Northeast Regional Library Blog

Suggested Family Activity • National Mississippi Day

Tomorrow is National Mississippi Day!  Mississippi is well known for being the home of wonderful writers, entertainers and athletes including Elvis Presley, B.B. King, Eudora Welty, John Grisham, Richard Wright, William Faulkner, Oprah Winfrey, Jim Henson, Robin Roberts, LeAnn Rimes, James Earl Jones, and Jerry Rice, just to name a few.  How many famous Mississippians can you name? Mississippi is home of the Delta blues and the birthplace of the Civil Rights Movement, which can Read more

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Suggested Family Activity 🍁 Leaf Prints

Make decorative leaf prints today using just paint and paper.  Head outside and look for a fallen leaf that has a pretty shape.  Since you might get messy with this project, have fun working on it outside, such as on a sidewalk, porch, or other flat outdoor surface.  Cover the area with newspapers, an old sheet, or plastic tablecloth to help with accidental spills and to make clean-up go faster.  Start by using a paintbrush Read more

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Suggested Family Activity 🍁🍂 Leaf Pile Obstacle Course

Leaves are falling everywhere!  Try out some of these fun fall activities if the weather is nice enough to go outside:  Rake up small piles of leaves around your yard to make an obstacle course.  (This is also a great activity to get children involved in helping with leaf pick up – let them have some fun with the leaves first and then help get them all picked up!)  Scatter the piles of leaves in Read more

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Suggested Family Activity 🎳 Turkey Bowling Pins

Make Turkey Bowling Pins today by turning a plastic drink cup such as a red Dixie cup into a turkey by gluing on a triangle nose, googly eyes, and feathers sticking off the back.  Make it at least 6 pins and then let your family take turns setting them up and knocking them over with a ball.  To turn it into a STEM activity for younger children, have them start with small bouncy balls to Read more

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Suggested Family Activity 🌳Tree Craft

Look around your kitchen this week and see what interesting things you can use to make a fall tree.  One idea is to draw a tree trunk on a piece of paper and glue small round breakfast cereal pieces (such as Cheerios) to represent falling leaves.  Another fun idea is to trace your child’s arm and hand with their fingers spread out onto black or brown paper to be the trunk and limbs of the Read more

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Suggested Family Activity 🎂🍰 Cake Pans

Did you know our Iuka branch has cake pans you can check out to use?  In addition to basic sheet pans and tiered pans, they have other fun shapes such as stars, circle, a round hemisphere, and a bowl shape.  Thanksgiving themed ones include a cornucopia, a football, and two different turkeys.  For Christmas, they have a Christmas teddy bear, a tree, a wreath, a holiday house, a Santa face, and several snowmen. Most of Read more

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Book Review: Fundamentals in Flirting

Fundamentals in Flirting by Lucy Chalice Review by Erica W, Librarian Lucy Chalice’s Fundamentals in Flirting is a delightful exploration of love and self-discovery, featuring two wonderfully flawed yet relatable characters, Hannah Havens and Teddy Fraser. Hannah, a dedicated veterinarian, navigates her insecurities and social awkwardness with humor, while Teddy, an outgoing architect, grapples with the complexities of living in the shadow of his seemingly perfect twin. The story beautifully captures the essence of reconnecting Read more

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Suggested Family Activity 🦃 Turkey Prints

If you and your children like to make crafts out of the imprints of their hands and feet, you can easily turn your child’s hand into a Thanksgiving turkey.  Paint the palm of their hand and their thumb with a thick layer of brown acrylic paint and then paint each finger a different color such as orange, red, yellow ,and green to be the feathers.  Press the hand firmly onto a sheet of paper to Read more

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Suggested Family Activity 🔤 The Thankful Alphabet Game

Play the Thankful Alphabet game today: The first player starts with the letter A and names something that begins with that letter that they are thankful for, such as Apples.  The next person takes the letter B and so on.  Keep going until every letter has been used.  (Let us know what you come up with for X and Z!)  To turn this into a memory game, you could do the same thing but each Read more

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Suggested Family Activity 🎃 Pumpkin Bowling

If you are looking for a fun way to get rid of your jack o lantern, try out Pumpkin Bowling: Cut the stem off a small, round pumpkin. Set up ten (or less if you want) items like bowling pins in a staggered triangle shape.  You can use gourds, plastic bottles filled with a small amount of water, sand, or rocks to make them stand up, or anything else your family will enjoy knocking over!  Read more

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