PrincetonKIDS is a community website dedicated to providing Princeton area families with useful information including camps in the area, day trip ideas, events around town and more! Whether spending time on our website or simply signing up for our weekly events email, PrincetonKIDS will help you keep tabs on everything that our community has to offer and conveniently search and discover something that interests you and your family. PrincetonKIDS, keeping parents in the know, and kids on the go!
Use Your Brain
Find fun activities, labs, and lesson plans for kids, teachers, and parents.
Brainy Kids Online
Whether you're a parent, guardian, grandparent, or an older sibling, you can help a child learn to love reading!
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Zero to Three
The Nation's Leading Resource on the First Years of Life. Includes such links as Tip of the Week, Parenting A to Z, and solutions to Parenting Dilemmas
For more information on the Zero to Three program
The Public Broadcasting Service's site with information and many recommendations for developmental as well as social endeavors.
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Read Today
The Read Today site promotes early literacy and a love of reading that will continue as your child grows.
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New Jersey Rescue & Recovery K-9 Unit
Assists Emergency Response Teams in locating missing persons. We work closely with police, rescue squads, forestry/park service, and fire personnel by providing search dog teams. Search dogs are trained to air scent, which enables them to pick up a human scent in any given area. They will alert their handler when the missing person is found. Teams can be utilized for locating missing persons in wilderness settings, drowning, floods, building and bridge collapses, airplane and train wrecks, fire scenes, earthquakes, and crime scenes.
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Internet Resources
Child Care Resources
Parenting Booklists
Travel Resources
Reference Services
Have a question? Need to know? Internet search engines giving you too many hits but not enough answers? Ask a Librarian in the Youth Services Department. We are trained to work with young people and with materials published for them. We have books, magazines, DVDs, books on CD, as well as experience working with the Internet to find answers to questions young people ask or need to answer for homework. We can also assist you in downloading electronic materials such as audio books and music. Just ask, we are happy to help.
Homework Helpers
Springboard is a first-come, first-served homework help program sponsored jointly by Princeton Public Library and the Princeton Regional Schools. Certified teachers and community volunteers are available to help with homework in the Youth Services Department from 3:30 to 6 p.m. every Monday through Thursday that the Princeton Regional Schools are in session.
School/Class Visits
Teachers and librarians are working toward the same goals. The Library encourages visits in both directions. Most kindergarten and nursery school classes in town visit the library at least once each academic year. Students entering 6th grade receieve an orientation and tour of the library.
Summer Reading Club
Princeton Public Library encourages preschoolers, elementary school students and teens to participate in Summer Reading Clubs. Reading for work and for school is part of people's lives. Reading for pleasure is not always possible. Summer, with its more relaxed schedules, is the ideal time to read for the fun of it. Librarians are available whenever the library is open to help readers choose books they will enjoy.
Book a Trip
"Are We There Yet?" If you're a parent vacationing with children, then most likely you hear this more than a few times on your trip. We can help reduce the number with our Book a Trip service. Fill out a Book a Trip form a week before your trip. The forms request information about the travel destination and the ages of the vacationing children. Specify the type of materials you'd like and list some of the child's interests and favorite authors. Seven days later you can pick up the requested materials.
For a printable form click here
Big Tree Library
For six weeks every summer the members of the Princeton Public Library Youth Services Department visit the Princeton Regional Recreation Department’s summer Day Camp three times a week to read stories to the campers. Librarians also encourage children to borrow and read books from the deposit collection of high interest age-appropriate paperbacks that are left at the camp for use at any time.
Policies of the Youth Services Department
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