Event Tag: Tweens

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Create your own scratch-off map to track all your summer travels (or just states you’ve been to!) Color your map, draw symbols to represent each state, or just decorate! Then use scratch-off stickers to cover places you’ve never visited before!

Free and open to all rising 6-12 graders. Registration is required.

children working in the garden

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Plant and care for the library’s native plant butterfly and pollinator garden!  Learn about the importance of native plants and how you can help.  Do crafts and participate in citizen science/community science activities, where ordinary citizens/community members help scientists by gathering local data.  Help the library raise monarch caterpillars to be released as butterflies at the end of the summer. 

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Celebrate the real science behind many of the magical special effects in J.K. Rowling’s Harry Potter series (no spoilers, though, if you haven’t read them all yet).  You’ll experience a Thickening Potion and its Antidote, Indoor Snow, a Crystal Ball full of pearly white mist, and many other dramatic chemical and physical changes.  Professor Sepoc features lots of eye-catching sparks, flames, foams, and color changes involving safe, simple chemicals. 

This inclusive, family-friendly show welcomes anyone ages 5 & up who can listen to instructions and be respectful to attend. Registration required.

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Meet nature’s clean-up crew and learn about all the essential services some of our less-fancy native birds provide.  Loveable once you get to know them, you can meet a crow, raven, vulture, and other birds once deemed, “pests” by humans.  Presenter:  Horizon Wings Raptor Rehabilitation

children working in the garden

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Plant and care for the library’s native plant butterfly and pollinator garden!  Learn about the importance of native plants and how you can help.  Do crafts and participate in citizen science/community science activities, where ordinary citizens/community members help scientists by gathering local data.  Help the library raise monarch caterpillars to be released as butterflies at the end of the summer. 

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Swing, catch, and make a splash at water balloon baseball! It’s like regular baseball, except you’re definitely going to get soaked! You can also earn some tickets toward summer reading prizes!

Free and open to all rising 6th-12th graders. Registration is required.

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It’s tie-dye time! Come to the library and create one-of-a-kind accessories using different tie-dying techniques. Earn tickets toward the Summer Reading Game prizes too!

All supplies will be provided.

Free and open to all rising 6-12 graders. Registration is required.

children working in the garden

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Plant and care for the library’s native plant butterfly and pollinator garden!  Learn about the importance of native plants and how you can help.  Do crafts and participate in citizen science/community science activities, where ordinary citizens/community members help scientists by gathering local data.  Help the library raise monarch caterpillars to be released as butterflies at the end of the summer. 

children working in the garden

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Plant and care for the library’s native plant butterfly and pollinator garden!  Learn about the importance of native plants and how you can help.  Do crafts and participate in citizen science/community science activities, where ordinary citizens/community members help scientists by gathering local data.  Help the library raise monarch caterpillars to be released as butterflies at the end of the summer.