We’re all having a once-in-a-lifetime experience right now. Take advantage of your time together to share family stories. Your parents and grandparents have lots of stories to share. Write them down or create a scrapbook of your family history. The Spark & Stitch has suggestions for Building Resilience with Family Stories.

This is also a great time to start writing a journal. You can write about your experiences and much, much more. Journal Buddies has 10 Journal Writing Tips for Kids for you. If you’ve got writer’s block, ThinkWritten has 300 Creative Writing Prompts to try. Someday, your journal will help you share your stories with your kids!

Check out the world’s most famous journal writer, Greg Heffley, at Diary of a Wimpy Kid, and learn about author, Jeff Kinney, too. You can also get some tips for illustrating your journal at Jeff Kinney’s Cartooning Tips.

The Youth Services Staff at the Chester County Library and Hankin Branch are presenting Virtual Storytimes beginning April 27th. They will be for three different ages groups — 0 to 2 Year Olds, 3 & 4 Year Olds, and 5 & 6 Year Olds. Registration is required via the Events Calendar at https://chescolibraries.org/. Virtual Storytimes are not registered as multi-week sessions; you will need to register for each storytime individually.

If you’re looking for something to do today, why not explore STEM right in your own kitchen? There are lots of experiments and projects you can do with materials in your home. Here are some links to exciting and fun experiments for you to do:

Kitchen Science Experiments for Kids

STEM Activities for Kids

Daily STEM Resources

After you’ve solved some science mysteries, read about another kind of mystery with Private I. Guana!

The Youth Services Staff at the Chester County Library and Hankin Branch are presenting Virtual Storytimes beginning April 27th. They will be for three different ages groups — 0 to 2 Year Olds, 3 & 4 Year Olds, and 5 & 6 Year Olds. Registration is required via the Events Calendar at https://chescolibraries.org/. Virtual Storytimes are not registered as multi-week sessions; you will need to register for each storytime individually.

• Easter is a Christian holiday. It celebrates the resurrection of Jesus Christ. According to Christian history, Jesus was crucified on a Friday and rose three days later on Sunday.
• Since 325 AD, Easter has been held on the first Sunday after the full moon, after the 21st of March, which is the Equinox. This means that Easter can land anywhere between the 22nd of March to the 25th of April.
• The holiday’s name comes from a “goddess” named Eastre. Her symbols were the rabbit and the egg. This symbolism is especially fitting for a holiday that signifies rebirth.
• The first Easter baskets given were meant to imitate a bird’s nest when eggs were placed inside.
• We’ve all dyed Easter Eggs, but Ukrainian Easter Eggs, or Pysanka, are by far the most beautiful.

• Each year nearly 90 million chocolate bunnies are made for Easter. In the ranking of kids’ favorite Easter candy, red jellybeans come in first place.
• Peeps are made in Bethlehem, Pennsylvania.

Here are some great craft ideas for Easter — Easter Crafts for Kids.

The Youth Services Staff at the Chester County Library and Hankin Branch are presenting Virtual Storytimes beginning April 27th. They will be for three different ages groups — 0 to 2 Year Olds, 3 & 4 Year Olds, and 5 & 6 Year Olds. Registration is required via the Events Calendar at https://chescolibraries.org/. Virtual Storytimes are not registered as multi-week sessions; you will need to register for each storytime individually.

Dav Pilkey at Home , a collaboration between the “Dog Man” and “Captain Underpants” author and the Library of Congress (LOC), offers with free activities, including how-to-draw demonstrations, read-alouds, and resources from the LOC’s collections. On Fridays at 8 a.m. EDT, new video content created by Pilkey will be released. More videos and content, including downloadable activities, discussions about books, and tips to create characters or act out scenes from the “Dog Man” series will be added periodically throughout the week.

The Youth Services Staff at the Chester County Library and Hankin Branch are presenting Virtual Storytimes beginning April 27th. They will be for three different ages groups — 0 to 2 Year Olds, 3 & 4 Year Olds, and 5 & 6 Year Olds. Registration is required via the Events Calendar at https://chescolibraries.org/. Virtual Storytimes are not registered as multi-week sessions; you will need to register for each storytime individually.

Passover is celebrated every spring by people of the Jewish faith.  The holiday lasts for eight days and nights.  A special meal, called a Seder, is held on the first two nights of Passover.  At the Seder, family and friends read the story of Moses, who led the Jewish people out of Egypt.  Symbolic foods are served on a special Seder Plate, including horseradish, egg, and parsley.  One of the most important Passover foods is matzoh, or unleavened bread. Matzoh is eaten during Passover because, when the Jews were given their freedom, they left Egypt so quickly that there wasn’t time for the bread to rise.  At the Seder, the youngest person at the table asks four important questions and an extra cup of wine is placed on the table for Elijah. During the Seder, an adult hides half of a piece of matzoh, called the afikomen, and the child who find it receives a prize.

For information, songs, and activties about Passover, click on Passover for Kids.

The Youth Services Staff at the Chester County Library and Hankin Branch are presenting Virtual Storytimes beginning April 27th. They will be for three different ages groups — 0 to 2 Year Olds, 3 & 4 Year Olds, and 5 & 6 Year Olds. Registration is required via the Events Calendar at https://chescolibraries.org/. Virtual Storytimes are not registered as multi-week sessions; you will need to register for each storytime individually.

Have you always wanted to learn a new language? Now is a great time to start! Mango Languages will help you learn a new language, with over 70 languages to choose from. From Arabic to Pirate to Yiddish, Mango has something for you!

You can find Mango under Tools & Research and then All CCLS Databases at ChescoLibraries.

Books can take you to other lands — How I Learned Geography.

The Youth Services Staff at the Chester County Library and Hankin Branch are presenting Virtual Storytimes beginning April 27th. They will be for three different ages groups — 0 to 2 Year Olds, 3 & 4 Year Olds, and 5 & 6 Year Olds. Registration is required via the Events Calendar at https://chescolibraries.org/. Virtual Storytimes are not registered as multi-week sessions; you will need to register for each storytime individually.