Calvert Library | Tween Events

For 5th, 6th, and 7th Graders

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Event Information

To see pictures of past events, check out Calvert Library tween photos on Flickr.

For handouts from past events, see our Always Fun section.

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Upcoming Events

Cupcake Decorating Workshop

Tuesday, March 6, 2012
6:30-8:00 p.m.
Calvert Library
Prince Frederick

Would you like to learn how to create yummy masterpieces?! If so, come watch a demonstration by a professional Pastry Chef and then have fun practicing what you’ve learned! Tweens in grades 5, 6, and 7 are invited. Supplies will be provided.

Register online

Eat Your Art Out

Tuesday, April 24, 2012
6:30-8:00 p.m.
Calvert Library
Prince Frederick

Use food to make creative (and delicious) works of art

Register online

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Always Fun

Tweird Science | Tuesday, November 15, 2011

Skewer through a balloon [pdf]

Make water glow [video]

How to make a huff and puff race [pdf]

Grow your own newspaper tree [pdf]

Make a baking soda balloon [pdf]

Magic colored milk [pdf]

Egg in the bottle trick [pdf]

Launch your own astronauts [pdf]

Make your own (clean) slime [pdf]

Smart vending machines page 1 | page 2 [pdf]

Marshmallow catapult page 1 | page 2 [pdf]

Sources

Cool Chemistry Concoctions: 50 Formulas that Fizz, Foam, Splatter & Ooze by Joe Rhatigan, Tom Labaff and Veronika Alice Gunter

How to Make Snop Snappers and other fine things by Robert Lopshire

730 Easy Science Experiments with everyday materials by E. Richard Churchill