HPL Children's Activities
Children's Room
The Children's Room is on the second floor of the library, with books, audio, and video for infants to teens. It also includes comfortable chairs for reading, tables for activities, and a selection of toys and games.
For more information about children's services, please call the library at 609-466-1625.
The Children's Room is on the second floor of the library, with books, audio, and video for infants to teens. It also includes comfortable chairs for reading, tables for activities, and a selection of toys and games.
For more information about children's services, please call the library at 609-466-1625.
Ongoing Activities:"Chalk the Block" with Kindness!
During the month of July, we are taking our activity outside! This year's summer reading theme is "All Together Now," featuring kindness, caring, and community. For the month of July, we are encouraging children to "chalk the block" with kindness. Come in & pick up your map and chalk and help decorate the sidewalks of some of your favorite Hopewell locations!
Many thanks to to our good neighbor and children’s book writer & illustrator Barbara DiLorenzo, who decorated our summer Quest rocks so artfully and wrote the poetic clues that led us to them! Our thanks also to her daughter, Maddy, who sourced the rocks
for her Mom!
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New: Magazine Rack!
We have some serious ~issues~ here at the Hopewell Public Library - in addition to expanding our downstairs magazine catalogue, we've also added a brand new shelf of kids' magazines! Stop by the HPL Children's Room to peruse our copies of National Geographic Kids, Cricket, Ladybug, Sports Illustrated Kids, Ranger Rick, Highlights, and more! Magazines are available for checkout and new issues arrive every month!
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Storytime
Children’s Storytime takes place each Monday beginning at 10:30am. It is designed for children ages five and under and their companions, and includes several read-aloud stories, finger plays and often a book-related activity.
We gather Mondays at 10:30am at the Hopewell Park Gazebo!
Children's and Family Events
Children's Books
Children’s Storytime takes place each Monday beginning at 10:30am. It is designed for children ages five and under and their companions, and includes several read-aloud stories, finger plays and often a book-related activity.
We gather Mondays at 10:30am at the Hopewell Park Gazebo!
Children's and Family Events
- Watch the Events Calendar for special readings or events just for kids.
Children's Books
- See Children's Books for new and recommended titles.
Summer Reading Program
The Summer Reading program is designed to encourage people to keep reading during the months of school vacation! Readers sign a pledge indicating the number of books they would like to read during the summer. There is a reward for each person who achieves their own goal, as well as an end-of-summer celebration! The library also offers special children's programs each week related to the summer reading program theme. This year's theme will be All Together Now! PS: The Summer Reading Program is open to people of all ages!
The Summer Reading program is designed to encourage people to keep reading during the months of school vacation! Readers sign a pledge indicating the number of books they would like to read during the summer. There is a reward for each person who achieves their own goal, as well as an end-of-summer celebration! The library also offers special children's programs each week related to the summer reading program theme. This year's theme will be All Together Now! PS: The Summer Reading Program is open to people of all ages!
- See Past Events for more information on last year's program.
Past Activities
June 2023
During the month of June, we will be collaborating on a project as a fun way to check out books. We will build a LEGO tower together! Each time our friends (ages 3 and up) borrow a book, they will be given 2 Lego bricks to add to the tower. The tower will look different every time you visit. Let’s work together to make something truly epic!
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May 2023National Mother Goose Day is May 1st! From the itsy, bitsy spider climbing up the spout to Humpty Dumpty's great fall, nursery rhymes provide endless entertainment for children.
During the month of May, we invite our young patrons to help us create and illustrate a book of HPL’s favorite nursery rhymes. To do this, just choose a rhyme (or two) from the bin on the activity table. Then, use your imagination to draw a picture inspired by reading the rhyme. Once you are finished, sign your name on the bottom page and return it to the bin. At the end of the month, we will put all the pages together to create a book that will be available for all to read! See you in the Children's Room! |
April 2023April has arrived and on the 22nd, we celebrate Earth Day! Children are invited to create a flower for a garden on the walls in the children's room. We provide background paper and glue. We used our collection of paper scraps to cut out shapes for petals, leaves, and stems. Children will provide creativity and make bright and cheerful Spring flowers (or anything else they'd like). See you in the Children's Room! 🌷💐🌻
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March 2023
Look up, look down, look under, look over, look high, look low, look behind... can you find the 12 book characters hidden in the room?
Hidden in the children’s room are 12 pictures of book characters! Each character has a number. Find each one and write the number under the character on your page. When you are finished, bring your paper to the front desk for a special prize. (You still get a prize if you don’t find them all!) |
February 2023
Did you know that February is Library Lovers’ Month? To celebrate, we made book cover puzzles of a few of HPL’s most borrowed children’s books of 2022. Stop in and give them a try! As always, the best way to show our library some love is to come in and browse for old and new favorites!
The books that were shown the most ❤️in 2022 are:
An Elephant & Piggie Biggie! by Mo Willems, Dinosaur Roar! by Paul and Henrietta Strickland, Are You Ready to Play Outside? by Mo Willems, Diary of a Wimpy Kid: Wrecking Ball (#14) by Jeff Kinney, Have You Ever Seen a Flower? by Shawn Harris, Bathe the Cat by Alice McGinty, Diary of a Wimpy Kid: Dog Days (#4) by Jeff Kinney, Tick Tock Dog by Tucker Slingsby, Dog Man: For Whom the Ball Rolls by Dav Pilkey, Mama Built a Little Nest by Jennifer Ward, and Creepy Carrots by Aaron Reynolds.
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