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PA-PA-PAR-PAR-PARTY!!! (P.S. this picture was featured on the second page in the Trail Daily Times today! Much better in colour, though, no?)

So, from all of us at the Beaver Valley Public Library, you are invited to ...

Our Flyer for the Event!

Yay! I'm so excited, yet also a little sad, since this marks our last week of the Summer Reading Club and therefore drawing to a close my time this summer at the Beaver Valley Public Library! :(

Sara, Zoe, Michael and Sam are getting excited for our party this Thursday!

In the meantime though, I am looking forward to the bouncy castle!!!, the tie-dye-ing!!!, and games and just EVERYTHING coming up for the party at the Montrose Park this week! I hope to see you there!

Today, Susan and Stephanie joined me to practise some tie-dye-ing at my house, since we are planning to have a section at the party this Thursday devoted to tie-dye-ing capes! We shall indeed be assembling some super heroes at the party!

Our materials and finished product!

Here's some pictures of us assembling our capes! Although I did screw up my iron-on logo on my cape! Whoops!

Our twist-tied, tie-dye-ed abominations!

Me posing with Stephanie's super Twist-tied cape!

Ta da! Susan with her cape!

We definitely had a blast making our capes! So fun and easy with this spray kit Rhonda had in the craft room of the Library! It only came with 3 colours: purple, black, and gray - and really I saw no difference between the gray and black, so 2 colours really!

Super Susan! To the rescue!

I'm thinking that tomorrow, or rather today, at work that I'll be doing some further embellishing on our capes! If only we had a be-dazzler at the library! ... maybe Rhonda has one!

Anyways, these capes were fun, they'll make a hero out of all of us, definite superheroes!

BANANANANNANANANANAAAASUSAN!

Happy Reading guys! Hope to see you at the library this week, or if not there at the Montrose Park this Thursday for some games, a picnic, fun, bouncy castle, prizes, just everything really! It's going to be sooooo fun!

Brothers Tim and Ben getting ready for some more stories with our ant crafts!

This morning Rhonda, our fantastic and awesome children’s librarian, returned back to the library after a weekend wedding down in Vancouver! She came back right into the swing of things and was off running to prepare for the Little Einsteins this morning from 10-11am. This week Rhonda and the Little Einsteins were talking about some fun summer activities! Fishing out on the water and having warm, cozy picnics at the park were topics discussed!

Crafts!

The sing-a-long songs, actions and story time readings enchanted the kids! They read stories about ants and their crazy shenanigans! After that they went right into the fun craft of the day in making their own egg-carton ants along with some delicious watermelon, hotdogs and ice cream cut outs to appease their ants’ appetites!

The kids had a blast! Cutting out and gluing odds and ends together, bending their ants’ pipe cleaner antennae and legs, and my favourite thing! – watching the parents and guardians help out their little ones in crafting away their crafts!

Working together in the family! :)

Now I hope you don't all mind! But today I went CRAZY with the camera so about 90% of this post will be pictures! click on the pictures to enlarge them and use your arrow keys to flip through! Enjoy! And happy reading!! Click the read more link to read the rest see more pictures!

Our mini Einsteins for the day! 2 cuties!

Cutie!

Lauren is listening very attentively to the craft instructions!

Craft time!

Natasha working on her ant friends

The little babies joined by Lauren who couldn't stay away! Sorry about the blurriness of the photo! My focusing skills are not on par with the pros!

So focused!

Smiles! :)

Craft table!

Mini Einsteins!

Do pardon me! But I just couldn't choose which pictures I liked most so I give you all the cute pictures of our mini Einsteins! Seriously! How could I even think of not posting any of these adorable keys! These little ones are always a joy to have to brighten our gloomy mornings! :)