Adventures at the library! This year at Schlagle library, kids everywhere had fun at Schlagle's many amazing summer camps. For over ten years Schlagle has been helping people of all ages to appreciate nature and to get outside and experience it for themselves. This summer over 50 kids attended Schlagle's camps. They had fun fishing, making fossils, playing games and even putting on a play. They had so much fun we were always sad to see them leave. I know because i had the opportunity to volunteer at some of these great camps. The kindergarten camp was particularly impressed with our famous ball python, Monty, running over to look at him whenever they got the chance. They also had fun painting t-shirts, collecting space rocks, playing pirate and lots more at our itty bitty explorers camp. The next camp we had were all first graders. They spent most of the week preparing for a play called the Lorax. They loved making their costumes for the play. They also helped to make the set by tracing their hands. In the end the play was a hit! The last camp I volunteered at was one of our older kids camps. Some of the kids had gone to Schlagle's summer camps before, so they remembered us from last year. We had fun fishing for catfish in the kids pond and going on hikes. They also had fun looking for tiny creatures in the water through magnifying glasses. To do this the rest of the volunteers and me waded out into the shallow part of the lake, by the library, and scooped up buckets full of water so the kids could look at the things inside with their magnifying glasses. Then we had a smelling challenge where they had to match their scent to another one we hid on the trail and at the end they all got a prize.We also painted t-shirts with stencils for camp t-shirts and sang songs. Even though I didn't get to go to the rest of the camps I know they had a lot of fun because Schlagle always is an adventure.