World Art Day/Week of the Young Child

 

Evansville is celebrating the Week of the Young Child this week and we think it is very fitting that World Art Day also falls on this week! (April 15)  Here are some of our upcoming events for this week:

Music Monday: Movers & Makers (Butterfly craft)

Wednesday: Storytime at 10am, First Chapter Book Club for grades 1-2 at 3:30 pm

Artsy Thursday: Potato Stamping at 10 am

Friday: Baby Storytime at 10 am, Family Fun Night, 5:30-7:30 pm at Levi Leonard Elementary Gym

 

Family Fun Night is a free event organized by AWARE and will have bouncy houses for the kids, arts & crafts, food, and games, with many community organizations participating. 

 

Looking for some artistic inspiration for World Art Day?  Here are a few “how to“ art books from our collection:

 

Children’s Art Books:

                Draw Silly Superheroes, Call #:  J743.4 Colins

                Usborne Art Ideas: Big Book of Things to Draw, Call #: J741.2 Watt

                Usborne Book of Art Ideas, Call #: J745.7 Watt

               

               

Teen Art Books:

                Drawing and Painting Fantasy Worlds, Call #: YA 743.87 Cowan

                Sketching Manga-Style, Call #: YA 741.5952 Hayashi

                Manhwa Mania, Call #: YA 741.5 Hart

               

Adult Art Books:

                Watercolor is for Everyone, Call #: 751.422 Ewing

                Seeing the Light, An Artist’s Guide, Call #: 751.4 Carr

We also wanted to mention Creative Bug, a resource the library subscribes to! From courses on painting to clay, crochet, sewing, candle-making, and jewelry design, it offers step by step videos on all the creative topics you can imagine.  To access, click on CreativeBug under "Online Tools-Classes" from the Eager Free Library's website: https://www.als.lib.wi.us/EFPL/online-tools/  (Requires your library card number to verify you are a library patron.)  Have fun creating!