Deborah Rawson Memorial Library is proud to collaborate with the Jericho Town Library to bring our communities a summer full of fun! We look forward to seeing you soon.
Youth Reading Program Registration
How does summer reading work this year?
Youth ages 0 to 18 may register online beginning in June for the summer reading program, “Adventure Begins At Your Library,” then pick-up a goody bag and reading log at Deborah Rawson Memorial Library (DRML) or Jericho Town Library (JTL) beginning Tuesday, June 20.
Read (or be read to) at least 60 minutes a week, and record the time in the reading log. Show the log to a librarian at DRML or JTL, and you may pick a prize from the treasure box. You may visit one treasure box one time per calendar week through Saturday, Aug. 8th.
Youth Programs
Click here to download a copy of the youth summer program brochure.
Ongoing Throughout the Summer
Story Walk®
Starting at the end of the sidewalk on the right side of the building and wrapping around the edge of the field. Look for a new story almost every month, or reread great stories on each visit.
All programs meet in person at DRML unless otherwise specified
June
Summer Program Kickoff Party! – Saturday, June 20th from 10 to noon at Jericho Community Center [all ages]
This year’s summer program theme is “Unearth a Story” and we’re having a pre-history party to celebrate. Join us to play games, do crafts, dance and more! Dressing up encouraged.
Pride Pins – Tuesday, June 2nd from 3 to 4:30 p.m. [all ages]
Drop in and use our button machine to make magnets, key chains, or pins to show your pride, joy, and allyship.
Petroglyphs & Painted Rocks – Thursday, June 4th from 3 to 4 p.m. [all ages]
Paint ancient symbols (or whatever you’d like) on river rocks. Keep them, or put them around town to send the good energy forward.
Kids Chess Club – Friday, June 5th from 3 to 4 p.m. [ages 6+] Registration Required
It’s our final chess club of the school year! Come play a few more games with your friends.
Minecraft Social – Tuesday, June 9th from 3 to 4:30 p.m. [ages 8+] Registration Required
Spawn a wither beast, get the best gear in Nerf wars, or just create your own perfect world.
Read to Wyatt – Wednesday, June 10th from 3 to 4:30 p.m. [all ages]
Come read to Wyatt one more time before he goes on summer vacation!
Tech Takeapart – Thursday, June 11th from 3 to 4:30 p.m. [ages 8+] Registration Required
What’s inside an old computer, clock or play away? Sign up to find out as we take apart old tech!
Magic the Gathering Players Club – Friday, June 12th from 3:30 to 5:30 [ages 8+]
Whether your play a lot or you’d like to try it out, this friendly group of gamers is ready to play.
Suncatchers – Tuesday, June 16th from 3 to 4 p.m. [all ages]
With just some tissue paper and contact paper, create beautiful piece of art to catch the light all summer long.
Salt Dough Fossils – Thursday, June 18th from 3 to 4 p.m. [all ages]
Let’s celebrate our summer theme by creating our very own fossils in salt dough.
LEGO Club – Friday, June 19th from 3 to 4 p.m. [ages 6+] Registration Required
There may be just one LEGO club this month, but we’ve still got all the fun. Come build with us.
Very Merry Theatre presents: The Secret Garden – Tuesday, June 30th at noon outside DRML. Rain location: Jericho Community Center [all ages]
Our friends from Very Merry Theatre are back with an all new production for us. Bring a lunch and your own shade and enjoy this marvelous musical.
July
Fireworks Painting – Thursday, July 2nd from 3 to 4 p.m. [ages 6+ suggested]
Celebrate independence day with art! Using straws, scissors, glitter, and paint create your own fireworks show.
Stuffed Animal Sleepover – Tuesday, July 7th. Drop off stuffed animals by 1 p.m. [all ages]
Calling all stuffed animals for a sleepover at the library! Start their library adventure with a story time Tuesday morning at 10:30, and then let them stay with the youth librarian at the library for the night. Stuffed animals will play games, help the librarians, and have plenty of adventures during their overnight stay. Make sure to drop them off by 1pm so they can join in the fun, and pick up any time the next day.
Slime: Insects in Amber – Thursday, July 9th from 10:30 to 11:30 a.m. [ages 6+] Registration Required
Make your own slime to take home and put a few plastic insects in it. It will look just like an ancient insect caught in tree sap that became amber.
LEGO Club – Friday, July 10th and 24th from 3 to 4 p.m. [ages 6+] Registration Required
Build a dinosaur, an ancient cave or whatever else you can imagine. There’s no wrong way to play at LEGO Club.
Microscope Magic – Tuesday, July 14th from 3 to 4 p.m. [all ages]
Let’s explore the little things that hold our world together. We will take a walk around the library and pick up things from nature, then we will learn how to mount a slide and use a microscope for a really up close look at what we collected.
Dino Dig – Thursday, July 16th from 10 to 11:30 [all ages, under 8 must have parent with them]
There’s more to uncover from our first mini paleontological dig! Using toothpicks, paint brushes, water droppers and other tools to carefully excavate “fossils” from a chunk of earth.
Dinoman! – Saturday, July 18th at TIME at MMU High School [all ages]
Boy howdy are we excited to partner with Jericho Town Library and MMU High School to host Dinoman! With magic, merry mayhem, and magnificent props, the audience is taken on a trip throughout the mesozoic era.
Bob and Dayna Lisaius have been producing shows for the past 30 years and you can learn more at https://dinoman.org/dinosaurs/
Clay Pots – Wednesday, July 22nd from 3 to 4 p.m. [ages 6+ suggested]
Using air dry clay use ancient techniques like pinching or coiling to create your own little pot.
DIY Treasure Maps! – Thursday, July 30th from 3 to 4 p.m. [ages 6+]
Create your very own world with some dried pasta, a paper bag, colored pencils and markers, and your imagination.
August
Vermont Institute of Natural Science (VINS) – Saturday, August 1st at 11 a.m. [all ages]
Our friends from VINS are coming for a visit with some very special animal friends. We hope you can join us to discover a world where owls turn pink, and tree trunks can blink in the “Color Our World” presentation.
Nature Rubbings – Thursday, August 6th from 10:30 to 11:30 a.m. [all ages]
Use crayons or chalk and paper rubbed over items from nature to create an image of it.
LEGO Club – Fridays, August 7th & 21st from 3 to 4 p.m. [ages 6+] Registration Required
Build together as a team or on your own. Create a mighty army or a humble garden. Let imagination be your guide.
Dino Eye / Amber Fossil Magnets – Wednesday, August 12th from 3 to 4 p.m. [ages 6+]
Draw your own dinosaur eye or an insect to glue to the back of a glass bead, and then we’ll glue a magnet on to that!
Marbled Paper – Friday, August 14th from 10 to 11:30 a.m. [ages 6+] Registration required
Sign up for this messy craft with beautiful results.
Perler Beads – Tuesday, August 18th from 3 to 4 p.m. [ages 6+] Registration Required
Make a pixel perfect creation using melty Perler Beads!