Rostraver library encourages children to start gardening

By CHRISTINE HAINES

chaines@yourmvi.com

The Rostraver Public Library is literally branching out this summer, offering a virtual garden club for children.

Growing with Gardens is offered every other Saturday, with the next session April 24, two days after Earth Day, so the program will focus on the ecological event.

Library aide Laura Kupets leads the program on Facebook Live at 10:30 a.m. on alternating Saturdays. The program is also recorded and available to be replayed on the library’s Facebook and YouTube sites. Kupets said the Earth Day activities will focus on crafts, but will also include games, information on what Earth Day is, how to help and how to become sustainable.

Kits are available at the library from 10 a.m. until 2 p.m. today or prior to the event by calling ahead for curbside pickup. 

Activity kits for the April 24 session include materials to make an Earth Day keychain, animals from recycled egg cartons and a fingerprint Earth Day Collage. Participants should register in advance on the library website or Facebook page because each live session is limited to 30 participants, Kupets said.

“We had 29 registered for our first session,” she said.

In that session, participants received tomato and marigold seeds and materials to plant them.

“At our next meeting we’ll see if any have sprouted,” Kupets said.

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