Courtney May seems delighted with the ”alien” slime she’s making during Creswell’s Library’s Space Party, a Summer Reading Program event. Gini Davis/The Creswell Chronicle
A long line of 80-some kids eager to make some ”alien” slime formed July 10 in Creswell Community Center as Creswell Library hosted a ”Space Party” – the latest entry in their ”Universe of Stories”-themed Summer Reading Program.
Half a dozen kids could work simultaneously on their slime, aided by teen volunteers and Youth Librarian Nick Caum.
Kids also played with colorful, buildable ”moon sand” – a mixture of colored sand, water and cornstarch and took on the ”asteroid toss” challenge, tossing round, white ”asteroid” beanbags through holes in a standing board decorated with rocket ships.
Another tantalizing lure was an enormous pile of cardboard boxes of various lengths, widths and depths – perfect (as any child instinctively knows) for constructing space colonies, spacecraft, astronaut suits, moon rovers or forts.
”This event really shows how great our teen volunteers are; there is no way we would have been able to run an event like this without all their support of the library,” he said. ”From playing with kids in the cardboard boxes and working in our slime assembly line, to set-up and clean-up, they were there all the way.”
