Christmas WS's!
Another rainy day, but now we have to get out of the house. Truly, cabin fever is starting to set in and I can’t take another kitchen nightmare (from our science day). So, we’re heading to the library. We love our library and it has a great kids’ section of both fiction and fact books.
This visit made me think, though. What else can you do at the library?
Here’s a list of services and activities that most libraries offer:
- You can borrow movies and audio books
- There are both adult and kids book clubs. Consider joining the summer reading club – most libraries have these for kids. Often it entails filling in a reading list and coming back for rewards, such as stickers. Our daughter received a medal at the end of last summer for keeping up her reading for the 8 required weeks.
- Summer writing camps. Check out what summer camps your library offers. Ours offers writing camps for young authors.
- Craft activities – yes, many libraries will put on holiday craft activities. We’ve signed up for the Easter Egg Hunt and craft mania at our local library.
- Attend story time – these are mostly aimed at younger kids. The children’s librarians will read a book for the kids often with props and fun voices.
- Access to computers and the Internet. This is a great service for people without computers at home, but also if you want to look something up – like the title of a book…
- ... to order your eBooks. I just found out that our library offers eBooks and as the owner of a Kindle I was thrilled to find out that I can now borrow, download and read library eBooks from the comfort of home (hmmm, that brings us back to cabin fever, though).
What did I miss? What other services do libraries offer? Leave a comment, if you can add to this list.
