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Stamford Children Kick Off Valentine's Day at Ferguson Library
Parents and their kids gathered at the Ferguson Library Saturday morning to hear stories and make crafts for Valentine's Day.
Nothing says, “I love you” quite like a handmade valentine.
On Saturday morning, the hosted a Valentine's Day themed “storycraft” event for children to hear stories of love and friendship and make a heart shaped mobile. Bartan Kennedy, arts and crafts coordinator with the Ferguson Library, said the storycraft mornings are held once each month and, while it’s difficult to gauge how many children will attend, this event brought a higher turnout than anticipated.
“I usually get about 60 children, except last month there was only 28, so I set up for a smaller amount,” Kennedy told Patch. “It’s a drop-in program, so we never know from month-to-month how many are going to come.”
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Children between the ages of three and eight gathered on the carpet to listen to Kennedy read stories aloud.
“A puppy’s kiss is soft and wet, as silly as a kiss can get,” said Kennedy reading from the picture book Won’t You Be My Kissaroo?
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Kennedy also read other Valentines Day children classics, including The Kiss that Missed, A Valentine Surprise, and Froggy’s First Kiss.
Promptly after the stories were read, children scrambled to the craft tables to assemble their Valentine's Day mobiles with varying sized hearts, stickers and held together by paper clips.
“We come to the library all the time, we really love it,” Honor Simeone, whose five-year-old son has been coming to the library since he was six months old, said. “All the librarians know him. They really are very creative and offer a lot of activities.”
In addition to his heart mobile, Simeone and her son made a box at home to put Valentines in.
“It’s fun again when you get to relive it through kids,” she said.
The Ferguson Library also hosted an event for older children, agest 6-12, on Feb. 9 to learn how to crochet and make a bookmark for their Valentine.
The next storycraft day at the library will be held in March and, while many would assume a St. Patrick’s Day theme would be in store, according to Kennedy the morning will be all about basketball and March Madness.
