Gingerbread Man Puppet Show & Fun – Dec. 3, 2022
by Diana Lasky
Harrison County Public Library Palmyra Branch employee Nikki Essary and her family presented The Gingerbread Man Puppet Show at the Harrison County Boys & Girls Club. Many puppet characters chased the runaway “naughty” cookie hoping to be the one to get a bite. After the puppet show, children visited fun stations where they could make a puppet, decorate a cookie and decorate a gingerbread playhouse.
HCPL Corydon Youth Services Assistant Ann Allen helped children decorate and make a gingerbread man marionette puppet. It was amazing to see all the gingerbread puppets dancing and running away!
R.S.V.P. volunteer Charlotte Adams helped children decorate and cut out paper candies to decorate the gingerbread house. The children enjoyed playing in the house as much as decorating it! Visit the Corydon Branch to add more decorations to the house or to play and read in the house.
Teen volunteer Zada Taul and Diana Lasky of HCPL monitored the cookie decorating stations where children were very creative with their frosting and candies. The cookies were delicious however, not many cookies made it out the door. It was a fun-filled day to kick off the holiday season.
Harrison County Public Library is partnering with the Arts Alliance of Southern Indiana (AASI) and other regional partners in the SoIN Big Read, and you are invited to read along with us!
While the library offered many big programs this summer, our branch storytimes were very well attended. The library staff and families were happy to get back to inside programming where stories, music, puppets and crafts provided fun and laughter for all. Lanesville, Elizabeth and Palmyra all offered a weekly storytime. Watch for youth storytimes and programs to start up again at all four branch locations in September. Calendars will be available towards the end of August.
One hundred and forty people attended the Puppet Show performed by the Esarey Family on Wednesday, July 20, at the Boys & Girls Club in Corydon. Nikki Esarey, Palmyra lead circulation associate of Harrison County Public Library, and her daughters, Hannah and Elizabeth, her sister Linda Foster, and her mother, Dolly Zinser Adams, set up the stage and put on a great show of Goldilocks and the Three Bears and the Three Billy Goats Gruff. Ms. Nikki talked about how you can make your own puppet like those she made for Goldilocks and the Three Bears and entertained the crowd between the set changes. Everyone there was entertained with puppet magic while learning puppet skills to try at home.
Last week the library held two fun events for families. Pirate Night was held on the evening of Tuesday, July 12 at the Main branch. Eight different stations were set up with pirate themed activities such as getting a tattoo, making a spy glass, learning to talk like a pirate, and walking the plank. On Friday, July 15, the library hosted a Bubble Party on the square in downtown Corydon. Activities included making a giant bubble, creating a bubble wand, blowing bubble snakes, and popping bubble wrap along the sidewalk. Teen volunteers helped man stations at each of these events. Both events had a great turn out and the library hopes to offer more of these types of events for the whole family to enjoy.
