HPL Children's Activities
Children's Room
The Children's Room is on the second floor of the library, with books and videos for infants to teens. It also includes a table 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 and videos for infants to teens. It also includes a table 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:An Invitation to Create!
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 and songs.
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 and songs.
- We gather Mondays at 10:30am at the Hopewell Public Library!
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 for people of all ages 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 are rewards for each person who achieves their own goal, as well as prizes for the top readers in each age category. The library also offers special children's programs each week related to the summer reading program theme. This year's theme was All Together Now.
A special shout out to the many children and adults who participated in 2023! We are looking forward to seeing each of you at the library again soon.
Much love and appreciation to our wonderful Hopewell businesses for providing continuing support for the program.
THANK YOU Antimos, Bear and the Book, Boro Bean, Brick Farm Market, Chubby's, Hopewell Post Office and Twine for providing the prizes.
The Summer Reading program is designed to encourage people for people of all ages 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 are rewards for each person who achieves their own goal, as well as prizes for the top readers in each age category. The library also offers special children's programs each week related to the summer reading program theme. This year's theme was All Together Now.
A special shout out to the many children and adults who participated in 2023! We are looking forward to seeing each of you at the library again soon.
Much love and appreciation to our wonderful Hopewell businesses for providing continuing support for the program.
THANK YOU Antimos, Bear and the Book, Boro Bean, Brick Farm Market, Chubby's, Hopewell Post Office and Twine for providing the prizes.
Past Activities
February 2024
February has a lot of LOVE to offer! We celebrate Black History Month, Groundhog Day, Lunar New Year, Backyard Bird Count, Superbowl Sunday, Valentine's Day, Random Acts of Kindness Week, Presidents' Day, and Leap Day, to name a few. Come in during February and find books you LOVE!
The Great Backyard Bird Count takes place from February 16th - 19th. We invite children to play matching games featuring a few birds seen in the backyards of Hopewell. See you in the children’s room!
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October 2023 In October, children were invited to create a monster to take home or to leave for us to decorate the walls in the children's room. We provided the materials and children provided their creativity to make splendid monsters (or anything else they'd like). Idea from www.CuttingTinyBites.com
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June 2023During 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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