4 Resources for the Holiday Season
Looking to add a little ho-ho-ho to the holidays. We have some great resources to get you in the festive spirit and keep you entertained well into the new year!
1. Stream Holiday Classics
While you may know that you can sign out?DVDs?and?Blu-rays?from EPL, did you know that you can also stream movies and other videos?
Easily access popular holiday movies through?Kanopy, such as?A Christmas Past,?Christmas Lights,?A Big Lego Christmas,?The Christmas Toy,?Black Christmas?and?The Nutcracker Ballet.?We also have?Kanopy Kids?so the whole family can enjoy a night of age-appropriate flicks. While you can watch on a computer, tablet or mobile device, both services also have Apple TV apps.?
You can also stream a crackling?holiday yule log?through?hoopla?or stream a festive audiobook such as?Have Yourself a Minimalist Christmas?by Meg Nordmann or?Falling Stars?by Fern Michaels.?
Who needs Netflix, when you’ve got a library card?
2.?Make a New Dish
Take a trip around the world through food this holiday season. Take your taste buds to Puerto Rico and try making Arroz con Gandules or to the Philippines and enjoy Bibingka (Filipino rice cake). You can also make other holiday staples like B?che de No?l (Yule Log), Christmas Trifle or Latkes (Potato Pancakes). Take a culinary journey with?AtoZ World Food!
Check out our?huge selection of cookbooks. Many are available in both physical and eBook formats. We also created?a holiday baking video?to help those avid bakers out there.
3. Get Cozy with some Crafts
Keep your creative juices flowing with?Creativebug?this holiday season! There are a lot of holiday fun that you can unlock with Creativebug such as making?winter wreaths,?holiday art journaling,?mini holiday hat garland?and completing the?25 days of gift wrap?challenge.?
4. Listen to some Festive Music
Stream more than 125,000 albums or 1.9 million tracks with?Naxos Music Library.?They also have a wide variety of classics such as?O Holy Night,?Christmas!,?Christmas Carols,?My First Christmas Album?and?Christmas Around the World.?
Looking for some more classical music scores??Music Online: Classical Scores Library?can help. You can stream?Messiah,?Marche Des Trois Rois Mages,?Psallite (Vieux No?l)?and?Cantate pour le temps de No?l. We also have a variety of tracks you can stream through?Music Online: Listening?including?Verve, Unmixed. Christmas,?Jewish holiday songs for children?by Rachel Buchman,?Christmas at the Movies,?Twelve Days of Christmas?and?Charlie Brown's Holiday Hits.
hoopla also has some amazing holiday tracks to get you moving such as?Christmas?by Michael Bublé,?A Very Backstreet Christmas?by Backstreet Boys and?A Holly Dolly Christmas?by Dolly Parton.
Looking for more holiday content? We have lists, events and resources to keep the festive fun going.?