Summer activities at Sandy Library
Date Added: 15/07/2022
Become a Gadgeteer this Summer
Encourage your children to keep reading this Summer and join the Gadgeteers for the Summer Reading Challenge.
Children need to read 6 library books to complete the challenge and earn a Gadgeteers medal and certificate. There are rewards and stickers to earn along the way and every library has a Kindle fire to gift to one lucky Gadgeteer!
For more information about the challenge check out our video featuring Professor Readalot and friends.
Summer Activities
Craft Sessions: Tuesday to Friday 9am to 4pm
Drop in for a different fun summer craft each day (while stocks last)
Summer Competitions
Get creative with one of our fun competitions that are running all summer. Pick up an entry form at Sandy Library from Saturday 23 July. Prizes will be awarded in the following age groups 0 to 4 years, 5 to 8 years, 9 to 11 years.
Sandy Library Design competion
Using a printed plan of Sandy Library, design a library of gadgets, play areas - it`s your decision! Entries to be in by Saturday 27th August
Design a Summer Dress competition
Let your imagination run wild - you can use sparkles, colour and any embellishments you like! Entries to be in by Friday 26th August.
Design a Gadget competition
Design a useful gadget that could be used in the Kitchen or Garden. Entries to be in by Friday 26th August.
Lego competition
This will keep you busy over the summer! Design something with lego - the choices are: Build a Maze, Monster, Boat, Pyramid, Dinosaur or Dragon. Entries to be in by Friday 26th August.
Summer Events
Thursday 28 July 1.30pm: The Michael Faraday Story
Get the summer holidays off to an electric start with this exciting interactive performance. Find out about the life and inventions of this Victorian Gadgeteer when he visits the library to tell us his story. Aimed at children aged 5 -12. Tickets cost £3 per child (£1 for siblings) and are available at the library. (Cash only)
Thursday 18 August 11am : Sublime Science Workshop
Join Sublime Science to learn about and get hands on with science! Every child will get to make their own pot of slime. Tickets cost £3 per child (£1 for siblings) available at the library (cash only). Suitable for Ages 5 - 12
Online Event
Enjoy this fun Summer Reading Challenge event from the comfort of your own home - book your free place here using Central Bedfordshire as your library local authority.
Join storyteller John Kirk as he invites you to let your imagination run away with you as he explores some of history's brilliantly bonkers, bogus inventions. Guaranteed online fun for children 3+. All the sessions are highly interactive and each day has a different theme.
We're going on a story hunt