Week Calendar

Join us weekly for rhymes, songs, bounces, stories, and a little playtime. For caregivers and babies ages 0 - 18 months.

Join Miss Jennifer for Preschool Storytime on Monday mornings at 10:15 a.m.  There will be stories, rhymes, music, and more.

This storytime is recommended for ages three to five, but all children are welcome to attend.

Join us for rhymes, songs, bounces, stories, and a little playtime. For caregivers and babies ages 0 - 18 months.

Children ages 0-5 and their caregivers can engage in open play, come and go activities at South. 

Babies and their caregivers can join Miss Jennifer on Tuesdays for rhymes, songs, bounces, and a story followed by a short playtime.

Babies, toddlers, and their caregivers can join us on Tuesdays for rhymes, songs, lap bounces, and a story.

This program is recommended for children from birth to 24 months of age.

Listen to silly stories, meet adorable puppet friends and move to fun songs!  Join us at Forest Avenue Library for Family Storytime at 10:00 A.M.!

Staff from the Evelyn K Davis Center for Working Families are ready to provide one-on-one job search and resume assistance to job seekers.

Join Miss Donna for this fun filled story time! Together we will enjoy stories, songs, and more, all selected to engage your active toddler. Ages 18 months to 3 years old.

Children ages 3 to 5 and their caregivers can join us Thursdays at 10:00 a.m. for a 30-minute storytime with stories, musical activities and take-home activities that prepare your child for school.

Learn how to use the Glowforge Plus Laser Engraver at Tech Central! This program takes the place of the 1 on 1 Glowforge tutorial, so you will be fully qualified to book and use the Glowforge on your own after this program.

Join us at the Central Library for a fun storytime featuring movement, music, and rhyming! The storytime will take place in the meeting room to allow for social distancing.

Join the ​North Side Library and Iowa Juneteenth at this week's Preschool Storytime to celebrate Juneteenth here in Iowa.

Bring your young ones to our Little Explorer’s program, designed for children ages 0-5, discover, learn and play with different sensory activities. No Registration is Required. Please wear play clothes as some activities may be messy.

Join us at Central Library for sensory exploration. At Saturday Sensory play, children and caretakers will travel through stations exploring touch and feel, taste, and most importantly, play!

The Des Moines Public Library is partnering with area organizations to connect people with community resources. Community advocates will provide information about community resources like meal sites and shelters.

Stab binding, which has a traditional history in Japan, China, and Korea, can be quite simple or involve complex variations.

The Des Moines Public Library is partnering with area organizations to connect people with community resources. Community advocates will provide information about community resources like meal sites and shelters.

Join us for a presentation from a Prevention Specialist on Generation RX. This presentation is a nation-wide educational initiative to promote safe medication practices in an effort to prevent the misuse of prescription drugs. 

Spend a few hours with other crafters and work on your knit, crochet, or needle craft projects. Please bring your own supplies and projects with you. Pleasant company is provided to share ideas and inspiration!

Join us for a small reception featuring the work of students from the Art Center class "Self-expression through Portraiture." The exhibit will be up from April 30th - May 6th.

Lots of people know about the importance of flowering annuals and perennials to honey bees and native pollinators, but did you know that trees play an important role in supporting these vital insects?

Join us for an afternoon of creative exploration through the medium of collage. Using cutouts from vintage magazines, books and other paper sources, you can make greeting cards, bookmarks or a larger piece of collage artwork to hang on your wall.

Do you love to craft? Join us in crafting some intricate origami flowers or bring your current project and make some progress around other crafters! Enjoy light refreshments and a friendly atmosphere.

We will eat popcorn and do a small activity while we watch Mulan, about a young maiden who secretly takes her father's place in the army and becomes one of China's greatest heroines in the process. Rated PG.

Level up your gaming skills! Use our tablets and Nintendo Switch to play Among Us, Minecraft, Roblox, and more. Ages 8+.

Tweens and Teens ages 10-18- let’s get creative! Come express yourself with a painting project led by a librarian who is not an artist, but is enthusiastic. YouTube makes it look easy; let’s find out if it is!

Kick off National Bike Month with DMPL! Local author Rebecca Janni will host a storytime followed by a bike rodeo.

Teens! Do you need volunteer hours? Students ages 12-18 may volunteer at the South Side Library for 1 hour performing various tasks during our South VolunTeens program! This is a great way to earn volunteer hours!

Celebrate all things Star Wars! We'll make origami Yoda and Vader geared for beginners to paper folding. Or, try your hand at more complicated versions! 

Join us for a round of everyone's favorite game, BINGO!  This time your BINGO card will be filled with characters from the Dog Man books by Dav Pilkey.  Come and see if your favorite is included, and maybe discover some new friends you w

Children and their caregivers can enjoy a story and a hands-on activity every Wednesday evening at North Side!

This week, we will read Hello Rain by Kyo Maclear. Afterwards, we will make rain sticks!

Join Library Assistant Ben Hatcher for a papercraft program inspired by our favorite esoteric holiday, May Basket Day! We'll be trimming, folding and gluing pre-cut paper flower patterns to assemble beautiful flowers and bouquets.

Join us for our evening Family Storytime at 6:30 p.m.! Kids and caregivers can join us for fun songs, stories and crafts. You can even wear your jammies!  All Ages Welcome!

Join The Brenton Arboretum’s Executive Director, Melissa Burdick for a one hour discovery of Trees as Herbs. Melissa will share the many benefits of trees and how they can be used in a variety of ways to benefit your life.

Stab binding, which has a traditional history in Japan, China, and Korea, can be quite simple or involve complex variations.

DART staff will lead a training to help individuals learn to ride the bus in Greater Des Moines, as well provide updates on new programs and services.

Make your lightsaber and join Miss Becky for a special "Star Wars"-themed Family Storytime at 6:30 p.m. We will read a Star Wars story, move to galactic music and make a galaxy themed craft to take home! Best for ages 6+ as supplies last.

Join the ​East Side Library and Iowa Juneteenth for an evening to celebrate Juneteenth here in Iowa.

Best-selling author J. Ryan Stradal’s anticipated new novel, Saturday Night at the Lakeside Supper Club, will be released April 18.