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Using your LEGO and some common household items learn how to solve a range of STEM challenges with the team from Young Engineers.
Join Senior Constable Kerrin Sheedy, QPS for Story Time at the Ipswich Children’s Library.
Discover the magic of stories and make new friends as we explore a different theme each month. Bookings essential.
Build language through rhymes, songs, stories and movement with our older babies. Bookings essential.
Share rhymes, songs and stories to support your baby’s early language learning. Four week program for babies aged 0-12 months with parents and/or carers. Bookings essential.
All aboard for stories, songs and rhymes at this special First 5 Forever event at the Workshops Rail Museum. Bookings essential.
Nurture your child’s love of language and stories at your local Bunnings store.
Ages 0-5 years with mums, dads and/or carers.
Bookings essential.
Challenge Your Inner Geek
Build skills to code through fun challenges with Scratch, Spheros, Ozobots and more. No coding experience needed.
Nurture your child’s love of language through stories and block play.
Ages 0-5 years with mums, dads and/or carers.
Bookings essential.
Nurture your child’s love of language and stories at your local pool. Delivered in Partnership with Kids Alive Do the Five and Just Sports N Fitness.
Spark your child’s creativity with songs, books, movement and play. Bookings essential.
Spark your child’s creativity with songs, books, movement and play. Bookings essential.
Nurture your child’s love of language and stories at your local shops. Bookings essential.
Nurture your child’s love of language and stories at your local park. Learn about your local environment through a fun activity provided by the Environmental Education team. Bookings essential.
Dive Into Books is a pool-side storytelling program developed in partnership with Kids Alive – Do the Five and hosted by Just Sports N Fitness.
Enjoy watching Megan and Emma read the newly released First 5 Forever storybook, ‘Is this your egg?’ written by Ella Kris and illustrated by Emma Cracknell.
Listen as the First 5 Forever team bring some favourite stories to life with the help from some very clever Ipswich kids.
Join us for traditional stories with a twist, told by the Ipswich Libraries First 5 Forever team.
Watch as the team demonstrates ways of introducing classic nursery rhymes to your kids.
Inspire your child’s love of reading by looking through the First 5 Forever Stories for Little Queenslanders collection.
Count from one to ten with Wayne from the Queensland Ambulance Service in this gentle, rhyming bedtime book, One Remarkable Reef, written by Kellie Byrnes and illustrated by Rachel Tribout.
Since launching in 2015 there have been more than 2.5 million attendances at First 5 Forever activities in public libraries and Indigenous Knowledge Centres across Queensland.
Discover how Library programs can be tailored to suit your school or group. Organise a visit to one of our libraries or have the Public Programming team come to you.
Let our First 5 Forever team bring the magic of stories, songs and rhymes to your playgroup or community group.
Draw along with Emma as she demonstrates how to draw one of her favourite Australian animals, using materials that you have at home.
Navigate safely your online resources, platforms, apps and games. Learn the importance of keeping your personal information secure and how to implement a Cyber-safety Plan for your family.
Every month compete in the ultimate Makerspace Challenge to test your skills and win amazing prizes!
Challenges change regularly and can be completed using the technology and software currently available in the Ipswich Libraries Makerspaces.