All-Ages Fun in Dresser
Leah Langby
August 31, 2012
Keeping Up With Kids

Tiffany Meyer enlisted some wonderful community experts and partners, along with her own creativity, to make the Summer Library Program in Dresser a great success.  There was a pop-up planetarium, a local herbalist taking kids on a lawn walk to spot common useful herbs, someone who helped kids make ice cream, a master gardener, and more!

 A rock expert brought in lots of fossils, geodes, and more, and kids got to take home a souvenir!
 Hard to go wrong with chalk and spray bottles–they also made paper and ice paintings this hot summer!
 Dresser Olympics, a gold medal winner!
Making bubble wands engages a variety of ages

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