After-school crochet session for children ages 5 and up, part of the Free Library of Philadelphia's LEAP arts and crafts series.
LEAP Children's Crochet Club is at Eastwick Library on Friday, October 23, at 3:30 PM. It's an after-school session for kids ages 5 and up, and the whole point is to learn basic crochet skills while working on a project. If your kid has never picked up a hook before, this is exactly where they start.
The club is part of the Free Library of Philadelphia's LEAP (Library Early Afternoon Programs) arts and crafts series, which runs after-school sessions for children ages 5 and up. It's not a one-off; the same series runs other activities at Eastwick Library, like LEAP Cursive Writing, so if your kid takes a liking to this, there's more to follow in the same building. The library's wider arts and crafts offering also includes a Yarn Club over at Frankford Library, and the LEAP series sits within a system that stages more than 28,000 programs for all ages each year.
It's a low-stakes way to get a child into a craft they can actually keep doing at home. They'll walk in and learn the basics—how to hold the hook, how to make a chain, how to build from there—and they'll be working toward a finished project as they go. It's a good fit for a Friday afternoon when you're looking for something productive for them to do after school.
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Eastwick Library is at 2851 Island Avenue, at the corner of Island Ave. and Lindbergh Blvd. in Philadelphia, PA 19153-2314. The session starts at 3:30 PM on Friday, October 23, and it's open to children ages 5 and up.
