Project Tween: Polymer Pens (May 2016) Gallery
This month’s Project Tween features polymer clay designs, encapsulating pens, and baked to perfection!
This month’s Project Tween features polymer clay designs, encapsulating pens, and baked to perfection!
Tweens created lovely paper flower arrangements at this month’s Project Tween.
This month’s Project Tween featured plastic bag printmaking – messy, but worthwhile!
Using collage and other art techniques, Project Tween participants created unique notebooks.
This month Project Tween participants completed different Minecraft-themed projects.
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“Children are Like Kites” By: Erma Bombeck “I see children as kites. You spend years trying to get them off the ground. You run with them until you are both breathless. They crash…you add a longer tail…they hit the rooftop…you patch, comfort, adjust and teach. You watch them lifted by the wind and assure them that someday they will fly. Being a parent is tough! We understand and applaud all the hard work you do! … Read more
A library is a great place to find information for your homework assignments and research needs. The Youth Services department is ready to help you find the right non-fiction book for your research project, the right biography for your report, or the right novel for your reading assignment. 4 Easy Ways to Get Help: Stop by the Children’s Desk when the library is open. Call the Children’s Desk – 847-669-5386 and press 4 Send an … Read more
Find books in the Youth Collection within a Lexile range by using the links below The searches linked from this Kids Corner page are automatically limiting the results to materials for children (birth through Grade 5). The listed searches will show fiction and non-fiction books within each Lexile range. To run a search for more mature readers (teens) use the Lexile searches listed here. 1. Select the range that best matches the Lexile range of the reader. Your child’s … Read more
This month Project Tween participants decorated little graham cracker houses for the holidays. Festive!