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Boardman library hosts Snow Much Fun event
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Neighbors | Tim Cleveland.One of the craft projects children could have done at the Snow Much Fun event at the Boardman library was making a snowman cloche. The snowman was made out of styrofoam balls and displayed in a plastic pop bottle.
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Neighbors | Tim Cleveland.Boardman library youth services librarian Allie Graf helped a pair of young girls decide which flavor of cocoa to drink during the Snow Much Fun event.
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Neighbors | Tim Cleveland.A young girl blew a snowflake make of a coffee filter during a game of shuffleboard during the Snow Much Fun event at the Boardman library. The object of the game was to blow the snowflake and see where it ended up on the table to earn points.
By TIM CLEVELAND
A special event the Boardman library hosted on Jan. 15 was Snow Much Fun, an hour-long program which was geared toward an age group the library sometimes misses when it comes to activities.
“It’s just a one-time program,” Boardman library youth services librarian Allie Graf said. “We try to have at least one special program each month for school-age kids because we have programs for younger and we have programs for teens, but sometimes that kindergarten through sixth-grade age group seems to get let out. We try to offer at least one thing a month for the school-age crowd.”
There were several different activities available to do depending on the age of the children. On the big screen, Graf displayed a Tumblebook called “The Story of Snow.”
Tumblebooks are animated, talking picture books that the library owns. They are ebooks but don’t require any special software.
“I learned a lot from this book so I think the kids will too,” Graf said.
Among the crafts and games were making a snowman out of styrofoam balls and displaying it inside a plastic soda bottle, as well as a snowman slam, during which the children threw a cotton ball at six Styrofoam cups that were stacked up and had snowman faces drawn on them.
They could also cut out snowflakes from coffee filters, then blow them across a table where they earned points playing shuffleboard when the snowflakes landed in different spots on the table.
Graf said she hoped the event would leave a favorable impression about the library with the children who attended.
“Hopefully, they’ll just see the library as a place they can come for fun, random activities and learning things, but at the same time, playing games and doing crafts,” she said. “The library often gets overlooked when kids have music and sports and all that other stuff after school. We want them to know this is a place they can come and hang out too.”