Book Covers Reimagined

Oxford Public Library 201 E Smith St, Oxford, IN

Ever hate the cover on a book and wish it reflected how feel about the book? Book cover design is a divisive topic for book lovers. Sometimes the cover doesn’t represent a book’s theme, plot, or characters, and sometimes it does! I, for one, hate one of the covers for Lessons In Chemistry (it makes […]

Key Rings

Oxford Public Library 201 E Smith St, Oxford, IN

We are creating some really cool key rings! Create something you can show off and take home with you! Make sure you keep reading! You can, of course, still sign up. There's still time to enter to win!

Pinhole Camera Obscura

Oxford Public Library 201 E Smith St, Oxford, IN

We will each be making a camera obscura today! This is a really cool science project that is easy and so much fun to use! https://www.hsm.ox.ac.uk/camera-obscuraWhat is a camera obscura?With a camera obscura, you can perfectly capture the world around you by projecting what's on the outside down into a darkened space on the inside. […]

Mandalas

Oxford Public Library 201 E Smith St, Oxford, IN

We will be relaxing and coloring mandalas to make a beautiful craft to take home! Fun way to beat the heat. Join us! We have a little over a week left of summer reading. You can still sign up and, of course, turn in your reading logs/book totals.

Elsenpeter Marionettes

Oxford Public Library 201 E Smith St, Oxford, IN

It Must Be Magic Richard B. Elsenpeter is a strong believer in fantasy. Without fantasy, he feels children miss a vital part of their development. This is the basis behind his life-time love for puppetry. "The fantasy world is as necessary to the development of the mind as crawling is to walking. If a child […]

Painting Rocks

Oxford Public Library 201 E Smith St, Oxford, IN

Colorful fun! We will be painting rocks today. Choose to take them home or to display them here! They can be left to create a surprise for someone or used as gifts. Creativity encouraged!

Party Games

Oxford Public Library 201 E Smith St, Oxford, IN

Fun, fun, fun!!!! We will be doing all kinds of fun party games! We will also have some fantastic prizes but the real prize is had in the excitement of joining us today!

Ping Pong Ball Lanterns

Oxford Public Library 201 E Smith St, Oxford, IN

Summer Reading is winding down! We will be starting off our last few days with the creation of lanterns, made out of ping pong balls. These are so cute and so much fun to create!

Squeegee Painting

Oxford Public Library 201 E Smith St, Oxford, IN

We are making some clever paintings using items that we have here in the library (and you probably have at home). This is our last art project in a series of projects to show you how many ways there are to create art! It's fun! It's beautiful! It works your brain in different ways than […]

Professor Steve/End of Summer Reading

Oxford Public Library 201 E Smith St, Oxford, IN

Today is our final day of our 2025 Summer Reading Program! Join us as we have fun with science with Professor Steve! Get ready for the most amazing, most awesome & most colorful program you have ever seen as Professor Steve presents his amazing "Science of Color" Show. Learn how your eyes work. Discover the […]