Monday, October 16, 2017

What's New at Teen Hangout

Every Thursday from 4:30 to 6:30pm, teens are invited to come to the library to learn a craft, play games, enjoy a snack, and spend time with their friends. This program, Teen Hangout, is aimed at ages 12-18 with the goal of giving teens something fun to do after school.

One of the crafts teens have learned in the past few weeks is to make colorful, foil-embossed notebooks. They used hot glue to draw patterns on the surface of a composition notebook. Then, they covered the notebook in aluminum foil and colored in the spaces with permanent marker.

We had some fails when it came to creating pixel art with fuse beads (we think our iron wasn't hot enough), but it was still a fun and relaxing way to spend the afternoon.

For Teen Read Week, our teens "unleashed their story" by learning about and creating their own zines.

We have so many fun teen programs coming up including working together to solve an Escape Room in November, and making an LED Holiday card in December.

Tuesday, October 10, 2017

Chalk the Library



As numerous local artists prepared for the annual Chalk the Block Art Festival in Downtown El Paso, the Dorris Van Doren branch held a smaller art event for library patrons. All ages were invited to beautify our patios with their artwork.



There were so many creative chalk drawings!


So many young artists attended this program that we had to open up our second patio. Soon, both patio floors were full of amazing, colorful artwork. 




Wednesday, October 4, 2017

Fall is Finally Here!

 Fall has arrived, and the Dorris Van Doren Library has already begun to feature fun fall activities.


September 19th was Talk Like a Pirate Day. We had a display of fantastic pirate books for kids to check out.











September 24-30 was Banned Books week, so we displayed our collection of banned and challenged books for patrons who dared to take one home!


















This Friday, October 6, we have a Chalk the Library program to get everyone ready for this weekend's Chalk the Block Arts Festival in Downtown El Paso.
Keep watching our calendar for more awesome fall events.