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Children experience real life Charlie Brown Thanksgiving
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Neighbors | Alexis Bartolomucci.Toast, popcorn, ice cream, pretzels and jelly beans were set out on a table for the children and other attendees to eat. The feast was provided by the Austintown library on Nov. 14 during the Charlie Brown Thanksgiving program.
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Neighbors | Alexis Bartolomucci.Children and their caregivers worked on creating their own Snoopy on a plate after watching the Charlie Brown Thanksgiving story at the Austintown library. A variety of crafts were available for the children to create throughout the program.
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Neighbors | Alexis Bartolomucci.Children colored pictures for Charlie Brown to place in his mailbox. The children can check back at the Austintown library and look for a response from Charlie Brown.
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Neighbors | Alexis Bartolomucci.Sofia Lordi stood at the Psychiatric Help photo booth and got her picture taken with Lucy. Lordi wore her Snoopy ears and held up different signs with various phrases from the Charlie Brown Thanksgiving story.
By ALEXIS BARTOLOMUCCI
To get ready for Thanksgiving, the Austintown library hosted a Charlie Brown Thanksgiving event for children of all ages on Nov. 14.
The event started out with the Charlie Brown Thanksgiving movie-book. Children and their caregivers were given Snoopy ears to wear throughout the event. Several crafts, activities, food and a photobooth were all available to the children to use after the movie was over.
Librarians Ashley Potopovich and Lindsay Platt led the event.
“It took a couple hours to put together,” Platt said. “It was the first time Ashley and I did it. We had to make sure there was a lot because we were hoping for a big crowd.”
There was a large crowd, but there were plenty of activities for each child to occupy themselves and keep busy.
The food supplied was truly a Charlie Brown feast. The children were able to choose from pretzels, jelly beans, toast, ice cream and popcorn to eat, just like Charlie Brown and his friends.
One of the activities was called Charlie Brown’s Mailbox, which allowed the children to color a picture for Charlie Brown and put it in his mailbox because Charlie Brown never gets mail. The children who placed a picture in his mailbox can stop back at the Austintown library and check the mailbox to see if they got a response from Charlie Brown himself.