Date: Tue, Sep 15, 2026
Time: 4:30 PM - 5:15 PM
Venue: Southeast Regional Library, Garner
Price: Free
Category: Family
Read, create, discover and explore with hands-on activities!Make your own salt dough, and build some land and water forms!
Family · Garner
“Bring a shallow cardboard box to carry your child's wet dough sculpture home.”
K-5th Adventures: Squishy Landforms is a hands-on science and crafting workshop where elementary school students build physical geography models using homemade salt dough. Children will mix their own batch of dough from scratch and sculpt various land and water formations to take home. This free program is designed specifically for children in kindergarten through fifth grade and takes place in the programming room at the Southeast Regional Library in Garner. All crafting supplies are provided by the library, and parking is free and plentiful in the main branch lot. Because salt dough can get sticky, you may want to dress your child in play clothes and bring a small box or tray to safely transport their wet sculpture home in the car. It is an ideal weekday afternoon outing because it combines sensory play with earth science concepts. Your child gets to enjoy the tactile process of mixing and sculpting, while you get to leave the flour spills and sticky countertops behind at the library.
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K-5th Adventures: Squishy Landforms! runs Tue, Sep 15, 2026, 4:30 PM - 5:15 PM.
Southeast Regional Library is at 908 7th Ave., Garner, NC. Open in Google Maps.
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