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Lego Building Ideas

Lego Building Ideas

There are some things you can just never have enough of…M&Ms…and Legos! Here are some websites, books and events to keep ideas coming little brick by little brick.

There are two places you can go in Indianapolis this summer to experience exceptional Lego play – The Library and the Children’s Museum of Indianapolis:

Digital Science Mobile Lab Children ages 10 – 14 are invited to create gears, gadgets and crazy contraptions using laptops and Lego We Do Robotics. Each participant will receive a USB drive to keep. Schedule

Southport Library Monthly Lego Club – it lasts all year! Families and children ages 2 and older are invited to drop in any time to learn to play and play to learn using Lego bricks. Lego and Duplo bricks will be provided. This program also will feature Technic kits for older kids! Schedule

The Children’s Museum of Indianapolis Lego Travel Adventure March 10–July 22, 2012. Choose an amazing destination, and build the perfect means of transportation!

  • Build amazing LEGO® brick vehicles
  • Discover travel inventions of the past
  • Jump into the cockpit of a giant LEGO® vehicle
  • See huge models built by professional LEGO® builders
Lego Library books to keep you building on a hot summer afternoon:
Lego Ideas Book Cool Robots The Bionicle Encyclopedia Cool City
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Kid Review from Mia: Emily and Carlo

Kid Review from Mia: Emily and Carlo

Emily and CarloThe only sibling left in the Dickinson house In Amherst, Massachusetts, in the winter of 1849, Emily gets a dog who becomes her constant companion and who is featured in some of the poems she writes. Includes brief notes on the life and work of Emily Dickinson.

Mia says:

I read this book with my great-aunt last week-end and I love it. The story, the poems and the pictures are beautiful! The story of a very large dog and a very small woman that loved to write poetry – Emily Dickinson. My favorite poem in the story is:

Twas my one glory
Let it be
Remembered
I was owned of thee.”

Emily and her dog, Carlo, were best friends and loved to walk and watch – flowers, frogs, everything. They were best friends! I love gardens, dogs and poems! I hope you like it too.”

Some more books you might like about the writer Emily Dickinson – her life and her poetry:
My Uncle Emily Emily Dickinson's Letters to the World The Mouse of Amhurst Emily
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If You Like Fairies

If You Like Fairies

If you like the idea of magical creatures like fairies and pixies and boggarts living just out of our sight try some of the websites, books and activities below. You can get some tips for finding and attracting fairies right to your own yard….because really, you just never know!

Fairy Crafts and Activities to Try at Home:

More fairy craft ideas:
Fairy World Crafts 2008 Fairy parties: recipes, crafts, and games for enchanting celebrations 2010 The girl's guide to fairies : everything irresistible about the fair folk 2012 You Can Draw Fairies and Princesses 2012
Books that will help you learn about fairies and their magical world:
Arthur Spiderwick's Field Guide Spiderwick chronicles care and feeding of sprites Finding fairies secrets for attracting little people from around the world Book of Fairies
The Book of Little Folk Faery Stories and Poems from Around the World Flower Fairies Secret World
Outstanding Fairy Adventures…my personal favorites – Fablehaven and the warrior fairies of Silksinger!
Silksinger Fablehaven Small Persons With Wings Peter and the Starcatchers
The Field Guide The Rise of the Darklings Clemency Pogue fairy killer The New Policeman
Fairy Haven and the Quest for the Wand In the realm of the Never Fairies the secret world of Pixie Hollow
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Middle Ages

Middle Ages

Websites

Don't let the barber pull your teeth : could you survive medieval medicine? 2012 Medieval Life (Eyewitness) 2011 Medieval Castle Adventure Crafts 2011 Medieval science (500-1500) 2011
Did castles have bathrooms? : and other questions about the Middle Ages 2011 Weapons of war : tales of ancient & Medieval warfare : from axes to war hammers, weapons from the age of hand-to-hand fighting 2010 Good masters! Sweet Ladies! : voices from a medieval village 2007 Archers, alchemists, and ninety-eight other medieval jobs you might have loved or loathed 2003
Crafts and Culture of a Medieval Town 2007 Outrageous Women of the Middle Ages 1998 Beowulf Chaucer's Canterbury Tales
Whittington Crispin at the Edge of the World The Door in the Wall Newbery29 The Executioner's Daughter 2000
The Midwife's Apprentice 1995 Newbery96 Ramsay Scallop 1994

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Biomes

Biomes

Websites

Library Materials

Understanding Biomes Amazing Biome Projects You Can Build Yourself Hidden in the Grass

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