Discover the power of music at your neighborhood library! Research proves that early integration of music into a child’s daily routine improves a child’s ability to think, create, and express.

Let your imagination soar at our toddler art time! We will use an assortment of odds and ends to create our very own works of art. A librarian will be on hand to provide you with all the resources you need to spread your artistic wings!

Join us on Friday mornings in June for an hour of come-and-go process art. Process Art is art that is child-directed, choice-driven, and celebrates the experience of discovery.

Age range: Prek to 2^nd/ Emerging reader

Discover the power of music at your neighborhood library! Research proves that early integration of music into a child’s daily routine improves a child’s ability to think, create, and express.

Target Age: Preschool and school-age children  

Explore with all five of your senses in this fully hands-on program where you will navigate through different stations to complete the sensory scavenger hunt and be named Adventurer of the Summer! 

Ages: 1-5

The Pet Food Pantry of Oklahoma, Central Oklahoma's Food Bank for Pets, will bring their mobile food pantry to the Ralph Ellison parking lot to give away food for your dog or cat. Food available while supplies last.

Join us every Monday, Wednesday, and Friday that the library is open down in the first floor atrium. We have fantastic volunteer pianists playing our baby grand piano.

Children ages 1-18 are invited to enjoy a meal from 12-2 p.m. at Ralph Ellison Library.

Meals are provided by Regional Food Bank of Oklahoma's Summer Feeding Program.

Need a place to play games with friends, work on your computer, or just visit? Join us for Community Room time every Friday from 1-3. For adults and teens.

Defend yourself from a horde of ferocious dragons in this engineering-based program for children. Create, build, and test your own anti-dragon defense system against a variety of dragon hides.

Join us every Friday for bingo! This family friendly event will feature trivia, jokes, and facts on the theme of the week!

OKCMOA will develop art making activities around the special exhibition on view at the Museum that summer.

Target Age: Preschool and school-age children 

Dog Man fans of all ages are invited to join the supa epic event of activities and games. We'll play Dog Man bingo, trivia, assess your sniffers, and more. 

Dog Man is Go! That don't make no sense! But we like it!

Let's make something! Using small colorful beads, we will make shapes, characters and anything of your imagination! 

**Hot irons will be in use by library employee**

Target Age: Preschool and school-age children  

Chess sets may also be checked out for in-library use at any time by visiting the information desk. This is a recurring event and takes place every Friday.