Northeast Regional Library Blog

Suggested Family Activity 🐝 Bee Craft

How to Make a Bee Finger Puppet: A Fun Craft Activity Bees are buzzing around flowers, and now you can create your own adorable bee finger puppet! This simple craft is perfect for kids and adults alike. Follow these step-by-step instructions to make your bee puppet: Materials Needed: Yellow paper (colored or white) Black marker, Sharpie, or black crayon Glue Scissors Craft punch or hole punch (or a dime) White paper for wings Optional: Pipe Read more…

2024 Pulitzer Prize Winners Announced

The literary world buzzed with excitement as the 108th Pulitzer Prizes were revealed, showcasing the pinnacle of storytelling and historical analysis. Fiction’s Finest: “Night Watch” by Jayne Anne Phillips took the fiction prize, transporting readers to the post-Civil War era within the walls of West Virginia’s Trans-Allegheny Lunatic Asylum. Historical Insights: Jacqueline Jones’ “No Right to an Honest Living” won in history, offering a fresh perspective on Boston’s Black workers during the Civil War era. Biographical Brilliance: The biography category celebrated Read more…

Suggested Family Activity 💐 May Day

May Day is an ancient custom that celebrates the arrival of spring.  Traditionally, children and teens have danced around a May pole, weaving ribbons together.  Community members also leave flowers and gifts in cone shaped baskets to surprise their neighbors.  Today, try making a traditional May Day basket or just a small flower arrangement for someone.  More modern ideas for celebrating today include planting flowers in your yard or garden, making a flower crown to Read more…

Suggested Family Activity 🧲 Fridge Magnets

It is very easy to make your own refrigerator magnets.  Reuse magnetized things you receive in the mail or as promotional items, such as expired calendars or lists of phone numbers.  Or you can purchase sheets of thin magnet paper from dollar stores that you can cut apart.  Raid your craft supplies for small embellishments that you can glue to the magnet or cut apart old greeting cards or magazines to find pretty illustrations.  You Read more…

Suggested Family Activity 🌎 Earth Day is April 22

Celebrate Earth Day on Monday, April 22 by thinking of small things that you and your family can do every day to help the Earth.  Some ideas include: Recycle everything you can, either by turning recyclable trash into a recycling center, repurposing an item into something else to continue using it, or passing it along to someone else if you do not need it anymore. Shop at secondhand stores, thrift stores, yard sales, and similar Read more…

Suggested Family Activity 🏙 City Scene Craft

For play time today, grab a roll of paper and cover a table or put some down on the floor.  Then turn your kids loose to draw a long network of roads for their cars, trucks, and other small toys.  They can make a whole city scene, complete with buildings, trees, water features, and roadways by incorporating any play items they have.  If cars and trucks are not their ‘thing’, they can draw a jungle Read more…

Suggested Family Activity ✏ Encourage A Young Writer

Encourage your youngest family members to be a writer today.  Maybe we’ll see their names in our library’s collection one day!  All you need is paper and a pencil to get them started.  Young children can even use crayons or markers to draw their story if they cannot write yet.  If they want to make it several pages long, an adult can write down what is happening in the story, either on the back of Read more…