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Life 101: Social Etiquette

3:30pm–4:30pm
Teens, Middle School, High School
Library Branch: Meriden Public Library
Room: Teen Room
Age Group: Teens, Middle School, High School
Program Type: Education
Event Details:

Improve your interpersonal skills during May's Life 101 session. Learn how to avoid a social faux pas, conversational blunders and how to course correct when you make a mistake.

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Pom Pom Otters

3:30pm–5:00pm
Teens, Middle School, High School
Library Branch: Meriden Public Library
Room: Teen Room
Age Group: Teens, Middle School, High School
Program Type: Art & Crafts
Event Details:

Head to the teen room for this otter-ly adorable craft.

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Crafty Critters: Paper Pulp Painting

3:30pm–4:30pm
Teens, Middle School, High School
Library Branch: Meriden Public Library
Room: Teen Room
Age Group: Teens, Middle School, High School
Program Type: Art & Crafts
Event Details:

Learn how to recycle old paper into pulp for these wonderfully textured paintings. 

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Fizzy Lunar Rocks

3:30pm–4:30pm
Teens, Middle School, High School
Library Branch: Meriden Public Library
Room: Teen Room
Age Group: Teens, Middle School, High School
Program Type: STEAM
Event Details:

Explore chemistry and composition with these lunar rocks with this out-of-this world baking soda experiment.

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DIY Glowing Moon Rocks

3:30pm–4:30pm
Teens, Middle School, High School
Library Branch: Meriden Public Library
Room: Teen Room
Age Group: Teens, Middle School, High School
Program Type: Art & Crafts
Event Details:

Create your own interstellar rock to light up your room at night.

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Teen Art Club: Paper Mosaics

3:00pm–4:00pm
Teens, Middle School, High School
Library Branch: Meriden Public Library
Room: Teen Room
Age Group: Teens, Middle School, High School
Program Type: Art & Crafts
Event Details:

Join this month's teen art club to make a paper mosaic! Create a landscape using tissue paper, glue and layering techniques.

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Mint Container Dioramas

3:30pm–5:00pm
Teens, Middle School, High School
Library Branch: Meriden Public Library
Room: Teen Room
Age Group: Teens, Middle School, High School
Program Type: Art & Crafts
Event Details:

Create your own diorama in a tine box! Make your own room, library or other secret room during this craft.

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Lofi Hour

3:30pm–4:30pm
Teens, Middle School, High School
Library Branch: Meriden Public Library
Room: Teen Room
Age Group: Teens, Middle School, High School
Program Type: Music
Event Details:

Stressing with finals coming up? Come to the teen room for a relaxing hour of calming lofi. 

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Monthly Movie: The Perks of Being a Wallflower

2:30pm–4:00pm
Teens, Middle School, High School
Library Branch: Meriden Public Library
Room: Teen Room
Age Group: Teens, Middle School, High School
Program Type: Film
Event Details:

Head to the teen room for this month's movie, The Perks of Being a Wallflower, a coming of age film about an introverted freshman navigating friendship, mental health and first love. 

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Calm Coloring for Teens

2:00pm–4:45pm
Teens, Middle School, High School
Library Branch: Meriden Public Library
Room: Teen Room
Age Group: Teens, Middle School, High School
Program Type: Art & Crafts
Event Details:

Take a break from the end of the school year stress with relaxing music and coloring in the teen room. 

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Scratch Art Drop-In

2:00pm–4:45pm
Teens, Middle School, High School
Library Branch: Meriden Public Library
Room: Teen Room
Age Group: Teens, Middle School, High School
Program Type: Art & Crafts
Event Details:

Head to the teen room to create your own colorful masterpiece using scratch art paper. 

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Indoor Snowball Fight

3:30pm–4:30pm
Teens, Middle School, High School
Library Branch: Meriden Public Library
Room: Meeting Room 1+2+3
Age Group: Teens, Middle School, High School
Program Type: Games
Event Details:

Remember when we got all those snow days and your last day of school got pushed back? Relive the snow days and celebrate school FINALLY being done with an indoor snowball fight!

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Mario Kart 8 Tournie

5:30pm–6:30pm
Teens, Middle School, High School
Library Branch: Meriden Public Library
Room: Teen Room
Age Group: Teens, Middle School, High School
Program Type: Games
Event Details:

Prove your are the best and win a cute pin along with bragging rights. 

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The Last Doctor Solo RPG

1:30pm–2:30pm
Teens, Middle School, High School
Library Branch: Meriden Public Library
Room: Teen Room
Age Group: Teens, Middle School, High School
Program Type: Games
Event Details:

Play as the only remaining doctor in a plague infected medieval village. Help will arrive in 14 days...will you and your patients make it that long?

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Adopt Your Own Plague Rat

3:00pm–4:30pm
Teens, Middle School, High School
Library Branch: Meriden Public Library
Room: Teen Room
Age Group: Teens, Middle School, High School
Program Type: Art & Crafts
Event Details:

Did you know rats were not the main mode of transmission for the bubonic plague/ Create your own misunderstood rodent plushie as you learn about the bubonic plague. 

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Could You Survive? Ultimate Plague

1:30pm–2:30pm
Teens, Middle School, High School
Library Branch: Meriden Public Library
Room: Teen Room
Age Group: Teens, Middle School, High School
Program Type: Games
Event Details:

Can you survive the bubonic plague in the teen room? With one doctor and two plague carriers, can you figure out who is infected before our teen village is gone?

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This event is in the "High School" group

Potion Craft on Switch 2

1:30pm–2:30pm
Teens, Middle School, High School
Library Branch: Meriden Public Library
Room: Teen Room
Age Group: Teens, Middle School, High School
Program Type: Games
Event Details:

Come play this medieval fantasy management game where you run an alchemy shop and brew your own potions for the afflicted.

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They Used What? Weird Medicine

1:30pm–2:30pm
Teens, Middle School, High School
Library Branch: Meriden Public Library
Room: Teen Room
Age Group: Teens, Middle School, High School
Program Type: Education
Event Details:

Learn all about what people of olden days used for medicine from wacky to plain nasty.

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4 Humors Potions

5:30pm–6:30pm
Teens, Middle School, High School
Library Branch: Meriden Public Library
Room: Teen Room
Age Group: Teens, Middle School, High School
Event Details:

Head to the teen room to get your humors balanced! Make a potion for your blood, phlegm, yellow bile or black bile while learning more about this olden health solution.

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Salem 1692

1:30pm–2:30pm
Teens, Middle School, High School
Library Branch: Meriden Public Library
Room: Teen Room
Age Group: Teens, Middle School, High School
Program Type: Games
Event Details:

Can you figure out who is a witch? In this card game you need to rid your town of witches before they curse you!

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Witch Bells

1:30pm–2:30pm
Teens, Middle School, High School
Library Branch: Meriden Public Library
Room: Teen Room
Age Group: Teens, Middle School, High School
Program Type: Art & Crafts
Event Details:

Create your own protective amulet to ward off bad vibes, evil spirits and even curses!

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This event is in the "High School" group

Could You Survive? The Salem Witch Trials

5:30pm–6:30pm
Teens, Middle School, High School
Library Branch: Meriden Public Library
Room: Teen Room
Age Group: Teens, Middle School, High School
Program Type: Games
Event Details:

Would you have made it through the trials or would you have been burned at the stake?

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Monthly Movie: 2012

1:00pm–2:30pm
Teens, Middle School, High School
Library Branch: Meriden Public Library
Room: Teen Room
Age Group: Teens, Middle School, High School
Program Type: Film
Event Details:

Head to the teen room to watch 2012, a apocalyptic disaster movie where catastrophic weather threatens to end the world. 

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Did You Know? Weird Weather

1:30pm–2:30pm
Teens, Middle School, High School
Library Branch: Meriden Public Library
Room: Teen Room
Age Group: Teens, Middle School, High School
Program Type: Education
Event Details:

Learn about weird weather from the past like the Dust Bowl, The Year without a Summer, and even animals raining from the sky!