Gift-Giving Program Mixes Creativity and Community

Anythink’s district-wide Gifts from the Heart program returns this December, providing opportunities for friends and neighbors to gather at their local Anythink to create amazing gifts for the special people in their lives. This annual gift-giving program offers all ages more ways to have fun and be creative at their library, as community members craft unique gifts such as T-shirt carryalls, leather-braided bracelets, picture frames, decorations and more.

Gifts from the Heart Activities

Anythink Wright Farms
Saturday, Dec. 3, 11 am-1 pm
Transform ordinary objects into gifts that you’ll be pleased to give. Materials will be provided for several crafts. To make the T-shirt carryall, please bring one T-shirt for each bag you want to make. This drop-in program is for all ages and features easy-to-make and easier-to-love projects that don’t require artistic talent to enjoy.

Anythink Bennett
Saturday, Dec. 3, 2-4 pm
Monday, Dec. 5-Wednesday, Dec. 7, 3-6 pm
Kick off the holidays at any of these four gift-making sessions to handcraft gifts suitable for everyone in the family – bath sno-balls, piggy banks, gold mini-pinecone necklaces, fleece winter hats, snowmen pins, leather-braided bracelets, photo cubes and 2012 calendars. Then wrap your gifts so they’re ready for giving.

Anythink Washington Street
Fridays, Dec. 9 & 16, 3-5 pm
Join us in transforming ordinary objects into gifts you’ll be pleased to give. Materials will be provided for several crafts. This drop-in program is for all ages and features easy-to-make and easier-to-love projects that don’t require artistic talent to enjoy.

Anythink in Motion
Monday, Dec. 12-Friday, Dec. 16
Creativity abounds at Anythink in Motion’s neighborhood stops this week. Create your own take-home gift and enjoy refreshments all day on Tuesday, Dec. 13.

•     Dec. 12 – North Creek Farms, 4-5 pm
•     Dec. 13 – Sonic, 9-9:45 am
      Reunion Rec Center, 10 am-12 pm
      Danahy Park, 2:30-5 pm
•     Dec. 14 – Berkeley Village, 3:30-5 pm
•     Dec. 15 – Summit Grove Neighborhood, 2-3 pm
      Cherrywood Park, 3:30-5 pm
•     Dec. 16 – Reunion Near Landmark Academy, 10-11 am 

Anythink Brighton
Wednesday, Dec. 14, 4-6 pm
Enjoy an afternoon with the family while creating a heartfelt gift for that special someone. Decorate a picture frame, take a picture and print it here at the library. Then create colorful wrapping paper to wrap it in. Also relax to music by G Force, the Belle Creek Charter School advanced band, from 4:30-5:30 pm.

Anythink Commerce City
Saturday, Dec. 17, 1-3 pm
Enjoy a performance by Bryce Jackman as Jack Frost from 1:30-2:30 pm while creating amazing gifts and enjoying refreshments.

Anythink Huron Street
Saturday, Dec. 17, 1-4 pm
Each year we celebrate the holiday with our community with food, fun and gift activities. Join us in making a gift, having a snack, and enjoying lots of good cheer. Adults will be invited to make beautiful paper beads, teens are going to learn how to create marbled paper, and children will make a merry mouse with a candy cane tail or design a hanging decoration.

Anythink Perl Mack
Wednesday, December 21, 3-6 pm
Join us for our annual winter celebration. We’ll decorate cards to be delivered to a senior friend from the Westminster Commons, create a soap snowman to give to someone you love, enjoy an afternoon balloon drop, and eat some delicious snacks. Participants are encouraged to bring in at least one non-perishable food item to be donated to a local food bank.