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Jerry Schneider's "Making Space for Pollinators" and T-Shirt Craft

Outdoor Event at 3 Hoosac Street, Adams, MA 01200
Event Date: 
Thursday, August 12, 2021 - 6:00pm

Jerry Schneider’s “Making Space for Pollinators” and T-Shirt Craft Event Library Event

Outdoors, Thursday, August 12, 2021, 6:00 p.m. at Adams Council on Aging, 3 Hoosac Street. Part of “Tails & Tales” Library Summer Reading

Adams MA – Families and children of all ages are invited to register and join this presentation by Jerry Schneider entitled “Making Space for Pollinators,” in keeping with the “Tails and Tales” Summer Reading Challenge 2021 theme at the Adams Free Library. This is an outdoor event taking place at the Adams Council on Aging, 3 Hoosac Street in Adams, and hosted by the Adams Free Library.

Audiences will acquaint themselves with some of our local pollinators, featuring bees, bats, hummingbirds, beetles, dragonflies and butterflies. These are important critters that help pollinate our orchards, back yard gardens, and our rain forests. Audiences will learn how to build and maintain habitats that help our pollinator populations, what time of year to mow fields that is most beneficial to pollinators, and what flowers to grow in our gardens to attract butterflies and bees. After the presentation, children will create pollinator tee shirts, using a combination of fabric dye sprays, plants, and butterfly, bat and dragonfly cut outs. Children may purchase heavy cotton (Gildan) tee shirts for $4.00, or bring their own. Registration is required, (413)743-8345.

Jerry Schneider has presented nature programs in schools and libraries for the past thirteen years throughout the Eastern US. His programs help inspire youth and adults alike, to pay more attention to our friends, the butterflies, bees, bats, and other pollinators. Audiences learn how to create and maintain pollinator habitat. In recent years, a number of schools have built butterfly gardens on the Monarch’s migration path. In Vermont, legislators are working on a bill to help protect bees.

Mr. Schneider, a former teacher and children’s librarian, invented The Butterfly Game in 2001. It received a Parents Publication Award in 2004. Jerry was a steering committee member of the Vermont Butterfly Atlas Project, a 5-year study of butterfly populations in Vermont. He lives in Hardwick, Vermont.

“Tails and Tales” is sponsored by the Adams Free Library, the Massachusetts Library System, the Boston Bruins, and the Massachusetts Board of Library Commissioners. Additional funding by the Friends of the Adams Free Library.

Families and children of all ages are invited to register (413)743-8345 to join the Adams Free Library for an outdoor event at the Adams Council on Aging, 3 Hoosac Street in Adams on Thursday, August 12, 2021 at 6:00 p.m. An adult must accompany children under 8 years of age. Library events are free and open to the public. Attendance at library programs constitutes consent to be photographed; photos may be used in print or electronic publicity for the Adams Free Library. Questions? Call the Adams Free Library at (413)743-8345 or visit the library’s website www.adamslibraryma.org for more information.