12-5-2025
Next weekend, Saturday, December 13th, is the final Art Attack of 2025. Reservation is available on our website or by calling the library and closes on Monday, December 8th.
Miss Maria started Art Attack as part of our Summer Reading Program. She (and patrons) enjoyed it so much, that she decided to make it a regular monthly event the second Saturday. So far there has only been one craft each time. For December, we’re going out with a bang otherwise known as four or five projects.
Our program runs at the same time as the East Troy Family Community Resource Center’s Annual Craft & Vendor Fair at the East Troy High School. The ETFCRC’s event runs from 9:00am-2:00pm. Art Attack begins at 11:00am and runs for about an hour. We don’t want to take away for the Resource Center’s event. Instead, we are providing parents time to go there solo.
The library’s official policy on leaving a child at the library without an adult or caregiver, is that the child must be at least 10 years old. For this month’s Art Attack, we will allow parents of children who are at least seven years old and able to paint, glue, and color independently sign their child/children in and out of the program. The parent would drop off in time for the 11:00 program, provide the library with a phone number, and go to the craft fair for an hour. At noon, they should be here to collect the children.
The crafts are intended to make good holiday gifts. Miss Maria is collecting brown paper bags in which to hide the crafts so that they can be a surprise. I will also be at the event with my grandson in order to help her supervise and assist in the crafts. (I just filled out the registration from the link on the library website’s calendar.)
While the family is here, everyone can sign up for the Winter Reading Program. Prizes are trickling in. At this writing we are missing a few local gift cards as Amazon doesn’t deliver those. New this year we hope to have one from Eggxcellent. Amazon did deliver an adorable Squishmallow which has received a few welcome to East Troy hugs from a young patron along with their own gift card. Staff is divided as to which LEGO set is cooler: the chrysanthemum or the 3-in-1 fox, squirrel, owl. Sign up and vote with your raffle entries.
Reading Now: Unplugged by Gorman Korman (MS Battle of the Books selection)
Listening to Now: The Count of Monte Cristo by Alexandre Dumas (Two round trips to UW-Eau Claire in a week have me down to 20 hours.)
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