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By Katrina Margolis
Hometown Weekly Reporter
When kids are out of school, the Medfield Library is there for parents, offering weeks of arts and crafts throughout the day at convenient times. For the last few weeks, the Children’s Room has offered a variety of crafts, changing each week to focus on seasonality and the current holidays. This past Tuesday to Thursday, the craft offered centered around New Year’s and Hanukkah. Children were invited to create their own New Year Celebration Hat as well as a paper latke.
“During the holidays ever since I’ve been here, for the past four or five years but probably longer, we usually do several weeks of crafts,” Bernadette Foley explained. Foley is one of the Children’s Librarians. “This week was Hanukkah and New Year’s, last week was Christmas and Hanukkah, and the week before was just general winter. So we kind of span the winter, the holidays and the new year.”
The events are drop-in throughout the day. “I plan them all. I plan for lots of supplies and some days are really quiet. Other days, a lot of kids come,” Bernadette said. “Some people come looking for it because they know about it, other people stumble upon it.” Over the course of the three weeks, there have been about nine children per day, a significant presence for something that has lasted for such a long period of time. “Sometimes, it’s almost a little meeting spot, and families will go in there and the kids might be doing the craft they might be not.”
Over the summer, the library offers eight to ten weeks of crafts for kids out of school as well.
