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It’s December, which means that the holiday season is upon us! To celebrate, here is a (slightly late) Christmas Advent Calendar! Explore our list of challenges using the interactive slide below, or check out the challenge list below!

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Christmas Advent Calendar Challenge List:

Watch the classic film A Muppet Christmas Carol.
Try baking an aesthetic festive treat, maybe from the Vegan Christmas Cookbook!
Do a silly festive photoshoot with your friends/family. Extra points if you can find some classic ugly Xmas jumpers.
Write a Christmas Story of your own! If you have younger siblings, make a picture book for them and have them do some truly wild little kid illustrations for it. Alternative idea: Write a holiday fanfiction for your favourite book series.
Watch the classic film The Grinch.
Try baking some cookies for your friends and family, check out Christmas with Kim-Joy : a festive collection of edible cuteness for inspiration!
Try making some tree ornaments! You can make these with whatever materials you like! Try salt dough ornaments, polymer clay or even just paper! Here’s a book if you would like some ideas.
Check out a twist on an old Christmas classic with Scrooge #worstgiftever.
Try making a snow globe out of a mason jar!
Your film watching experience, should you choose to accept it, is the classic festive film Home Alone!
Make some handmade Christmas cards for all your friends and family!
Organise a Secret Santa with your friends. Extra points if you make each other handmade presents!
Your festive book suggestion for today is Dash & Lily’s book of dares.
Today’s challenge is for our musicians out there. Learn to play/sing a Christmas song, or write your own!
Today’s movie suggestion is The Nightmare Before Christmas!
Discover a magical Christmas wonderland, right here in Wellington! Windows filled with Christmas cheer, art installations and even an enchanting Lego display! More info at Wellington City Council’s Website.
Your holiday reading suggestion for today is Top Ten Clues You’re Clueless!
Have you wrapped your presents yet? Try designing your very own wrapping paper! For example, go find some plain paper and draw your own designs on them.
Today’s reading suggestion is Reindeer boy!
Most likely, your favourite musician has recorded at least one Christmas song. So, go find some festive tunes and make the perfect holiday playlist!
You movie suggestion for today is It’s A Wonderful Life.
Today’s challenge is to learn a bit more about learn more about the history behind Christmas traditions. As usual, we have plenty of books you could check out…
Your reading suggestion today is The Afterlife of Holly Chase.
Make something yum for Christmas tomorrow! Maybe some mince pies? Or trifle? As always, feel free to look through our collection for ideas…
Your challenge today is to make a cute festive video with your friends/whānau!
MERRY CHRISTMAS and SEE YOU IN THE NEW YEAR!

Youth Night Enters the Digital Realm

By Stephen

On Friday, 3 September, 2021

In internet culture, stuff to do, troubled teens trying to put their past behind them

While our libraries are closed at Level 3 and Level 4, there are a whole bunch of things that just… stop happening. Thankfully, thanks to some of the quick-witted teens who attend our regular Youth Nights at Johnsonville Library, Youth Night isn’t one of them! They have devised a Discord server that will serve to capture some of the magic and whimsy of a typical Waitohi affair, with games, activities, chatting, music and quiet spaces aplenty, with no doubt a smattering of our old friends Mischief and Hijinks to boot. And you won’t even have to leave the comfort and safety of your own bedroom!

The full ~Youth Night 2: Electric Boogaloo~ server will be opened up this Saturday at 3.00pm (yes, going digital means you get to be at Youth Night for longer!) — if you are interested in joining us, please email the youth librarian with your name, age, and which school you go to to receive your invite link.

Waitohi Youth Nights Return!

By Stephen

On Monday, 27 July, 2020

In library news, real life, real problems, stuff to do, troubled teens trying to put their past behind them, wellington (you can't beat it etc. etc.)

Now that we’re all done with that business of emerging, blinking, into the sunlight following the national lockdown, a lot of our regular events and programmes are getting back underway. Happily, this includes our regular Youth Nights at Johnsonville Library at Waitohi Community Hub!

‘What is Youth Night?’ I hear you plaintively ask. ‘Why would I spend my Saturday night in a library of all places?’ Well, friends. Perhaps a more apt question is ‘what isn’t Youth Night?’ We play games, we make music, we watch movies, we debate the ins and outs of LGBTQ+ representation in contemporary media (this one is optional), we try to beat each other’s high scores in Beat Saber, we laugh, we cry, we rank the characters of the classic 1990s cartoon Gargoyles in order of hotness (Goliath and Demona come in at joint first place, obviously, with everyone else trailing a distant second), and most importantly, we eat pizza.

Our Youth Nights are totally free (pizza included!), but you do need to be 13+ in order to come, so please bring your student ID. Once you’re in, our spaces are all yours. Youth Nights are on the first Saturday of every month, from 5.00-8.00pm. The first one since lockdown is this Saturday, the 1st of August. See you there!

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