Matsuri, Doll Day/Girl's Day in Japan. Students from the Menasha School District Japanese language program, with teacher Lynn Sessler and visiting Japanese student Saki Tatsuda, showed the children how to do simple origami, games, and crafts. Amy Bertram demonstrated how to make an origami kimono craft. We
put our many Japanese dolls into our display case, and then we had treats of green tea and rice cakes. This enjoyable program has become a tradition at the library.

Take a look at our cool Chill Out and Read Snow Sculpture of a polar bear reading to some penguins!

The Beach Blanket Bingo party was a blast! We picked a duck prize, ran beach ball and Swedish fish relay races, played hot potato fish and step on a frog, did an origami fish, danced the swim, the twist, and the
boogaloo, and did two rounds of the limbo rock.

You could be a winner!

Parent Connection of Family Services of Northeast Wisconsin is sponsoring a Coloring Contest! The theme is Dancing for Little Stars. The contest is open to anyone between ages 5-17. They request a drawing or illustration about Dancing for Little Stars with the theme written on your submission. Below are the rules for submission:

Participants must be between 5-17 years old. ~ One entry per person. ~ Entry can be a drawing and/or slogan illustrating the theme Dancing for Little Stars. ~ Please write the theme Dancing for Little Stars somewhere on the picture. ~ Drawing must be on 8 1/2 x 11 inch paper in the landscape format. ~ Please print your name, age, phone number, address, school name, current grade and parent's names on the back of your entry.

Deadline for submissions at Menasha Public Library is February 25, 2010. Entries must be handed in at the Info Desk in the Children's Room.

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 The Menasha Library Children’s Department was happy to host Jack and Nancy Zolkowski’s Soda Pups for our annual Turn Off the TV Week program. Dr. Pepper, Squirt, Ginger Ale, and Sierra Mist entertained the crowd with their amazing agility and obedience tricks. The dogs ran through tunnels, jumped hurdles, walked on their hind legs, and demonstrated “stop, drop, and roll” to the delight of children and adults alike. Sierra Mist brought down the house by riding in a remote control Hummer through a tunnel. The dogs also performed their famous Packer trick where they wouldn’t come for their treat until the Packer command was given—no Bear or Viking fans in that pack!