Sunday Fun Day Crafts to Go, weekly A new craft kit is offered every Monday and be available until Saturday or as supplies last, so check out the calendar for new crafts weekly! For Women's History Month, we are featuring a new picture book each week that will be always available to borrow online via our Digital Library collection Overdrive for the entire month of March using the app Libby.
Book Babies, weekly on Fridays at 10:30am Join Miss Karen and special guests for Live Book Babies events, weekly on Zoom! Let's have fun together singing, reading, and rhyming! Register for these events to receive the Zoom login info and a reminder before Book Babies Storytime! Supply kits are available for attendees new to the virtual Book Babies format.
Spring Break Kids: Make Cookie Dough Bites with Becky's Mindful Kitchen, Monday, March 15, 3:30-4:00pm Becky Schmooke from Becky's Mindful Kitchen will teach kids how to make completely customizable edible cookie dough bites. This recipe is easy enough for almost any age to make, but very young kids may need assistance in the kitchen. This recipe requires flour, sugar, brown sugar, vanilla extract and butter plus any extra ingredients you'd prefer such as chocolate chips, candies, marshmallows, etc. Register to attend this virtual event.
Meet Birds of Prey with Raptology, Wednesday, March 17, 2:00-3:00pm Raptology is a raptor & wildlife education group based in Iowa City, IA with the goal to educate the public by providing up close and unique experiences with birds of prey. Check out this video tour of the Raptology home base at your convenience. Register to join for a live discussion and to meet some of the residents of Raptology on Zoom as well as some of the volunteers of Raptology to answer any questions or discuss birds of prey!
March Family Night: Family Painting with Brush and Barrel, Thursday, March 18, 4:00-5:30pm To celebrate National Crafting Month we are partnering up with Brush and Barrel to offer a guide along paint afternoon for the whole family! Brush and Barrel will prepare paint kits to be picked up at the library ahead of time and a Zoom tutorial on March 18th to create your new family-created masterpiece, a Picasso-style polyptych where each member paints a different face or body part.
Totally Tweens: Your Glorious Organs, Thursday, March 25, 4:00-5:00pm Join students from the UI College of Nursing to learn about your body's systems and some of your most important organs by building and completing a puzzle. Together we'll make shapes out of air-dry clay and by cutting paper, then assemble the puzzle and find out what each organ does and why it's located where it is inside your body. Register to participate. Stop by the library and pick up the supply kit needed for this program anytime the library is open March 17-24; then join us on Zoom for the program on March 25.
Zoom Tutoring for K-6 Students, see calendar for available dates Sign up your K-6 child for a 20-minute Zoom tutoring session with volunteers from the University of Iowa Elementary Education program.
While you visit the library to pick up your holds, why not check out a book bundle too? These are great if you are constantly maxing out your hold limit, unsure what to read next, or if you simply need to get your hands on more books at one time!
These bundles are grouped together by age, with several categories to choose from. Need some board books for a baby? Or maybe graphic novels for a teen? How about some new mystery novels for yourself? Each bundle has 3-5 items inside, giving you a few options for what to read next. Just bring along your library card and let us know what types of materials you might be interested in. We know that many of you miss browsing the shelves, but we hope that these Book Bundles will help you stumble across a new favorite, learn something interesting, and keep your family entertained.
Would you prefer a more personalized Book Bundle? Try out our service, Staff Picks… Just for You. Let us know some authors or genres that you particularly enjoy, and library staff will prepare a bundle that is just right for you. These bundles will be placed on hold for you and can be picked up at our Lobby Grab and Go service.
For more information, library staff can be reached at 319-356-5200 Mondays through Saturdays from 10AM to 6PM and Sundays from 12PM to 5PM. You may also e-mail or chat at icpl.org/ask.
In celebration of ICPL’s 125th anniversary, we thought you might like to browse the top 125 Children's Book Checkouts of 2020! This list has been edited for the sake of variety... otherwise you would have a list dominated by our most popular series (i.e. Elephant and Piggie, Garfield, Big Nate, Diary of a Wimpy Kid, Magic Tree House, etc.). In this list, you'll see the most popular book from a particular series, to allow for a variety of titles This list is posted in order of popularity. Enjoy!
You're a part of our story too! Each month we'll post a new prompt and we're looking for your contributions. Share your thoughts, photos, and memories here or on social media using the hashtag #LibrariesAreForEveryone or #LasBibliotecasSonParaTodxs.
Submit your thoughts to be a part of our collective story. We'll be posting responses throughout the year.
Stuck inside due to fickle spring weather? Check out our March BINGO Card for fun activities to keep your household entertained. Complete a BINGO and receive a button, McDonald’s ice cream gift certificate, and a bookmark.
