Kids takeover at State Library

As the state heats up, State Library Victoria is hosting a range of cool activities for kids to enjoy over the summer holidays.

A marvellous visual installation has been set up in the Pauline Gandel Children’s Quarter – the Storyline Express, which features a miniature locomotive carrying its furry passengers through a bustling city, created by the Library’s youngest visitors.

With craft activities in the Library, children and their grownups can create buildings and characters and add them to the world of the Storyline Express. The event is free and runs daily from 10 am to 6 pm, from now until Thursday 2 March.

On Thursday 19 January from 10 am to 3 pm, see the Library’s famous spaces transformed into an interactive, colourful, and loud playground, in what has become a school holiday tradition. There will be drumming and hip hop workshops, an interactive sound and drawing table with silent disco headsets, and you can even make your own library bag. Bookings are essential.

From Thursday 19 January to Thursday 2 February, the Library’s forecourt will be transformed into an urban oasis, with boxes of books for kids and adults to read as they lounge in bean bags, from 10 am to 6 pm.

Stories and Braille will introduce kids to braille through story time, a Q&A, and writing a collective story in braille, at 10.30 am and 1 pm sessions on Tuesday 24 January.

And finally, commencing on 18 January, active kids can step into the world of dance with resident host Happy Feet Fitness. The interactive classes are designed to boost youngsters’ confidence through dance and encourage participation and social interaction, and are completely free.

For more information on summer holidays events at the State Library, visit slv.vic.gov.au/whats-on.