Kids

Upcoming events

Saturday, May 4, 2024 - 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。

Kids Babies Families Storytimes

Sunday, May 5, 2024 - 12:15pm

Storytime Room

Chess Butterflies is a non-profit all girls chess club for girls and non binary youth in grades K-6, who’s mission is to empower young female chess players. Our goal is to foster not only a healthy learning environment but friendships and a sense of...

Kids Gaming & Pop Culture
Girls Who Code. Register here (QR code pictured). Iowa City Public Library.

Tuesday, May 7, 2024 - 4:00pm

Digital Media Lab

Girls Who Code Club is for girls and non-binary youth in grades 3-5 who are interested in learning how to code. No previous experience necessary! The goal of this club is to create a safe and supportive environment of peers and role models where...

Tweens Kids Science & Technology

Tuesday, May 7, 2024 - 4:00pm

Storytime Room

Join us for our new Pokemon club for kids! If you are a fan of Pokemon this club is for you! Share your collection, chat and create all things Pokemon, and build your deck by trading cards with your fellow Pokemon enthusiasts. Bring your own cards...

Kids

Wednesday, May 8, 2024 - 10:30am

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

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...

Kids Families Nature & Gardening

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...

Tweens Kids Gaming & Pop Culture

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...

Kids Families Storytimes

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...

Kids Babies Families Arts & Crafting Author Visit Book Discussion Storytimes

Saturday, May 11, 2024 - 3:00pm

Storytime Room

Edith Renfrow Smith, age 110, 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...

Adults Teens Tweens Kids Families Author Visit