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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Upcoming events
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...
Thursday, May 9, 2024 - 4:00pm
Digital Media Lab
Do you play Minecraft and want to meet other Minecraft players? Come play at the library in our Digital Media Lab. Build peacefully in creative mode or fight creepers in survival mode. All abilities are welcome and group play is encouraged. This...
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),...
Tuesday, May 14, 2024 - 4:00pm
Storytime Room
Lego Club is an informal hour of Lego building from 4-5pm on the second TUESDAY of the month. We will have both Legos and Duplos, so all ages are welcome to attend, but this is a semi-unsupervised library activity. If your child is too young to play...
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...
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