Skeleton Key Adventure Club
A club for 7-12 year olds who revel in the yuckiest, wildest, most thrilling topics such as mummies, explosions, reptiles, body gases, and pond scum. If you love Captain Underpants and Horrid Henry, you'll feel right at home at our Skeleton Key Adventure Club where you can unlock the world of action and adventure at your library.
The Club meets once a month for info, books, and of course good, clean fun about the most exciting subject matter on the face of the earth. By attending, kids can earn actual skeleton keys to take home and remind them of the doors to adventure that knowledge can open.
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uesday, September 27 at 6:30 pm... "Super Soakers."
What a great invention! Michelle Poe of the African American Museum of Cedar Rapids will tell us about the guy who invented the Super Soaker... and then we'll go hands-on! Prepare to get wet!
Tenika gets squirted as part of the mayhem on the library's outdoor balcony after the Super Soakers presentation.
Tuesday, October 25 at 6:30 pm... "Blood and Bones."
After the American Red Cross shows us how to deal with the real thing, we'll do ourselves up with fake blood and gruesome bandages. Warn your families you will come out of this program looking like you've been through the mill!
That's one pretty gnarly festering wound! Kids left trailing bandages and smiling deleriously, while bemused parents looked on.
Tuesday, November 22 at 6:30 pm... "Mad Mix."
Jason from the Bluedorn Imaginarium in Waterloo goes mad for science! This guy is fun, fun, fun... and just a little crazy. Be there!
Tuesday, December 27 at 6:30 pm... "Chemistry."
He's ba-ack! Jason visits again with mad chemistry experiments.
Tuesday, January 24 at 6:30 pm... "Snakes."
Muscatine County Conservation staff will be bringing some slithery critters.
Watch this page for news on the Skeleton Key themes February through April! And if you want to remind yourself of the fun we had last year, please scroll down.
School year 2010-2011
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uesday, September 28 at 6:30 pm... Take Flight!
This year's club starts off with a visit from the Iowa Children's Museum. Come find out all about the wild blue yonder and "take flight" with cool paper airplane designs, paper rockets that we will launch with a bicycle pump, and more.
Tuesday, October 26 at 6:30 pm... Spiders!
Can you get out of a spider's web? See if you can untangle yourself from a giant web, and do lots of other creepy, spidery things!
Tuesday, November at 6:30 pm... Kitchen Explosions!
Stand back! Science teacher Lyndsey Welsch will rock your world with Kitchen Explosions.
Tuesday, December 28 at 6:30 pm... Stuck in the Chimney!
Science teacher Andi Martinez explores concepts of air pressure and vacuums. Let's see if we can get Santa down the chimney!
Tuesday, January 25 at 6:30 pm... Dragons!
Check back for all the "scaly" details about this programs.
Tuesday, February 22 at 6:30 pm... Rodeo!
Make a stick horse and try the barrel race, eat cow-chip cookies, and gather round the campfire, pardners.
Tuesday, March 29 at 6:30 pm... Mud Madness!
People are always telling you to stay out of it... but not tonight! We'll be
way
into mud. Prepare to go home with tribal-style mud face paint, mud cloth, and much more.