Youth

Galway Public Library offers a wide variety of special events and regularly scheduled programs for adults, teens, and children.

Summer Reading Program 2019

Programming the Finch Robot

Kids at a table working on computers.

 

Metal Windchimes

Kids standing below their metal windchimes.

Bird House Decorating

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Astronaut Food and Bottle Rockets

Kids eating like astronauts. Kids making bottle rockets. Kids showing the bottle rockets they made.

Story Time fun

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Lego Parade Vehicles

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Fairy Gardens

Kids outside making fairy gardens Girl with fairy garden Girl with fairy garden she made. Boy with fairy garden.

Making Space Suits, July 2019

Front view of a space suit costume. Back of a space suit costume from boxes, etc. Kids & adults making space suits from boxes etc.

Spring 2019

2 little girls reading

Kids singing "I'm a little teapot" song

2 kids doing crafts at Story Time
Story Time

Kids & adults planting seeds Kids & adults planting seeds

Winter 2019

Kids making Valentine's Day cards
Valentine’s Day cards

Terrarium Planting:

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2 kids playing with clay.
Kids in Small World group making miniature food with air-dry clay.
3 small children singing
Sing Along group performed the Alphabet Song.

Story Time, making a globe, saying “Hello” in many languages:

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Children making pasta snowflakes

Making pasta snowflakes

Autumn 2018:

Getting ready for Thanksgiving:

     

The Mayflower, made of Legos!

Crafternoon, making wood slice coasters:

    

Click this link to see the Pumpkin Catapult in action!

  

Summer 2018

  

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Tang Museum program: making musical instruments
Tang Museum program: making musical instruments

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Preschool Story Time July 3 – getting firecrackers ready for the 4th!

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Decorating rock collection boxes - Libraries Rock!
Decorating rock collection boxes – Libraries Rock!

Building the new library – Groundbreaking Ceremony June 30.

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Spring 2018

Kids’ Garden Club on 6/18, when the girls planted some herb seeds and our plants donated by Leisuretime Greenhouses. They’re standing in the “bean teepee” set up for the pots of beans and cucumbers to grow up and cover.
Kids’ Garden Club on 6/18, when the girls planted some herb seeds and our plants donated by Leisuretime Greenhouses. They’re standing in the “bean teepee” set up for the pots of beans and cucumbers to grow up and cover.
Tinker Thursday on 6/14. Kids made walking turtles.
Tinker Thursday on 6/14. Kids made walking turtles.
More gardening!
More gardening!
Lego Club's scale model of our New Library Building.
Lego Club’s scale model of our New Library Building.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Pokemon Club 5-5-2018

 

planted bean seeds and seed chart

Mother's Day pop-up card

Garden Club in front of their newly planted seeds.
Garden Club in front of their newly planted seeds.
Story Time, making washcloth bunnies and pompom chicks.
Story Time, making washcloth bunnies and pompom chicks.

 

Garden Club getting ready for summer garden!
Garden Club getting ready for summer garden!
Lego Club making progress on the New Building scale model.
Lego Club making progress on the New Building scale model.
Story Time - shapes
Story Time – shapes
Weather Club member showing off all the weather instruments she made (barometer, anemometer, and thermometers).
Weather Club member showing off all the weather instruments she made (barometer, anemometer, and thermometers).
Artful Monday paper marbling
Artful Monday paper marbling

Winter 2018

Two of our Thursday Tinkerers.
Two of our Thursday Tinkerers.

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Dan Thompson from the National Weather Service speaking to the Weather Around Us group on Monday 2-26-2018
Dan Thompson from the National Weather Service speaking to the Weather Around Us group on Monday 2-26-2018
Story Time - growing eager readers!
Story Time – growing eager readers!

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Fall 2017

Part of our Nutcracker Series
Part of our Nutcracker Series

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Coding Club
Coding Club

Summer 2017

Solar eclipse viewing, 8/21/17.

Solar eclipse viewing, 8/21/17.

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StoryTtime Alligators
Story Time Alligators

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Teen Book Club
Teen Book Club
Cosmic Kids Yoga 7_19_17
Cosmic Kids Yoga 7_19_17

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ARtfull Monday Painted Feathers
Artfull Monday Painted Feathers

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Tinker Tuesday - littleBits 7_11_2017
Tinker Tuesday – littleBits 7_11_2017

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Tinker Tuesday - littleBits 7_11_2017
Tinker Tuesday – littleBits 7_11_2017
3D map collage, Tang Museum 7_11_17
3D map collage, Tang Museum 7_11_17

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Pokemon Club, first Saturday of each month

Spring 2017

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Planting our “Kids’ Garden” thanks to Sunshine Gardens for their thoughtful and generous donation of veggies!

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Winter 2017:

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FALL 2016:

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SUMMER 2016:

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Earlier Programs:

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