Library events

Add a little flutter to your fingers at our Pipe Cleaner Butterfly Rings session!

Twist and shape colourful pipe cleaners into beautiful butterfly rings you can wear and take home. 🦋✨

We’ll experiment with fun techniques using the colours of the season and mixed-media crafts to create autumnal art, leafy designs, and bright gumboots and umbrellas.

Perfect for young artists who love to get creative (and a little bit messy!).

Come and build something at the library!

Suitable for primary aged children – we also have DUPLO available for smaller kids.

Lego is out every Tuesday (during school term), 3.30-4.30pm.

Love books? Join us for a relaxed book chat at the library.

Share what you’ve been reading, discover new titles, and enjoy a friendly conversation with other readers.

No pressure - just books and good chat.

Grab a teddy or soft toy and join in our Teddy Bear’s picnic and craft. 

Use odd jigsaw pieces to decorate your magnetic photo frame

This is a self-lead programme for Whaanau to engage with the community and our library resources books, games, toys, puzzles, etc, to socialise & engage with others in our library space.

The intention is for this to be an unstructured time to have fun in the library with whaanau and meet others in the community. The resources we have are available anytime and we will encourage participants to ask staff when they want to use them.

Add a little flutter to your fingers at our Pipe Cleaner Butterfly Rings session!

Twist and shape colourful pipe cleaners into beautiful butterfly rings you can wear and take home. 🦋✨

Use air dry clay to create a clay mobile.

This is the second of two sessions, in this session participants will put together their pieces from the last session, then decorate their completed mobile.

We’ll experiment with fun techniques using the colours of the season and mixed-media crafts to create autumnal art, leafy designs, and bright gumboots and umbrellas.

Perfect for young artists who love to get creative (and a little bit messy!).

Join us for Bunting Bonanza and design your own colourful bunting to brighten up your room or next celebration!

Cut, decorate and create a string of cheerful flags to take home. 🎉

Kids aged 0 – 5 can join us to play with LEGO DUPLO! DUPLO blocks are large, colourful building blocks designed for younger children.

As well as being great fun, DUPLO teaches problem-solving skills, creativity, teamwork, and helps to develop fine motor skills.

Come and join in on the fun, no booking required. Children must be supervised

We’ll experiment with fun techniques using the colours of the season and mixed-media crafts to create autumnal art, leafy designs, and bright gumboots and umbrellas.

Perfect for young artists who love to get creative (and a little bit messy!).

Join us for Bunting Bonanza and design your own colourful bunting to brighten up your room or next celebration!

Cut, decorate and create a string of cheerful flags to take home. 🎉

Share a story and explore it further with a hands-on craft.

A great way to build early literacy and creativity.

We’ll experiment with fun techniques using the colours of the season and mixed-media crafts to create autumnal art, leafy designs, and bright gumboots and umbrellas.

Perfect for young artists who love to get creative (and a little bit messy!).

Come and join in the fun at our awesome LEGO club!

At our LEGO Club sessions children will be given a theme to build their creation – imagination and open-ended play improves literacy and language skills and aids a child’s development.

Suitable for primary aged children – we also have DUPLO available for smaller kids.

No sign up required, just turn up on the day!

Rules of LEGO Club

• Respect the space
• Respect others
• Respect yourself
• Respect the Lego

Come and join in the fun at our awesome LEGO club.

At our LEGO Club sessions children will be given a theme to build their creation – imagination and open-ended play improves literacy and language skills and aids a child’s development.

This is suitable for primary aged children – we also have DUPLO available for smaller kids.

No sign up required, just turn up on the day!

Rules of LEGO Club

• Respect the space
• Respect others
• Respect yourself
• Respect the Lego

Pop along to the board games club at Ngaaruawaahia Library at 10am on the third Saturday monthly.

Play a selection of modern board games that are suitable for families, teens and adults.

Share a story and explore it further with a hands-on craft.

A great way to build early literacy and creativity.