Get Lit! Winter Reading Challenges

Our Get Lit! Winter Reading Programme starts Tuesday 6 June. This year there are bingo cards available for adults and youth and a comics edition.

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

Homemade | Let's Cook

Simple recipes aimed at anyone who likes cooking!

Suitable for people of all ages, especially children.

Toddler Time

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!

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.

Worldwide Knit in Public Day

It's Worldwide Knit in Public Day and we'd love to host you at your local library.

Bring your needles, wool and a thermos! We'll supply the biscuits!

Animal Protection Youth International Art Exhibition - Call for Art Submissions

Little Artist 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 second 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 24 to 28 August.

Wriggle & Rhyme

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.

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!

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.

Libraries closed

Our libraries are closed for a public holiday, staff training or if there are health and safety concerns.

eResources and Databases are available 24/7.

PK Kids Cambridge

Waipā District Libraries is hosting a speech night with a difference featuring children as the speakers.

We are hosting a 10x20 speech format to Cambridge for tamariki to get involved. This means that speakers will talk to 10 slides for 20 seconds each slide. The images are of the tamariki's choosing and the topic can be anything!

National Poetry Day Waipā Given Words Competition

National Poetry Day is on Friday 25 August. This year's national theme is refuge.

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.