Young Book Worms are Getting Crafty

Clare People, Tuesday, 5th August 2008

Children in the Shannon area have been engrossed in their work at the town's library over the past few weeks. Staff at the Seán Lemass library have put together a varied programme of events, specifically geared towards children. It includes workshops and special events given by guest presenters as well as the regular arts and crafts and storytime sessions every week.

The art workshop was particularly entertaining as Brendan Gordon helped the youngsters to make a paper maché tree by pasting strips of newspapers over a skeleton of wood and chicken wire. This was left to dry for a week and the enthusiastic youngsters then finished the workshop by painting and decorating the tree.

While the past few weeks have been very busy there is still plenty to look forward to over the coming weeks, in advance of the schools re-opening. Children aged between 8 and 16 will be invited to take part in the Playstation 3 competition. Playstation and Penguin books have linked up to promote the games console as a device whose sole function is not only to play games, but to watch movies, upload and listen to music, access the Internet and upload, store and browse through photographs.

"The competition is aimed at 8 to 16 year-olds, who are asked to take a digital photograph which captures an image they feel best represents their favourite Artemis Fowl book", said Marie Clohessy of Seán Lemass library. The Playstation team will visit Shannon library on August 15th, between 10.00am and 5.00pm, to upload the entries that children are asked to bring along, stored on their digital cameras.

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