The Warsaw Community Public Library will offer a needle felting class 10:30 a.m. Saturday, Jan. 18. Register at WCPL’s Reference Desk to needle felt “Lilly the Bunny” with artist Karen McPeak.

By Amy Mann

Children’s Services

The library’s Winter Reading Program started Jan 6. Are you signed up and participating? The Children’s Department at Warsaw Community Public Library is using a Bingo card to keep track of what a child is reading and doing. Register in person at the Children’s Desk. The program continues through Feb. 29.

Activities include playing a board game or listening to music as well as the “normal” reading most libraries encourage. Information can be taken in through all of the senses. Although reading a printed book is a favorite pastime here, there is value in occasionally listening to a book on CD. Play away through an app on a tablet or phone.

Discussing books or playing board games as a family enhances fluency in speech and expands vocabulary. Reading aloud does the same for a child and instills confidence.

Is the young person in your life looking for something to do when staying inside for an afternoon seems like a good idea? We have resources that can help you with that. We have non-fiction books that are full of activities and ideas.

Are your kids science lovers? Try a book of DIY experiments or encourage them to read about Eugenie Clark, known as the Shark Lady, or rocket engineer Wernher von Braun.

See the printed books, audio resources and ebooks available by going to our website, warsawlibrary.org.

Do you know kids who like to create? We have books about architecture, sewing and paper folding.

Nothing to do? Bored? Let us help you change your child’s outlook. We have books full of activities tied to history, literature, and math. These books bring school subjects into the real world. They make sense of the sometimes monotonous topics that could open a whole new world to them.

We have books that will fuel their imaginations and take them to new worlds. Where else can you access the wealth of resources available at your local public library? Come and visit at 310 E. Main Street, Warsaw. We are open 9 a.m. to 8 p.m. Monday through Wednesday, 9 a.m. to 6 p.m. Thursday and Friday and 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. Saturday.