Maitland City Library Holiday Fun

Holiday Fun SCHOOL HOLIDAY ACTIVITIES AT YOUR LIBRARY 2016 Program

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January LOST WORLDS Discover incredible lost and ancient worlds at Maitland City Library this summer.

From the world of dinosaurs, the times of the medieval knights or the lost worlds of Atlantis or Pompeii, there is a huge variety of activities on offer. Learn to draw lost world monsters and characters at our cartooning workshops presented by manga artist Matthew Lin. Make your own dinosaur egg or fossil, go on a medieval quest or be an archaeologist for the day as you dig up the past.

With a mixture of low cost and free activities provided by professional entertainers and library staff, there will be something for every child.

Bookings are essential and can be made through Maitland City Library website at maitland.nsw.gov.au/Library

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LOOKING FOR THE LOCH NESS MONSTER Breaking News! Loch Ness Monster seen heading to Maitland. No confirmed reports of his exact shape.

Come to Maitland Library to help find him and create your version of this mythical monster.

Maitland Library Saturday 9 January 10.00am – 11.30am 4 – 12 years Free Maitland Library Monday 18 January 2.00pm – 3.30pm 4 – 12 years Free

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FIND YOUR SPIRIT ANIMAL Author Karen Hughes reads from her book The Shaman’s Secret, the second in her popular Kalika Magic series.

Kai and Indie travel to the mountains to find their missing father. A mysterious shaman can help them on their quest, but can they trust him? And will they discover the secret of the mountains, before it’s too late?

After Karen’s talk, take part in an activity to find your spirit animal.

East Maitland Library Tuesday 12 January 11.00am – 12.00pm 8 - 12 years Free

JOURNEY TO THE CENTRE OF THE EARTH Discover what really lies at the centre of our great planet. Use your imagination to create your own interpretation of the centre of the earth. Finish with an amazing demonstration of a volcanic eruption.

Maitland Library Wednesday 13 January 10.00am - 12.00pm 4 – 12 years Free

DISCOVER LOST WORLDS Rediscover lost worlds at your library.

Pick up your passport and collect stamps as we take a virtual tour of lost and ancient worlds.

Thornton Library Tuesday 13 January 2.30pm – 3.30pm 4 – 12 years Free

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OUT OF THIS WORLD

DINO-MANIA

Calling all space and fantasy movie fans! Come along dressed as your favourite outer space or fantasy movie character and explore all things galactic these holidays.

Mad about dinosaurs? Join us for hands-on fun and create your own dinosaur fossil, magic hatching dinosaur egg or fossick for dinosaur bones like a real palaeontologist.

Rutherford Library Thursday 14 January 10.30am – 11.30am 5 – 12 years Free

Rutherford Library Friday 15 January 2.00pm - 3.30pm 5 – 12 years Free

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CARTOONING WORKSHOP Learn how to draw lost world characters, mythological creatures and monsters.

Join manga artist Matthew Lin in this hands-on workshop and learn the tips and tricks of cartooning.

Maitland Library Friday 15 January 11.00am – 12.30pm 7 – 15 years $5.00 Rutherford Library Friday 15 January 2.00pm – 3.30pm 7 – 15 years $5.00 Holiday Fun 2016

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DIGGING UP THE PAST

MEDIEVAL QUEST

Uncover lost worlds at your library.

Be an archaeologist for a day and go on a digging expedition to discover lost artefacts.

Just like King Arthur and his knights, go on a quest to collect special treasures and objects in order to gain puzzle clues from Merlin that will lead you to the lost island of Avalon.

Thornton Library Monday 18 January 10.30am – 11.30am 4 – 12 years Free

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East Maitland Library Tuesday 19 January 2.00pm – 3.00pm 5 – 12 years Free

DINOSAUR ROAAAR!

MY WORLD

Peppa and George Pig, beloved children’s book and TV characters, are discovering how the world looked when dinosaurs walked the earth. Come along enjoy Peppa and George Pig stories and create your own pre-historic lost world complete with dinosaurs.

Fancy living in a world you designed yourself? Come along to Rutherford Library and create your perfect place together with your very own special creature pet.

Maitland Library Wednesday 20 January 2.30pm – 3.30pm 4 - 8 years Free

Rutherford Library Thursday 21 January 10.30am – 11.30am 5 - 12 years Free

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April INVENTIONS Unleash your inner inventor or scientist at Maitland City Library during April.

Design spy inventions, create paper beaded jewellery, musical instruments or games, make kites or hot air balloons. Experience the amazing world of science at the hands-on Mad Scientist Inventions and Wheelie Things workshops presented by Scienza Viva.

With a mixture of low cost and free activities provided by professional entertainers and library staff, there will be something for every child. Bookings are essential and can be made through Maitland City Library website at maitland.nsw.gov.au/ Library

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INVENTIONS DIY How did we communicate before smart phones? Learn about smoke signals, Morse code and sign writing and make your own tin can phone.

East Maitland Library Tuesday 12 April 2.00pm – 3.00pm 5 - 12 years Free

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CREATE YOUR OWN DOMINO GAME Did you know that dominoes were invented in China almost 1000 years ago? Learn about the Chinese warriors who first played the game and create your own super-colourful wooden set to while away the holiday hours.

Thornton Library Wednesday 13 April 10.30am – 12.00pm 5 - 12 years Free

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INVENT YOUR OWN MUSICAL INSTRUMENT Do you feel musical? Want to make your very own musical instrument?

Come along to Maitland Library and use recycled materials to create a musical instrument and join a musical jam session.

Maitland Library Wednesday 13 April 2.30pm – 4.00pm 5 - 15 years Free

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CATCH ME IF YOU CAN Rutherford Library needs forensic experts to help solve crimes!

Investigate clues, use science and your imagination to reveal “who dunnit”.

Rutherford Library Friday 15 April 10.30am – 12.00pm 5 - 10 years Free

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PAPER BEADING BONANZA

SPY INVENTIONS

Make paper beads to create your own jewellery or bookmark. Or use your imagination to create items from materials you find around the house like paper, glue, glitter, nail polish .

Do you fancy yourself a bit of a secret agent? Spies rely on clever inventions to do their work. Come along to Maitland Library to learn how to be a super spy as you search for fingerprints, create secret messages with invisible ink or make a book safe for hiding secret treasures.

Maitland Library Saturday 16 April 10.30am – 11.30am 7 – 12 years

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Maitland Library Wednesday 20 April 2.30pm – 4.00pm 5 – 15 years Free

KITE CAPERS

LET’S TAKE FLIGHT

Find out who made the first kite and how a kite works. Create and decorate your own kite using recycled materials.

Come to Rutherford Library and create things that fly! Make and decorate paper aeroplanes and hot air balloons and play the Plane Game. We will be flying high as we discover what makes them fly!

East Maitland Library Thursday 21 April 2.00pm – 3.00pm 5 – 12 years Free

NB: Not suitable for children with latex allergies Rutherford Library Friday 22 April 10.30am – 12.00pm 5 – 12 years Free

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WHEELIE THINGS Experience the amazing world of science and invention with this hands-on activity. Make your own dragster to take home, learn how to construct a large water wheel, work out how a ball rolls uphill by itself and have tornado in a bottle races. Wheelie Things is brought to you by Scienza Viva.

Thornton Library Friday 22 April 11.00am – 12.00pm 5 – 12yrs $5.00 18

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MAD SCIENTIST INVENTIONS Be a mad scientist for a day! Have fun while learning in this science workshop presented by Scienza Viva. Science activities include jumping sultanas, fishing with magnets, tornadoes in a bottle, mini volcanos and more.

Maitland Library Friday 22 April 2.00pm – 3.00pm 5 – 12yrs $5.00

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POM-POM MANIA Come along to our pom-pom mania workshop. Learn how to make pom-poms and use them to create flowers, necklaces and chickens.

Thornton Library Saturday 23 April 10.30am – 12.00pm 8 – 12yrs Free

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June/July WILD WEST It’s all things Wild West these July holidays at Maitland City Library, whether it’s the American Wild West or the Australian Outback. Join us for campfire tales and songs, make dream catchers, experience Aussie back of beyond activities, or be a cowboy, cowgirl or Native American Indian for the day. Be entertained with theatre, song and storytelling by children’s performer Renee Price in the Digby Fixit Live! show at Rutherford Library.

With a mixture of low cost and free activities provided by professional entertainers and library staff, there will be something for every child. Bookings are essential and can be made through Maitland City Library website at maitland.nsw.gov.au/ Library

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BE A COWBOY/COWGIRL FOR A DAY Howdy partners! Come to East Maitland Library and dress, talk and walk like a cowboy or a cowgirl. Learn cowboy lingo, have your photo taken for a wanted poster, play Wild West games and more.

East Maitland Library Tuesday 5 July 10.00am - 12.00pm 5 – 12 years Free

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INDIAN DREAMING Dream catchers according to Native American legend ensure good dreams. Come along and discover how to make a dream catcher and dream journal while listening to Native American dreamtime stories.

Maitland Library Wednesday 6 July 2.30pm - 3.30pm 5 – 12 years Free

HORSE TAILS

CAMPFIRE SING-ALONG

Yee haa! Mosey on down to Rutherford Library and grab yourself some fun times, just like back in the Ol’ West. Design a wanted poster, make a sheriff’s badge, create horse shoe art and much more.

Giddy up, cowboys and cowgirls!

Gather round the campfire, hear tales about the Old West, sing some good old fashioned Western songs, play a Wild West game and create your own prairie rattlesnake.

Rutherford Library Friday 8 July 10.30am – 11.30am 5 – 12 years Free

Thornton Library Saturday 9 July 10.30am – 11.30am 8 – 12 years Free

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CHILDREN’S BOOK WEEK 2016 20 August - 26 August 24

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PRAIRIE KIDS

WILD WEST DECORATING

What would life be like without the internet or electricity? Come along to Thornton Library and find out how kids lived, learned, and had fun in the time of the Wild West. Play games, listen to stories, see how cream ‘churns’ into butter, and make a yarn doll and spinning top, just like a real Prairie kid!

Create some super Wild West decorating ideas for your home. Ever fancied a cactus note holder? An Indian bowl ? Or cowboy boot place mat? Come along and join the Wild West fun.

Thornton Library Tuesday 12 July 3.00pm – 4.30pm 5 – 8 years Free

Maitland Library Wednesday 13 July 2.30pm – 4.00pm 4 – 12 years Free

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AUSSIE BACK OF BEYOND

DIGBY FIXIT LIVE! SHOW

Come and discover Australia’s Wild West – the Aussie Outback! Discover our desert animals, learn bush slang, play outback bingo and take home your very own outback artwork.

Digby Fixit Live! incorporates theatre, song and story-telling. Performed by children’s author and entertainer, Renee Price, it is based on her picture book; Digby’s Moon Mission; a tale of the curious Digby Fixit and his quest to fix the dark!

Rutherford Library Wednesday 14 July 10.30am – 11.30am 5 – 12 years Free

Make your own moon catapult in a hands-on activity after the story.

Rutherford Library Friday 15 July 10.00am – 11.00am 3 – 8 years Free

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NATIVE AMERICAN EXPERIENCE

CROSSING THE PLAINS

Want to be a Native American Indian for the day? Come along and make a totem pole, dream catcher or Indian feather headdress to take home.

Journey with us while we cross the American plains. Help create a story straight from the Wild West and then use your acting skills to bring it to life!

Make your own Wild West poster.

East Maitland Library Friday 15 July 2.00pm – 3.00pm 5 – 12 years Free

Maitland Library Saturday 16 July 10.30am – 11.30am 4 – 12 years Free

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September / October ELEMENTS Be in your element at Maitland City Library these September/October holidays, as we have fun exploring the world of earth, wind, water and fire. There are windy tales, amazing science experiments, the elements of PokĂŠmon or Ninjango and creating art from the elements of nature. Bringing Blackbutt to You will bring the elements inside at Thornton and East Maitland Libraries with an opportunity to get up close and personal with Australian animals. Even touch a lizard or pat a python if you dare!

With a mixture of low cost and free activities provided by professional entertainers and library staff, there will be something for every child. Bookings are essential and can be made through Maitland City Library website at maitland.nsw.gov.au/ Library

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IT’S RAINING FUN Come to Thornton Library and discover some interesting facts about rain. Experiment with different coloured tissue paper to create your colourful rain artwork.

Thornton Library Monday 26 September 2.30pm – 3.30pm 8 - 12 yrs Free

ELEMENTAL SCIENCE ADVENTURE Be amazed by fascinating simple science experiments performed at the Library. Follow the Adventure Map to find the experiment stations, then write a secret scientist note with invisible ink. All experiments can be recreated at home with basic household items.

East Maitland Library Tuesday 27 September 2.00pm - 3.00pm 5 - 12 yrs Free

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LANTERN MAKING WORKSHOP Make a floating lantern to launch on the Hunter River at the Maitland Riverlights Multicultural Festival.

Parental assistance appreciated.

Thornton Library Wednesday 28 September 10.00am - 11.30pm 5 - 14 yrs Free Maitland Library Friday 30 September 10.00am - 11.30am 5 - 14 yrs Free East Maitland Library Friday 30 September 2.00pm - 3.30pm 5 - 14 yrs Free Rutherford Library Tuesday 4 October 10.00am - 11.00am 5 - 14 yrs Free 30

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TOURNAMENT OF THE ELEMENTS - NINJANGO The Lego Elements have arrived at Maitland Library and they are ready to play. Come along and create your very own pairs game and create a Ninjago poster for your bedroom.

Maitland Library Wednesday 28 September 2.30pm – 4.00pm 4 – 12 years Free

AMAZING SCIENCE

WILD WINDY TALES

All budding mad scientists please report to Rutherford Library for exciting experiments including soap powered boats and lava spewing volcanoes just to name a few!

Join us at Thornton Library to listen to some windy tales, and discover some interesting facts about wind.

Create your own pinwheel so you can see the movement of the wind.

Rutherford Library Thursday 29 September 10.30am – 11.30am 5 - 12 years Free

Thornton Library Wednesday 5 October 10.30am - 11.30pm 5 – 8 years Free

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BRINGING BLACKBUTT TO YOU Get close and personal with our Australian animals. Touch a lizard or pat a python if you dare! The friendly staff of Blackbutt Reserve are visiting the library and you will be able to interact with the animals while learning more about Australian wildlife.

East Maitland Library Tuesday 4 October 2.00pm – 3.00pm 4 - 12 years $5.00 Thornton Library Friday 7 October 2.00pm – 3.00pm 4 - 12 years $5.00

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ELEMENTS OF POKEMON Do you love Pokémon? Do you want to be a Pokémon trainer? Come along to Maitland Library and create all the elements you need to train a Pokémon from a Poke ball key ring to your own 3D Pikachu character.

Maitland Library Wednesday 5 October 2.30pm – 4.00pm 5 – 12 years Free

EARTH, WIND, FIRE AND WATER Discover the four elements - earth, wind, fire and water - with our fun hands-on activities. Learn and perform a Native American Indian rain dance, make a rain stick, an Indian tom tom or flute.

East Maitland Library Thursday 6 October 2.00pm – 3.00pm 5 – 15 years Free

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ELEMENTAL ART

ECO ART

If you love art and using your imagination, join us to help recreate a force of nature in art and collage.

Discover the power of fire, earth, air and water!

Can we create art with nature? Come along and be inspired by the world all around us and make your own eco art using elements of nature that you collect yourself.

Rutherford Library Friday 7 October 10.30am – 11.30am 5 – 10 years Free

Maitland Library Saturday 8 October 10.30am – 12.00pm 5 – 12 years Free

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Storytime 2 - 5 YEARS

Storytellers from Maitland City Library know how to make reading fun!

Storytime sessions are designed to develop a love of reading in all children.

Storytime is ideal for children 2 - 5 years.

No booking required, just come along!

EAST MAITLAND LIBRARY

MAITLAND LIBRARY

Monday and Wednesday 11.00am

Tuesday 11.00am

3 Garnett Road, East Maitland eastmaitland.library@maitland.nsw.gov.au

480 High Street, Maitland maitland.library@maitland.nsw.gov.au

RUTHERFORD LIBRARY

THORNTON

Tuesday and Thursday 10.30am

Thursday 10.30am

13 Arthur Street, Rutherford rutherford.library@maitland.nsw.gov.au

Taylor Avenue, Thornton thornton.library@maitland.nsw.gov.au

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Connecting our community Maitland Library 480 High Street Maitland NSW 2320 t 4933 6952 f 4934 5029 maitland.library@maitland.nsw.gov.au

Rutherford Library Arthur Street Rutherford NSW 2320 t 4932 8730 f 4932 8025 rutherford.library@maitland.nsw.gov.au

East Maitland Library Garnett Road East Maitland NSW 2323 t 4933 7122 f 4934 5051 eastmaitland.library@maitland.nsw.gov.au

Thornton Library Taylor Avenue Thornton NSW 2322 t 4964 4468 thornton.library@maitland.nsw.gov.au

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