Event List

Join us for an exciting game of blacklight bingo. Make sure to add to the fun and wear white or neon colors to glow in the blacklight along with your BINGO card. Small prizes and drinks will be provided. Feel free to bring your own snack!

Toddler Time is an interactive storytime program for children ages 18-35 months and their adult caregivers. Please register. 

We're taking over the quiet reading room to do some sustained silent reading.  Bring a book (and, if you'd like, a blanket and/or pillow to help you get comfortable) and we'll spend the first 45 minutes together reading silently.

Join us for 4 weeks of messy, outdoor fun!  We'll splash, splatter, drip, spray and create!  Please wear clothes that you can get messy in.  In case of rain, we will meet indoors.

Toddler Time is an interactive storytime program for children ages 18-35 months and their adult caregivers. Please register. 

Is your child brimming with imagination? Do they have stories bubbling inside them just waiting to be told? Then join our exciting new creative writing program at the library!

Compare the density of different liquids while creating a rainbow in a jar!  For kids entering 1st through 5th grade.  

Explore the world of color through science activities!

Preschool Storytime combines stories and songs for kids from 3-5 years old.  Please register.  There is no Preschool Storytime on June 19, 2025.

Build domino runs, then knock them down!  We'll supply the dominoes and challenge cards, you bring your creativity!

Why do different animals have different coverings? Explore different animal coverings by observing preserved specimens from the Peggy Notebaert Nature Museum’s collections.

Explore local specimens from the Peggy Notebaert Nature Museum’s collections with an experienced Museum Educator. Observe and learn from preserved specimens such as nests, pinned insects and mammal study skins.

Learn how tacos and their colorful ingredients get from the field to the table, with an instructor from the Cook County Farm Bureau! For kids entering grades 1-2.  Limit 30.  Please register.

Is your child brimming with imagination? Do they have stories bubbling inside them just waiting to be told? Then join our exciting new creative writing program at the library!

Create your own expressive designs with paint and a squeegee!

Enjoy stories, songs, rhymes and fun for you and your baby!  For babies from birth through 17 months with a caregiver.  Please register. 

What is plein air painting?  It's just a fancy way of saying painting outside.  Meet at James J. Sexton Park (91st and Rockwell) to paint what you see. Registration required.  For kids in grades K to 5.

Toddler Time is an interactive storytime program for children ages 18-35 months and their adult caregivers. Please register. 

Design your own colorful Shrinky Dinks and watch them shrink like magic right before your eyes.

Toddler Time is an interactive storytime program for children ages 18-35 months and their adult caregivers. Please register. 

Is your child brimming with imagination? Do they have stories bubbling inside them just waiting to be told? Then join our exciting new creative writing program at the library!

Upcycle an old t-shirt into a cool superhero cape!  Bring your own t-shirt.  For kids entering 3rd through 5th grades.

Explore the world of color through science activities!