The Richmond Pubic Library tries to have some crafts or other event during the Central Heights Spring break, as Central Heights is our local school.
This year there will be three [3] events during spring break. First on Wednesday, March 17th there will be St. Patrick’s craft and spring crafts at 3:00.
Friday, March 19th we will be doing Easter crafts at 3:00. We will be painting wooden Easter eggs so be aware of what clothing you have on. Some of the paint and markers are permanent.
Saturday, March 20th, back by popular demand we will have a Game Day from 12:00 to 3:00.
Have a safe and fun spring break!
On Thursday, February 11th the library held it’s annual “Chocolate Day”. Chocolate day is our way of celebrating Valentine’s Day at the library.
Each year we pick a day close to Valentine’s Day and then get things set up for the kids. There are chocolate molds, pretzels, marshmallows and different kinds of chocolate. this years flavors? White/vanilla, brown/chocolate, pink/watermelon, red/raspberry and tan/butterscotch.
The kids make chocolate suckers, lips and hearts. They dip pretzels and marshmallows. They had a great time. Along with chocolate the kids decorated pink or red bags and make Valentine bookmarks.
The first geography club of 2010 was held on Tuesday, February 2nd @ 2:30. The club had decided to celebrate “England” with an English afternoon tea.
We had tiny sandwiches, scones, bread, cookies and many varieties of tea. We used real tea cups, tablecloths, glass and crystal serving dishes. We even had a display of books by English authors and different types of tea pots.
We learned the difference between High tea and Afternoon tea.
Up next? The club has decided to “Celebrate” Haiti, it seemed a natural choice.
The library is participating in the Kansas Reads program. We have yet to have our kick off for it though. We have tried twice and both times the weather did not cooperate, so now we are just passing the book around to different reader. We will try to have something before the end of February, weather permitting.
The Richmond Christmas Festival was Saturday, December 12, 2009.
To see the story and pictures check out “Richmond News” on this website.
Richmond Pubic Library participated in National Game Day @ Your Library on Saturday, November 14th. The library set up tables with different games around the library.
People just chose what game they want to play and then when they were done they either played again or chose a different game.
Favorites were “Say Anything” [especially with the adults], Pictureka and Scattergories.
They have already asked when the library will be doing another game day, we are thinking of having one during Christmas break.
All and all it was a great day, everyone had fun and that’s what we wanted.
National Game Day @ Your Library is Saturday, November 14th and this library is planning on participating. The library will be open from 12:00 p.m. to 4:00 p.m. just for Game Day. Anyone can come on play game with us at the library that day. There will be snack available, there will at four tables set up with varius games and a playstation with Guitar Hero set ur. we hope to have a great crowd.
What did your library do for Halloween? Well ours had 3 separate events. First up was the story hour kids, they trick-of-treat the Central street businesses every year the Wednesday before Halloween.
Second we had our annual Halloween craft day. This library has tries to have a craft day for most of the major holidays. Halloween craft day was Thursday, October 19th. The kids painted ceramics, made spooky eyes, plastispooks and mummy jars.
Last came the teens, for this group we did Fortune Telling. The kids got to take turns giving each others fortunes using different fortune telling items, cards, Chinese fortune telling sticks, crystal ball. They really seem to enjoy this, some adults were even invited to join in.
The 2009 Richmond Public Library Summer Reading Program began on Wednesday, June 3rd and run till Thursday, August 12th. That is about a 9 week program.
How many signed-up?
36- 5th & under kids
25- Middle & High school age kids
21- Adults
There were 34 different events or crafts this summer.
2- Geography club meetings, Painting with Mary Hall, Remembering Music Bi-Folkal kit –for the Adults
Middle & High school – build-a-monster, Henna Tattoos, Duct Tape father’s day craft, Fortune telling, snap bracelets, sand-art pictures, decorating masks, making note books, painting wooden plaques and tie dye t-shirts.
5th grade & under- Seed spitting, painting pictures, decorating masks, sun catchers, Father’s Day craft, sand art necklaces, decorating fans, making visors, misc. crafts, making window clings, sidewalk chalk art, rockets & finger flyers, decorating leather bracelets, decorating dragons and the end of summer “Treasure Hunt”.
For Everyone- Game Day, Ottawa Music showed instruments, Twilight party.
The 5th & under kids read or listened to 1,370 books. This year’s winners are as follows
Most books read to- Ashley Harkins & Chloe La Duke with 171 one books each.
Most read book go to –Ryder Roll with 97 books and Sean Mauer with 87 books.
The high school and middle school kid’s winners were as follows.
Savannah Alley was first with 55 book read.
Cody McCarty was second with 49 books read.
Justin Springer was third with 43 books read.
Amber Thompson was fourth with 29 books read.
The Adults were counted for how many different genres they could read. Their forms had books being read in 18 different genres ranging from romance to children’s to thriller to non-fiction. Only three people read all 18 genres.
Winner’s are as follows.
Maggie Moore was first to read all 18 genres
Mary Harris was second.
Darlene Springer was third.
The Richmond Public Library Summer Reading Program is still going along pretty fast. The kids have something to do every week, sometimes more than once a week. Since the last post we have had Father’s Day craft [with duct tape], a Twilight party [we only got half way through the movie because a storm hit], 
the kids did sand art bottle and we had a guest who had watched real sand art bottle being made, the middle &high school kids did Fortune Telling [they had a blast with this],
Ottawa Music came down and showed us instruments [which the kids were allowed to play with]. That was the end of June. Up next the July stuff, it will be just as busy.
