Get Lit! Winter Reading Challenge

Our Get Lit! Winter Reading Programme starts Tuesday 7 June! This year there are bingo cards available for adults, teens and children.

The challenge lasts for 11 weeks and there are book prizes and library credit vouchers to be awarded.

Wriggle & Rhyme (CB)

Check out the FREE 30-minute Wriggle & Rhyme sessions at a library near you during the school term!

Wriggle & Rhyme sessions are designed for children from birth to two years old, and guide parents through a range of movement activities that they can also use at home with their children.

Wriggle & Rhyme (TA)

Check out the FREE 30-minute Wriggle & Rhyme sessions at a library near you during the school term!

Wriggle & Rhyme sessions are designed for children from birth to two years old, and guide parents through a range of movement activities that they can also use at home with their children.

No need to register, just turn up!

5 Minute Makerspace

Get creative and hands-on with fun science, technology, engineering, arts and mathematics (STEAM) projects!

Generally suitable for ages 8 up to 13. Adult supervision and assistance generally required.

These 5 minute Makerspace sessions are being delivered virtually via the YouTube Channel and are in addition to the in-house sessions that we run.

Makerspace Tuesdays (CB)

Come and get creative and hands-on with fun science, technology, engineering, arts and mathematics (STEAM) projects!

Participants register for the term. Ages 8 up to 13.

Lego Club

Lego Club is a free hour of fun where kids can use their imagination to create, build and play. Look out for challenges and fun themes too!

All children aged 5-12 are welcome to join in. Registration is not required at present, but parents must sign children in and out of each session. Sessions are held in term time.

Homemade | Let's Cook

Simple recipes aimed at anyone who likes cooking!

Suitable for people of all ages, especially children.

Send in your photos via email and go into the draw to win a cookbook at the end of the term.

Toddler Time (TA)

A fun-filled programme featuring stories, crafts, music and interactive fun.

Toddler Time is tailored specifically for age 2-5 years and is designed to enhance social, cognitive, motor and musical skills.

No need to register, just turn up!

Toddler Time (CB)

Toddler time is a fun-filled programme featuring stories, crafts, music and interactive fun.

Toddler Time is tailored specifically for age 2-5 years and is designed to enhance social, cognitive, motor and musical skills.

Families need to register their children to attend in Cambridge at this time.

Makerspace Thursdays (TA)

Come and get creative and hands-on with fun science, technology, engineering, arts and mathematics projects!

Thursday afternoons at Te Awamutu Library during the school term.

Participants register for the term. Ages 8 up to 13.

Books Alive Special Event - Te Hipo Huna

LIANZA and the New Zealand Book Awards Trust are bringing together another year of Books Alive online events and virtual storytimes to celebrate the New Zealand Book Awards for Children and Young Adults.

Waipā District Libraries have been chosen again to host a special Books Alive event.

Museum of Me

Join us at the ‘Museum of Me' and make an exhibition of yourself. 

In a museum you might see an exhibition. This is when different things are put together in a display to tell people about something, or someone.  Bring along something that is important to you … and find out how to make a museum exhibition that is all about you.

Shambles to Sorted - Organising your Family History Paper Files

Organising your Family History Paper Files with the the Cambridge Branch of the NZ Society of Genealogists.

Featuring an introduction to the group by Jo Barnes (Convenor) followed by a presentation by Gilly Mathieson, Committee Member of the Cambridge Branch.

Book Club Te Awamutu

If you love reading books, sharing books, chatting to others about books and finding new books to read, come along to an enjoyable evening where you can share your favourite titles with other book lovers while enjoying light refreshments provided by the library.

Te Awamutu’s Business Area: The story of its development with Alan Hall

Following on from his New Wine in Old Bottles talk for Heritage Month 2020, Alan Hall provides a follow up talk in August on The Development of Te Awamutu’s Business Area between 1880 and 1920 and the role played by the Town Board in the provision of essential services and the opening up Mission Station land for development.

National Poetry Day Waipā Given Words Competition

National Poetry Day is on Friday 26 August.

To enter our competition you need to write of poem of up to 120 words and the poem must feature at least 5 of the given words provided.

First Reader Book Club Cambridge

If you love reading books, sharing books, chatting to others about books and finding new books to read, come along to an enjoyable evening where you can share your favourite titles with other book lovers.

A Better Earth Eco-Village Art Exhibition - Call for Art Submissions

Little Painter Global International Art Exhibition is an international children's project of Beijing Dongming Cultural Creativity Co.LTD. Since its establishment in 2017, tens of thousands of children from around the world have participated in 30 successfully held international exchange art exhibitions.

This is the first year the exhibition will be held in New Zealand and you are invited to make a submission to be selected as one of the pieces to be on show in Cambridge from 15 to 19 September.

Family History - Getting started

Have you thought about researching your family but not known where to start?  The Te Awamutu Genealogy group is holding 2 sessions for beginners on Saturday 27 August and Saturday 3 September between 9.30am - 12.30pm in the Community Room at the Te Awamutu Library.

Te Reo Singalong Show (TA)

Waipā District Libraries is bringing Sharon Holt's Te Reo Singalong Show to Waipā for Māori Language Week!

Te Reo Singalong books are award winning picture song books with CDs that make learning Te Reo Māori easy.

Te Reo Singalong Show (CB)

Waipā District Libraries is bringing Sharon Holt's Te Reo Singalong Show to Waipā for Māori Language Week!

Te Reo Singalong books are award winning picture song books with CDs that make learning Te Reo Māori easy.

Mini Makers

Come along to a taster session of Makerspace STEAM activities and Lego!

Suitable for ages 5 and above.

No need to register. Just turn up!