Day Calendar

This take home kit is designed for young children ages 3-5 to explore and create with their parents. Kits are first come first serve. Feel free to call ahead and check on availability!

February is Heart Disease awareness month. This kit includes directions and supplies to make a heart shaped key chain and learn tips on how to promote good heart health. This kit is first come, first serve.

This program is designed for parents and children ages 2-5 to do together. Make your own rocket ship using different materials. While supplies last via curbside service.

Create a cozy valentine to give away or keep! This kit contains supplies to make a no sew heart shaped valentine pillow. While supplies last via curbside service.

Weekly Make & Take Craft kits available as supplies last. Great for customers of all ages! Most supplies included, may need some supplemental materials such as glue or markers. Children may require adult help & supervision.

Spoticus is traveling around the world this year. Each month he will be visiting a new country but he needs your help. Solve the puzzles using familiar sight words and complete the craft inside to learn about each new place.

Explore the history and culture surrounding Mardi Gras! Make and decorate a masquerade mask, decorate a traditional Fleur-de-lis, shake a custom tambourine, and learn some recipes straight out of New Orleans in this take home kit for ages 5-12.

Receive a personalized reading list right to your mailbox! This is an ongoing program for all ages.
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Sign up for a featured book box containing a new(ish) YA book and tons of fun bookish goodies! Pick up your personalized book box the first Friday of every month. Register below to get started.

Sign up for a featured book box containing 2 new(ish) youth chapter books and cool book-themed goodies! Pick up your personalized book box the first Friday of every month. Register below to get started!

Make your own art journal with various colored paper, cardstock, binder rings and stickers!

Create your own pop-up card for Valentine's Day to spread some love! While we may not get to celebrate Valentine's Day with our loved ones in person, this card will be sure to let them know you care.

Celebrate Black History Month with this STEAM activity! Learn about famous and popular inventions created by Black Inventors.
Create your own traffic light! Paper circuit kit with supplies included!
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Celebrate Valentine's Day by creating an elegant heart shaped print to give as a gift or keep yourself! Participants will use paper doilies, paint, cotton balls, clothespins, and construction paper during this fun art activity.

Let your imagination soar at this special arts and crafts program made for little hands! professional librarians will provide you with all the resources you need to take home to spread your artistic wings.

Have your own snow day at home! Kit includes Insta-Snow. Best for ages 3+.

Join us for a celebration of friendship using music. Registrants will receive the supplies need to make their own box guitar and plastic egg maracas.

THIS REGISTRATION IS FOR THE TAKE HOME KIT ONLY, WHEN YOU CANNOT ATTEND THE "LIVE" ZOOM SESSIONS. WE WILL MISS YOU BUT UNDERSTAND.

Go on a quest for knowledge with Ralph Ellison's annual trivia quiz! This year our quizzes are take-home kits. You will get the questions and the answers along with a prize.

Throughout 2021, Black History Month and Beyond, Ralph Ellison Library is providing a unique visual opportunity by visiting former locations of Black establishments.

Contains one polar bear craft, one penguin craft, and an information sheet about the two species. Available to all ages, registration required.

Chinese New Year is on February 12th this year. This year is the year of the OX. Each family will get one kit that will create some cool paper fans and an awesome Ox Lantern. Celebrate the coming of Spring and a New Year with some style!

Crafts are available on a first come first served basis for pick up at Warr Acres Library beginning February 1st. You may call ahead and we will hold a bag for you for up to two hours.

Come get a grab bag containing various craft supplies for Valentine's Day! Bags contain a mix of themed items and not one specific craft. Add glue, construction paper, and your creativity to make fun valentines.