To celebrate National Name Tag Day, on March 8, and Jewel Day, observed on March 13, Queens Library at Sunnyside invited children and their caregivers to make bejeweled name tags. Eco-arts fans: All the materials used for this craft came from old postcards and donated eco-…
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Repurposing old magazines and posters, kids at Queens Library at Sunnyside made their own pi charts for "Pi Day," celebrated every year on March 14 (3/14 or 3.14, like the first three digits in the number pi) all over the world. The symbol for pi is the Greek letter "Π." It is…
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To celebrate Dr. Seuss’s birthday, on March 2, Queens Libraries at Woodside and Broadway invited children and their caregivers to make 3D aquariums, inspired by Seuss’s book One Fish, Two Fish, Red Fish, Blue Fish, a children’s book that teaches readers simple rhymes. Dr. Seuss…
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It has been months since Superstorm Sandy devastated the East Coast, and things are still far from back to normal in the Rockaways. At the Peninsula Library where I work as the manager, we served the community from a book bus for nearly two months. Priorities have changed…
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Queens Library at Steinway invited children to decorate their own keepsake boxes, re-purposing discarded ones that had been donated to the Materials for the Arts. Recycled materials, also from Materials for the Arts, were used to adorn and design the boxes. What do you think of…
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