Week Calendar

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Join us for Lego Construction, and have your picture taken with your creation. The challenge is to build whatever you want!

Itsy Arts with the Illinois Art Station offers hands-on, transformative artmaking for young artists (age 2-5 years) and their families.

Join us at Lapsit Story Time for stories, music, movement, and play intended to help develop and enhance early literacy skills and your baby's development.

Toddlers are always on the go! Come to story time to encourage their emerging skills with books, rhymes, music, and lots of movement activities.

Join us every Friday from January 17-February 28, for a 30-minute, all-ages story time in Children's Program Room. We'll enjoy music, lots of movement, stories, and FUN!

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This inclusive story time offers stories, songs, and sensory-focused activities for children of all ages and abilities! After story time, stay for sensory play and socialization.

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• 309.590.6120 (call)
• 309.446.8398 (text)

Find more information about the Bookmobile and schedule online.

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Do you have an adventurous palate? Do you want to travel the world without leaving the library?

If you answered "yes" to these questions, plan now to join us for an afternoon of sampling snacks from various countries.  

Join us in the Children's Department for classic board games, card games, and puzzles. Red Raccoon Games will join us on site to demonstrate how to play a variety of hand-picked games, all appropriate for your family gaming experience. 

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Teens will enjoy free pizza while learning the history of video games before competing for prizes as they play classic gaming systems such as Sega Genesis, Atari, Playstation 1, and the Commodore 64!

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Calling all knights of the square table! Come to the Children's Department for an informal chess drop-in event. All levels of chess skills are welcome! Bring a friend to play with or come to meet a new checkmate (Ha ha!

Do you love the classics? Come to the library and enjoy the literary genius of Charles Dickens as performed by the Crossroads Area Student Theatre! CAST presents a stage adaptation of Dickens' work.

Join us at Lapsit Story Time for stories, music, movement, and play intended to help develop and enhance early literacy skills and your baby's development.

This program pairs trained and certified therapy dogs with children in Grades K-5 who want to practice reading aloud.

There will be 4 time slots available for kids to meet and read to a pup in the Children's Department:

The Teen Genre Book Club will meet monthly to discuss a different genre of book, giving you more choice of what to read. Pick any book that fits the month's genre.

Are you a teen musician, teen podcaster, teen content creator, or just a teen who's curious about how to take your audio recordings to the next level? Now is your time to learn! Join us in the TeenZone to Get Mixing!  

Do you love the classics? Come to the library and enjoy the literary genius of Charles Dickens as performed by the Crossroads Area Student Theatre! CAST presents a stage adaptation of Dickens' work.

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The Mystery Book Club will meet to discuss The Golden Gate by Amy Chua. Participants have the option to meet either in person at Bloomington Public Library or online via Zoom. 

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