Saturday, June 22
12:00 Noon to 2:00 PM
For all ages
Free
No registration
Join Jenny, Maxwell’s Director, at the Camillus Erie Canal Sims’ Store Museum to make a Tissue Paper Suncatcher, perfect for celebrating the return of summer. Actual craft design will vary from the photo.
Drop-in anytime between noon and 2.
All supplies provided.
The Museum is located at 5750 Devoe Road in Camillus.
Tuesday, April 23
10:00 AM to 7:00 PM
Free
For kids 3 to 10
Drop in at Maxwell to make the week’s planned craft or one that you choose.
Giraffes are loved by many people and popular at zoos.
This is a fun giraffe craft for giraffe lovers as well as all animal lovers.
All supplies provided.
If you want a craft kit to make at home, please call or register online for the number you will need.
Saturday, April 27
12:00 Noon to 2:00 PM
For all ages
Free
No registration
Today is National Go Birding Day.
Celebrate the wonderful ways of our feathery friends!
Join Jenny, Maxwell’s Director, at the Camillus Erie Canal Sims’ Store Museum to make a Yarn Bird.
The Museum is located at 5750 Devoe Road in Camillus.
Drop-in anytime between noon and 2.
All supplies provided.
Today is National Go Birding Day.
Celebrate the wonderful ways of our feathery friends by making a Yarn Bird.
All supplies provided.
Farm Animal Craft
Tuesday, May 30
10:00 AM to 7:00 PM
Free
For kids 3 to 10
Drop in at Maxwell to make the week’s planned craft or one of your own choosing.
What is your favorite farm animal?
Using a paper plate and a piece of paper, create your own version of your favorite farm animal!
All supplies provided.
If you want a craft kit to make at home, please register for the number you will need.
Image credits:
Model farm animals, Eastrington
By Paul Harrop
License: CC BY-SA 2.0
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Tuesday, February 21
10:00 AM to 7:00 PM
Free
For kids 3 to 10
Drop in at Maxwell to make the week’s planned craft or one of your own choosing.
For this craft, you get to make a winter animal using a toilet paper roll.
You could make a polar bear, penguin, or any other animal you want!
All supplies provided.
If you are coming to the library to do the craft, there’s no need to register. You can register if you would prefer to take a craft kit home instead.
Image credits:
Carol Singing
by Louis William Wain
License: Public Domain
Penguin Craft
Tuesday, February 7
10:00 AM to 7:00 PM
Free
For kids 3 to 10
Drop in at Maxwell to make the week’s planned craft or one of your own choosing.
Make this fun penguin craft to hang in your room!
All supplies provided.
If you are coming to the library to do the craft, there’s no need to register. You can register if you would prefer to take a craft kit home instead.
Image credits
King Penguins at Salisbury Plain [South Georgia]
by Liam Quinn
License: CC BY-SA 2.0
Cotton Ball Yeti
Tuesday, January 24
10:00 AM to 7:00 PM
Free
For kids 3 to 10
Drop in at Maxwell to make the week’s planned craft or one of your own choosing.
This week, make our cute yeti craft using our yeti template and lots of cotton balls!
All supplies provided.
If you are coming to the library to do the craft, there’s no need to register. You can register if you would prefer to take a craft kit home instead.
Image credits:
B5bugerbear, aka, Yeti
By Lizard King
License: CC BY-SA 3.0
Tuesday, November 29
3:30 to 7:00 PM
Free
For kids 3 to 10
Drop in at Maxwell to make the week’s planned craft or one of your own choosing.
Make this fun moose craft.
Try and learn a fun fact about a moose!
If you are coming to the library to do the craft, you do not need to register, but you can register if you would prefer to take a craft kit home.
All supplies provided.
Image credits:
“Moose (Alce americanus)”
From A History of Land Mammals in the Western Hemisphere
by William Berryman Scott
License: Public Domain
Tuesday Crafternoons is back to being in-person, but you can register online for the craft if you prefer grab-and-go.
Tuesday, August 23
3:30 to 7:00 PM
Free
For kids 3 to 10
Drop in at Maxwell to make the week’s planned craft or one of your own choosing.
All supplies provided.
If you would still like to have a kit to take home, please register for one.
Image credits:
Pygocentrus cariba by Sesamehoneytart
License: CC BY-SA 3.0
Tuesday Crafternoons is back to being in-person, but you can register online for the craft if you prefer grab-and-go.
Tuesday, August 16
3:30 to 7:00 PM
Free
For kids 3 to 10
Drop in at Maxwell to make the week’s planned craft or one of your own choosing.
All supplies provided.
If you would still like to have a kit to take home, please register for one.
Image credits:
Tiger Shark by Albert Kok
License: CC BY-SA 3.0
Tuesday Crafternoons is back to being in-person, but you can register online for the craft if you prefer grab-and-go.
Tuesday, August 9
3:30 to 7:00 PM
Free
For kids 3 to 10
Drop in at Maxwell to make the week’s planned craft or one of your own choosing.
All supplies provided.
If you would still like to have a kit to take home, please register for one.
Image credits:
Hippocampus
by Mohammed Al Momany
License: Public Domain as a work of the US Government
Tuesday Crafternoons is back to being in-person, but you can register online for the craft if you prefer grab-and-go.
Tuesday, August 2
3:30 to 7:00 PM
Free
For kids 3 to 10
Drop in at Maxwell to make the week’s planned craft or one of your own choosing.
All supplies provided.
If you would still like to have a kit to take home, please register for one.
Image credits:
Liocarcinus depurator [Harbour crab]
© Hans Hillewaert
License: CC BY-SA 4.0
Week of Tuesday, May 31
Free
For kids 3 and up
Call the library or register online to reserve this week’s grab and go craft.
Get creative with this craft!
First, decide what animal you want to make.
Then make your animal using the toilet paper tube and paper provided.
All supplies provided except scissors, glue, and coloring supplies.
Image credits:
Dog & cat, a mashup of:
Perro Pastor Catalán en Sara, País Vasco, Francia
(Catalan sheep dog in Sara, Basque Country, France)
By Basotxerri
License: CC BY-SA 4.0
Felis silvestris subsp. catus (Cat)
By Von.grzanka
License: CC BY-SA 3.0
Week of Tuesday, February 1
Free
For kids 3 and up
Call the library or register online to reserve this week’s grab and go craft.
Make this fun whale craft using cupcake liners!
All supplies provided except scissors, glue, and coloring supplies.
Image credits:
Plate VIII from Scammon, Charles Melville. The marine mammals of the north-western coast of North America…. San Francisco: J.H. Carmany, 1874.
License: Public Domain
Week of Tuesday, January 25
Free
For kids 3 and up
Call the library or register online to reserve this week’s grab and go craft.
With this craft, you will make your very own Arctic fox using a paper plate and cotton balls!
All supplies provided except scissors, glue, and coloring supplies.
Image credits:
[Arctic Fox] by Emma Bishop
License: CC BY 2.0
Week of Tuesday, January 18
Free
For kids 3 and up
Call the library or register online to reserve this week’s grab and go craft.
Make this fun penguin craft using a toilet paper tube!
All supplies provided except scissors, glue, and coloring supplies.
Image credits
King Penguins at Salisbury Plain [South Georgia] by Liam Quinn
License: CC BY-SA 2.0
Week of Tuesday, August 24
Free
Call the library or register online to reserve a kit
For children ages 3 to 10
Drop in at Maxwell to grab this week’s planned grab and go craft.
Our kids crafts for the summer will all be different animal crafts.
These crafts will fit nicely with the Tails and Tales theme!
This week’s craft is a monkey craft!
All supplies provided except scissors, glue, and coloring supplies.
Image credits:
Baby monkey with flowers by Manu Manjunath
License: CC BY 3.0
Week of Tuesday, August 17
Free
Call the library or register online to reserve a kit
For children ages 3 to 10
Drop in at Maxwell to grab this week’s planned grab and go craft.
Our kids crafts for the summer will all be different animal crafts.
These crafts will fit nicely with the Tails and Tales theme!
This week’s craft is a dog craft!
All supplies provided except scissors, glue, and coloring supplies.
Image credits:
Basset Hound 600 by Sannse
License: CC BY-SA 3.0
Week of Tuesday, August 10
Free
Call the library or register online to reserve a kit
For children ages 3 to 10
Drop in at Maxwell to grab this week’s planned grab and go craft.
Our kids crafts for the summer will all be different animal crafts.
These crafts will fit nicely with the Tails and Tales theme!
This week’s craft is a giraffe craft!
All supplies provided except scissors, glue, and coloring supplies.
Image credits:
Study of the Giraffe Given to Charles X by the Viceroy of Egypt (1827)
by Nicolas Huet the Younger (1770-1830)
License: Public Domain
Week of Tuesday, August 3
Free
Call the library or register online to reserve a kit
For children ages 3 to 10
Drop in at Maxwell to grab this week’s planned grab and go craft.
Our kids crafts for the summer will all be different animal crafts.
These crafts will fit nicely with the Tails and Tales theme!
This week’s craft is a fox craft!
All supplies provided except scissors, glue, and coloring supplies.
Image credits:
Eastern American Red Fox Vulpes vulpes ssp. fulvus by Joanne Redwood
License: CC BY-NC 4.0
Week of Tuesday, July 27
Free
Call the library or register online to reserve a kit
For children ages 3 to 10
Drop in at Maxwell to grab this week’s planned grab and go craft.
Our kids crafts for the summer will all be different animal crafts.
These crafts will fit nicely with the Tails and Tales theme!
This week’s craft is a paper chain snake craft!
All supplies provided except scissors, glue, and coloring supplies.
Image credits:
Coluber caspius by Kiril Kapustin
License: CC BY 2.5
Week of Tuesday, July 20
Free
Call the library or register online to reserve a kit
For children ages 3 to 10
Drop in at Maxwell to grab this week’s planned grab and go craft.
Our kids crafts for the summer will all be different animal crafts.
These crafts will fit nicely with the Tails and Tales theme!
This week’s craft is a bobble-head cat craft!
All supplies provided except scissors, glue, and coloring supplies.
Image credits:
From Cheshire Cat vanishing by John Tenniel
License: Public domain
Week of Tuesday, July 13
Free
Call the library or register online to reserve a kit
For children ages 3 to 10
Drop in at Maxwell to grab this week’s planned grab and go craft.
Our kids crafts for the summer will all be different animal crafts.
These crafts will fit nicely with the Tails and Tales theme!
This week’s craft is a lion craft!
All supplies provided except scissors, glue, and coloring supplies.
Image credits:
Lion in Serengeti National Park by Schuyler Shepherd (Unununium272)
License: CC BY-SA 2.5
Week of Tuesday, July 6
Free
Call the library or register online to reserve a kit
For children ages 3 to 10
Drop in at Maxwell to grab this week’s planned grab and go craft.
Our kids crafts for the summer will all be different animal crafts.
These crafts will fit nicely with the Tails and Tales theme!
This week’s craft is a bear craft!
All supplies provided except scissors, glue, and coloring supplies.
Image credit:
Polar bear resting, but alert (AKA Polar bear)
by Susanne Miller (U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service)
License: Public domain
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