Programs - Children
Slime School with Mess It Up
Who: 5-10 year olds
When: Tuesday 8 July | 2-3pm
Where: Penrith City Library
Tickets: $10. Book a ticket for every child attending.
Are you ready for a gooey, squishy, and colourful adventure? Join us for Slime School with Mess It Up! Learn about the ingredients and the science behind slime-making and then make your very own slime from scratch including colour and fillers. Create your own personalised jar to store it in. Kids will learn how to blow bubbles with their slime, as well as some fun tricks.
Due to space requirements, we encourage carers to wait outside for the duration of this activity.
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The Bee Squad with Dr Judy Friedlander
Who: 8-12 year olds
When: Thursday 10 July | 10.30-11.30am
Where: Peter Goodfellow Theatrette, Penrith City Library
Tickets: Free. Bookings are essential for every child attending..
Join author Dr Judy Friedlander for this interactive talk about her book ‘The Bee Squad' and participate in some fun activities.
Learn some ways you can boost biodiversity in your neighbourhood by creating your own garden to attract pollinators, starting a school or community environmental campaign, writing letters to your neighbours to create a street biodiversity garden and much more!
Come and Try - Programmable Robots
Who: 8-14 year olds
When: Tuesday 15 July | 10.30am–12pm
Where: William Garner Room, St Marys Library
Tickets: $10. Bookings are essential for every child attending.
Come and have some fun with our Library team as we experiment with our programmable Fable and Sphero robots. Build your modular robot from the ground up and create a unique code to have it complete a task of your choosing.
Due to space requirements, we encourage carers to wait outside for the duration of this activity.
Comic Book Workshop with Christof Bogacs
Who: 8-13 year olds
When: Wednesday 16 July | 2-4pm
Where: Peter Goodfellow Theatrette, Penrith City Library
Tickets: $10. Bookings are essential for every child attending.
Write and illustrate your own comic book complete with cover in this workshop with Christof Bogacs. Go from no comic experience to making your very own four-page comic.
Learn the basics of structuring a compelling story and how these principles are applied to comics. Discover how sequencing images changes their meaning as well as how to use panel gutters and page-turns to maximum effect.
Christof Bogacs is a comic book author, video game writer, and public speaker. His short comics have been published by DC Comics, Image Comics, and in the Ringo award nominated ‘Dead Beats’ anthology from AWBW as well as the Eisner award winning ‘PanelxPanel’ magazine.
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Bungarribee Wildlife Workshop with Sydney Zoo
Who: 5-12 year olds
When: Thursday 17 July
Session 1: 10.30–11.30am Session 2: 12-1pm
Where: Peter Goodfellow Theatrette, Penrith City Library
Tickets: $10. Bookings are essential for every child attending.
Explore Australia’s wildlife through First Nations perspectives with Sydney Zoo’s Bungarribee Wildlife Workshop. You will be introduced to a range of native animals and learn about how to care for Country through an interactive, hands-on experience.
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Mr Bamboozle's Magic Show
Who: 3-12 year olds and their families
When: Wednesday 9 July | 10.30-11.30am
Where: Penrith City Library
Tickets: $8 per child attending. Parents or carers may accompany children free of charge.
Mr Bamboozle gets a lot of requests from audience members such as “Can you make someone disappear?” (not allowed to anymore) “Can you make gold coins come out of your nose?” (really – that’s gross) as well as more reasonable requests such as “Can you defy the laws of physics?” (yes) and “Can you cut someone in half?” (yes).
There's something for everyone in this interactive ‘You Choose the Magic’ show that is sure to delight and enchant children and grown-ups alike.
Book tickets for children attending only. Parents or carers attend for free.
Baby Time
Who: 0-2 year-olds and their adult carer.
When: Weekly during school term time.
St Marys: Tuesdays | 9.30-10am
Penrith: Wednesdays | 9.30-10am
St Clair: Thursdays | 9.30-10am
Tickets: Free. Bookings not required.
Our library children's team welcomes 0-2 year olds, their parents and carers to Baby Time every week during term time to sing, rhyme and play together.
Toddler Time
Who: 1-3 year-olds and their adult carer.
When: Tuesdays during school term time | 9.30-10am
Where: Penrith City Library
Tickets: Free. Bookings not required.
Come along for an energetic half an hour of stories, music, play, and fun!
Toddler Time is designed for toddlers to engage in singing, stories, movement, language, and play and is a great introduction to the library. Perfect for children aged 1 – 3 years and their caregivers.
Story Time
Who: 2-5 year-olds and their adult carer.
When & Where: Weekly during school term time.
St Marys: Tuesdays | 10:30-11:30am
Penrith: Wednesdays | 10:30-11:30am
St Clair: Thursdays | 10:30-11:30am
Tickets: Free. Bookings not required.
Our library children's team welcomes 2-5 year olds, their parents and carers to Story Time where we enjoy fun stories, songs and crafts every week during term time. Throughout the year we include a range of bilingual stories and languages to our regular sessions celebrating the diversity of our community.
Toy Library
Who: 0-8 year-olds and their families
When: Available during library opening hours
Where: Penrith City Libraries.
Plus, enjoy a great selection of board games for older children and teens.
Browse and borrow at all library branches during library opening hours, then take them home to play. Toys are cleaned thoroughly before and after use on return to the library.
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For more information call 02 4732 7891 or submit a request at my.penrith.city.
Toy Library Outreach Service
We specialise in providing toys for children with disability and high support needs. Featuring switch-adapted, sensory and educational toys, children will delight in making them function through lighting up, playing sounds and movement. Through hands-on play, they can build valuable problem-solving, coordination, reasoning, numeracy, literacy and fine motor skills.
Referrals are required to access this service.Story Box Library
Members of Penrith City Libraries can now access Story Box Library for free!
Story Box Library offers a range of free content directly to library members on any device with internet connection for pre-school to upper primary students. Have story time any time with a range of actors, comedians, sportspeople, musicians, authors, illustrators, TV presenters, performers, students, grandparents, activists and educators – each sharing their unique voice.
Story Box Library also offers at-home-activities and short films featuring authors and illustrators to inspire young minds.