Maitland City Library Holiday Fun 2016

Holiday FunSCHOOL HOLIDAY ACTIVITIES AT YOUR LIBRARY

2016 Program

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JanuaryLOST WORLDSDiscover incredible lost and ancient worlds at Maitland City Library this summer. From the world of dinosaurs, the times of the medieval knights or the lost worlds of Atlantis or Pompeii, there is a huge variety of activities on offer. Learn to draw lost world monsters and characters at our cartooning workshops presented by manga artist Matthew Lin. Make your own dinosaur egg or fossil, go on a medieval quest or be an archaeologist for the day as you dig up the past.

With a mixture of low cost and free activities provided by professional entertainers and library staff, there will be something for every child.

Bookings are essential and can be made through Maitland City Library website at maitland.nsw.gov.au/Library

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LOOKING FOR THE LOCH NESS MONSTER

Breaking News! The Loch Ness Monster has been seen heading to Maitland. No confirmed reports of his exact shape. Come to Maitland Library to help find him and create your version of this mythical monster.

Maitland Library Saturday 9 January 10.00am – 11.30am 4 – 12 years Free

Maitland Library Monday 18 January 2.00pm – 3.30pm 4 – 12 years Free

FIND YOUR SPIRIT ANIMAL

Author Karen Hughes reads from her book The Shaman’s Secret, the second in her popular Kalika Magic series.

Kai and Indie travel to the mountains to find their missing father. A mysterious shaman can help them on their quest, but can they trust him? And will they discover the secret of the mountains before it’s too late?

After Karen’s talk, take part in an activity to find your spirit animal.

East Maitland Library Tuesday 12 January 11.00am – 12.00pm 8 - 12 years Free

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JOURNEY TO THE CENTRE OF THE EARTH

Discover what really lies at the centre of our great planet. Use your imagination to create your own interpretation of the centre of the earth. Finish with an amazing demonstration of a volcanic eruption.

Maitland Library Wednesday 13 January 10.00am - 12.00pm 4 – 12 years Free

DISCOVER LOST WORLDS

Rediscover lost worlds at your library. Pick up your passport and collect stamps as we take a virtual tour of lost and ancient worlds.

Thornton Library Wednesday 13 January 2.30pm – 3.30pm 4 – 12 years Free


OUT OF THIS WORLD

Calling all space and fantasy movie fans! Come along dressed as your favourite outer space or fantasy movie character and explore all things galactic these holidays.

Rutherford Library Thursday 14 January 10.30am – 11.30am 5 – 12 years Free

DINO-MANIA

Mad about dinosaurs? Join us for hands on fun and create your own dinosaur fossil, magic hatching dinosaur egg or fossick for dinosaur bones like a real palaeontologist.

East Maitland Library Friday 15 January 2.00pm - 3.30pm 5 – 12 years Free

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CARTOONING WORKSHOP

Learn how to draw lost world characters, mythological creatures and monsters. Join manga artist Matthew Lin in this hands on workshop and learn the tips and tricks of cartooning.

Maitland Library Friday 15 January 11.00am – 12.30pm 7 – 15 years $5.00

Rutherford Library Friday 15 January 2.00pm – 3.30pm 7 – 15 years $5.00

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DIGGING UP THE PAST

Uncover lost worlds at your library. Be an archaeologist for a day and go on a digging expedition to discover lost artefacts.

Thornton Library Monday 18 January 10.30am – 11.30am 4 – 12 years Free

MEDIEVAL QUEST

Just like King Arthur and his knights, go on a quest to collect special treasures and objects in order to gain puzzle clues from Merlin that will lead you to the lost island of Avalon.

East Maitland Library Tuesday 19 January 2.00pm – 3.00pm 5 – 12 years Free

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DINOSAUR ROAAAR!

Peppa and George Pig, beloved children’s book and TV characters, are discovering how the world looked when dinosaurs walked the earth. Come along and enjoy Peppa and George Pig stories and create your own prehistoric lost world complete with dinosaurs.

Maitland Library Wednesday 20 January 2.30pm – 3.30pm 4 - 8 years Free

MY WORLD

Fancy living in a world you designed yourself? Come along to Rutherford Library and create your perfect place together with your very own special creature pet.

Rutherford Library Thursday 21 January 10.30am – 11.30am 5 - 12 years Free


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AprilINVENTIONSUnleash your inner inventor or scientist at Maitland City Library during April. Design spy inventions, create paper beaded jewellery, musical instruments, games, kites or hot air balloons. Experience the amazing world of science at the hands on Mad Scientist Inventions and Wheelie Things workshops presented by Scienza Viva.

With a mixture of low cost and free activities provided by professional entertainers and library staff, there will be something for every child. Bookings are essential and can be made through Maitland City Library website at maitland.nsw.gov.au/Library


INVENTIONS DIY

How did we communicate before smart phones? Learn about smoke signals, Morse code and sign writing and make your own tin can phone.

East Maitland Library Tuesday 12 April 2.00pm – 3.00pm 5 - 12 years Free

CREATE YOUR OWN DOMINO GAME

Did you know that dominoes were invented in China almost 1000 years ago? Learn about the Chinese warriors who first played the game and create your own super colourful wooden set to while away the holiday hours.

Thornton Library Wednesday 13 April 10.30am – 12.00pm 5 - 12 years Free

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INVENT YOUR OWN MUSICAL INSTRUMENT

Do you feel musical? Want to make your very own musical instrument? Come along to Maitland Library and use recycled materials to create an instrument and join a jam session.

Maitland Library Wednesday 13 April 2.30pm – 4.00pm 5 - 15 years Free

CATCH ME IF YOU CAN

Rutherford Library needs forensic experts to help solve crimes.Investigate clues, use science and your imagination to reveal ‘who dunnit’.

Rutherford Library Friday 15 April 10.30am – 12.00pm 5 - 10 years Free

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PAPER BEADING BONANZA

Make paper beads to create your own jewellery or bookmark. Use your imagination to create items from materials you find around the house like paper, glue, glitter, nail polish.

Maitland Library Saturday 16 April 10.30am – 11.30am 7 – 12 years Free

SPY INVENTIONS

Do you fancy yourself a bit of a secret agent? Spies rely on clever inventions to do their work. Come along to Maitland Library to learn how to be a super spy, and search for fingerprints, create secret messages with invisible ink or make a book safe for hiding secret treasures.

Maitland Library Wednesday 20 April 2.30pm – 4.00pm 5 – 15 years Free

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KITE CAPERS

Find out who made the first kite and how a kite works. Create and decorate your own kite using recycled materials.

East Maitland Library Thursday 21 April 2.00pm – 3.00pm 5 – 12 years Free

LET’S TAKE FLIGHT

Come to Rutherford Library and create things that fly. Make and decorate paper aeroplanes and hot air balloons and play the Plane Game. We will be flying high as we discover what makes them fly!

NB: Not suitable for children with latex allergies.

Rutherford Library Friday 22 April 10.30am – 12.00pm 5 – 12 years Free


WHEELIE THINGS

Experience the amazing world of science and invention with this hands on activity. Make your own dragster to take home, learn how to construct a large water wheel, work out how a ball rolls uphill by itself and have tornado in a bottle races. Wheelie Things is brought to you by Scienza Viva.

Thornton Library Friday 22 April 11.00am – 12.00pm 5 – 12yrs $5.00

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MAD SCIENTIST INVENTIONS

Be a mad scientist for a day! Have fun while learning in this science workshop presented by Scienza Viva. Science activities include jumping sultanas, fishing with magnets, tornadoes in a bottle, mini volcanos and more.

Maitland Library Friday 22 April 2.00pm – 3.00pm 5 – 12yrs $5.00

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POM POM MANIA

Come along to the pom pom mania workshop. Learn how to make pom poms and use them to create flowers, necklaces and chickens.

Thornton Library Saturday 23 April 10.30am – 12.00pm 8 – 12yrs Free

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June/JulyWILD WESTIt’s all things Wild West these July holidays at Maitland City Library, whether it’s the American Wild West or the Australian Outback. Join us for campfire tales and songs, make dream catchers, experience Aussie back of beyond activities, or be a cowboy, cowgirl or Native American Indian for the day. Be entertained with theatre, song and storytelling by children’s performer Renee Price in the Digby Fixit Live! show at Rutherford Library.



BE A COWBOY/COWGIRL FOR A DAY

Howdy partners! Come to East Maitland Library and dress, talk and walk like a cowboy or a cowgirl. Learn cowboy lingo, have your photo taken for a wanted poster, play Wild West games and more.

East Maitland Library Tuesday 5 July 10.00am - 12.00pm 5 – 12 years Free

INDIAN DREAMING

According to Native American legend, dream catchers ensure good dreams. Come along and discover how to make a dream catcher and dream journal while listening to Native American dreamtime stories.

Maitland Library Wednesday 6 July 2.30pm - 3.30pm 5 – 12 years Free

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HORSE TAILS

Yee haa! Mosey on down to Rutherford Library and grab yourself some fun times, just like back in the ol’ west. Design a wanted poster, make a sheriff’s badge, create horse shoe art and much more.

Rutherford Library Friday 8 July 10.30am – 11.30am 5 – 12 years Free

CAMPFIRE SING ALONG

Giddy up, cowboys and cowgirls! Gather round the campfire, hear tales about the old west, sing some good old fashioned Western songs, play a Wild West game and create your own prairie rattlesnake.

Thornton Library Saturday 9 July 10.30am – 11.30am 8 – 12 years Free

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PRAIRIE KIDS

What would life be like without the internet or electricity? Come along to Thornton Library and find out how kids lived, learned, and had fun in the time of the Wild West. Play games, listen to stories, see how cream ‘churns’ into butter, make a yarn doll and spinning top, just like a prairie kid.

Thornton Library Tuesday 12 July 3.00pm – 4.30pm 5 – 8 years Free

WILD WEST DECORATING

Create some super Wild West decorating ideas for your home. Ever fancied a cactus note holder? An Indian bowl ? Or cowboy boot place mat? Come along and join the Wild West fun.

Maitland Library Wednesday 13 July 2.30pm – 4.00pm 4 – 12 years Free

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AUSSIE BACK OF BEYOND

Come and discover Australia’s Wild West, the Aussie Outback. Discover our desert animals, learn bush slang, play outback bingo and take home your very own outback artwork.

Rutherford Library Thursday 14 July 10.30am – 11.30am 5 – 12 years Free

DIGBY FIXIT LIVE! SHOW

Digby Fixit Live! incorporates theatre, song and story telling. Performed by children’s author and entertainer, Renee Price, it is based on her picture book Digby’s Moon Mission, a tale of the curious Digby Fixit and his quest to fix the dark.

Make your own moon catapult in a hands on activity after the story.

Rutherford Library Friday 15 July 10.00am – 11.00am 3 – 8 years Free


NATIVE AMERICAN EXPERIENCE

Want to be a Native American Indian for the day? Come along and make a totem pole, dream catcher or Indian feather headdress to take home.

East Maitland Library Friday 15 July 2.00pm – 3.00pm 5 – 12 years Free

CROSSING THE PLAINS

Journey with us while we cross the American plains. Help create a story straight from the Wild West and then use your acting skills to bring it to life! Plus make your own Wild West poster.

Maitland Library Saturday 16 July 10.30am – 11.30am 4 – 12 years Free


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CHILDREN’S BOOK WEEK


September / OctoberELEMENTSBe in your element at Maitland City Library these September/October holidays, as we have fun exploring the world of earth, wind, water and fire. There are windy tales, amazing science experiments, the elements of Pokémon or Ninjago and creating art from the elements of nature. Bringing Blackbutt to You will bring the elements inside at Thornton and East Maitland Libraries with an opportunity to get up close and personal with Australian animals. Even touch a lizard or pat a python if you dare!


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IT’S RAINING FUN

Come to Thornton Library and discover some interesting facts about rain. Experiment with different coloured tissue paper to create your colourful rain artwork.

Thornton Library Monday 26 September 2.30pm – 3.30pm 8 - 12 yrs Free

ELEMENTAL SCIENCE ADVENTURE

Be amazed by fascinating simple science experiments performed at East Maitland Library. Follow the adventure map to find the experiment stations, then write a secret scientist note with invisible ink. All experiments can be recreated at home with basic household items.

East Maitland Library Tuesday 27 September 2.00pm - 3.00pm 5 - 12 yrs Free


LANTERN MAKING WORKSHOP

Make a floating lantern to launch on the Hunter River at the Maitland Riverlights Multicultural Festival. Parental assistance appreciated.Thornton Library Wednesday 28 September 10.00am - 11.30pm 5 - 14 yrs FreeMaitland Library Friday 30 September 10.00am - 11.30am 5 - 14 yrs FreeEast Maitland Library Friday 30 September 2.00pm - 3.30pm 5 - 14 yrs FreeRutherford Library Tuesday 4 October 10.00am - 11.00am 5 - 14 yrs Free

TOURNAMENT OF THE ELEMENTS - NINJAGO

The Lego Elements have arrived at Maitland Library and they are ready to play. Come along and create your very own pairs game and create a Ninjago poster for your bedroom.

Maitland Library Wednesday 28 September 2.30pm – 4.00pm 4 – 12 years Free

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AMAZING SCIENCE

All budding mad scientists please report to Rutherford Library for exciting experiments including soap powered boats and lava spewing volcanoes, just to name a few.

Rutherford Library Thursday 29 September 10.30am – 11.30am 5 - 12 years Free

WILD WINDY TALES

Join us at Thornton Library to listen to some windy tales, and discover some interesting facts about wind.Create your own pinwheel so you can see the movement of the wind.

Thornton Library Wednesday 5 October 10.30am - 11.30pm 5 – 8 years Free


BRINGING BLACKBUTT TO YOU

Get up close and personal with our Australian animals. Touch a lizard or pat a python if you dare! The friendly staff of Blackbutt Reserve are visiting the library and you will be able to interact with the animals while learning more about Australian wildlife.

East Maitland Library Tuesday 4 October 2.00pm – 3.00pm 4 - 12 years $5.00

Thornton Library Friday 7 October 2.00pm – 3.00pm 4 - 12 years $5.00

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ELEMENTS OF POKEMON

Do you love Pokémon? Do you want to be a Pokémon trainer? Come along to Maitland Library and create all the elements you need to train a Pokémon from a Poke Ball key ring to your own 3D Pikachu character.

Maitland Library Wednesday 5 October 2.30pm – 4.00pm 5 – 12 years Free

EARTH, WIND, FIRE AND WATER

Discover the four elements, earth, wind, fire and water with fun hands on activities. Learn and perform a Native American Indian rain dance, make a rain stick, an Indian tom tom or flute.

East Maitland Library Thursday 6 October 2.00pm – 3.00pm 5 – 15 years Free


ELEMENTAL ART

If you love art and using your imagination, join us to help recreate a force of nature in art and collage. Discover the power of fire, earth, air and water!

Rutherford Library Friday 7 October 10.30am – 11.30am 5 – 10 years Free

ECO ART

Can we create art with nature? Come along and be inspired by the world all around us and make your own eco art using elements of nature that you collect yourself.

Maitland Library Saturday 8 October 10.30am – 12.00pm 5 – 12 years Free

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OUR CONTACT DETAILS

EAST MAITLAND LIBRARY MAITLAND LIBRARY

Monday and Wednesday 11.00am

3 Garnett Road, East Maitland

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Tuesday 11.00am

480 High Street, Maitland

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RUTHERFORD LIBRARY THORNTON

Tuesday and Thursday 10.30am

13 Arthur Street, Rutherford

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Thursday 10.30am

Taylor Avenue, Thornton

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Storytellers from Maitland City Library know how to make reading fun.

Storytime sessions are designed to develop a love of reading in all children.

Storytime is ideal for children 2 to 5 years.

No booking required, just come along.

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Maitland Library480 High Street Maitland NSW 2320t 4933 6952 f 4934 [email protected]

East Maitland LibraryGarnett Road East Maitland NSW 2323t 4933 7122 f 4934 [email protected]

Rutherford LibraryArthur Street Rutherford NSW 2320t 4932 8730 f 4932 [email protected]

Thornton LibraryTaylor Avenue Thornton NSW 2322t 4964 [email protected]

maitland.nsw.gov.au/library

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