Art After Dark: Australian Aboriginal Dot Art Gallery (February 2026)
HAPL teens created their own dot art in the style of Australian Aboriginal artists.
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HAPL teens created their own dot art in the style of Australian Aboriginal artists.
Check out the fantastic alebrijes teens created this summer using air-dry modeling clay! Alebrijes are a form of Mexican folk art that depict dreamlike, fantastical creatures.
A nice group of people attended the library’s holiday card-making event and designed dozens of cards for friends, family, and folks in assisted living residences. Happy holidays!
Teens attempted some beginner-friendly paint by number kits at our Art After Dark event this September. (If this is beginner, I’d hate to see advanced!) Enjoy our works in progress below!
Kids gathered on a rainy day and had a great time making their own fidget snake out of beads and cord.
Teens made the most amazing color-shifting potions using food coloring and mica powder in a water-rubbing alcohol solution, then decorated their bottles with various labels and sealing wax. These make great props for parties, or D&D, or cosplay! Lots of ideas and recipes and designs can be found here. Check out some of the potions we made!
Storytelling is a time-honored traditions, and great storytelling has a magical way of weaving words to captivate and audiences. Emmy Award winning storyteller, Jim May, invoked imagination and transported the kids with his stories.
Kids had a great time learning how to use various STEM materials: Ozobots, Keva Planks, and Snap Circuits!
A most excellent variety of wreaths were created by participants at the library’s Wreaths of Khan event this December. To Khan or not to Khan, that was the question. Check out our creations below!
For Little Steamers, Miss Melanie provided several items for each child to see which one was heavier. Was a bracelet or a piece of wood heavier? How many pennies weighed as much as a colored stone? So many questions we had to answer. The kids did great and went home with a colorful bracelet.