Event List

Calling all teens! Want more teen activities and social events? Need to fulfill volunteer hours? Get involved with this planning team to help improve library services for 7th - 12th graders. All ideas welcome! 

Make paper pine/Christmas trees for the winter season or the holidays. They would make a nice centerpiece, embellishment on a side table or mantle, or decoration on a buffet.

Calling all homeschoolers! Each month, we will dive into a new and exciting topic designed to inspire and support homeschooling families.

It’s Game Day! This month we are taking on One Night Werewolf! In the course of only one night and the following morning, the players will determine who among them is a werewolf...hopefully.

Bring your own mug for hot chocolate and a cozy conversation around this year’s Rebecca Caudill Young Readers’ Book Award and Illinois Lincoln Award nominees! 

Join us to close out 2025 with a sparkle! We’ll be making diamond art and recounting our favorite memories of the past year!

Join us each month as we make a different type of slime!  This month we will be making Edible Winter Slime.

Zentangle is an easy-to-learn, relaxing, and fun way to create beautiful images by drawing structured patterns. We call these patterns, tangles and you create tangles with combinations of dots, lines, simple curves, S-curves and orbs.

Calling all homeschoolers! Each month, we will dive into a new and exciting topic designed to inspire and support homeschooling families.

Create a colorful work of art with us this month. Using tape, paint, and old book pages, we'll create a beautiful scene of birch trees on a pretty background.

REGISTRATION REQUIRED. Please register each person separately.

Calling all teens! Want more teen activities and social events? Need to fulfill volunteer hours? Get involved with this planning team to help improve library services for 7th - 12th graders. All ideas welcome! 

Bringing History to Life with Jonathan Eig       

Register here https://bit.ly/ILPJonathanEig to watch onl

Bringing History to Life with Jonathan Eig

Watch from home! Register here: https://bit.ly/ILPJonathanEig or watch in the Learning Lab at the Library.

Want a snowball fight but without a chill? We’re bringing it indoors! Team up and see who can freeze out the competition. 

Beat the winter doldrums by joining our Jigsaw Puzzle Race! It will start at 6p sharp.

There's room for 5 teams. REGISTRATION WILL OPEN JAN 5th at 12 p.m.

We’re getting intricate! Come ready to make snowflakes of all patterns and sizes. Can you create something totally unique? 

Join us each month as we make a different type of slime!  This month we will be making Valentine's Slime.

Calling all homeschoolers! Each month, we will dive into a new and exciting topic designed to inspire and support homeschooling families.

Let's try to make something pretty out of resin, peacock feathers, glitter, and metal leaf (gold, silver, copper). It will be a sticky good time. Don't wear your good clothes to this craft!