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Mother Earth visits the Boardman library
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Neighbors | Sarah Foor .Peg Flynn (left) read to a crowd of about 70 environmentally conscious local kids during her mother earth story time.
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Neighbors | Sarah Foor .After story time, guests to the mother earth event decorated magnets fashioned from bits of paper and recycled bottle caps. Julia (left) and Olivia Pickens showed off their crafts with a smile.
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Neighbors | Sarah Foor .Peg Flynn brought gifts for the readers who attended the July 6 event. Brittany (left) and Brooklyn Sellers showed off the bottle cap craft and free coloring book they received at the story time.
By SARAH FOOR
Wearing a sunny yellow crown and a green and blue earth poncho, Green Team environmental educator Peg Flynn visited the Boardman library in her new role as Mother Earth on July 6.
Flynn shared the story “Dear Children of the Earth” with a group of young guests at the Boardman facility. Schim Schimmel’s book served as a tender reminder of the responsibility that humans have to take care of the environment. The book attests, “I am more than a planet — I am also your home.”
Flynn taught this lesson to her guests by pointing out some of the animals illustrated in “Dear Children of the Earth,” which included majestic lions, leopards, elephants and giraffes.
“These are probably some of your favorite animals. Can you even imagine how different the world would be without them?” Flynn asked the group.
After her story, Mother Earth asked her guests to make Earth Day every day and to consider recycling at home.
To thank her guests for hearing her message, Flynn provided free recycled paper coloring books and sun magnets made from repurposed paper and bottle caps.
“In a unique way, our story time fits in with the library’s ‘One World, Many Stories’ theme for their summer reading program. We all have the same home and we need to protect it. At the Green Team, it’s out passion to get that message out to local kids.”