Kids Blog : activities

Ooh la la! Fancy Nancy Party!

UndergroundLibrarian@evpl — Wed, 08 Apr 2009 18:52:00 GMT

Dress up in your fancy clothes and accessories for our Fancy Nancy and Fancy Clancy Soiree -- that's fancy for party!

We'll make fancy accessories, practice fancy behavior, and model on the red carpet.

Of course we'll read a Fancy Nancy book, darling!

Boys and girls ages from age 4 to grade 3, come to Oaklyn Branch Library on Thursday, April 16, for our Fancy Nancy Party! We'll get started at 3:30 and do fancy things until 4:30. Here are some of the things we have planned: Girls, we'll be making tiaras and bracelets; Boys, we'll be making crowns and power collars. Everybody will get a chance to come down the red carpet! Who knows -- we might even make butterflies, in honor of Fancy Nancy, Bonjour, Butterfly!

Fancy Nancy books are great, and we're going to have a great time at our soiree, as Fancy Nancy would say!

Kids, we'll get your letters to the North Pole!

professor.knowsitall@evpl — Tue, 09 Dec 2008 20:54:00 GMT

The EVPL has once again partnered with Santa to present this year's Letters to Santa program. Kids can write their letter to Santa & submit it online, and they'll receive a personalized response back from Santa by email! (Click here to view an actual response a child received!)

Kids, visit the Send Your Letter page to send your letter. Type in your letter, your first name, and your email address (if you don't have one, ask your parents if you can use theirs), then click the "Send Letter" button. Letters we received are gathered at Central Library, sent to the North Pole on one of Santa's reindeer (he was nice enough to let us borrow one!), then delivered directly to Santa's desk; it's much quicker than mailing a letter!

Once you've submitted your letter, you can view its progress on the View Your Response page. Using our highly-sophisticated Reindeer Tracking System™, you can see where your letter currently is and if it's made it to Santa yet!

After a day or so (depending on how busy he is!), Santa will send his response. At that time, you'll receive an email containing a link to view it!

Santa is looking forward to receiving your letter, and the EVPL is happy to assist him during this busy holiday season.

Christmas Guests? Here's a Reading Suggestion!

UndergroundLibrarian@evpl — Mon, 08 Dec 2008 20:04:00 GMT

Are you expecting an influx of children visiting for the holidays? Are you planning ways to keep them occupied? Here's one idea: Check out a stack of picture books from the library and put them where the kids can have access to them. Of course Christmas books are great for this time of year, but kids like to read about all sorts of things. You'll know your children best and can look for specific topics, but I've discovered that if there's a big selection available, my 4-year-old houseguests will go through them all. Sometimes a kid wants to want to "read" them by himself, and other times I'm invited to join for actually reading the words --and that's a great invitation!

Are your visiting kids a little older? Remember riddle books and I Spy books, and nonfiction books about whatever their passionate topic of the moment is!

Advantages to this plan for you: No cost for this holiday entertainment, and fills the spare moment here and there. Advantages for the children: They (and their parents) may discover or be reminded that the public library is a good source for them to use themselves.

Here are some titles I found on Oaklyn's New Picture Book Shelf today. All these authors have written myriad picture books that would be great to add to your mix. Just come in and browse, or ask us for some ideas! You may click on the picture below to be connected to our catalog info.