Event Tag: Tweens

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Try your hand at pottery! Pinch those pots! Make those vases! Compete for the title of ultimate sculptor extraordinaire and prizes! Similar to the British tv show, contestants will compete to complete a pottery challenge. At the end of the program, projects will be judged on overall functionality and appearance. Prizes will go to the 1st, 2nd and 3rd place.

Free and open to all in grades 5-12. Registration is required.

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Sooo you guys… GFL hasn’t been exactly winning these past few tournaments. Think you can reclaim our glory? Join us on our home turf in a Fortnite tournament against Madison Scranton and Old Saybrook Acton libraries! Brought to you by One Up Games!

Free and open to all in grades 5-12. Registration is required to compete in the tournament. Spectators are welcome to come! You do not need to register to be a spectator.

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Join our book club where we cook and discuss books! The first hour, we’ll be in the kitchen cooking up something delicious.  The last half hour, we’ll eat our creations and talk about books. This month we’ll be making snacks from the 90’s!

Free and open to all in grades 5-12. 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. 

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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. 

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.