Winter holiday activities popular at the library
The library produced 30 craft packs for whanau to do at home and held four activity sessions in the library over the recent school holidays. Over 80 children and their whanau attended. These sessions provide opportunities to have fun, learn and to make new friends.
Our first session made use of old and broken toys to create up-cycled ‘Franken-toys’. Then, in partnership with Westland Toy Library, we held a play session in the library using just some of the fantastic toys that the Toy Library have. What a fabulous resource the Toy Library is for families here on the Coast.
Children and adults got creative with LEGO, these are our future architects, engineers and designers in the making! And, for slightly older children we held a creative writing session, using the AI in the Story Spark website. Story Spark creates the pictures for the text. It was a collaborative writing exercise and there was much hilarity, and some very bizarre pictures as the authors discovered how to give the AI better prompts, what AI can do – and what it can’t! If you want to read one of the story’s they created, click here.
Thank you to everyone who participated, our volunteers who supported the Franken-Toy session and Westland Toy Library.
Text and images – Westland District Library
