Tuesday, April 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 that you choose.
Do you love pizza?
Make a fun pizza pouch craft using paper plates!
All supplies provided.
If you want a craft kit to make at home, please call or register online for the number you will need.
Tuesday, November 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 that you choose.
All supplies provided.
It’s Dinovember!
For our first dinosaur craft, make this fun, 3D, triceratops!
Tuesday, August 22
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 a nice, bright sun using a paper plate and your hand prints!
All supplies provided.
If you want a craft kit to make at home, please register for the number you will need.
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
Tuesday, November 22
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.
What is your favorite pie to eat? Pumpkin, apple, chocolate, or another flavor?
Make this pie craft using a paper plate and create your favorite pie!
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:
I very much like Hamish’s new boyfriend
by Ann Larie Valentine
License: CC BY-SA 2.0
Tuesday, September 13
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.
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.
Do you like red or green apples?
This week, make your favorite kind of apple using a paper plate!
Image credits:
Honeycrisp Apple by Keagiles
License: CC BY-SA 4.0
Tuesday Crafternoons is back to being in-person, but you can register online for the craft if you prefer grab-and-go.
Tuesday, July 19
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.
Also, some kits will be made to take home if you don’t want to stay and do them at the library.
Image credits:
Green turtle swimming in Kona May 2010 by Brocken Inaglory
License: CC BY-SA 3.0
Week of Tuesday, May 17
Free
For kids 3 and up
Call the library or register online to reserve this week’s grab and go craft.
Make your very own dream catcher out of a paper plate.
Then hang it in your room so it will catch your dreams while you sleep!
All supplies provided except scissors, glue, and coloring supplies.
Image credit:
“Spider Web” Charm, Hung on Infant’s Cradle by an unrecorded Chippewa artist
Source: Wikimedia from Scan of Plate 24 in Frances Densmore, Chippewa Customs, Bureau of American Ethnology Bulletin, vol. 86 (Washington D.C.: Smithsonian Institution, 1929), 50-51.
License: No known copyright restrictions
Week of Tuesday, March 22
Free
For kids 3 and up
Call the library or register online to reserve this week’s grab and go craft.
We have finally made it to Spring!
Make this nice daffodil craft to start decorating your room for Spring!
All supplies provided except scissors, glue, and coloring supplies.
Week of Tuesday, March 15
Free
For kids 3 and up
Call the library or register online to reserve this week’s grab and go craft.
Get ready for St. Patrick’s Day with this fun shamrock man craft!
All supplies provided except scissors, glue, and coloring supplies.
Week of Tuesday, March 8
Free
For kids 3 and up
Call the library or register online to reserve this week’s grab and go craft.
Get ready to be creative and use your imagination for this craft!
Design your paper plate twirler any way you want!
All supplies provided except scissors, glue, and coloring supplies.
Image credits:
Left- and right-handed helix
by Cyp
License: Donated to the Public Domain
Week of Tuesday, October 26
Free
For children ages 3 to 10
Call the library or register online to reserve this week’s grab and go craft.
Decorate for Halloween with this fun paper plate witch!
All supplies provided except scissors, glue, and coloring supplies.
Image credit:
Portion of the title page of The witch of Edmonton: a known true story
by Thomas Dekker
Printed in London by J. Cottrel, 1658
License: Public Domain
Week of Tuesday, April 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.
Make a beautiful butterfly out of a paper plate!
Decorate it’s wings any way you want.
All supplies provided except scissors, glue, and coloring supplies.
Image credit:
Beautiful false apollo (Archon apollinus bellargus). Çukurova University Campus, Adana, Turkey by Zeynel Cebeci
License: CC BY-SA 4.0
Week of Tuesday, November 17
Free
Call the library to reserve a kit
For children ages 3 to 10
Drop in at Maxwell to grab this week’s planned grab and go craft.
Grab this kit and make a fun turkey wreath out of a paper plate!
All supplies provided except scissors, glue, and coloring supplies.
Image credit:
Two Turkey Birds by rejon
License: Donated to the Public Domain
Tuesday, August 11
Free
Register online or call the library to sign up for a kit
For kids 3 and up
Come and grab this week’s craft kit!
All kits will include all of the supplies you will need to do the craft except glue, scissors, and coloring supplies.
This week’s craft is a Frog Prince craft.
Recreate the frog from the Frog Prince story using a paper plate!
Image credit:
Mashup of frog image from Lithobates sylvaticus (Woodfrog) by Brian Gratwicke (License: CC BY 2.0) with the entirety of Simple gold crown by Staszek Szybki Jest (License: Donated to the Public Domain)
Tuesday, July 14
Free
Register here or call the library to sign up for a kit
For kids 3 and up
Come and grab this week’s craft kit!
All kits will include all of the supplies you will need to do the craft except glue, scissors, and coloring supplies.
This week’s craft is a dancing sun craft.
Make this fun sun craft using a paper plate!
Image from NASA/Goddard Space Flight Center Scientific Visualization Studio
Visualization Credits:
Source data courtesy of HAO and NSO PSPT project team.
HAO is a division of the National Center for Atmospheric Research which is supported by the National Science Foundation.
Special thanks to Vanessa George (University of Colorado/LASP) and Randy Meisner (Michigan State University)
