Monday Medley: Embrace Personal Creativity

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Here is a guide to some free resources available for crafting, making, and learning new skills.

Online Craft & Video Classes: 

• Creativebug (via BPL)                                                                                                            

"By signing up for Creativebug you'll enjoy unlimited access to thousands of online art and craft classes. Watch our classes anytime, anywhere. Since our classes never expire, you can start and stop projects at your own pace. No pressure, just possibilities!"

This resource requires you to register an account so you may save and continue your progress. Use your Boston Public Library eCard to get started. Don't have a card yet? Sign up for a BPL eCard.  

Classes include: 
Baking, cake decorating, and seasonal home decor.
Sewing, quilting, knitting, crochet, and embroidery.
Painting, drawing, ceramics, furniture refinishing, and upholstery.
Creativebug also offers classes for kids and teens.

Get exclusive access to craft patterns and printables, recipes and more.  

• Kanopy (via BPL)      

         Explore The Great Courses and level up your skills.

Topics include painting, photography, baking pastries and desserts, writng great fiction, fundamentals of furniture making, yoga for a healthy mind and body, how to play piano, learning to play guitar, do-it-yourself engineering and more. 

This resource requires you to register an account. Use your Boston Public Library eCard to get started. Don't have a card yet? Sign up for a BPL eCard.

Each month BPL patrons receive 18 tickets. Depending on the length and viewing period of each title, movies in Kanopy will require between 0-5 tickets per viewing. You can see your remaining tickets for the month in the top-right corner of the homepage.

Digital Magazines: 

Do you prefer to quickly browse through content to get inspiration? Get access to free digital magazines from these sources. 

• Sora has a large collection of "Always Available" digital magazines including: 

Art
Astronomy
Baking
Cooking
Crafts
Gardening
Nature
Photography

Access additional magazines from: 

• Flipster (Free with a BPL eCard)

Food & Cooking
Hobbies, Interests, & DIY

Home & Garden

Nature & Outdoors

• OverDrive (Free with a BPL eCard)

Art & Architecture

Crafts

Food & Wine

Health & Fitness

Home & Garden

Photography

Travel & Outdoor

• PressReader (Free with a BPL eCard)

Animals & Pets

Art

Crafts & Hobbies

Design

Food & Drinks

Health & Fitness

Home & Garden

Outdoors

Photography

Travel & Culture

Monday Medley: Something Different for Summer Time

It's almost time to trade lesson plans for personal passions. Before you shut down your laptop and head out for the summer, don't forget to pack your ultimate digital beach bag: free access to Sora, Feature Films for Education, Kanopy, Biblio+, and Comics Plus for all your vacation reading, movie marathons, and passion projects!

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