Construct & Create
Tuesdays at 4 PM
September 10 – November 19
Ages 4 Years Old – 5th Grade
Join your friends after school to build great structures and create beautiful art projects. Each week there will be different building sets and art materials so you can use your imagination and get your creative juices flowing!
Pumpkin Party
Saturday, October 19 from 10 AM – NOON
Preschool – 5th Grade
Drop in to celebrate the harvest season with a variety of pumpkin projects and activities. Several stations will be set up to do pumpkin painting, crafts, and games. Plus there will be special pumpkin snacks!
DINOvember
DINOSAURS WILL TAKE OVER THE LIBRARY IN NOVEMBER!
Preschool – 5th Grade
Dino Dance Party
Saturday, November 23 from 10 AM – NOON
Preschool – 5th Grade
Get ready to party, because everyone knows dinosaurs love to dance! A fun and active dinosaur-themed dance party will have dinosaur crafts, activities, snacks, and of course, dino dancing!
Dinovember Scavenger Hunt
Saturday, November 23 – Wednesday, November 27
During Open Library Hours
Find all of the dinosaurs hiding around the library and you will win a dinotastic prize!
Tiny Pumpkin Art
Adult • High School • Middle School • 3rd – 5th Grade • Kindergarten – 2nd Grade • Preschool
Tiny Canvas Pickup: September 3 – October 31
Canvas Dropoff : October 1 – 31
Voting: November
Create pumpkin themed art on a tiny canvas. Choose your preferred medium to design your Tiny Pumpkin Art piece – paint, mixed media, clay, sculpture, etc. There will be six age categories (listed above) and two prize categories (Best in Show and Most Creative). Library patrons and artists will vote for their favorite art pieces and prizes will be awarded to the winners of each age group and category.
Book Packs To Go
Would you like a library staff member to pick out books for you or your child?
You can list your interests or genre’s you prefer and a staff member will choose up to 10 books that they feel you will enjoy. Do you like a certain genre or want to learn more about a certain subject? Staff member(s) will choose books to match that subject. The library will put them on hold for you to be able to pick up at our Drive-Thru Pickup Window. Click HERE to get your book pack started!
Rising Reader Activity Kits
We are VERY excited about this collection at ODL: Rising Reader Activity Kits! These are packs families will be able to check out that have phonics sets of books, games, flashcards, puzzles, and reading activities in them to help kids learn to read/improve their reading skills! The kits are based on the areas of vocabulary, phonics, comprehension, fluency, and phonemic awareness and are full of fun activities for families to do together. There are multiple kits for preschool through third grade! Rising Reader Kits require parental supervision and are not for children under 3 due to choking hazards in some of the game pieces. These kits were brought to us by the generous memorial donation of Albert Hoekstra.
STEAM Kits
Announcing the installment of our new ODL STEAM kits! These STEAM kits offer your family a fun way to learn and work on various science, technology, engineering, arts and mathematics topics through stories, activities, games and flash cards!
This round of kits made possible by a generous grant from EATON. These Math topics are heading to the shelves shortly: Addition, Subtraction, Time and Clocks, Fractions, Money. Also coming soon – Place Value & Decimals, and Ecosystems and Biomes! You can look forward to even more science and technology kits this year from our recent EATON grant as well!
