Teen Events

This program informs on the essential skills and the business side of babysitting.  Each attendee will earn American Red Cross Babysitting Certification and develop take-along tools for babysitting. This program requires a $20.00 (check or cash) refundable deposit due one week after registration to guarantee materials.  Deposit will be refunded after attendance of all four sessions. Registration is for all four sessions.

Session 1: Babysitting Certification with the American Red Cross
Session 2: Doing Storytimes, Fingerplays and Games while Babysitting
Session 3: Get Organized
Session 4: The Business of Babysitting (making resumes and flyers)

Help beautify the grounds of the library and earn double community service hours for your time.  Looking for on-going volunteer opportunities? Contact Betsy Quinn via email betsy.quinn@madison.mainlib.org

Learn or practice sewing techniques and design your own cross-body cell phone pouch. No sewing experience needed to attend.
This is scheduled on a school teacher in-service day.

This program informs on the essential skills and the business side of babysitting.  Each attendee will earn American Red Cross Babysitting Certification and develop take-along tools for babysitting. This program requires a $20.00 (check or cash) refundable deposit due one week after registration to guarantee materials.  Deposit will be refunded after attendance of all four sessions. Registration is for all four sessions.

Session 1: Babysitting Certification with the American Red Cross
Session 2: Doing Storytimes, Fingerplays and Games while Babysitting
Session 3: Get Organized
Session 4: The Business of Babysitting (making resumes and flyers)

This program informs on the essential skills and the business side of babysitting.  Each attendee will earn American Red Cross Babysitting Certification and develop take-along tools for babysitting. This program requires a $20.00 (check or cash) refundable deposit due one week after registration to guarantee materials.  Deposit will be refunded after attendance of all four sessions. Registration is for all four sessions.

Session 1: Babysitting Certification with the American Red Cross
Session 2: Doing Storytimes, Fingerplays and Games while Babysitting
Session 3: Get Organized
Session 4: The Business of Babysitting (making resumes and flyers)

Inspired by the Walking Dead, join in and create  the perfect zombie for your Halloween decorations. Barbies and creative materials will be provided

This program informs on the essential skills and the business side of babysitting.  Each attendee will earn American Red Cross Babysitting Certification and develop take-along tools for babysitting. This program requires a $20.00 (check or cash) refundable deposit due one week after registration to guarantee materials.  Deposit will be refunded after attendance of all four sessions. Registration is for all four sessions.

Session 1: Babysitting Certification with the American Red Cross
Session 2: Doing Storytimes, Fingerplays and Games while Babysitting
Session 3: Get Organized
Session 4: The Business of Babysitting (making resumes and flyers)

Want to earn your Girl Scouts Book Arts Badge? Create a simple journal, an accordion book and learn how to mend a book.  ALL requirements for this badge will be covered.

Megan Meiklejohn, EILEEN FISHER’s Transparency Manager, will dig into clothing’s unseen impacts—from the farm to the dyehouse to your closet. And Claire Whitcomb, Madison Environmental Commission chair and a longtime writer at EILEEN FISHER, will share the basics of building a mindful wardrobe.

Learn how to:

•      identify which fibers are most sustainable.
•      shop for simple, quality clothes.
•      make sustainable choices about washing, repairing and caring for your clothes.
•      find resources for recycling textiles at the end of their life.

The least sustainable item in our closet is the one you don’t wear.