Play & Learn

Kick off your long weekend with a family-friendly, slightly spooky bonfire!  We’ll sing campfire songs, play games, and share stories.  Audience participation strongly encouraged.  In case of rain prediction >50%, we will hold an adapted campfire inside the Library. Drop-in programs—come for 2 minutes, 20 minutes, or 2 hours.  For families with preschool and elementary-age children. 

Join us for the debut of Wright Library’s new puppet theater: Marilyn’s Play Place! Miss Jacqui will put on a puppet show, then children can play with the theater and at puppet-themed stations throughout the room.  This is a drop-in program—come for 2 minutes, 20 minutes, or 2 hours.  For families with preschool and elementary-age children. 

 

What do astronauts and circus performers have in common?  It’s all about balance!  “From the Ring to the Moon—and Beyond” is a fast-paced 45-minute performance of circus skills like wire-walking, juggling, and unicycling. The show includes plenty of audience participation that will fascinate children from Kindergarten through high school! Performers from My Nose Turns Red, of Cincinnati.

Each Petting Zoo begins with a fun half-hour performance of energetic Bluegrass songs featuring fiddle, banjo, mandolin, guitar, and upright bass.  Between songs, we talk briefly about each instrument’s cultural background, what makes it unique, and how it’s played.  After the show, we let the children in the audience try out student-sized instruments for themselves.  

 

Program will start in the community room and move outside for the last 20 minutes or so.

Kick off a summer of reading with a morning at the Library!  We’ll have astronaut-themed games and crafts, plus Paws to Read therapy dogs ready to relax with you, and the official debut of our Storywalk in Katharine Wright Park.  Join us!  

 

This program for elementary-age children and their families connects kids to a universe of stories: campfire stories, astronomy stories, historic stories, and more!  Join Miss Jacqui and her guests to be wowed and inspired by humanity, the universe, and the interactions between the two.  Please note, due to summer’s late sunsets, the program time varies week to week.  Also, several of the programs are weather-dependent.  Stay up to date with Wright Library programs by liking us on social media. 

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Drop-in programs—come for 2 minutes, 20 minutes, or 2 hours.  For families with preschool and elementary-age children.

July 25: Make your own Pool Noodle Light Sabers
 

Join Miss Karen for an imaginative and musical program where we play with parachutes, egg shakers, scarves, rhythm sticks, and more while developing literacy, social, and fine and gross motor skills. A half hour of structured moving and learning will feature a different prop each week, as well as a related book and activities, with a half hour of free play to follow. Geared toward children ages 2-8 and their caregivers, Music and Movement is an exciting and engaging learning and play experience.
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June 3 Parachute
June 10 Egg Shakers
June 17 Finger Plays

Join us as we celebrate the first day of our StoryWalk. Walk through Katharine Wright Park to read and interact with “Papa, Please Get the Moon for Me” by Eric Carle.  Come into the Children’s Room from 10am-12:00pm on June 1 for a related craft and snack.  StoryWalk available for viewing until August 11, weather permitting.