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Join Miss Kate to make DIY Pipe Cleaner Holiday Ornaments. Create one to take home for your tree and make another to gift to the local Hanson Community. We are partnering with Hanson Community Christmas and All American Assisted Living. Spread some Holiday cheer and have fun giving back to these wonderful organizations!
Practice your reading this fall with Aspen! Join Aspen to practice your reading or just come snuggle with an adorable therapy dog.
The Read to A Dog program is designed to give children a stress-free environment where they can practice and enjoy reading. Reading to dogs can boost reading skills in children as well as help with emotional and social skills.
Drop in program. Pre-registration is not required.
Make a poinsettia ornament using wool roving and a felting needle. Needle felting is easy to do and relaxing. Pop up Art School will show you step-by-step how to make a festive felted hoop. You’ll leave the class with the tools and knowledge needed to needle felt on your own!
This program is sponsored by State Aid to public libraries. Priority registration will be given to Hanson residents.
Join Miss Kate for holiday songs & stories on Friday morning!
Drop in to join the fun, registration not required.
Come sing, dance, and read stories with Miss Jess!
Drop in program, registration not required.
Celebrate the holidays with a fun craft to make at home! Pick up an ornament craft at the Library on Monday, December 11th, and then make it at home.
Additional Supplies: coloring supplies, scissors, tape/glue
We're partnering with the Hanson Senior Center for a monthly movie matinee. Enjoy a recently released flick with free refreshments! Drop in program, registration not required.
This month's pick is the holiday classic:
White Christmas (1954)
Rated: Not rated
Runtime: 2 hours 40 minutes (including 15 minute intermission)
This timeless holiday classic stars Bing Crosby and Danny Kaye as Bob Wallace and Phil Davis, a pair of merry veterans who become famous song-and-dance men after World War II. Soon, the duo joins forces with singing sisters Betty (Rosemary Clooney) and Judy Haynes (Vera-Ellen) to help save their former army general's Vermont inn. The beloved Irving Berlin score includes "Blue Skies," "Sisters," "Count Your Blessings Instead of Sheep," and the title track "White Christmas".
CALLING ALL MASTER BUILDERS! Join us to create and connect with new friends! Each week we will host a new theme and then display our works in the library lobby cases.
The challenge this week: build a gingerbread house out of LEGOs
Drop in, preregistration not required
Adults like LEGOs too! Bring your imagination and your inner child, and come build with our new Star Wars and LEGO Icons sets.
The program is open to adults 19+. Preregistration suggested.
Get in the holiday spirit and join Miss Kate in your favorite Holiday pajamas! We will enjoy hot cocoa, songs, stories & crafts!
Pre-registration is required. Sign up to join the fun!
Get in the holiday spirit and join Miss Kate in your favorite Holiday pajamas! We will enjoy hot cocoa, songs & decorate holiday cookies!
Pre-registration is required. Sign up to join the fun!
December's theme: Holiday Mysteries
Want to get in the holiday spirit? Join Miss Jenni for a holiday themed yoga class!
Pre-registration is required. Drop ins welcome!
Come sing, dance, and read stories with Miss Jess!
Drop in program, registration not required.
Drop in for a casual and relaxing afternoon craft! Paint by sticker is an uplifting and mindful activity for crafters, art lovers, puzzle fans, and more. All materials will be provided, and you will get to take your masterpiece home when completed.
This program is sponsored by the Hanson Public Library Foundation Inc.
Caregivers and children ages 0-5 are invited to a playdate at the Hanson Public Library! Join us anytime between 4:00pm and 5:30pm for some unstructured play featuring puzzles, coloring, train table, activity cube, and more. Drop in for an afternoon of fun and meet some new friends!
Join Miss Kate to play Roll a Reindeer & make a Reindeer Craft!
Pre-registration is required. Sign up to join the fun!
Made a resolution to read more this year? Join our book-to-movie discussion group! This December we will be reading, watching, and discussing The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society by Mary Ann Shaffer and Annie Barrows. Join us the week before our discussion group for a screening of the film!
Film is not rated and has a run time of 2 hours 4 minutes
Copies of the book and movie will be available at the desk. New faces are always welcome!
Additional supplies needed: boiling water, a spoon, parchment paper, a baking tray, and cookie cutters (if you don't have cookie cutters, you can try mason jar lids or muffin tins).
PLEASE NOTE: This craft is made with animal gelatin.
Families/children will engage in free play with a variety of manipulatives/educational toys. The group will have circle time, music, stories, a simple art project, tunnel and parachute play. This group is focused on socialization and other developmental skills.
Preregistration required: email ccarver@selfhelpinc.org
Join us for the half day! We'll be decorating cookies in the community room: bring your creativity and your appetites!
This program is sponsored by donations made in memory of Mary “Gret” Lozeau to the Hanson Public Library Foundation.
Join us for a monthly family-friendly movie matinee! This month, we'll be decorating holiday cookies and watching The Polar Express!
The Polar Express
Rated: G
Runtime: 1 hours, 40 minutes
When a doubting young boy takes an extraordinary train ride to the North Pole, he embarks on a journey of self-discovery that shows him that the wonder of life never fades for those who believe.
CALLING ALL MASTER BUILDERS! Join us to create and connect with new friends! Each week we will host a new theme and then display our works in the library lobby cases.
The challenge this week: build a winter activity or sports scene
Drop in, preregistration not required
Calling all future inventors! Try your hand at completing various challenges using the library’s Makerspace. The limit is your imagination!
This month, we'll be making music instruments: drums, harmonicas, and "guitars", all using household objects! Activity geared towards ages 8-11.
Made possible by donations made in memory of Ellen Gustafson to the Hanson Public Library Foundation.
Join us for a monthly taste test and movie night! This watching A Haunting in Venice and taste testing Italian desserts.
Rated: PG-13
Runtime: 1 hr 44 minutes
“A Haunting in Venice” is set in eerie, post-World War II Venice on All Hallows’ Eve and is a terrifying mystery featuring the return of the celebrated sleuth, Hercule Poirot. Now retired and living in self-imposed exile in the world’s most glamorous city, Poirot reluctantly attends a séance at a decaying, haunted palazzo. When one of the guests is murdered, the detective is thrust into a sinister world of shadows and secrets.
Join Allison Andrews this winter break for a fun art class, and paint your own snowman mug! $5 materials fee. Ages 7+
Materials fee is due by Friday, December 22. We can accept cash or checks made out to the Hanson Public Library. Due to the limited space in these art classes, we ask that participants only sign up for one art class. Priority will be given to Hanson residents.
Join Allison Andrews this winter break for a fun art class, and paint winter tree silhouette with watercolor! $5 materials fee. Ages 7+
Materials fee is due by Friday, December 22. We can accept cash or checks made out to the Hanson Public Library. Due to the limited space in these art classes, we ask that participants only sign up for one art class. Priority will be given to Hanson residents.
Join Allison Andrews this winter break for a fun art class, and paint a galaxy forest animal! $5 materials fee. Ages 12+
Materials fee is due by Friday, December 22. We can accept cash or checks made out to the Hanson Public Library. Due to the limited space in these art classes, we ask that participants only sign up for one art class. Priority will be given to Hanson residents.
Made a resolution to read more this year? Join our book-to-movie discussion group! This December we will be reading, watching, and discussing The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society by Mary Ann Shaffer and Annie Barrows.
Copies of the book and movie will be available at the desk. New faces are always welcome!
Work together and help us build a motorized carnival swing ride! We'll see how different pieces come together to make movement happen, and then we will experiment with shifting weights on the completed ride. The swing ride will be put on display in the library when we are finished! Registration required as space is limited.
Have any new year's resolutions for 2024? Make vision boards with your friends to help you visualize everything you see for your future! We'll have all the supplies you need to make and bring home your own vision board!
This program is limited to teens (grades 6-12), but there will be an all ages vision board making event on Sat, 12/30! Registration required.
Come sing, dance, and read stories with Miss Jess!
Drop in program, registration not required.
Have any new year's resolutions for 2024? Make vision boards with your friends and family to help you visualize everything you see for your future! We'll have all the supplies you need to make and bring home your own vision board!
Registration required.
Do you like books and surprises? Try the Hanson Public Library's new subscription book box service! Here's how it works:
1. Sign up for a Book Box each month. Each box will include a new library book, treats, crafts, and more!
2. Pick up your box at the Hanson Library the first Tuesday of the month. Once you get home, open your surprise! You'll have to return the library book at the end of the month, but you get to keep everything else.
3. Repeat: return the book and pick up your next month's box!
Supplies are limited.
Caregivers and children ages 0-5 are invited to a playdate at the Hanson Public Library! Join us anytime between 4:00pm and 5:30pm for some unstructured play featuring puzzles, coloring, train table, activity cube, and more. Drop in for an afternoon of fun and meet some new friends!
During this four-week series, Miss Carol from Self Help will guide children ages 3-5 as we discover together some of the skills and concepts of math. Concepts such as patterns, counting, shapes, measurement, spatial relations, more/less, etc. will be exposed to the children through stories, free play with math manipulatives, circle time activities and music and movement.
REGISTER - email ccarver@selfhelpinc.org
1/4, 1/11, 1/18 and 1/25, 2024
Join local teacher and artisan Sarah DeSantes for a 'winter whites' flower arranging class using one of Barn Again's reclaimed wood flower boxes. Take home your boxed flower arrangement with tips on how to always have fresh flowers and greens in your home year round. Some you can even cut from your very own yard!! Your flower box can change from season to season with your favorite grocer's flowers or locally cut greens and buds.
There is a $10 materials fee due before the start of this class. We can accept cash or checks made out to the Hanson Public Library.
What to do with puzzles you’ve completed? Swap them! Bring your puzzles for all ages and of all sizes to the Library to exchange with others. No puzzle to swap? Come anyway, there’s sure to be extras!
Puzzles to swap can be dropped off starting Tuesday, January 2nd through Saturday, January 6th. Please do not leave puzzles outside of Library or in Book Drop! The swap will run from 9:30am-2:30pm.
CALLING ALL MASTER BUILDERS! Join us to create and connect with new friends! Each week we will host a new theme and then display our works in the library lobby cases.
The challenge this week: TBA
Drop in, preregistration not required
Help make your resolution to be more organized in 2024 a reality! This fun and interactive workshop lead by Jenna Elliott, the founder of The Naked Flower, Professional Organizers, will get you focused on your organizing goals. She will share tips on
1. How to change the intention of organizing into the action of organizing
2. How to get the process started
3. Simple steps to keep you moving forward
4. Daily practices to foster the practice of organizing
5. A few helpful hot zones
Jenna Elliott is the founder of The Naked Flower, Professional Organizers. She has been an organizer and re-designer for more than 20 years and works with a variety of clients, both in the office and in the home. Prior to starting The Naked Flower Jenna was a master floral designer and project manager for a fortune 500 company.
This program is sponsored by State Aid to Public Libraries.
You are invited to the Hanson Public Library Foundation Annual Member Meeting! Please join us as we recap 2023, showcase Foundation events and opportunities in 2024, and elect our Board of Directors. Refreshments will be served. Please RSVP to hpl.foundation@gmail.com.
During this four-week series, Miss Carol from Self Help will guide children ages 3-5 as we discover together some of the skills and concepts of math. Concepts such as patterns, counting, shapes, measurement, spatial relations, more/less, etc. will be exposed to the children through stories, free play with math manipulatives, circle time activities and music and movement.
REGISTER - email ccarver@selfhelpinc.org
1/4, 1/11, 1/18 and 1/25, 2024
January's theme: Best Mysteries of 2023
Caregivers and children ages 0-5 are invited to a playdate at the Hanson Public Library! Join us anytime between 4:00pm and 5:30pm for some unstructured play featuring puzzles, coloring, train table, activity cube, and more. Drop in for an afternoon of fun and meet some new friends!
Join Becky Malamut, River Restoration Coordinator from the North and South Rivers Watershed Association, for a presentation titled, Let Our Rivers Flow!
Learn about river restoration, dam removal and the fish that call our rivers home and why it is so important to restore our rivers now more than ever. There are 3,000 dams in Massachusetts and the majority were built to support industries that no longer exist. What remains are the im- pacts of these dams on the health of our rivers and the habitats they support. We see those impacts along the Indian Head River, which flows through our community. Two dams on the Indian Head River are currently being considered for removal - one at Ludden’s Ford Park on the Hanover/Pembroke town line and another at State Street on the Hanover/Hanson town line.
During this four-week series, Miss Carol from Self Help will guide children ages 3-5 as we discover together some of the skills and concepts of math. Concepts such as patterns, counting, shapes, measurement, spatial relations, more/less, etc. will be exposed to the children through stories, free play with math manipulatives, circle time activities and music and movement.
REGISTER - email ccarver@selfhelpinc.org
1/4, 1/11, 1/18 and 1/25, 2024
Made a resolution to read more this year? Join our book-to-movie discussion group! This January we will be reading, watching, and discussing A Haunting in Venice. Join us the week before our discussion group for a screening of the film!
Film is rated PG-13 with a run time of 1 hour 43 minutes.
Copies of the book will be available at the desk. New faces are always welcome!
Spell your way to a triple-word score with other word lovers! Before we play, we'll put together our very own snack mix—a new mix at each meeting. Just like with your Scrabble letters, you never know what you're going to get.
Drop in program for adults, preregistration not required.
CALLING ALL MASTER BUILDERS! Join us to create and connect with new friends! Each week we will host a new theme and then display our works in the library lobby cases.
The challenge this week: TBA
Drop in, preregistration not required
Adults like LEGOs too! Bring your imagination and your inner child, and come build with our new Star Wars and LEGO Icons sets.
The program is open to adults 19+. Preregistration suggested.
During this four-week series, Miss Carol from Self Help will guide children ages 3-5 as we discover together some of the skills and concepts of math. Concepts such as patterns, counting, shapes, measurement, spatial relations, more/less, etc. will be exposed to the children through stories, free play with math manipulatives, circle time activities and music and movement.
REGISTER - email ccarver@selfhelpinc.org
1/4, 1/11, 1/18 and 1/25, 2024
Made a resolution to read more this year? Join our book-to-movie discussion group! This January we will be reading, watching, and discussing A Haunting in Venice by Agath Christie.
Copies of the book and movie will be available at the desk. New faces are always welcome!
Drop in for a casual and relaxing afternoon craft! Paint by sticker is an uplifting and mindful activity for crafters, art lovers, puzzle fans, and more. All materials will be provided, and you will get to take your masterpiece home when completed.
This program is sponsored by the Hanson Public Library Foundation Inc.
Caregivers and children ages 0-5 are invited to a playdate at the Hanson Public Library! Join us anytime between 4:00pm and 5:30pm for some unstructured play featuring puzzles, coloring, train table, activity cube, and more. Drop in for an afternoon of fun and meet some new friends!
Made a resolution to read more this year? Join our book-to-movie discussion group! This February we will be reading, watching, and discussing The Wonderful Story of Henry Sugar. Join us the week before our discussion group for a screening of the film!
Film is rated PG with a run time of 39 minutes.
Copies of the book will be available at the desk. New faces are always welcome!
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