What's New!

Take and Makes for this project (from May 13, 2022) may still be available at area PPLD Libraries!

Supplies and Directions:

Materials we provide:

• Paper plate
• Contact paper
• Yarn

Materials you provide:

• Natural materials
• Scissors

Directions:

1. Go outside and pick up a variety of natural materials.
2. Cut out the center circle of your plate.
3. Peel the backing off your contact paper.
4. Place your contact paper sticky side up on your surface.
5. Place the outside plate circle over the contact paper.
6. Arrange your natural materials on the sticky side of your contact paper.
7. Use the yarn to hang your suncatcher.

Based on https://handsonaswegrow.com/craft-for-toddlers-nature-collage-suncatche…

Can your water balloons survive a big drop? Find out with this experiment.

Supplies and Directions:

• One balloon
• Water
• One plastic shopping bag
• One rubber band

Directions:

1. Add water to your balloon, don't fill the balloon, leave lots of room to tie the balloon closed.
2. Cut the ends of the handles of the bags. Tie or rubber band them to the knotted end of a water balloon
3. Go outside and drop it from a high place to see if it breaks when it lands.
4. Test and retest until your balloon breaks.
5. Try it again with another balloon.
6. See what else you can attach to your parachute and let drop.

Happy Earth Month!
Does your family recycle? There are tons of companies in town that recycle. Maybe you could encourage your family to join in this simple process but yes, it's does cost something. Try cleaning and saving some plastics with caps and cardboard and other stuff. Make a Trash Art creation!

Did you know you can't just recycle anything? According to one recycle business in town, here's what you can/cannot recycle:

Do Recycle:
CLEAN glass jars and metal lids (but not all companies accept glass)
CLEAN plastic bottles and containers. Look for the recycle symbol with a #1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, or 7.
Flattened cardboard cereal and other dry food boxes, shoe boxes, tissue boxes, moving boxes, soda cartons, TP/paper rolls
CLEAN aluminum, steel, or tin cans and lids
Newspaper, scrap paper, paper bags, index cards, envelopes

Do NOT recycle:
Styrofoam
dirty cardboard like pizza boxes
electronic devices and monitors
yard waste
shredded paper
plastic bags
plastic caps unless there is a recycle symbol on it
food
dishes
paint cans
motor oil containers