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Upcoming events

Tuesday, December 31, 2024 - 11:30am

Meeting Room A, Meeting Room B, Meeting Room C, Meeting Room D

We're celebrating the end of 2024 early at a kid friendly, day time bash! Join us in Meeting Room A at 11:30am for a brief storytime, a crafts, and dancing. And at 11:59 we'll ring in the lunch hour with a balloon drop, noise and fun! All...

Kids Families Storytimes

Thursday, January 2, 2025 - 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...

Kids Babies Families Arts & Crafting Author Visit Book Discussion Storytimes

Thursday, January 2, 2025 - 4:00pm

Storytime Room

Weaving is an ancient textile art and craft that involves placing two threads or yarn made of fiber onto a warp and weft of a loom and turning them into cloth. Today we will be exploring the simple art of weaving using yarn and homemade llama looms...

Tweens Kids Families Arts & Crafting
digital creativity challenge

Thursday, January 2, 2025 - 7:00pm

Zoom

Join Stacey for a kick-off of the 2025 Digital Creativity Challenge! We'll talk about the challenges, look at samples, and share ideas for how to approach them. You'll have January and February to make your art, which will go on display in the...

Adults Teens Tweens Kids Families Arts & Crafting Science & Technology

Friday, January 3, 2025 - 1:00pm

Meeting Room A, Meeting Room B, Meeting Room C

Dance Me a Story ties together ballet performances and the literature that inspires the choreography. Participants first learn how the literature inspires the choreographer and dancers, then see costumes, head pieces, props and pointe shoes—all...

Kids Babies Families Music

Saturday, January 4, 2025 - 10:30am

Storytime Room

Family Storytime is recommended for all ages and includes both shorter and longer stories combined with action games and activities. 家庭故事会包括较长或较短的故事,并结合动作游戏和相关活动,适于各年龄段共同参与。 如您因为身体原因需要特别安排,请联系图书馆。 --------- Family Storytime es para todas las edades...

Kids Families Storytimes

Sunday, January 5, 2025 - 2:00pm

Storytime Room

Today we're making colorful, sparkly snowflakes from popsicle sticks and some fun decorations like sequins and buttons! Display your festive flake on the fridge with a magnet! Sunday Fun Days are suitable for all-ages, but younger children...

Tweens Kids Families Arts & Crafting

Monday, January 6, 2025 - 10:30am

Storytime Room

Join us every Monday 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...

Kids Families Storytimes

Tuesday, January 7, 2025 - 10:30am

Storytime Room

Join us every Tuesday for a fun Spanish Bilingual Storytime with Children's Librarian Miriam! Every week, there will be a fun theme with plenty of repetition from previous weeks in order to enhance language learning. Get ready for a lot of...

Kids Babies Families Storytimes

Wednesday, January 8, 2025 - 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...

Kids Babies Families Music Storytimes