Week Calendar

Calling all poets in 4th-12th grade!  

April is National Poetry Month! Stop by the Downtown Library pick up your personal poetry kit. When you have finished your poetry, bring your best poem back to the library so we can hang it up in the Children's Department!

Visit Ralph Ellison Library for a poem a day during National Poetry Month, featuring different poets, eras, and subjects. You just might find a new favorite!

Visit Ralph Ellison Library for a poem a day during National Poetry Month, featuring different poets, eras, and subjects. You just might find a new favorite!

Visit Ralph Ellison Library for a poem a day during National Poetry Month, featuring different poets, eras, and subjects. You just might find a new favorite!

Visit Ralph Ellison Library for a poem a day during National Poetry Month, featuring different poets, eras, and subjects. You just might find a new favorite!

Visit Ralph Ellison Library for a poem a day during National Poetry Month, featuring different poets, eras, and subjects. You just might find a new favorite!

Visit Ralph Ellison Library for a poem a day during National Poetry Month, featuring different poets, eras, and subjects. You just might find a new favorite!

Grow your own crystals at home!

Request a kit at the circulation desk, when you call in your curbside pickup, or in the notes section of the app. ​​

Looking for fun and engaging ways to play with your little one at home? Our skilled Children’s Librarians have developed a special take home kit just for you!

Tired of your everyday puzzles? Register for Capitol Hill's 3D wooden puzzle kit and build something amazing to paint and display! Registration is limited

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.

Come to Warr Acres Library and get a Take and Make kit to complete at home!

Everyone from kids to senior citizens has to deal with stress.  One great way to cope is to do something tactile.  This program kit will include easy instructions and materials to make cloud dough at home providing you an easy sensory to

Looking for fun and engaging ways to play with your little one at home? Our skilled Children’s Librarians have developed a special take home kit just for you!

Celebrate National Library Week by making your own pretend library at home!

Take home kits are first come, first serve. Please call ahead to check on availability.

Lend a hand in this community based project! Come in this week and pick up your piece of what will become an Earth Day mural. Take your piece home and decorate it, then bring it back next week.

Teens ages 10-18 will discover very bizarre animals in this week's take home kit. Kits are first come, first serve. All supplies are included. Feel free to call ahead for availability.

Curious about starting your own garden, or do you just have a green thumb that aches to plant? We have you covered. Come and pick up a kit that includes a packet of seeds for one vegetable and one flower that you can start growing in April.

Create your own magnetic poetry kit and a pouch to carry it when you're on the go! These kits will include everything that you need to create one magnetic poetry kit and one zipper pouch.

This program is designed for children ages 6-12. The award-winning book, We Are Water Protectors by Carole Lindstrom, tells the story of an Ojibwe girl who fights against the Dakota Access Pipeline.

Looking for fun and engaging ways to play with your little one at home? Our skilled Children’s Librarians have developed a special take home kit just for you!

It’s National Poetry Month and what better way to celebrate than coming up with a fun poem or Haiku. Belle Isle Library will be offering a Take and Make kit so that you can make your own refrigerator poems.

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

Take Home Kit features all the supplies needed to make 3 crafts with your child. These crafts will enhance your enjoyment of the stories by Beatrix Potter. The kit is perfect for ages 2-7. Kits are available while supplies last.

Looking for fun and engaging ways to play with your little one at home? Our skilled Children’s Librarians have developed a special take home kit just for you!

Looking for fun and engaging ways to play with your little one at home? Our skilled Children’s Librarians have developed a special take home kit just for you!

Looking for fun and engaging ways to play with your little one at home? Our skilled Children’s Librarians have developed a special take home kit just for you!

Celebrate National Poetry Month by creating your own blackout poetry.

Request a kit at the circulation desk, when you call in your curbside pickup, or in the notes section of the app. ​​

Celebrate spring! Pick up a "Grab N Go Kit" and create a Spring Suncatcher. Kits are available on a first come, first served basis while supplies last.

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

Participate with everyone on celebrating and observing Earth Day! Enjoy making an easy wooden plant stand that holds a glass vase. You can then show off your Earth Day planting of a live Air Plant. It is easy, simple, and fun!

Celebrate Spring with an art take home kit inspired by "Planting a Rainbow," written by Lois Ehlert. These kits are designed for children ages 2-5 with the help of a caregiver; kits will be available for pick up April 5 - 9.

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.

Celebrate spring with a terrarium! You'll be able to learn about and watch plant growth by adding kidney beans and grass seed to a jar with soil and gravel.

This science is garbage! Literally. In honor of Earth Day, enjoy taking household trash and do some fun experiments such as shrinking a bag of chips instantly, crushing a can using air, and, of course, trying your hand at composting.

Celebrate Ramadan by creating a moon and star mobile. Register to get a kit that will include paint and a template to create your very own mobile. Celebrate and learn more about this cultured holiday.

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.

Sign up for your own personalized book box, filled with some great new YA reads selected just for YOU. You'll receive 2 new YA books (published in the last 1 to 1.5 years) checked out to your library card along with some fabulous fun treats.

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.

Join us for an at-your-pace, virtual storytime! Skilled librarians will introduce little ones to the library and show parents and caregivers invaluable information on reading readiness and create excitement about reading.

The library's mascot, SPOTICUS, is lost in space! Can you find him and bring him home? Blast off on a star-hopping adventure and learn to use a planisphere to hunt constellations, planets and a pink supermoon for our big spotted dog.

Has your little one ever wondered what exactly is out in space? While we all know ET isn't showing up on our doorstep it can be fun to imagine what aliens may look like.

Have you ever wanted to grow your own vegetables at home, but didn't know where or when to start?  If so, come pick up our Urban Garden kit which includes a set of seeds to grow a variety of vegetables and herbs.  This kit will allow you

Poetry Month is here! Help us celebrate by designing your very own Blackout Poem with art! Register today and pickup your kit starting April 7th. We would love to see your creation!

Have you always wanted to try 3D printing but didn't know where to begin? Bethany Library's MLS Studios will guide you step-by-step in the design of a 3D printed object. You complete the design, we'll print it for you.