Kids Programs & Events

What's new in December?

STORIES AND CRAFTS WITH MRS. CLAUS

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Celebrate the Winter Lights Festival with us! From 1–3 pm, Mrs. Claus will be at the library reading festive stories while we make snowflakes and kindness cards. The library will also be open late until 7 pm, so you can stay warm before or after the parade!

Library Hours

Please note our winter holiday schedule:

Wednesday, December 24 & 31: Closing at 3 pm
Thursday, December 25 & January 1: Closed

Thursdays for Kids

We have three events this month for kids!

12/4 at 3:30pm - Watercolor Ornaments

Four circular ornaments featuring colorful watercolor backgrounds and black silhouettes of trees, with twine for hanging.

Learn how to use watercolor and acrylic paint pens to create beautiful, winter-inspired ornaments. Perfect for decorating or as gifts!

12/11 at 3:30pm - LEGO Club

A bright banner for a LEGO club meeting every 2nd Thursday for ages 5-12, at 3:30 pm with colorful brick background.

Join us for LEGO building awesomeness! Each child who completes a project will get to put it on display in the library until the next LEGO Club.

12/18 at 3:30 pm - Full STEAM Ahead! - Cookie Construction

A plate with a decorated gingerbread house featuring candy canes and colorful gummies on a blue table.

Even if they don’t stay up, graham cracker houses are the best! Use graham crackers, frosting, and candy to build and decorate your very own sweet creation. Get ready for a tasty, hands-on activity the whole family can enjoy!

A festive gingerbread house decorated with candy, icing, and colorful sweets, sitting on a white plate.

Tuesdays for Kids

10/14 and 10/28 at 3:30 - Reading Buddies

Creswell Library Reading Buddies Club, 2nd & 4th Tuesdays, 3:30-4:30pm; features animals.

We’re teaming up with Blue Barn Sanctuary to bring you Reading Buddies! Come join us for a cozy reading time with stuffies and bunnies. Did you know that reading to animals (even stuffed ones!) helps kids feel relaxed and supported?

Each session will have plenty of cuddly stuffed animals to read to, helpful volunteers, and—on most days—Blue Barn’s own superstar, Theodore Von Tater Tot!

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PreK Storytime – Thursdays at 10:00am

Join us for fun books, songs, and rhymes!! This storytime is intended for children in preschool, but all kids and their families are welcome to join. We shoot for about 30 minutes of fun, but sometimes we go a little long and sometimes just a tad short. Afterward, we will all do a fun craft.

Babytime – Tuesdays at 10:00am

Join us on Tuesdays for songs, fingerplays, lap bounces, scarves, egg shakers, stories, and bubbles! This storytime is 20 minutes long so we can wrap up before the littles get too squirmy.

Book Clubs

Middle-Grade Book Club

Middle Grade Book Club (ages 10-13) meets the first Tuesday of every month at 4pm and goes for about 45 minutes. It always includes a simple activity relating to the story.

We will meet at the library on 12/2 at 4pm to chat about "A Rover's Story".

Our next book is "The Real Boy" by Anne Ursu! We will talk about this fantastic fantasy on 1/6.

The image features the cover of "The Real Boy" by Anne Ursu, showcasing a young boy in a mystical setting with cats.

On an island on the edge of an immense sea there is a city, a forest, and a boy named Oscar. Oscar is a shop boy for the most powerful magician in the village, and spends his days in a small room in the dark cellar of his master's shop grinding herbs and dreaming of the wizards who once lived on the island generations ago. Oscar's world is small, but he likes it that way. The real world is vast, strange, and unpredictable. And Oscar does not quite fit in it.

But now that world is changing. Children in the city are falling ill, and something sinister lurks in the forest. Oscar has long been content to stay in his small room in the cellar, comforted in the knowledge that the magic that flows from the forest will keep his island safe. Now even magic may not be enough to save it.

If you are interested in joining a Book Club, please email lindsey@creswell-library.org.

64 W. Oregon Avenue, Creswell OR 97426

Telephone (541) 895-3053