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Book Birdies is an interactive storytime encouraging pre-school children and their caregivers to appreciate the natural world around them! Share the adventure as we read stories, build vocabulary with non-fiction books, and move with rhymes and songs. Each week discover what’s new in our nature pack and enjoy a puppet show!
**Siblings are always welcome!
•Reading • Music • Movement • Free Play •
Toddle Time is an active storytime for children and their caregivers. We encourage development with reading a book, lively bounces, rhymes and musical instruments! A thirty minute free time is included at the end to enhance socialization skills for toddlers. So come learn, play and toddle with us!
**Siblings are always welcome!
•Reading • Music • Movement • Dramatization •
Storytime Ninjas is an interactive storytime offering pre-school aged children and their caregivers the opportunity to gain early literacy skills through stories and songs. Join the fun as we read books, share flannel board stories, move to music, and delight all together in our puppet theatre dramatizations!
**Siblings are always welcome!
•Reading • Music • Movement • Dramatization •
Wee Read is storytime designed to engage family members of all ages. We will share songs and stories, learn rhymes- both old and new, and shake our sillies out with lively music! Each storytime offers a family-fun puppet show and ends with a rhyme you get to take home. We are prepared to keep things flexible so that kids of every age will have a rewarding storytime experience!
**Siblings are always welcome!
HOTEL TRANSYLVANIA 3 (PG, 97 minutes )
Animated
Count Dracula and company participate in a cruise for sea-loving monsters, unaware that their boat is being commandeered by the monster-hating Van Helsing family.
•Reading • Music • Movement • Free Play •
Baby Time is a gentle storytime providing an opportunity for babies and their grown-ups to bond through talk, touch, sing and play! Using repetition and movement participants will learn songs, rhymes and bounces perfect for connecting with your little ones. This storytime is followed by free play, a great opportunity for babies and adults to interact and socialize!
**Siblings are always welcome!
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Bach to Rock is a music appreciation storytime for children and caregivers to explore all styles of music, including jazz, classical, folk and show tunes! A high energy, movement-based storytime that begins with bubble time, ends with parachute play, and includes stories, rhythm instruments and singing with the ukulele in between!
**Siblings are always welcome!
•Reading • Music • Movement • Free Play •
Toddle Time is an active storytime for children and their caregivers. We encourage development with reading a book, lively bounces, rhymes and musical instruments! A thirty minute free time is included at the end to enhance socialization skills for toddlers. So come learn, play and toddle with us!
**Siblings are always welcome!
•Reading • Music • Movement • Dramatization •
You and Me is our transition to “big kid” storytime for older toddlers and young preschoolers and their caregivers. Stories, rhymes, movement, and puppets provide children with emerging vocabulary the opportunity to build language skills! Discover concepts like letters, numbers, colors, and more during our time together. Come and meet our friend, Wild Bear-y and try to guess what’s inside our weekly mystery bag!
**Siblings are always welcome!
Follow the Ojibwa people as they move through the joys and hardships of a year in the tribe's life. Both heart-wrenching and humorous, it is a riveting story. Historical fiction at its finest.
Musician and native Hawaiian, Sam ‘Ālika Bader will be teaching a four-week ukulele class from 6:00 – 7:00 p.m. in the Library’s Storytime Room. Bring your own ukulele or reserve one of the Library’s ukuleles. An extra loaner ukulele is also available for use during classes.
A ukulele open jam follows each Thursday night class. Open to anyone interested in playing with other ukulele players. Bring your own ukulele – banjoleles and guitars welcome, too (and whatever else you’d like to play). Music provided – or bring a piece you’d like to share with others. The open jams are held from 7:00 – 8:00 p.m.
Bring music you're working on, something you're having trouble with, play a solo or a duet for the group, play along with your fellow ukers. All skill levels welcome!
Drop in for a friendly game of chess every Thursday evening from 6:00pm until 8:00pm. All ages and skill levels are encouraged to attend. Even if you have never played, but are interested in learning, stop by and we will teach you. No registration or chess boards required. Chess is played on the library's second floor.
Please join us Friday mornings for Bookworm Yoga. Breathe, bend and read together with fall-themed stories, rhymes and songs. Children will develop pre-literacy skills with simple poses and mindfulness exercises. Bring a beach towel or mat and join us. All ages welcome.
Come to BooFest on Saturday, October 20, at Neenah’s Shattuck Park. It’s Neenah’s last farmer’s market of the season and a fun, fall family event with games and Halloween activities. While you’re there, bring the kids to the Library to trick-or-treat and make a seasonal craft. This drop-in program for school-age children will run between 10:00 a.m. and noon.
If you have any questions, call the youth desk at (920) 886-6335, check our website at www.neenahlibrary.org or email us at youthdesk@neenahlibrary.org.
What can you build in one hour? Come to the Neenah Public Library on the first and third Sundays of the month and build something never seen before, during LEGOs @ the Library. The program is for kids age 5 and up; children 8 and under must be accompanied by an adult. LEGOs provided. We’ll display your creation in the children’s display case!
