration required.

In order to accommodate a larger group, parents are asked to remain in the program to assist younger participants. Thank you.

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Learn about sculptor Naum Gabo and create paper sculptures.

This program is designed for children K-5 graders. This program will be held inside. 

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Join us as we make something yummy to eat at our virtual cooking club! For Grades K-5.

Most supplies are provided by the library. Please register and choose the branch where you would like to pick up your supplies. Supplies will be routed to your selected branch the Monday or Tuesday before the program. You will receive an email notification when your kit is on the way to your branch.

Please sign up each child separately!

A secure link to our virtual classroom will be sent to you via email so that you can join us for CHEFS.

If you have any questions, please contact jeaniec@oldhampl.org. 

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Please sign up for a special holiday story time featuring performances from the MAGIC Youth Dance Company from the Gilman School of Music. For ages 3 & up. 

If you have any questions, please contact Shannon Kruer at shannonk@oldhampl.org. 

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Goshen Library

This program is designed to let kids read to a non-judgemental listener.

Sign up for a 15 minute session of reading one on one with a certified dog.

Feel free to bring your favorite book or come to the library early to select something to read.

If you have any questions about this program, please contact Abby at abigailb@oldhampl.org. Thanks!

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Experiment with 3D pens and make popup holiday cards.

This program is designed for children K-5 graders. This program will be held inside. 

Registration opens October 24 and is required. 

If you have any questions about this program, please contact Abby at abigailb@oldhampl.org. Thanks!