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Our younger kids made some super cute dinosaurs in Art in the Stacks this week with Ms. Borden! They learned to trace their outline in pencil before going in with all the fun paint colors. We loved seeing their creativity in selecting colors and backgrounds. Each child received a snack and a nonfictional book about Henri Matisse thanks to our sponsor.

What if dinosaurs came back? Would they walk our streets? Would they eat our food?

Today's Art in the Stacks class drew a city and made a dinosaur collage. They also received a book about artist, Frida Kahlo .

This program is made possible thanks to a 2026 Save the Children grant.

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Art in the Stacks x2. Our spring break weeks have been full of classes. Last week the kids painted donuts. This week they made a cupcake collage.

If you were a kid, which of these projects would you make?

We created winter artwork inspired by the book, "Over and Under the Snow" in Art in the Stacks.

The kids created mixed media dogs in Art in the Stacks. In this lesson they got to explore many different art mediums and techniques including:

-newspaper collage

-acrylic on canvas

-liquid watercolors

-oil pastel (for texture)

This week the Art in the Stacks participants painted hot air balloons. They got creative with their balloons and their backgrounds.

This program is made possible thanks to a 2025 Summer at the Library grant from the Texas Library Association and H-E-B.

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Today the Art in the Stacks class painted rainbows. Most colors were straight out of the bottle but they did practice mixing sky blue and indigo.

This program is made possible thanks to the Friends of Cooke County Public Library and a 2025 Summer at the Library grant from the Texas Library Association and H-E-B.

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