Storytimes near WOODWARD MEMORIAL LIBRARY

Children's Room

Join us every week this summer to watch a video of an animated storybook reading, and then make a cool dinosaur craft that goes along with the story. Geared towards children ages 3-12 years, registration is required! STORY SCHEDULE: June 25: Listen to "Dinosaurs" written by: Jill McDonald, then make a colorful paper dinosaur hat! July 2: Listen to "Never Let a Dinosaur Scribble" written by: Diane Alber, then make a dinosaur scribble craft! July 9: Listen to "Penelope Rex and the Problem with Pets" written by: Ryan T. Higgins, then make a paper plate dino egg craft! July 16: Listen to "Tiny T. Rex and the Impossible Hug" written by: Jonathan Stutzman, then make a Tiny T. Rex finger puppet! July 23: Listen to "Ten Minutes to Bed Little Dinosaur" written by: Rhiannon Fielding, then make a dinosaur shadow puppet craft! July 30: Listen to "Pete the Cat: Cavecat Pete" written by: James Dean, then make a handprint dinosaur! August 6: Listen to "How Do Dinosaurs Stay Friends" written by: Jane Yolen, then make a tissue paper dinosaur suncatcher! August 13: Listen to "How to Catch a Dinosaur" written by: Adam Wallace, then make a paper roll pterodactyl puppet!

Program Room

Come make a sign to hang on your door to celebrate summer! We will be painting a wooden round sign and decorating with flowers and ribbon. Adults 18 , registration is required.

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Liz Bauld, the Storybook Cook, will teach you the art of creating a charcuterie board using meats, cheeses, and more! You will make your own example, then you'll be able to taste and enjoy. Adults, registration is required!

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Join Miss Melissa for stories and songs of a new theme each week, plus a mix of flannel board activities, instruments, and/or bubbles! Children 1 - 5 years old, but siblings of all ages are welcome to join. Registration is appreciated!* *Registering for one will sign you up for the remainder of the session, June 26th - August 14th. This gives us a general idea of how many people to expect from week to week.

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Join Melanie from NIOGA for this teen Crafternoon activity. Using jars, sand, fake plants, and mini dinos, we will recreate a dinosaur habitat. Grades 8th - 12th, registration is required!

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Join Miss Sara for stories and songs of a new theme each week, plus a mix of flannel board activities, instruments, and/or bubbles! Children 1 - 5 years old, but siblings of all ages are welcome to join. Registration is appreciated!* *Registering for one will sign you up for the remainder of the session, June 26th - August 14th. This gives us a general idea of how many people to expect from week to week.

Outside

Mayukwa Kashiwa will share his culture in a vibrant performance incorporating African drumming and dance, along with educative traditional storytelling! This program will be held outside - weather permitting. You may bring your own lawn chair or blanket to sit on. All ages, registration is required!* *This program is made possible with funds from the Statewide Community Regrant Program, a regrant program of the New York State Council on the Arts with the support of the office of the Governor and the New York State Legislature and administered by GO ART! GO ART! acknowledges that the land on which this project takes place is the ancestral territory of the Seneca Nation, one of the Six Nations of the Haudenosaunee Confederacy. GO ART! recognizes the historical and ongoing presence of Indigenous peoples in Western New York and honors their enduring relationship to this land.

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Melanie from Nioga will lead our adventurers this week. Using boxes, brown paper, chalk, and headlights, we will create a cave system that participants can navigate through and create art in. Participants will navigate (crawl through) a cardboard "cave" with headlamps and make their own cave drawings with chalk. This replicates the experiences of prehistoric humans who painted in dim light. Weather permitting, this program will be held outside. Grades 2-4. Registration required! *The times of our 2nd-4th grade and 5th-7th grade groups are scheduled so that they line up with dismissal of the STEAM Camps at Wolcott Street School. If your child is signed up for STEAM at the school on the date of one of our programs, let us know at registration and we will pick them up at their dismissal time like we do for after school programs. This only applies to kids going into 3rd-7th grades.

Program Room

Join Miss Melissa every Wednesday this summer for these awesome prehistoric adventures! Each week we will do 2 different activities, ranging from art to science to games. Some weeks we will have special guests leading the programs! Grades 5th-7th (going into this fall). Registration is required! You must sign up for each session separately.* *The times of our 2nd-4th grade and 5th-7th grade groups are scheduled so that they line up with dismissal of the STEAM Camps at Wolcott Street School. If your child is signed up for STEAM at the school on the date of one of our programs, let us know at registration and we will pick them up at their dismissal time like we do for after school programs. This only applies to kids going into 3rd-7th grades. SCHEDULE: July 1: 3D Perler Bead Dinosaurs - Make 3D dinosaurs out of fuse beads, by creating multiple layers and snapping them together! We'll also make 2D dinosaurs and turn them into key chains or magnets. July 8: Clay Dinosaurs - Use colored air dry clay to mold a dinosaur, then decorate it with dry pasta, sequins, gems and more! Afterwards we'll play a dinosaur game. July 15: Salt Dough Dinosaur Fossils - Mix up the ingredients to create your own salt dough, then use mini dinosaur skeleton figures to create fossil impressions in the dough! We will also use an assortment of dried pastas to create dinosaur skeletons on paper. July 22: Prehistoric Paintings - Using watercolors we will paint a sunset background, then we'll glue paper dinosaur silhouettes on top. July 29: Fizzy Dinosaur Egg Experiment - Create baking soda dinosaur eggs, then we will hatch our eggs using pipettes and vinegar! We will also make tissue paper dinosaur suncatchers. August 5: Cave Painting - Learn about the prehistoric art of cave painting and then make your own "cave art" by painting the inside of a giant cardboard box "cave". This session will take place OUTSIDE! Led by Melanie from Nioga Library System. August 12: Dinosaur Terrariums - Create your own mini dinosaur habitat in a jar, complete with tiny dinosaur figures! Led by Melanie from Nioga Library System.

Program Room

Join Miss Melissa every Wednesday this summer for these awesome prehistoric adventures! Each week we will do 2 different activities, ranging from art to science to games. Some weeks we will have special guests leading the programs! Grades K - 1st (going into this fall). Registration is required! You must sign up for each session separately. PLEASE NOTE: Due to the popularity of this program we have created a 2nd session at 3:00pm in order to reduce the number of kids put on a waitlist. Please only register for ONE of these sessions, 1:45pm OR 3:00pm. SCHEDULE: July 1: Dinosaur Paper Crafts - Create your own dinosaur tail and feet using paper and an assortment of fun materials. Then turn yourself into a dinosaur by wearing your creations and play a dinosaur movement game. July 8: Clay Dinosaurs - Use colored air dry clay to mold a dinosaur, then decorate it with dry pasta, sequins, gems and more! Afterwards we'll play Dinosaur Dash - a letter & sound recognition game. July 15: Salt Dough Dinosaur Fossils - Use mini dinosaur skeleton figures to create fossil impressions in salt dough! Then we will play a dinosaur skeleton matching game. Celina Bartz from Cornell Cooperative Extension will also be here to teach us about soil for part of the program! July 22: Shape Dinosaurs - Pick out a variety of colorful paper shapes and then glue them together to make a dinosaur! We will also use magna tiles to build 3D dinosaurs. July 29: Fizzy Dinosaur Egg Experiment - Hatch baking soda dinosaur eggs using pipettes and vinegar to see what surprise will be inside! We will also play a dinosaur math game. August 5: Cave Painting - Learn about the prehistoric art of cave painting and then make your own "cave art" by painting the inside of a giant cardboard box "cave". This session will take place OUTSIDE! Led by Melanie from Nioga Library System. August 12: Dinosaur Terrariums - Create your own mini dinosaur habitat in a jar, complete with tiny dinosaur figures! Led by Melanie from Nioga Library System.

Program Room

Join Miss Melissa every Wednesday this summer for these awesome prehistoric adventures! Each week we will do 2 different activities, ranging from art to science to games. Some weeks we will have special guests leading the programs! Grades K - 1st (going into this fall). Registration is required! You must sign up for each session separately. PLEASE NOTE: Due to the popularity of this program we have created a 2nd session at 3:00pm in order to reduce the number of kids put on a waitlist. Please only register for ONE of these sessions, 1:45pm OR 3:00pm. SCHEDULE: July 1: Dinosaur Paper Crafts - Create your own dinosaur tail and feet using paper and an assortment of fun materials. Then turn yourself into a dinosaur by wearing your creations and play a dinosaur movement game. July 8: Clay Dinosaurs - Use colored air dry clay to mold a dinosaur, then decorate it with dry pasta, sequins, gems and more! Afterwards we'll play Dinosaur Dash - a letter & sound recognition game. July 15: Salt Dough Dinosaur Fossils - Use mini dinosaur skeleton figures to create fossil impressions in salt dough! Then we will play a dinosaur skeleton matching game. Celina Bartz from Cornell Cooperative Extension will also be here to teach us about soil for part of the program! July 22: Shape Dinosaurs - Pick out a variety of colorful paper shapes and then glue them together to make a dinosaur! We will also use magna tiles to build 3D dinosaurs. July 29: Fizzy Dinosaur Egg Experiment - Hatch baking soda dinosaur eggs using pipettes and vinegar to see what surprise will be inside! We will also play a dinosaur math game. August 5: Cave Painting - Learn about the prehistoric art of cave painting and then make your own "cave art" by painting the inside of a giant cardboard box "cave". This session will take place OUTSIDE! Led by Melanie from Nioga Library System. August 12: Dinosaur Terrariums - Create your own mini dinosaur habitat in a jar, complete with tiny dinosaur figures! Led by Melanie from Nioga Library System.

Program Room

In this program we will create a dinosaur eye out of air dry clay and paint. Grades 8th - 12th, registration is required!

Children's Room

Join us every week this summer to watch a video of an animated storybook reading, and then make a cool dinosaur craft that goes along with the story. Geared towards children ages 3-12 years, registration is required! STORY SCHEDULE: June 25: Listen to "Dinosaurs" written by: Jill McDonald, then make a colorful paper dinosaur hat! July 2: Listen to "Never Let a Dinosaur Scribble" written by: Diane Alber, then make a dinosaur scribble craft! July 9: Listen to "Penelope Rex and the Problem with Pets" written by: Ryan T. Higgins, then make a paper plate dino egg craft! July 16: Listen to "Tiny T. Rex and the Impossible Hug" written by: Jonathan Stutzman, then make a Tiny T. Rex finger puppet! July 23: Listen to "Ten Minutes to Bed Little Dinosaur" written by: Rhiannon Fielding, then make a dinosaur shadow puppet craft! July 30: Listen to "Pete the Cat: Cavecat Pete" written by: James Dean, then make a handprint dinosaur! August 6: Listen to "How Do Dinosaurs Stay Friends" written by: Jane Yolen, then make a tissue paper dinosaur suncatcher! August 13: Listen to "How to Catch a Dinosaur" written by: Adam Wallace, then make a paper roll pterodactyl puppet!

Children's Room

During this program we will create a fun summer decoration! We will decorate a mini wooden crate and paint plastic eggs to make a miniature crate of watermelons. Adult Program, registration required.

Program Room

Join Miss Melissa for stories and songs of a new theme each week, plus a mix of flannel board activities, instruments, and/or bubbles! Children 1 - 5 years old, but siblings of all ages are welcome to join. Registration is appreciated!* *Registering for one will sign you up for the remainder of the session, June 26th - August 14th. This gives us a general idea of how many people to expect from week to week.

The Library will be CLOSED on Saturday, July 18th due to Oatka Fest. Our book drop will also be closed for the entire weekend. Be sure to visit our booth at the festival (10-2 both days) for an all ages craft and summer program information! We will be located to the left of the Library's front steps. You may still utilize our 24/7 online services including Libby, Hoopla, Blackstone Unlimited, Kanopy, and the website's online catalog!

Stop by our booth at the Oatka Fest, located to the left of the Library’s front steps! We'll have free button making for ALL ages, design your own or use one of our pre-printed templates! We’ll also have information on our summer programs and reading challenges. All ages, no need to register! Please note: The Library itself and the book drop will both be closed on Saturday and Sunday on Oatka Fest weekend. We will NOT be having a book sale this year.

Stop by our booth at the Oatka Fest, located to the left of the Library’s front steps! We'll have free button making for ALL ages, design your own or use one of our pre-printed templates! We’ll also have information on our summer programs and reading challenges. All ages, no need to register! Please note: The Library itself and the book drop will both be closed on Saturday and Sunday on Oatka Fest weekend. We will NOT be having a book sale this year.

Program Room

Join Miss Sara for stories and songs of a new theme each week, plus a mix of flannel board activities, instruments, and/or bubbles! Children 1 - 5 years old, but siblings of all ages are welcome to join. Registration is appreciated!* *Registering for one will sign you up for the remainder of the session, June 26th - August 14th. This gives us a general idea of how many people to expect from week to week.

Main Library

Join Carolyn Dawson to learn how to play American Mah Jongg! The objective is to be the first to build a 14-tile hand that exactly matches a specific winning combination. We will supply all materials, no prior experience with the game is necessary. When you register it is for all 3 sessions, please plan to attend them all. (This program will also be offered on Wednesday evenings at the end of August!) Adults, registration is required!

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Each participant will get their own little piece of earth to dig through, like an archaeologist, to find hidden treasures that they will get to bring home! Weather permitting, this program will be held outside. Grades 2-4. Registration required! *The times of our 2nd-4th grade and 5th-7th grade groups are scheduled so that they line up with dismissal of the STEAM Camps at Wolcott Street School. If your child is signed up for STEAM at the school on the date of one of our programs, let us know at registration and we will pick them up at their dismissal time like we do for after school programs. This only applies to kids going into 3rd-7th grades.

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Led by Kim from the Bustling Brush. Celebrate Christmas in July by painting a wooden ornament! They will be in the shape of a tree and participants will get to add personalized mini ornaments to it, with the names of their family members on them! Adults, registration is required! *Please note that this is a personalized craft that takes time to prepare before the event. Please only register if you plan to attend. If you do register but then are unable attend you must let us know as soon as possible!*

Program Room

Join Miss Melissa every Wednesday this summer for these awesome prehistoric adventures! Each week we will do 2 different activities, ranging from art to science to games. Some weeks we will have special guests leading the programs! Grades 5th-7th (going into this fall). Registration is required! You must sign up for each session separately.* *The times of our 2nd-4th grade and 5th-7th grade groups are scheduled so that they line up with dismissal of the STEAM Camps at Wolcott Street School. If your child is signed up for STEAM at the school on the date of one of our programs, let us know at registration and we will pick them up at their dismissal time like we do for after school programs. This only applies to kids going into 3rd-7th grades. SCHEDULE: July 1: 3D Perler Bead Dinosaurs - Make 3D dinosaurs out of fuse beads, by creating multiple layers and snapping them together! We'll also make 2D dinosaurs and turn them into key chains or magnets. July 8: Clay Dinosaurs - Use colored air dry clay to mold a dinosaur, then decorate it with dry pasta, sequins, gems and more! Afterwards we'll play a dinosaur game. July 15: Salt Dough Dinosaur Fossils - Mix up the ingredients to create your own salt dough, then use mini dinosaur skeleton figures to create fossil impressions in the dough! We will also use an assortment of dried pastas to create dinosaur skeletons on paper. July 22: Prehistoric Paintings - Using watercolors we will paint a sunset background, then we'll glue paper dinosaur silhouettes on top. July 29: Fizzy Dinosaur Egg Experiment - Create baking soda dinosaur eggs, then we will hatch our eggs using pipettes and vinegar! We will also make tissue paper dinosaur suncatchers. August 5: Cave Painting - Learn about the prehistoric art of cave painting and then make your own "cave art" by painting the inside of a giant cardboard box "cave". This session will take place OUTSIDE! Led by Melanie from Nioga Library System. August 12: Dinosaur Terrariums - Create your own mini dinosaur habitat in a jar, complete with tiny dinosaur figures! Led by Melanie from Nioga Library System.

Program Room

Join Miss Melissa every Wednesday this summer for these awesome prehistoric adventures! Each week we will do 2 different activities, ranging from art to science to games. Some weeks we will have special guests leading the programs! Grades K - 1st (going into this fall). Registration is required! You must sign up for each session separately. PLEASE NOTE: Due to the popularity of this program we have created a 2nd session at 3:00pm in order to reduce the number of kids put on a waitlist. Please only register for ONE of these sessions, 1:45pm OR 3:00pm. SCHEDULE: July 1: Dinosaur Paper Crafts - Create your own dinosaur tail and feet using paper and an assortment of fun materials. Then turn yourself into a dinosaur by wearing your creations and play a dinosaur movement game. July 8: Clay Dinosaurs - Use colored air dry clay to mold a dinosaur, then decorate it with dry pasta, sequins, gems and more! Afterwards we'll play Dinosaur Dash - a letter & sound recognition game. July 15: Salt Dough Dinosaur Fossils - Use mini dinosaur skeleton figures to create fossil impressions in salt dough! Then we will play a dinosaur skeleton matching game. Celina Bartz from Cornell Cooperative Extension will also be here to teach us about soil for part of the program! July 22: Shape Dinosaurs - Pick out a variety of colorful paper shapes and then glue them together to make a dinosaur! We will also use magna tiles to build 3D dinosaurs. July 29: Fizzy Dinosaur Egg Experiment - Hatch baking soda dinosaur eggs using pipettes and vinegar to see what surprise will be inside! We will also play a dinosaur math game. August 5: Cave Painting - Learn about the prehistoric art of cave painting and then make your own "cave art" by painting the inside of a giant cardboard box "cave". This session will take place OUTSIDE! Led by Melanie from Nioga Library System. August 12: Dinosaur Terrariums - Create your own mini dinosaur habitat in a jar, complete with tiny dinosaur figures! Led by Melanie from Nioga Library System.

Program Room

Join Miss Melissa every Wednesday this summer for these awesome prehistoric adventures! Each week we will do 2 different activities, ranging from art to science to games. Some weeks we will have special guests leading the programs! Grades K - 1st (going into this fall). Registration is required! You must sign up for each session separately. PLEASE NOTE: Due to the popularity of this program we have created a 2nd session at 3:00pm in order to reduce the number of kids put on a waitlist. Please only register for ONE of these sessions, 1:45pm OR 3:00pm. SCHEDULE: July 1: Dinosaur Paper Crafts - Create your own dinosaur tail and feet using paper and an assortment of fun materials. Then turn yourself into a dinosaur by wearing your creations and play a dinosaur movement game. July 8: Clay Dinosaurs - Use colored air dry clay to mold a dinosaur, then decorate it with dry pasta, sequins, gems and more! Afterwards we'll play Dinosaur Dash - a letter & sound recognition game. July 15: Salt Dough Dinosaur Fossils - Use mini dinosaur skeleton figures to create fossil impressions in salt dough! Then we will play a dinosaur skeleton matching game. Celina Bartz from Cornell Cooperative Extension will also be here to teach us about soil for part of the program! July 22: Shape Dinosaurs - Pick out a variety of colorful paper shapes and then glue them together to make a dinosaur! We will also use magna tiles to build 3D dinosaurs. July 29: Fizzy Dinosaur Egg Experiment - Hatch baking soda dinosaur eggs using pipettes and vinegar to see what surprise will be inside! We will also play a dinosaur math game. August 5: Cave Painting - Learn about the prehistoric art of cave painting and then make your own "cave art" by painting the inside of a giant cardboard box "cave". This session will take place OUTSIDE! Led by Melanie from Nioga Library System. August 12: Dinosaur Terrariums - Create your own mini dinosaur habitat in a jar, complete with tiny dinosaur figures! Led by Melanie from Nioga Library System.

Children's Room

Join us every week this summer to watch a video of an animated storybook reading, and then make a cool dinosaur craft that goes along with the story. Geared towards children ages 3-12 years, registration is required! STORY SCHEDULE: June 25: Listen to "Dinosaurs" written by: Jill McDonald, then make a colorful paper dinosaur hat! July 2: Listen to "Never Let a Dinosaur Scribble" written by: Diane Alber, then make a dinosaur scribble craft! July 9: Listen to "Penelope Rex and the Problem with Pets" written by: Ryan T. Higgins, then make a paper plate dino egg craft! July 16: Listen to "Tiny T. Rex and the Impossible Hug" written by: Jonathan Stutzman, then make a Tiny T. Rex finger puppet! July 23: Listen to "Ten Minutes to Bed Little Dinosaur" written by: Rhiannon Fielding, then make a dinosaur shadow puppet craft! July 30: Listen to "Pete the Cat: Cavecat Pete" written by: James Dean, then make a handprint dinosaur! August 6: Listen to "How Do Dinosaurs Stay Friends" written by: Jane Yolen, then make a tissue paper dinosaur suncatcher! August 13: Listen to "How to Catch a Dinosaur" written by: Adam Wallace, then make a paper roll pterodactyl puppet!

Children's Room

Join Mandy from the Art of Mandy for this fun family program! Children and their adults will each paint their own dinosaur pottery piece (figure or mug), then it’ll be brought back to Mandy’s studio to be fired in the kiln. Pieces will be returned to the Library for pickup at a later date. Please be sure to select the number of people that will be painting pottery so we can be sure to have enough for everyone! Ages 3-17, registration is required! *This program is made possible with funds from the Statewide Community Regrant Program, a regrant program of the New York State Council on the Arts with the support of the office of the Governor and the New York State Legislature and administered by GO ART! GO ART! acknowledges that the land on which this project takes place is the ancestral territory of the Seneca Nation, one of the Six Nations of the Haudenosaunee Confederacy. GO ART! recognizes the historical and ongoing presence of Indigenous peoples in Western New York and honors their enduring relationship to this land.

Program Room

Join Miss Melissa for stories and songs of a new theme each week, plus a mix of flannel board activities, instruments, and/or bubbles! Children 1 - 5 years old, but siblings of all ages are welcome to join. Registration is appreciated!* *Registering for one will sign you up for the remainder of the session, June 26th - August 14th. This gives us a general idea of how many people to expect from week to week.

Program Room

Join Miss Sara for stories and songs of a new theme each week, plus a mix of flannel board activities, instruments, and/or bubbles! Children 1 - 5 years old, but siblings of all ages are welcome to join. Registration is appreciated!* *Registering for one will sign you up for the remainder of the session, June 26th - August 14th. This gives us a general idea of how many people to expect from week to week.

Main Library

Join Carolyn Dawson to learn how to play American Mah Jongg! The objective is to be the first to build a 14-tile hand that exactly matches a specific winning combination. We will supply all materials, no prior experience with the game is necessary. When you register it is for all 3 sessions, please plan to attend them all. (This program will also be offered on Wednesday evenings at the end of August!) Adults, registration is required!