May Half Term Activities at Stockton-on-Tees Libraries Half and Empathy Day

Booster Cushion Theatre presents Little Red Riding Hood and Friends

Stockton Central Library
Friday 2 June, 11am – 12pm.
Free – booking essential. Register online: www.stockton.gov.uk/book-library-event or by calling 01642 526521.

Stockton-on-Tees Libraries are delighted to welcome Booster Cushion Theatre with their production of Little Red Riding Hood and Friends. Little Red Riding Hood’s friend arrives to tell us the story but has a problem, there are no pages in the book! He tries to tell the story and we meet Red Riding Hood’s mum, dad and grandma but he keeps getting the story wrong. So, Cinderella arrives to help, dancing a conga with her Jack’s Baked Beans Band and suggests auditions to find the Wolf to end the story. There is lots of participation in this theatre show, with the audience becoming Cinderella’s backing band, auditioning to be wolves, helping Red Riding Hood’s dad cut down trees and dancing a conga. Tradition is left far behind in this fast, funny show that uses lots of slapstick and child participation. A fine introduction to theatre that presents a variety of fairy tales. The children will be captivated from start to finish. This is a family production, recommended for ages 4 to 11. A ticket must be booked for everyone attending (adults and children).

Elmer Crafts
Norton Library
Saturday 27 May, 10am – 11am
Free – drop-in session.
For more information, please contact Norton Library on 01642 528019.
Come and make an Elmer Face for Elmer Day.  Suitable for ages 4 – 11 years.

Stitching Crafts
Thornaby Central library
Tuesday 30 May, 2pm – 3pm
Free – booking essential. Register online: www.stockton.gov.uk/book-library-event or by calling 01642 528117.
Learn to stitch and sew by making your own felt phone case or purse using pre-punched felt and plastic needles.  Suitable for ages 4 – 11 years.

The Nature of Paper Plates
Stockton Central Library
Tuesday 30 May, 2.30pm – 4pm
Free – booking essential. Register online: www.stockton.gov.uk/book-library-event or by calling 01642 526521.
Come and create – from a paper plate to a wonder of nature. Suitable for ages 4 – 11 years.

Step into Spring
Norton Library
Wednesday 31 May, 10am – 11am
Free – booking essential. Register online: www.stockton.gov.uk/book-library-event or by calling 01642 528019.
Step into spring by creating your own blooming good spring wreath. Suitable for ages 4 – 11 years.

Stitching Crafts
Thornaby Library Gilmour Street
Wednesday 31 May, 10am – 11am
Free – booking essential. Register online: www.stockton.gov.uk/book-library-event  or by calling 01642 528117.
Learn to stitch and sew by making your own phone case or purse using pre-punched felt and plastic needles.  Suitable for ages 4 – 11 years.

Under the Sea Crafts
Yarm Library
Wednesday 31 May, 10.30am – 11.30am.
Free – booking essential. Register online: www.stockton.gov.uk/book-library-event  or by calling 01642 528152.
The ocean is our inspiration as we make our very own hanging jellyfish and fill our aquarium pictures with shells, fish, and sparkles. Suitable for ages 4 – 11 years.

Step into Spring
Fairfield Library
Wednesday 31 May, 1pm – 2pm.
Free – booking essential. Register online: www.stockton.gov.uk/book-library-event or by calling 01642 527962.
Step into spring by creating your own blooming good spring wreath. Suitable for ages 4 – 11 years.

3D Doodling: Superheroes
Norton Library
Thursday 1 June, 10am – 11am.
Free – booking essential. Register online: www.stockton.gov.uk/book-library-event or by calling 01642 528019.
Get creative with 3D pens! This session is all about superheroes – create your own superhero mask or badge. This session is suitable for children with no or some prior experience of using 3D pens. Parents must supervise. Children must be aged 8 years and older for this session.

Marvellous Hats
Billingham Library
Thursday 1 June, 2pm – 3pm.
Free – booking essential. Register online: www.stockton.gov.uk/book-library-event  or by calling Billingham Library on 01642 528084.
Let your imagination run wild as we join Millie in Satoshi Kitamura’s ‘Millie’s Marvellous Hat’ as we make fantastical hats where you can make your dreams reality. Create peacock hats, cake hats, or your very own design. Suitable for ages 4 – 11 years

The Hungry Caterpillar
Ingleby Barwick Library
Thursday 1 June, 1.30pm – 2.30pm.
Free- booking essential. Register online: www.stockton.gov.uk/book-library-event  or by calling 01642 528528.
Come and join us on our craft session to make ‘The Hungry Caterpillar’s journey from Caterpillar to beautiful butterfly.  Suitable for ages 4 – 11 years.

Kites, Kites, Kites!
Stockton Central Library
Thursday 1 June, 2.30pm – 4pm.
Free – booking essential. Register online: www.stockton.gov.uk/book-library-event  or by calling 01642 526521.
Come and create a wonder of wind power. Who doesn’t love a kite? Suitable for ages 4 – 11 years.

Fabulous Flowers
Roseworth Library
Friday 2 June, 11am – 12pm.
Free – Booking essential. Register online: www.stockton.gov.uk/book-library-event or by calling 01642 528098
Come along to our late Spring craft session and create some beautiful flowers to take home. Suitable for ages 4 – 11 years.

Empathy Day
Understanding other people’s feelings can help create a better world. Join us to take on these Mission Empathy Challenges:
Stockton Central Library
Saturday 10 June
10am – 2pm
Free family drop-in session. Recommended for ages 3 – 11 years.

1. Empathy Power Reads

Read from a special collection of books. Make and wear a pair of Empathy Superpower Glasses to help you see the story from the character’s point-of-view. Strike a power pose with your book and take a selfie.

2. Empathy 360°

Let’s look around. How might the world seem to other people?

3. Empathy Exchange

Let’s talk! Practise talking and listening to other people.

4. Empathy Emotions Map

Write or draw your feelings on our mind map.

5. Empathy Resolution

How can you make a difference? What would make your home, school and community a happier, more caring place? Make your own empathy resolution bunting.

Poet Kate Wakeling
Stockton Central Library
Saturday 10 June, 2pm – 3pm
We are delighted to welcome poet Kate Wakeling, foe a fun online session creating poems inspired by Kate’s poetry collections ‘Moon Juice’ and ‘Cloud Soup’
Free – booking essential. Register online: www.stockton.gov.uk/book-library-event or by calling 01642 526521

Empathy Storytime
Join us, as we showcase fantastic books to support empathy building within young children. Carefully chosen stories help expand a child’s world and life experience by providing a gentle introduction to the emotions and situations they will encounter as they grow. Picture books connect young children to the wider world and by sharing these books show that people lead different live and experience joys and challenges. Recommended for ages 2 – 5 years.
Stockton Central Library
Monday 5 June, 10.30am – 11.15am
Free – booking essential. Register online: www.stockton.gov.uk/book-library-event or by calling 01642 526521

Thornaby Central Library
Tuesday 6 June, 10.30am – 11:15am
Free – booking essential. Register online: www.stockton.gov.uk/book-library-event or by calling 01642 528117

Billingham Library
Tuesday 6 June, 1.30pm – 2.15pm
Free – booking essential. Register online: www.stockton.gov.uk/book-library-event or by calling 01642 528084

Thornaby Library, Gilmour Street
Wednesday 7 June, 10.30am – 11.15am
Free – booking essential. Register online: www.stockton.gov.uk/book-library-event or by calling 01642 528150

Ingleby Barwick Library
Thursday 8 June, 10.30am – 11.15am
Free – booking essential. Register online: www.stockton.gov.uk/book-library-event or by calling 01642 528528

Fairfield Library
Thursday 8 June, 1pm – 1.45pm
Free – booking essential. Register online: www.stockton.gov.uk/book-library-event or by calling 01642 527962

Norton Library
Friday 9 June, 10.30am – 11.15am
Free – booking essential. Register online: www.stockton.gov.uk/book-library-event or by calling 01642 528019

Yarm Library
Friday 9 June, 1.30pm – 2.15pm
Free – booking essential. Register online: www.stockton.gov.uk/book-library-event or by calling 01642 528152

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