Children's Activity Schedule
Bring the family out to the festival to tell stories through books, puppets, music, art, and more!
Nelsonville Public Library
9:00am -10:00am
Canvas Creations: Decorate a Bag for Your Books​
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Drop by the main floor of the Nelsonville Public Library to decorate a keepsake that you can use to carry your ALAS festival goodies. Decorating materials and one canvas bag per person provided, while supplies last.
10:00am-
10:30am
Children's Reading Challenge Storytime​
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Didn't have a chance to read the Summer Reading Challenge children's books? Or loved the books so much you want to read them again? Join children's librarian Carter for a special Storytime, in the Kids Zone of the Nelsonville Public Library, featuring selections from the challenge.
10:30am- 11:30am
Books and Breakfast: A Celebration of Reading Challenge Milestones
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Summer Reading Challenge participants of all ages are invited to gather in the upstairs large meeting room of the Nelsonville Public Library for light breakfast foods and book talk. Librarians will provide informal prompts and activities to help generate conversation on the Reading Challenge selections.
Washington Street
10:00am - 4:30pm
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Join Daisy on the big blue bus parked on Washington Street for some arts, crafts, and music! Don't forget to use the slide on your way down, either. The Crafty Art Bus is an initiative dedicated to bringing art and music, two things we can all identify with regardless of age, gender, or culture to children who other wise wouldn’t have access. We are honored to have her on site for the first annual ALAS Festival!
10:00am - 4:30pm
Ohio Valley Museum of Discovery​
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The Ohio Valley Museum of Discovery (OVMoD) will provide a puppet theater and several large puppets from the Pat Olsen puppet collection for festival attendees to participate in storytelling. In addition, we will host a puppet creation table with supplies and ideas for making puppets, with an emphasis and examples of puppet-making from the Appalachian region, such as the Limberjack dancing puppet as well as more recent examples. Using puppets for storytelling, especially when paired with music, is an Appalachian tradition that has evolved from European antecedents into giant puppets seen at festivals today. Puppetry is an ancient art of storytelling, and allows people of all ages to involve themselves in the story at a deeper level than they would without the mask of the puppet character. We will encourage participants to use stories by an author raised in Appalachia, Jan Crossen, to produce their own puppet shows. We will also host our own prepared puppet shows that incorporate Appalachian and interdisciplinary themes. Check back for the schedule!
10:00am - 4:30pm
Dolly Parton's Imagination Library​
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Dolly Parton's Imagination Library is a program that mails free, high-quality children's books to children ages birth through five. All 88 counties in Ohio offer Dolly Parton's Imagination Library booth at no cost to families. Visit the Imagination Library booth at the ALAS Festival to learn how to enroll your child to receive free books each month.