News Category: Kids

Friday Crafternoon is today from 3:00-4:30PM. Stop by to make a LEGO Craft! Reminder - There is no story time today.

Tween Team will meet at 5PM. In honor of Earth Day, all patrons who check out library materials will receive a free packet of seeds! See you at the Library!

The Lackawanna County Children's Library was selected for an exciting new program called the Block Party Project! When children play with blocks they are learning math, engineering, social skills and so much more! With this fun new parent/child interactive program,...

Engineering can be fun, and easy. There are simple ways for kids to get involved in engineering. Below are several sites offering project ideas, as well as information on engineering for kids. Build a watercraft, a rubberband car or a...

Celebrate National Library Week with the Lackawanna County Children's Library Coloring Contest! Break out your best crayons and show your library love with this year's coloring contest.  We have fun Peppa Pig, Pigeon and the Bus Driver, Minion and Minecraft...

  We're learning the alphabet at story time at the Nancy Kay Holmes Branch Library and this time we learned the letter "S". During story time we read about crazy squirrels and other "S" things. After story time we took...

        Bring along your good luck charms! During this hour of fun, we’ll be playing back-to-back rounds of bingo.     Winners get to select a book from the prize cart. How many book characters will you recognize? For Families Sunday, April 19, 2015...

Experience the excitement and fun of science! Kids will create Oobleck, Squishy Circuits, and Mystery Markers with the University of Scranton’s Scranton Neuroscience Society & Health Professions Organization. The program will he held in the library lobby set up in...

Number One Sam is the story of Sam who is always number one--number one in speed, in turns and in finishing races.  He was number one until one day when his best friend, Maggie finished first.  Before the next race...

Last time at Family Place, children read stories about Animals. We learned an animal for every letter in the alphabet! After story time, we made an alligator craft. Alligators have lots of teeth - watch out!