Wellington City Libraries are running free school holiday activities at libraries around town to celebrate New Zealand Book Month.
Check out these guys who enjoyed making ‘meanies’ and Mrs Wishy-Washy books at Johnsonville library.
No bookings required – Check our website for the rest fo the NZ book month holiday programmes.

School Holidays… What are you going to do?         
Wellington City Libraries are running free school holiday activities at libraries around town to celebrate New Zealand Book Month.
 
Design a book cover, learn how to illustrate like a pro, make dog collars for Hairy Maclary, have fun with food and more!
 
No bookings required – Check our website [...]

Our friends at the Botanic gardens have ‘Get crafty with Fifi’ happening – so kids, go to the Botanic Garden Treehouse at 10.30am for a fun craft session with TV personality Fifi Colston. Suitable for children aged five and over (you must be accompanied by an adult). Bookings are essential – but no organised groups [...]

Wellington City Libraries are running free school holiday activities at libraries around town to celebrate New Zealand Book Month.
 
Design a book cover, learn how to illustrate like a pro, make dog collars for Hairy Maclary, have fun with food and more!
 
No bookings required at these fun family events. Go to the website for session times and locations or call 499 [...]

Only 3 weeks of school left before the holidays! Yeah!
 
We’ve got some great activities planned for the holidays. October is New Zealand Book Month, so we are celebrating New Zealand books, authors and illustrators. All the favourites will be there- Joy Cowley, Lynley Dodd, Under the Mountain and more!
 
Check out the What’s On page for [...]

Here’s a photo of two of our latest new scientists with John Field. They are holding up the ‘comets’ that they made at the Kilbirnie Library for the Astronomy School Holiday Programme. They are wearing gloves because the comets that they have made are icy cold! Come along to the session at Central Library at [...]

Hey guys here’s what we have planned for the second week of the school holidays at these libraries. We are continuing with the astronomy theme:
 
 
Moon & Stars (4-8 year olds) – Wadestown, Tuesday 14th July, 11am
Super Space – Broooklyn, Tuesday 14 July, 11am
Fizzing Comets (9-12 year olds) – Ruth Gotlieb (Kilbirnie), Tuesday 14th July, 2pm
Super [...]

Look! Up in the Sky!
Want to know how to make your own planetarium this school holidays? Or you could create your own sky map for your room! Click on the orange links for instructions.

The holiday programme is underway with rockets being made and launched at Island Bay, Johnsonville, and Tawa Libraries this week!

It’s totally free and heaps of fun! Launching Rockets is available for 9-12 year olds, all you need to do is bring a bottle to turn into a rocket. See here for more info.

Hey guys! When Saturday rolls around this week it is officially the school holidays! Yeay! We have some very exciting things planned…..I am sure there are some scientists out there! The theme is Astronomy! If you are aged 9-12 we have rockets to make and launch and fizzing comets to fizz! Be careful! It’s dangerous! [...]