Art Out of the Box: Photography

The Art Out of the Box group met this afternoon to learn about photography. After talking about some photography basics and discussing some great art, the kids took photos in the program room. Then everyone had a chance to go out and take a photo in the Children's Services department. We also made accordion fold photo collages of the car that the kids painted during the art cars program. It was a great way to end the Art Out of the Box series for this school year!

To see more photos from the Photography program, visit Flickr. If you would like to see photos from the other Art Out of the Box programs, check out these links: Wood Art, Traditional Crafts, Mail Art, African American Art and Art Cars. I still have photos of the Fiber Art program to put up, I'll do that soon!

New Lift-the-Flaps Booklist!

There are soooo many cool lift-the-flap books, and now we have a tool to help you find them at the Library! Here two of the many titles we have listed on our new Lift-the-Flaps Books Booklist:



Peekaboo, Blueberry!, by Barney Saltzberg










Birds, by Sarah Khan

Ants in My Pants Storytime!

Join us for Smart Start Preschool Storytime tomorrow morning at 10:30 a.m. to read stories about ants and stories about pants!

We'll even find out WHO took the cookies from the cookie jar...

Time 2 Chime -- LIVE!

Make plans now to attend Time 2 Chime LIVE!, a free concert of beautiful hand-chime music performed by our very own Homeschool Handchime Choir!

Click here to hear a sample of music they have prepared.

The title of this piece is "Austria" and it was arranged by Martha Lynn Thompson.
It's based on the theme from String Quartet in C, Op. 76, No. 3, Emperor Quartet by Franz Joseph Haydn.

Be sure to join us on Tuesday, May 13 at 7:00 p.m. for Time 2 Chime LIVE!

National Bike Month Program

Join us to Celebrate National Bike Month!

On Saturday May 3rd at 2:00 p.m. at the Main Library in Children's Services.

We will be learning valuable safety information from "Parkview Bicycle Safety" and working on a craft which you can take home.
Children in grades k-5th

Calling All Racing Fans!

It's May, and you know what that means...the Indianapolis 500 will be here before we know it! Don't forget to stop by the Library and check out some of our great books about race cars and drivers! Here are two of the newest titles you can find in Children's Services:

This is My Racing Car,
by Chris Oxlade












Danica Patrick,
by Jeff Savage

We Love the Reading Tower!

Hurray! Second graders from Croninger Elementary School in Fort Wayne visited Children's Services today -- here are their smiling faces!


Be sure YOU visit the Main Library soon, and spend some time in Children's Services!