Need new books?
Shoshone has this lovely tradition called “Arts in the park”. Every year on the second weekend of July, by the Lincoln county court house. That will be July 9th. There will be food vendors and many booths to check out. There is also a chalk walk art competition. Among the booths is a stall where the friends of the library sell books to raise money for our library every year. If you need to add to your hoard…I mean collection of books check us out. We will have some very good deals!!
Ice Cream!
If you didn’t make it to the Summer Stem on Thursday we made ICE CREAM!! Boy was it yummy!
If you and your family want to make it at home here is the recipe and also we would like to feature the book we got it out of that is available for check out.
What You Need
2 Dish towels
one Gallon zipper plastic bag
two quart zipper plastic bags
1/4 c sugar
3/4 c milk
3/4 c heavy cream
1/4 tsp vanilla
1/4 c rock salt
LOTS of ice
Directions:
Hold open one of the small zipper bags and pour the heavy cream, milk, sugar and vanilla into the bag and push excess air out and zip it closed. Places into extra bag to ensure it doesn’t break. Fill Gallon size bag half way with ice. Sprinkle rock salt on top of ice. Place bag with cream mixture into the bag and fill remaining space with ice and zip bag closed. cover with towels and secure with masking tape if wanted or needed.
Shake and toss bag for 10-15 min until mixture become a solid. Snip the bottom corner and squeeze into a bowl or cup to eat.
Stay cool this summer and make sure you are reading!
Featured books for July 20-24
Hey there summer reading families. If you didn’t get a chance to hear the amazing books we read at the park come and check them out at the library. We have them on display in the children’s section. We try our best to pick books that go along with the activities and theme for this summer which is ‘Ocean’s of possibilities’. If you aren’t signed up for the summer reading program it isn’t too late. Come to the activities at the park on Tuesday and Thursday at 12:30 or pop in the library to get signed up. Hope to see you all next week!
Want to make slime at home?!
In case you missed the activity at the park on 6/15/22 we made slime/Flubber. If you want to make it at home here is the recipe. Now this makes a very large batch of slime and if you prefer it to be more of a stiff flubber consistency you will need to increase the borax to 3/4 tsp per 1 cup of water.
1/4 tsp Borax
1/2 C water
1/2 C Water
1/2 C Elmers Glue (clear or white)
Glitter and food gel/food coloring
First mix Borax into 1/2 cup of warm tap water. then in a separate bowl mix your glue and 1/2 c of water together. Once the glue mixture is fully mixed together, add glitter and food coloring. Once those are fully mixed in add borax and stir and knead slim/flubber together.
Make your own “Goo” at home and let us know how it went!
We have a wonderful book about slime here at the library that can be checked out and we also ready “Billy Bloo is stuck in goo”.