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LEGO Club

10:00am - 2:00pm
Main Library
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Library Branch: Main Library
Room: Storytime Room
Age Group: Preschool, Elementary School
Program Type: Kids & Families
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Seats Remaining: 30
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We provide the LEGO, you provide the imagination! Drop in and build your dreams. 

Supported Gardening

10:00am - 11:00am
Maze Branch Library
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Library Branch: Maze Branch Library
Room: Community Sensory Garden
Age Group: Preschool, Elementary School, Middle School
Program Type: Equity & Anti-Racism, Kids & Families, Students Grades 6-8
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Seats Remaining: 10
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Gardening helps build strong bodies and minds!

Shake, Rattle & Read at Maze

10:30am - 11:00am
Maze Branch Library
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Library Branch: Maze Branch Library
Room: Maze Branch Meeting Room
Age Group: Babies & Toddlers, Preschool
Program Type: Kids & Families, Storytimes
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Seats Remaining: 23
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An energetic program designed for children up to age 5, with caregivers. Get ready to sing, dance, and listen to great stories!

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Masks Encouraged

Masks for everyone age 2+ are encouraged while attending this program.

Shake, Rattle & Read at Lindberg Park

10:00am - 10:30am
Offsite
Offsite Event
Library Branch: Offsite
Age Group: Babies & Toddlers, Preschool
Program Type: Kids & Families, Storytimes
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We’re partnering with the Park District of Oak Park to bring the library to your neighborhood! Share books, songs, and play with fun storytimes in our parks. Best for families with kids 0-5. Weather permitting. 

Book Bike: Storytime at Lindberg Park

10:00am - 11:00am
Offsite
Offsite Event
Library Branch: Offsite
Age Group: Babies & Toddlers, Preschool
Program Type: Kids & Families, Storytimes

Book Bike

The Book Bike brings the library to you and your neighbors by popping up throughout the village—April through October, weather permitting! Learn more about Oak Park’s Book Bike »

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The Book Bike visits Lindberg Park for Shake, Rattle & Read Storytime, weathe

Baby Lapsit

11:00am - 11:30am
Main Library
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Library Branch: Main Library
Room: Storytime Room
Age Group: Babies & Toddlers
Program Type: Kids & Families, Storytimes
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Seats Remaining: 20

Baby Lapsit

This storytime is designed for one-on-one interactions between caregivers and babies who are not yet walking. Babies learn to associate books with fun and shared moments with their favorite adults. Short books are paired with songs and rhymes that are modeled to introduce pre-literacy skills. #babytoddler See all upcoming storytimes »

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#babytoddler

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Masks Encouraged

Masks for everyone age 2+ are encouraged while attending this program.

Be Our Neighbor

4:00pm - 5:00pm
Main Library
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Library Branch: Main Library
Room: Storytime Room
Age Group: Preschool, Elementary School
Program Type: Kids & Families
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Seats Remaining: 29
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Children learn more when watching educational programming with their caregiver! Structured discussions and activities, paired with an episode of Mr.

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Masks Encouraged

Masks for everyone age 2+ are encouraged while attending this program.

Shake, Rattle & Read at Scoville Park

10:00am - 10:30am
Offsite
Offsite Event
Library Branch: Offsite
Age Group: Babies & Toddlers, Preschool
Program Type: Kids & Families, Storytimes
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We’re partnering with the Park District of Oak Park to bring the library to your neighborhood! Share books, songs, and play with fun storytimes in our parks. Best for families with kids 0-5. Weather permitting.

Supported Developmental Playgroup

4:00pm - 5:00pm
Main Library
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Library Branch: Main Library
Room: Storytime Room
Age Group: Babies & Toddlers, Preschool
Program Type: Equity & Anti-Racism, Kids & Families
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Seats Remaining: 20
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An inclusive drop-in playgroup for children who receive or are considering therapy services, ages 0-5.  Children play while families meet and find support.

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Masks Encouraged

Masks for everyone age 2+ are encouraged while attending this program.

Shake, Rattle & Read at Euclid Square Park

10:00am - 10:30am
Offsite
Offsite Event
Library Branch: Offsite
Age Group: Babies & Toddlers, Preschool
Program Type: Kids & Families, Storytimes
Event Details:

We’re partnering with the Park District of Oak Park to bring the library to your neighborhood! Share books, songs, and play with fun storytimes in our parks. Best for families with kids 0-5. Weather permitting.

Tech Night for Kids: Explore coding with Robots (PK-2)

4:00pm - 5:30pm
Main Library
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Library Branch: Main Library
Room: Storytime Room
Age Group: Preschool, Elementary School
Program Type: Digital Learning, Kids & Families
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Seats Remaining: 11

Tech Night for Kids

We'll have fun learning different technology concepts through hands-on experiences. Explore what's inside a computer, coding with robots, 3D printing, video production, and more!

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In this month's program, we'll have fun exploring coding concepts playing with different programmable floor robots such as code a mouse, Botley, and Bee Bot.

Best for Kids in PreK-Grade 2.

Book Bike: Thursday Night Out

5:00pm - 7:00pm
Offsite
Offsite Event
Library Branch: Offsite
Program Type: Arts & Culture, Authors & Books, Kids & Families

Book Bike

The Book Bike brings the library to you and your neighbors by popping up throughout the village—April through October, weather permitting! Learn more about Oak Park’s Book Bike »

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The Book Bike visits Downtown Oak Park for Thursday Night Out, weather permitting. 

Digital Tools for Genealogy

6:00pm - 7:00pm
Main Library
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Library Branch: Main Library
Room: Creative Studio
Age Group: Adults, Older Adults
Program Type: Arts & Culture, Digital Learning, Kids & Families, Multicultural
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Seats Remaining: 13
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Utilizing digital tools, discover your family history and find your ancestors’ stories. This class will help you start, or refresh, your journey into compiling a family history project online.

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Masks Encouraged

Masks for everyone age 2+ are encouraged while attending this program.

Supported Storytime and Family Social Hour

6:30pm - 7:30pm
Main Library
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Library Branch: Main Library
Room: Storytime Room
Age Group: Preschool, Elementary School
Program Type: Equity & Anti-Racism, Kids & Families, Storytimes
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Seats Remaining: 10
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Designed for children with disabilities ages 3+ with caregiver support. Classes are structured with visual schedules and include fun picture books and songs, with fine and gross motor movement activities.

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Masks Encouraged

Masks for everyone age 2+ are encouraged while attending this program.

Barbie & Ken Club

10:00am - 2:00pm
Main Library
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Library Branch: Main Library
Room: Storytime Room
Age Group: Preschool, Elementary School
Program Type: Kids & Families
Registration Required
Seats Remaining: 30

Barbie & Ken Club

We provide the dream house, lots of fashions, accessories, shoes, horses, cars, and a choice of dolls. You simply bring your imagination!

Barbie & Ken Club may seem like just fun, but it promotes storytelling, dramatic play, narrative development, conflict resolution, sharing and parallel play, which are important for all kids.

Shake, Rattle & Read at Dole

10:30am - 11:00am
Dole Branch Library
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Library Branch: Dole Branch Library
Room: Dole Branch Meeting Room
Age Group: Babies & Toddlers, Preschool
Program Type: Kids & Families, Storytimes
Registration Required
Seats Remaining: 24
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An energetic program designed for children up to age 5, with caregivers. Get ready to sing, dance, and listen to great stories!

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Masks Encouraged

Masks for everyone age 2+ are encouraged while attending this program.

Wooden Train Open Play

2:00pm - 4:00pm
Dole Branch Library
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Library Branch: Dole Branch Library
Room: Dole Branch Meeting Room
Age Group: Babies & Toddlers, Preschool
Program Type: Kids & Families
Registration Required
Seats Remaining: 30
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All aboard! We supply the wooden tracks and train cars for your little ones to be railroad builders and engineers. 

Shake, Rattle & Read

10:00am - 10:30am
Main Library
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Library Branch: Main Library
Room: Storytime Room
Age Group: Babies & Toddlers, Preschool
Program Type: Kids & Families, Storytimes
Registration Required
Seats Remaining: 30
Event Details:

This storytime is designed for one-on-one interactions between caregivers and children up to age 5. Music and movement are paired in this big, joyful class. Get ready to sing and dance with your child!

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Masks Encouraged

Masks for everyone age 2+ are encouraged while attending this program.

Young & Restless

11:00am - 11:30am
Main Library
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Library Branch: Main Library
Room: Storytime Room
Age Group: Babies & Toddlers
Program Type: Kids & Families, Storytimes
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Seats Remaining: 20

Young & Restless

Babies learn to associate books with fun and shared moments with favorite adults during this storytime designed for one-on-one interactions between caregivers and children birth to 24 months. One-year-olds love to wander and listen while they explore, and caregivers can help them participate while on the move. Short books are paired with songs and rhymes that are modeled to introduce pre-literacy skills. #babytoddler See all upcoming storytimes »

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#babytoddler

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Masks Encouraged

Masks for everyone age 2+ are encouraged while attending this program.

Raquel MacKay Story and Craft

2:00pm - 3:00pm
Main Library
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Library Branch: Main Library
Room: Storytime Room
Age Group: Preschool
Program Type: Authors & Books, Kids & Families, Storytimes
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Seats Remaining: Unlimited
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"I Hear a Búho" is a rhyming story with text in both English and Spanish, which encompasses language, the parent-child bond, nature, and the benefit of being still and listening.

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Masks Encouraged

Masks for everyone age 2+ are encouraged while attending this program.

Shake, Rattle & Read at Maze

10:30am - 11:00am
Maze Branch Library
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Library Branch: Maze Branch Library
Room: Maze Branch Meeting Room
Age Group: Babies & Toddlers, Preschool
Program Type: Kids & Families, Storytimes
Registration Required
Seats Remaining: 24
Event Details:

An energetic program designed for children up to age 5, with caregivers. Get ready to sing, dance, and listen to great stories!

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Masks Encouraged

Masks for everyone age 2+ are encouraged while attending this program.

Grandad's Pride Parade & Craft

11:00am - 12:00pm
Main Library
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Library Branch: Main Library
Room: Outside Plaza
Program Type: Kids & Families
Registration Required
Seats Remaining: 30
Event Details:

Join us for a story, parade, and craft to celebrate Pride month! 

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Physical Activity

By joining this class, you declare that you are physically fit and ready to participate and understand any physical activity may involve some risk of injury. You may rest at any time during the class. It is your responsibility to consult with your physician with respect to any past or present injury, illness, health problem, or any other condition or medication that may affect your participation.

The participant assumes all risks of injury and illness that may result from such participation. The participant agrees to waive and release the Oak Park Public Library, its officers, employees, trustees, and agents and shall hold such persons/entity harmless from any and all liability for any claim, suit, or other cause of action which might arise from injuries, illness, damages, or loss which may occur on account of participation in such activities.

Inside Out 2: A Night Out

4:00pm - 7:00pm
Offsite
Offsite Event
Library Branch: Offsite
Age Group: Elementary School, Middle School, High School, Adults, Older Adults
Program Type: Arts & Culture, Health & Wellness, Kids & Families
Event Details:

Join your library, the Oak Park Township, and the Grace Therapy and Wellness Center for a free screening of Inside Out 2&nbs

Shake, Rattle & Read at Lindberg Park

10:00am - 10:30am
Offsite
Offsite Event
Library Branch: Offsite
Age Group: Babies & Toddlers, Preschool
Program Type: Kids & Families, Storytimes
Event Details:

We’re partnering with the Park District of Oak Park to bring the library to your neighborhood! Share books, songs, and play with fun storytimes in our parks. Best for families with kids 0-5. Weather permitting.