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Boardman library hosts It’s a Royal Affair event
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Neighbors | Tim Cleveland.Boardman library assistant supervisor for children's works Karen Saunders read from the book "The Prince Won't Go to Bed" during the It's a Royal Affair event.
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Neighbors | Tim Cleveland.The children listened intently as assistant supervisor for children's works Karen Saunders read a story during the It's a Royal Affair event at the Boardman library.
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Neighbors | Tim Cleveland.A young boy used a pool noodle to catapult a scrubbie during the It's a Royal Affair event at the Boardman library.
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Neighbors | Tim Cleveland.Karen Saunders used a board to tell the story of a princess during the It's a Royal Affair event at the Boardman library.
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Neighbors | Tim Cleveland.Based on the book "The Princess and the Pea," a young girl sat on two pillows and tried to guess which one had the "pea" inside it. The pea was actually a golf ball.
By TIM CLEVELAND
A program that the Boardman library used to do was recently brought back. The It’s a Royal Affair event was offered on Oct. 17.
“The program here at the library is called It’s a Royal Affair,” Boardman library assistant supervisor for children’s works Karen Saunders said. “It’s a medieval tournament, so we’re having stories and games that they get to play. We chose today because school’s out and we had a program earlier today for the teachers earlier today and we wanted to focus on the children in the afternoon.
“What we do is we tell stories, then we’ll have games that they get to play. The stories are based on history.”
Saunders started off by reading three books, “The Princess and the Pea,” “The Prince Won’t go to Bed” and “Klippity Klop.”
“We have our stories, then we have our games based on literature,” she said.
There were several stations with games and activities for the children to do. There was a station with several books related to medieval times and a castle for them to go into and read. They could use a catapult made from popsicle sticks and a plastic spoon to shoot pompoms into a cup; there was a game where cards with pictures of blackbirds on them were tossed into a pie tin, based on the poem “Sing a Song of Six Pence;” the children could play bowling with cloth balls and pins; they could use a pool noodle to catapult a scrubbie; there was a ring toss game; and based on the story “The Princess and the Pea,” they could sit on a pair of pillows a try to guess which one had the pea [a golf ball] inside it.
“It’s a fun topic, medieval times,” Saunders said. “I like to read about it. We have lots of castle books. What life was like in medieval times. We have a castle for them to sit in when they read. That’s one of the stations they can do. It’s just a fun time period in history. We wanted to bring it to the attention to the children.”