Week Calendar

Can you find the Elf on the Shelf? Bring your sleuthing skills to the South Side Library and help us find the Elf! Kids can grab a sheet at the Information Desk to find the Elf and his favorite things and win a small prize!

Make a lightly stuffed flannel constellation with bead stars. Keep it as a plushie or add a loop of string to turn it into a hanging ornament. You can choose to make columba, corona borealis, or ursa minor.

Enjoy a seasonal art project from the Des Moines Botanical Garden using pinecones! Stop by the Forest Avenue Library to receive a take and make gnome activity as supplies last.

Visit the Franklin Library at the beginning of each week to pick up a different Storytime To Go Bag.  Each bag will include rhymes, songs, and book suggestions for babies and preschoolers along with literacy activities.  The storytime ba

Visit the Franklin Library at the beginning of each week to pick up a different Storytime To Go Bag.  Each bag will include rhymes, songs, and book suggestions for babies and preschoolers along with literacy activities.  The storytime ba

Stop by the Franklin Library and pick up a Science Project To Go Bag.  The bags will contain a science activity you can do at home that will let you explore different STEM concepts (science, technology, engineering, and math).  These act

Come to the Central Library youth area or the pick up window to get a fun bag with supplies to make and decorate your own snowman!  There will also be a fun little book and some rhymes about snowmen!   Of course you can make any typ

Visit the Franklin Library every Monday to pick up a different Storytime To Go Bag.  Each bag will include rhymes, songs, and book suggestions for babies and preschoolers along with literacy activities.  The storytime bags are recommende

Visit the South Side Library at the beginning of each week to pick up a different Storytime To Go Bag.  Each bag will include rhymes, songs, and book suggestions for babies and preschoolers along with literacy activities.  The storytime

Visit the South Side Library at the beginning of each week to pick up a different Storytime To Go Bag.  Each bag will include rhymes, songs, and book suggestions for babies and preschoolers along with literacy activities.  The storytime

Stop by Forest Avenue Library starting Dec.17th until end of January to share a goal you have for 2022 by writing it down on a star. We will hang all goals on our 2022 Goal Tree. While supplies last.

Visit the South Side Library each week to pick up a different Storytime To Go Bag.  Each bag will include rhymes, songs, and book suggestions for babies and preschoolers along with literacy activities.  The storytime bags are recommended

Every week enjoy a different take home craft for our littlest readers.  From cotton balls to suncatchers, these bags will help kids combine learning and play using the five simple steps of literacy: read, write, talk, s

Stop by the Franklin Avenue Library to pick up a Teen Grab Bag that contains supplies to celebrate New Year's Eve and embrace the new year! 

Bags are located in the Youth Area while supplies last. 

Stop by the North Side Library to pick up your take-home edition of Creative Readers! Enjoy a paper chain snake craft, inspired by the book, Zonia's Rainforest, by Juana Martinez-Neal.

Help Dog Man sniff out trouble as you round up some unruly villains who are hiding around the library.  If you can find all the characters you will win a prize!

Rosie is celebrating the first official week of Winter! Can you help Rosie and her friends find thier winter essentials so they can play outside?