Tag: charcoal

Tweens Who STREAM – Build a Water Filter

Join OFPL at the Children & Youth Library on August 8th and 22nd at 4:00 PM for interactive STREAM workshops. STREAM workshops explore topics in Science, Technology, Reading, Engineering, Art, and Making.

Octavia Fellin Children & Youth Library
200 West Aztec Ave.

August 8th at 4:00 PM

In this hands-on activity, students investigate different methods—aeration and filtering—for removing pollutants from water. Working in teams, they design, build and test their own water filters.

Email pneilson@gallupnm.gov or call (505) 863-1291 for more information.

Basic Figurative Drawing

Create your own art using materials found around your home! Courses are geared towards individuals approximately 15-years of age and older. Supply kits are available at OFPL on a first-come, first-serve basis using the Supply Request Form. Videos are posted weekly on Mondays at 4:00 p.m.

Tune in on Monday, February 22nd at 4:00 p.m. to learn the basics of figurative drawing as we dissect the human body into form and shape using charcoal in this interactive workshop.

CREATIVE CORNER EPISODES ARE AVAILABLE FOR VIEWING, VISIT YOUTUBE, @GALLUPLIBRARY.

Email jwhitman@gallupnm.gov or call (505) 863-1291 for more information.

Self-Care Saturday

Join us on Facebook LIVE @galluplibrary on Saturday, January 9th at 1:00 p.m. to make All-Natural Mascara DIY self-care product.

The ingredient list is available below:

All-Natural Mascara

Ingredients: 

• 1 tsp Coconut Oil
• 1 tsp Shea Butter
• 1.5 tsp Beeswax
• 2 tsp Jojoba Oil
• 2 Capsules Activated Charcoal
• 2 drops Vitamin E Oil

Instructions:

1. In a double boiler, melt the first 4 ingredients
2. Once melted remove from heat and add in the charcoal and Vitamin E
3. Cut small corner off plastic bag and use it like a cake decorator to pipe it into the empty mascara tube
4. Apply your homemade mascara as you would your regular mascara.

Email jwhitman@gallupnm.gov or call (505) 863-1291 for more information.

VISIT YOUTUBE, @GALLUPLIBRARY, FOR ALL
SELF-CARE EPISODES.