Richmond Public Library

The Kids and Adults will be Hydro Dipping mini pumpkins. The adults on September 30th and the kids on October 5th. Adults at 1:00 PM and the kids at 4:30PM. Kids will be free, adults $1.00

The Adults will be making solar light wine bottle lighthouses on October 7th at 1:00 PM. Each person will provide their own solar light. The cost for this craft is $1.00

The kids will be decorating masks on October 12th at 4:30 PM, Kids crafts are Free

The adults will be making cedar sun catchers on October 14th at 1:00 PM. The library will provide all the supplies for this craft the cost is $4.00

Wednesday, October 19th is the day we will be making Bleach Halloween shirts. Kids will need to bring their own shirt, library will provide the stencils and bleach.

The adults will paint or hydro dip rocks on October 21st at 1:00 PM

The library will be CLOSED October 24th- 29th. The plumber and concrete people will be here to fix the bathroom. The employees will be in Wichita for the State Library Conference. We will hopefully open back up on Monday, October 31st.

Hope all the repairs will be able to be done in one week!

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For those that have been getting the Fruit and Vegetable bundles from Harvest to Home they are on hold for now.

The website says We will let everyone know when they are back up and running…

The Richmond Public Library is having a Rummage Sale!

Saturday, September 24, 2022

Inside the Richmond Community Building

7:00 AM- 4:00 PM

We will have clothes, books, toys, bicycles, possible some furniture.

The library will also be selling $2.00 Sno cones

Friends of the Richmond Library will be selling Hot dogs and Nachos during the lunch hour, they will also be having a bake sale!! we have heard there will be Snickerdoodle cookies, chocolate chip cookies, lemon cookies and some mini loaves of quick bread.

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Summer reading is over, school has started, autumn is coming. What is the library up to?

The library is participating in the Harvest to Home project. Every other Friday we get a fruit and vegetable bundle delivered to the library for those who sign up online. It cost $15.00 per bag. The next ‘Bundle’ should be Friday, September 16th. Watch the library Facebook page for information on this.

Story time is still here, 10:00 A.M. on Wednesday mornings.

There are two days scheduled for the kids after school. Wednesday, September 14th we will be making Cinnamon slime. Please sign-up for this, remember we have limited space in our little library. We will start around 4:30 P.M.

Thursday, September 22nd is National Ice Cream Cone day, the kids will have ice cream cones, an ice cream quiz and possible another craft. We will start around 4:30 P.M.

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One month gone from summer reading 2022. What have we done so far?

All the kids made bleach “Ocean” shirts, and”Ocean” bottles.

Everyone was invited to listen to a talk about Scuba Diving by one of our locals, whose whole family scuba dives.

The 5 & under kids also made starfish and a paper fish bowl

the 6-11 year old kids made made marshmallow pops, a star box and pirate swords.

The teens had a cupcake war, decorated bottles and put lights in them and made cork boats.

The adults have painted a sea horse, made a couple of small “Ocean’ themed signs, metal sea shells and made cedar bird feeders.

July 6th the teens and 6-11 year olds made water bottle rockets. The 5 and under made toilet paper tube fish.

We were closed most of the first week of July with Independence day and the fair being the same week, the library was only open on Wednesday.

What do we still have to make?

S’more starfish, sea turtles, clothespin snakes or mermaids, seahorse puppets, toilet paper tube octopus, stained glass.

Summer Reading ends on Wednesday, August 3rd, all reading records need to be in no later than Monday, August 1st.

We also have our Shark head for anyone to put their face in and take pictures.

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