Day Calendar

In celebration of Hispanic/Latinx Heritages Month, this kit teaches the origin of the alebrijes. Alebrijes are brightly colored Mexican folk art sculptures depicting fantastical creatures or familiar animals that symbolize spirit guides.

TeenTober is a nationwide celebration hosted by libraries every October and aims to celebrate teens! To celebrate our awesome teens, we are putting together pre-made Teentober book bags.

Join us for a StoryWalk® around Bethany Library. Enjoy nature and Bethany's walking trails as you read a story. The story changes every month so drop by to catch a different story.

Create your own miniature bookshelf scene nestled in an rectangular tin! This kit is geared for ages 13 and up. You will need a glue gun.

Have fun creating your own animal mask with this take home kit! Kit contains supplies and instructions for creating an animal mask. Younger children will need adult supervision and assistance.

Calling all geocachers (and scavenger hunt enthusiasts)! The Community Libraries have hidden caches all over eastern Oklahoma County. Explore the communities of Choctaw, Harrah, Jones, Luther, and Nicoma Park while hunting for the caches.

Dreaming of becoming the next Bob Ross? Start refining your skills with our adult paint by number kit. Each kit contains one canvas with picture as well as the paints and brushes to complete the project. Registration required.

Exercise your creativity by joining the 2021 Kids Create Art Contest! We're now accepting submissions from artists ages 5-12 in the following categories:

Feeling stressed about finances?

Register for your own Paranormal Salt Dough Ornament! Kit will include ornament, paint and paintbrush for decorating your ornament.

It's finally fall! Do you love all things autumn? Have you been waiting all year for colorful fall foliage to arrive? We’ve got a craft for you! Decorate your home for the season with this easy DIY project.

Feeling witchy this October? Throughout history, people have used pendulum dowsing and divining for making life decisions as well as locating water, gold, oil and missing objects.

Stop by the Downtown Library to pick up a Scary Salt Art Take Home Kit. Participants will use salt, glue, and watercolor to create scary art. Supplies provided.

Calling all sleuthers! A crime has been committed in the library and we need your help to solve the case. This fun forensic kit will give you the tools to examine the evidence and vote on the culprit!

College entrance exams such as the ACT and/or SAT are a key steps in the college preparation process. The library has several resources that can be found in this take home kit that may help you increase your scores on these important tests!

Help develop fine motor skills and learn shapes by creating a monster! Participants will use scissors and glue to piece together a monster out of paper. Supplies included.

Interested in the paranormal? Do you like to create stories? Please participate in the Downtown Library's Paranormal Writing Contest!

Make a cute and unique keepsake for your baby's first fall with a bum-kin! This kit will include all that you need to create a bum-kin or two. This is a simple craft but extra hands would be helpful.

What kind of pumpkin will your little one make? Happy? Scary? Silly? This simple paper craft use shapes, emotions, and the fall season to get everyone into a pumpkin-y mood.

Come pick up your own mini pumpkin for our FIRST annual PUMPKIN DECORATING contest! You'll have about two weeks to turn your pumpkin into an amazing work of art or humor.

This DIY bookmark craft is a fun way to save your place while you're reading a book! Supplies will be provided to make a see-through confetti bookmark. Put your own spin on it by choosing which colors go in, or add your own details!

Calling all geocachers (and scavenger hunt enthusiasts)! The Community Libraries have hidden caches all over eastern Oklahoma County. Explore the communities of Choctaw, Harrah, Jones, Luther, and Nicoma Park while hunting for the caches.

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.

Calling all geocachers (and scavenger hunt enthusiasts)! The Community Libraries have hidden caches all over eastern Oklahoma County. Explore the communities of Choctaw, Harrah, Jones, Luther, and Nicoma Park while hunting for the caches.

Calling all geocachers (and scavenger hunt enthusiasts)! The Community Libraries have hidden caches all over eastern Oklahoma County. Explore the communities of Choctaw, Harrah, Jones, Luther, and Nicoma Park while hunting for the caches.

Each Make it Together kit contains supplies for two people and is intended to be a project for an adult and child to work on together.

Do you enjoy playing scrabble or figuring out crossword puzzles?

Rhyme of the Month Club for Preschoolers and their caregivers. Initial Kit will include mini "felt board" piece, words to one rhyme and coordinating laminated pictures with velcro.

Help! Some spooky creatures have invaded the library. Come and help us spot all of them before they frighten the book characters.

Worldwide, 50 million people are living with Alzheimer's and other dementias.

The Midwest City Library wants to do its part in keeping love ones engaged, keep treasured memories, and keepsakes for generations to come.

Calling all geocachers (and scavenger hunt enthusiasts)! The Community Libraries have hidden caches all over eastern Oklahoma County. Explore the communities of Choctaw, Harrah, Jones, Luther, and Nicoma Park while hunting for the caches.

Born of a desire to show the similarities and differences among Oklahoma City residents, the Shared Language Poetry Project invites people of all ages to create poetry that is unified by shared words.

Every October on Twitter and other Social Media platforms, creators give out a daily art prompt. This year, Ralph Ellison, will hold it's own draw-lloween.

Have you ever watched the show Nailed It? Well, this is your time to shine. Throughout the month of October teens have the chance to nail it or fail it!

Celebrate Halloween season with this creepy crawly cute craft! Use the contents of this kit to not only learn a simple needlepoint craft but also create a unique Halloween wall hanging!

Calling all teens! We need your help designing our teen volunteer t-shirts for Summer Reading 2022. The theme of next summer's program is Oceans of Possibility. The chosen artwork will appear on all teen volunteer t-shirts for next summer.