The virtual lego club challenge this holidays was to create an amazing park or playground and you all sure know how to design one!

Here are some of the entries we received:

Romy created a mythical forest park,

Jessie made a volano park,

Ali and Leon had fun with 2 different park designs,

Here is Vrit’s submarine with scientists who are trying to discover new species of plants and sea creatures on the sea bed:

Jiya made a tissue box cover – very practical!

Seth designed a Fairground of wonders. Highlights include a Slide, Beep bop bunker (this plays music), News crew at the park just to film stuff, Geysers with food colouring in them so they look cool, Security guard checking speed limits of cars going past.

Hugh created a Fair of Awesomeness where you will find a garden on the roof, Lolly bucket on the wall that you can actually put your hand in and take lollies out, Spider webs everywhere, a lot of hand sanitiser and the park owner lives in a hut in the park (called Hugh).

Sian enjoyed building her tree house theme play park with treasure map and telescope to watch the stars at night in the school holidays.

There is still more time to send your photo in and win a prize. Email your completed Lego Challenge photo of your ultimate playground design to Rachael on rdrummond@amrshire.wa.gov.au and she will add your photo to this website.

This school holidays your libraries have another Virtual Lego Club challenge and take-away craft packs, all for Free!

Virtual Lego Club challenge

Create your dream park out of Lego, then email a photo to Rachael rdrummond@amrshire.wa.gov.au and she will upload your photo to our blog. The creator of each scene emailed to the library will win a prize!

Take-away craft packs

You can choose one of three FREE craft activity packs to take home. Get in quick as supplies are limited. Visit Margaret River Library and a pack will be available while stocks last. Craft packs include inspiration for your creation but you will need to provide some more materials at home. Click here to find out more about your library services at this current time

Call Augusta Library to arrange click and collect pick up for your craft pack – Ph: 9780 5670

Take-away craft pack choices available are:

• Decorate a cotton library bag
• Wild animal masks
• Wooden spoon puppets

Online Activities

Once again we have searched the web for some school holiday fun for you:

• Scribblers festival have extended the Connecting Through Creativity competition to 19th July – get creative using a method of visual storytelling and explore the topic of connection.
• Watch or listen to Roald Dahl’s James and the Giant Peach read by Taika Waititi and joined by many well known celebrities. A celebration of reading and spoken word to be enjoyed by the whole family.
• Penguin Books has online  Bluey activity packs, Lego activity packs and The Very Hungry Caterpillar Outdoor Adventure pack, Play with Pepper Pig and much more!
• Walker Books Australia have some fantastic videos, activities and online tutorials from some very famous children’s authors.
•  Hatchette Australia have produced beautiful storytime sessions with real animals from Australian Zoos and aquariums.
• The Children’s Book Council of Australia WA branch Make Your Own Storybook Competition 2020 closing date has been extended until 24th July. You will find lots of handy tips and useful information at this website wa.cbca.org.au/myosb including virtual storybook making lessons with author/illustrator Sean. E. Avery. Entries are open to all students from Pre Primary through to year eight. Forms can be found at the Children’s Book Council of Australia WA branch website.

Happy holidays!

The Children’s Book Council of Australia WA branch Make Your Own Storybook Competition 2020 closing date has been extended until 24th July.

You will find lots of handy tips and useful information at this website wa.cbca.org.au/myosb including virtual storybook making lessons with author/illustrator Sean. E. Avery.

Entries are open to all students from Pre Primary through to year eight ages and forms can be found at the Children’s Book Council of Australia WA branch website.

If you are aged between 10 and 14, let us know what book you enjoyed reading recently by adding your review to the comment or reply box below. Please include your first name, title and author of the book, how many stars out of five you would give it, and why.

The best reviews will be published on our blog amrlibraries.com, click on comments tab to view what others have written.

We hope to make this a monthly event while the library is closed, and look forward to seeing your reviews.

If you would like a copy of the Book Chat activity booklet, feel free to download a copy here: book club note book 2020

If you have any difficulty please call Rachael at the library on 9780 600 or email rdurmmond@amrshire.wa.gov.au and she will help you.

Happy reading and reviewing Book Chatters!

Did you know there are two WA competitions for youth who like writing and creating stories?

The Golden Pen Award, hosted by Scribblers Festival, is a short story competition for those aged 10 – 17 with up to $500 to win! Entries close 10th May, have a look at the website for all the details and virtual Scribblers Festival fun!

Make Your Own Storybook competition is organised by the Children’s Book Council of Australia WA branch and is open to all WA students in pre-primary to year 8. Entries close 5th June, check out the website for more information and handy hints.

We have a new challenge for Lego Club over the school holidays: Send Rachael a photo of a scene from your favourite book, built with Lego!

Email your photos to rdrummond@amrshire.wa.gov.au and we will display them on our library website www.amrlibraries.com

Thank you to our first contributor Nic, who has made a scene with Kai and a dragon hunter, from his favourite book series; Ninjago.

Also well done to Hugh, who has made “a Stormtrooper (star wars) has defected from the Imperial Forces and has built himself a cottage complete with telescope and fireplace”.

Ella has created a fantastic scene inspired by her favourite series Wings of Fire by Tui Sutherland.

and then Ella created a fantastic scene from another favourite book; The Enchanted wood by Enid Blyton.

Arturo is also a Ninjago series fan and has created an action packed scene. Arturo says his first photo is ” the bad guy on motorbike and the second photo is the bad guy has been captured and locked in Kai’s vehicle”.

Amelia created a beautiful scene from the book The Giraffe and the Pelly and Me by Roald Dahl with Duplo. This book was chosen as a Click and Collect title from Augusta Library and is a new favourite read at Amelia’s house.

Thanks again Nic, Hugh, Ella, Arturo and Amelia.

We hope to see some more Lego scenes soon, as the library staff miss our Lego Club sessions!