Plains Public Library hosts free crafts day
Linda Hanks, the Library Clerk at the Plains Public Library helps Reagan Tingley start the Beaded Heart Shaped Keychain crafts project.
Beads and pages of directions on how to create the Beaded Heart Keychain are spread out on a table at the Plains Public Library.
DEANNA ROSEBERRY (left) and Shannon Roseberry work on their key chain at the Plains Public Library. (Douglas Wilks photos/Clark Fork Valley Press)
A COMPLETED sample of the Beaded Heart key chain at the Plains Public Library.
On Wednesday, Feb. 15 the Plains Public Library held a free crafts event that was open to adults and children from 4:30 to 5 p.m. There were six children and one adult working on creating a Beaded Heart Shaped Keychain, a bracelet, or a small box to hold toy cars.
Library Clerk Linda Hanks was at the table helping the children and adult with the crafts by offering suggestions, materials, and any pointers to help them successfully complete their projects. She would move around the table answering questions and checking on how everyone was doing with what they were working on at that moment. Hanks helped Reagan Tingley begin the key chain. Several times she would lend her assistance when someone appeared to be having any difficulty with tightening the beads on the key chain.
Shannon and Deanna Roseberry were quietly sitting together working on the Beaded Heart Shaped key chain. A completed key chain was taped to a small sign on the table and could be easily looked at often to see how the project would look when it was completed. Both girls completed their key chains while they were there at the library.
Molly Tingley was helping Sam, her three-year-old son who was busy working on putting small dots of glue on small plastic blue colored stones that he then pressed to the sides and top of a cardboard box that was going to become a place to hold his toy cars. Molly Tingley was also busy helping her daughter Reagan with the key chain.
Hanks stated, “This is our second year doing crafts on the third Wednesday of every month. Sometimes we have as few as two here doing the crafts. Once we had as many as 12 here. That was when we were creating small wooden hands that could be used to hold notes or anything else.” Hanks showed everyone present a sample of the finished project she had brought back from the main desk.
Hanks discussed what the crafts project will be in March; “Next month we will be having a crafts day on the third Wednesday to make leprechaun hats.” The crafts day will be held on March 15 and is free for all ages to attend and participate.