Pasadena Public Library
Kids’ Art Salon ~ Classical Architecture Kids’ Art Salon is in it’s fourth year! To celebrate this milestone AND to pay homage to STEAM 2018, we thought we would focus on architecture. Architecture is the perfect choice for Pasadena’s year of STEAM because it incorporates science, technology, engineering, art and math! For our fourth and […]
Preschool STEAM (for children ages 2-6) is all about having fun with science, math and art! There is no right or wrong way for children to experiment – the fun and learning comes from the doing! Early childhood research shows us that little hands and minds learn best when at play. […]
Last month, kids came to the library to learn how to write a “Choose Your Own Adventure” type of story using a free web-based software called Twine. I walked them through the steps of it and they were very quickly writing stories with twists that the reader could choose. Here […]
Age 8-11 Category First Place Kayla Su Age 11, Sage Oak Charter School “Paths to a New Journey” Colored pencils; 8 x 10 inches This piece is gorgeous, thoughtful, and creative—with numerous well-thought out scenes depicting all the possibilities in one’s life journey—paths in the journeys ahead or left behind. […]
I’m trying to catch up on my blogging… Back in summer, as part of our STEAM 2018 year of STEAM programming, we did a fun engineering project making roller coaster ski jumps out of pipe insulators for marbles to “ski” down! I’ve been meaning to share the photos and videos […]
On July 31st, we had a program for kids 8-12 about exploring the work of some of the specialists in our city’s Department of Information Technology. They showed kids how GIS, or Geographic Information Systems, work and how kids already use GIS all the time in their daily life. They […]
Preschool STEAM (for children ages 2-6) is all about having fun with science, math and art! There is no right or wrong way for children to experiment – the fun and learning comes from the doing! Early childhood research shows us that little hands and minds learn best when at play. […]
Kids’ Art Salon is in it’s fourth year! To celebrate this milestone AND to pay homage to STEAM 2018, we thought we would focus on architecture & engineering. Architecture is the perfect choice for Pasadena’s year of STEAM because it incorporates science, technology, engineering, art and math! For our third session of the year, we […]
Preschool STEAM (for children ages 2-6) is all about having fun with science, math and art! There is no right or wrong way for children to experiment – the fun and learning comes from the doing! Early childhood research shows us that little hands and minds learn best when at play. […]
Twenty budding young guitarists joined us for Pasadena Public Library’s first ever SCHOOL OF ROCK! Taking after the movie of the same name, we wanted to give a group of kids (ages 10-15) a rock and roll experience they’d never forget. Professional jazz/rock/blues guitarist Kimberly (KC) Allison from Starliner Music […]