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Earth Day extravaganza is clean fun
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Neighbors | Alexis Bartolomucci.Ramses Perez planted a seed to take home using dirt and an empty, cleaned out yogurt cup during the Austintown library's Earth Day party on April 9.
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Neighbors | Alexis Bartolomucci.Ty Dorney played in the Earth Day slime, made out of water, corn starch and food coloring, during the Earth Day party at the Austintown library on April 9.
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Neigbors | Alexis Bartolomucci.Collin and Norah Chasko played the Bar-ba-loot Toss game at the Earth Day party on April 9 at the Austintown library.
By ALEXIS BARTOLOMUCCI
Austintown library hosted an Earth Day celebration on April 9.
Lyndsay Cramer, an Austintown librarian, put together a Lorax themed party to celebrate Earth Day. The party started out with the book “How to Help the Earth-by the Lorax,” by Tish Rabe.
“Earth Day is coming up on April 22 and I’m a big fan of the Lorax. I thought we would tie in Lorax activities into Earth Day,” said Cramer.
After the children and their families listened to the book, there were several activities for the children to enjoy. They could play a magnetic fishing game with the Humming Fish, make Earth Day slime from corn starch and water, a cup-stacking contest, a Bar-ba-loot toss game and several others.
There was old construction paper the children could use to make cards and crafts from. Using the old construction paper was a way to show the children about using old things to create new things.
One of the favorite crafts of the party was the supplies to plant a flower. There were seeds, an old yogurt cup the library collected for this event, dirt and water. The children could bury a seed in the dirt in the yogurt cup. After they watered the cup, there was a plastic bag for the cup to go in for the children to take home.
The Earth Day party was a way for children to learn about different ways to help keep the Earth clean in a fun way.