Category: Program

Tinker Tech – 3D Tangram Puzzle

Join OFPL at the Children & Youth Library every Wednesday at 4:00 PM for an interactive, hands-on tech program for tweens & teens. Stimulate your creative thinking and learn how to use computer coding to create art, tell stories, and design games!

Octavia Fellin Children & Youth Library
200 West Aztec Ave.

March 15th at 4:00 PM

Use Tinkercad to design a 3D printable tangram puzzle that you can have your friends try to solve!

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

Midweek Matinee – Where the Crawdads Sing (2022)

Join OFPL in-person at the Main Library every Wednesday at 3:00 PM for weekly film screenings of award-winning, classics, documentaries, newly released, and specially selected films.

Octavia Fellin Public Library
115 West Hill Ave.

March 15th at 3:00 PM

Where the Crawdads Sing (Women’s Her-story month)

2022 | PG-13 | 2 hrs. 5 mins.
A woman who raised herself in the marshes of the Deep South becomes a suspect in the murder of a man with whom she was once involved.

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

OFPL does not own the rights to this video. Courtesy of YouTube.

Eureka! – Magnet-Powered Motor

Join OFPL in-person at the Children & Youth Library every Monday at 4:00 PM for STREAM workshops and activities for kids and tweens (ages 5-12). Eureka! STREAM workshops explore topics in Science, Technology, Reading, Engineering, Art, and Making.

Octavia Fellin Children & Youth Library
200 West Aztec Ave.

March 13th at 4:00 PM

Use magnets, a battery, and copper wire to replicate one of the first electric motors!

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

Family Storytime – Trucks

Join OFPL in-person at the Children & Youth Library every Monday and Wednesday at 11:00 AM for storytime activities, songs, rhymes, fingerplays, and read-aloud stories every week!

Octavia Fellin Children & Youth Library
200 West Aztec Ave.

March 13th & 15th at 11:00 AM

This month, our story times will explore different forms of transportation. Ages 0-5.

Storytime Theme
Week 2: Trucks

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

Kidz Cinema – Dolphin Tale (2011)

Join us in person at the Children & Youth Library every Saturday at 2:00 PM for weekly family-oriented film screenings.

Octavia Fellin Children & Youth Library
200 West Aztec Ave.

March 11th at 2:00 PM

Dolphin tale

2011 | PG | 1 hr. 53 mins.
A story centered on the friendship between a boy and a dolphin whose tail was lost in a crab trap.

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

OFPL does not own the rights to this video. Courtesy of YouTube.

Teen Makers Club – March 2023 (1/2)

Let’s get creative! Join us in-person at the Children & Youth Library on March 11th at 2:00 PM for the teen makers club! OFPL will provide a space where creative minds can give shape to their ideas, and help spread their passion.

Octavia Fellin Children & Youth Library
200 West Aztec Ave.

March 11th at 2:00 PM

This month we focus on origami and zoetropes as we discover animation! Open to creative teens of all skill levels.

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

Crafty Kids – Creative Tape Painting Art

Join us in person at the Children & Youth Library every Thursday at 4:00 PM for family-friendly crafts with step-by-step tutorials for all skill levels and ages. Supply kits are available at OFPL on a first-come, first-served basis using the Supply Request Form below.

Octavia Fellin Children & Youth Library
200 West Aztec Ave.

March 9th at 4:00 PM

Construct your own colorful patterned art using tape and acrylic paint.

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

Supply Request form

Tinker Tech – 3D Bookmark

Join OFPL at the Children & Youth Library every Wednesday at 4:00 PM for an interactive, hands-on tech program for tweens & teens. Stimulate your creative thinking and learn how to use computer coding to create art, tell stories, and design games!

Octavia Fellin Children & Youth Library
200 West Aztec Ave.

March 8th at 4:00 PM

Sign up for and learn how to create basic shapes like rectangular prisms and letters using the free 3D modeling program Tinkercad. Create a custom bookmark which will be printed on our 3D printer!

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

Midweek Matinee – Black Panther: Wakanda Forever (2022)

Join OFPL in-person at the Main Library every Wednesday at 3:00 PM for weekly film screenings of award-winning, classics, documentaries, newly released, and specially selected films.

Octavia Fellin Public Library
115 West Hill Ave.

March 8th at 3:00 PM

Black Panther: Wakanda Forever (Women’s Her-story month)

2022 | PG-13 | 2 hrs. 41 mins.
The people of Wakanda fight to protect their home from intervening world powers as they mourn the death of King T’Challa.

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

OFPL does not own the rights to this video. Courtesy of YouTube.

Eureka! – Amazing Magnets

Join OFPL in-person at the Children & Youth Library every Monday at 4:00 PM for STREAM workshops and activities for kids and tweens (ages 5-12). Eureka! STREAM workshops explore topics in Science, Technology, Reading, Engineering, Art, and Making.

Octavia Fellin Children & Youth Library
200 West Aztec Ave.

March 6th at 4:00 PM

Learn about magnetism by testing various objects and then participate in some magnetic challenges!

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