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By Katrina Margolis
Hometown Weekly Reporter
Super Awesome Fun Time is a Dover Library institution. While the Library has a diverse and rich slate of children’s programming, this particular event is the highlight and staple. This past week, the Library had over 100 people, children and parents included, to participate in the weekly event. Super Awesome Fun time is offered Mondays from 4:00 to 5:00 p.m., and Thursdays and Fridays from 10:30 to 11:30 a.m. This “array of movement, music, songs, stories, sensory activities, crafts, and fun” is open to all ages.
The high attendance is mostly due to the wide age range of the children who attend. “A lot of the kids can’t do the activities, they just enjoy the music and look at others do the activities,” Nancy Tegeler, Head of Children’s Services, said.
The Library has offered specialty Super Awesome Fun Times to organizations such as the Dover Mother’s Association, which are much smaller. However, the activities during these are much of the same. The hour is filled with a variety of fun songs, many of them including motions and sensory involvement.
In addition, each week there are a number of different sensory bins and process activities. Each week there are approximately three of each. “It’s not about the finished product, it’s about using different ways of applying it to the paper or getting to know the different feelings,” Tegeler explained. “Today, we have shaving cream, which you could explore with a popsicle stick or with your hands, so that kind of thing is all about using the materials, it’s not about the end product.”
In addition to the shaving cream, there was a station where kids could “do hair” on wigs, a tub with water and soap foam, a container with a variety of different pom-poms, and a few others. “We’ve been doing this for three years, entering four,” Tegeler said. It has only grow over the years.
Super Awesome Fun Time is a staple in the Dover Community that will be taken advantage of for years to come.
