StoryJAM is a music and movement program designed to model, encourage, and facilitate music-making as an early literacy skill. Parents and caregivers are encouraged to participate as much as possible. Singing is a projectile activity, please be...
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Wednesday, May 8, 2024 - 10:30am
Meeting Room A, Meeting Room B, Meeting Room C, Storytime Room
Wednesday, May 8, 2024 - 5:00pm
Storytime Room
Mother's Day is coming soon! Stop by the library to make a small, custom flower arrangement with flowers from local flower farm Lovely Bunches, and we will also have materials for wonderful papercrafts to gift. Come with the special mother or...
Thursday, May 9, 2024 - 10:30am
Meeting Room A, Meeting Room B, Meeting Room C
Join Orchestra Iowa’s talented chamber ensembles as they introduce preschool-aged children to the instruments of the orchestra! Focused on fun and learning, Pied Piper Concerts offer children the opportunity to enjoy an up-close and personal chamber...
Friday, May 10, 2024 - 10:30am
Storytime Room
Join us every Friday for a special Chinese Bilingual Storytime with Children's Librarian Fang! Together we will enjoy songs, rhymes, stories and fun crafts in Chinese and English. Children of all ages and their caregivers are welcome to join us...
Saturday, May 11, 2024 - 10:30am
Storytime Room
Former ICPL staffer, current English Language Learner (ELL) teacher, and now author Raquel MacKay joins us this morning to share her debut picture book "I Hear a Buho"! "I Hear a Buho" is a rhyming story with text in both English...
Saturday, May 11, 2024 - 3:00pm
Storytime Room
Edith Renfrow Smith, age 109, was the first Black woman to graduate from Grinnell College in Grinnell, Iowa, in 1937. Grinnell resident Monique Shore has just published "No One is Better Than You: Edith Renfrow Smith and the Power of a Mother...
Sunday, May 12, 2024 - 2:00pm
Storytime Room
Craft an out-of-this-world UFO using paper plates and sequins, and add an alien pilot using pom-poms and a cup! Sunday Fun Days are suitable for all ages, but younger children should attend with a caregiver. 用纸盘和亮片制作一个来自外太空的 UFO（不明飞行物），...
Wednesday, May 15, 2024 - 10:30am
Meeting Room A, Storytime Room
StoryJAM is a music and movement program designed to model, encourage, and facilitate music-making as an early literacy skill. Parents and caregivers are encouraged to participate as much as possible. Singing is a projectile activity, please be...
Wednesday, May 15, 2024 - 11:00am
Storytime Room
3rd and 4th Grade students from Willowwind School have created puppet shows to share with the community! They have written their own scripts and created their own puppets, stage, and scenery. Come checkout what they have created! Wilowwind 小学三，...
Thursday, May 16, 2024 - 10:30am
Meeting Room A
We will have a few special guests join us for storytime today! Bird expert Joan will bring a bird friend or two for preschoolers to meet and learn about! Joan will answer all of your bird questions as well! Preschool Stories & More is the...
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