Pasadena Public Library
On Saturday during our STEAM Fair, we announced the winners of our Kids’ Art Contest! This year’s theme was “Reading Takes You Everywhere,” and we asked kids to submit flat works of art based on that theme or anything travel-related. Before I share who won, I’d like to give a […]
Last month we had a special Kids’ Writing Workshop all about writing songs, with guest Tim Griffin of GriffinEd! Tim was a classroom teacher for many years and he created the nonprofit GriffinEd and wrote all of the songs featured there, to give teachers a gift of music to help […]
Earlier this month we had a great graphic design workshop taught by teens, for teens and tweens. The instructors are from Arcadia High School and they have created their own nonprofit organization called Project Designation, and they visit schools and libraries teaching kids graphic design concepts and leading them in […]
–By Illyanna Logan Our Kids Coding Club meeting this month was an adventure with Ozobots. We had 12 Ozobot Evos, small robots that can be programmed to light up, make noise, and move. These Ozobots have sensors on the bottom that can read color, which, when read in the right […]
On Wednesday April 25, 2018 kids came to Pasadena Library to learn about elastic energy and the Law of Conservation of Energy, and then build a helicopter that would rise up in the air despite its weight. We attached helium balloons to a homemade helicopter that runs on elastic energy, […]
Last week we had our Kids’ Writing Workshop Creation Stations program, and celebrated National Poetry Month with Haikubes, Paint Chip Poetry, Reverse Poetry and Blackout Poetry: Kids got to spend 10-15 minutes at a time at each station and then move on to another activity. Their creativity was constantly flowing, […]
By Illyanna Logan Last Thursday we had our April session of the Kids Coding Club, where we did a project that explored using coding to make digital art. We tried an activity from Coding Projects in Scratch by Jon Woodcock, where we used Scratch to create a spiralizer that made […]
Last Friday, kids came to Pasadena Central Library for a free writing workshop with middle grade author Kristen Kittscher, who writes the Young and Yang mysteries! She shared some of the funny facts that inspired her book The Tiara on the Terrace, which is based on Pasadena’s own Rose Court […]
On August 8th, we had a packed story room full of kids 7-12 years old who were here to learn about how electricity works, what kinds of materials conduct electricity, and how to make their own batteries. First, we viewed a slideshow that explained concepts like electric current (the movement […]
On April 21, our Kids’ Writing Workshop for ages 8-12 met to do some poetry in honor of National Poetry Month. We started with a poem template based on a poem by George Ella Lyon called “Where I’m From”: Where I’m From I am from clothespins, from Clorox and carbon-tetrachloride. […]