Category: Richmond Public Library

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The Richmond Public Library wishes you and yours warmth and happiness this holiday season.…

Monday, November 19th the Richmond library was full. There were over 20 people here for the Thanksgiving craft day. This year we made Totem Poles and Turkeys. The totem poles were made from construction paper and toilet paper rolls. This years turnkeys were made from construction paper that when folded and put together right stood up on the table, then the kids added feathers.

The kids really seem to enjoy craft days at the library. The next one is planned for December 17th and will of course be a Christmas craft day.

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Wednesday, November 14th was the day the Richmond choose for it’s Kansas Reads to Preschoolers day. We invited local Police Chief Steve Weese to come and read to the kids. Officer Weese read “It’s Time to Call 911” to the kids and then had each of them try to dial it on the key pad on the book. The kids really seemed to enjoy that part.

Next up was the book Do Kangaroos Wear Seat Belts. Since we could not find another local authority person we chose a first time mom at story hour. Jessica had not been in the library since she was a kid. Since she was returning with her daughter we thought it would be nice to have her read the book.

The kids made Kangaroos out of construction paper. And since Thanksgiving is just around the corner we made turkey headbands.

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What has the Richmond Public library got to do with the Richmond Haunted House? Well lets see.
Both librarians work in the haunted house. Local library kids come to the haunted house. The haunted house gives a donation to the library. What more could you want?

Every year the haunted house has set aside a time just for little kids to go through. So of course our librarians let the story hour kids to go. Where else can the kids in town get to go through a haunted house for free? [or they could make a donation].

Every on who works in the haunted house has some kind of connection to the library. The two youngest workers use to attend story hour when they were little, and their moms work in the library. One of the fortune tellers use to be a board member and still uses the library. One of the maze ghouls and her husband one of the creatures in the dark comes in the library all the time and her kids also use the library. The chainsaw guy is the library handy man, when something needs fixing we call him to see if he can fix it.

Also sometimes it just plain fun to be scared!

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