{"id":121925,"date":"2026-02-24T06:58:05","date_gmt":"2026-02-24T06:58:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/121925\/"},"modified":"2026-02-24T06:58:05","modified_gmt":"2026-02-24T06:58:05","slug":"valley-community-library-ties-squishmallow-art-session-to-america-250-celebration","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/121925\/","title":{"rendered":"Valley Community Library ties Squishmallow art session to America 250 celebration"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>PECKVILLE, LACKAWANNA CO. (WOLF) \u2014 The Valley Community Library hosted its third annual Squishmallow art session Monday, tying the program to America\u2019s 250th anniversary by blending drawing with history.<\/p>\n<p>Kids sketched their own Squishmallow-style characters, turning historical figures into soft, cartoon-inspired designs.<\/p>\n<p>Fawn Contreras, head of youth services at Valley Community Library, said the activity is designed to build creativity and communication skills.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cKids were encouraged to research either a new historical figure or learn more about their favorite one and turn that figure into a Squishmallow. They get to tell a story about it, share a fact and practice art, research skills and public speaking,\u201d said Contreras.<\/p>\n<p>The event also connects to the America 250 celebration through the Lackawanna County library system\u2019s winter reading challenge, \u201cReading Starts a Revolution,\u201d which runs for all ages.<\/p>\n<p>The winter challenge ends Saturday, and Contreras encourages people to stop by their local library branch to finish it before the deadline.<\/p>\n<p>Comment with Bubbles<\/p>\n<p>BE THE FIRST TO COMMENT<\/p>\n<p>For more information on upcoming events, <a href=\"https:\/\/lclshome.org\/libraries\/valley-community-library\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">visit the Valley Community Library website<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"PECKVILLE, LACKAWANNA CO. (WOLF) \u2014 The Valley Community Library hosted its third annual Squishmallow art session Monday, tying&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":121926,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[15],"tags":[178,180,179],"class_list":["post-121925","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-scranton","tag-scranton","tag-scranton-headlines","tag-scranton-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/121925","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=121925"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/121925\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/121926"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=121925"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=121925"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=121925"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}