For young children, they have a toybrary filled with games available to youngsters that promote creativity and memory usage. They also provide story time and Summer Reading, two of my favorite things. At story time, children huddle around an adult, who reads them a story or two. Sometimes children create little works of art out of clay or paper that resemble scenes or a character from the stories that they hear. During the Summer Reading program, a week's activities interrelate.
Children play games, fashion arts and crafts, and, of course, read stories and listen to stories.
The other children and I participated in different activities that week, still one activity stood out in my mind. Choosing a few books every day, the other children and I took them home to read in the evening. The next day we would take a slip of paper that would say how many books we had read the previous night, and for every book we read, we painted one yellow brick outside the library and scribbled our name on it. Eventually, when the week was up and everyone had made their bricks, the bright yellow rectangles formed a yellow brick path, similar to the road Dorothy strolled along in the movie. The activity was fun, but it also made the other children and I proud of our accomplishments.