Thanksgiving Hours

In observance of Thanksgiving, the library will close at 4pm on Wednesday, November 27 and remain closed on Thursday, November 28.

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Multicolored beads frame the words, Beads & Beyond!

BEADS & BEYOND!

Tuesday, November 26, 2024 at 10:00am - 6:00pm
KidZone at Homer Township Public Library District
Program Type:
Craft
Age Group:
Children, Tweens
Event Details:

Stop in to create a cool, necklace or other beading project of your own design. It’s a beading free-for-all!            ...

Library Branch: Homer Township Public Library District
Room: KidZone
Age Group: Children, Tweens
Program Type: Craft
Event Details:

Stop in to create a cool, necklace or other beading project of your own design.

LIBRARY CLOSED AT 4 PM

Wednesday, November 27, 2024 at 4:00pm - 9:00pm
Homer Township Public Library District, Outreach
Closing
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Homer Township Public Library District, Outreach

LIBRARY CLOSED

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Candle snowman

Adult Take & Make: Snowman Candle

Monday, December 2, 2024 at 8:30am - 8:30pm
Homer Township Public Library District
Program Type:
Craft
Age Group:
Adults & Seniors
Event Details:

Registration opens Monday, December 2 at 8:30am. Love snowman? This candle is for you! Create your own snowman using a glass pillar candle, black paint marker and ribbon. Suppli...

Library Branch: Homer Township Public Library District
Age Group: Adults & Seniors
Program Type: Craft
Event Details:

Registration opens Monday, December 2 at 8:30am.

Gingerbread house made out of foam pieces.

GINGERBREAD HOUSE CRAFT

Tuesday, December 3, 2024 at 4:30pm - 5:30pm
Family Activity Zone at Homer Township Public Library District
Program Type:
Craft
Age Group:
Children, Tweens
Event Details:

Gingerbread House Craft Sweeten up your holidays with a colorful, foam house you craft yourself! Registration Required. Ages 3-12. Age 5 and under with adult. Limit 10.

Full
Required
Library Branch: Homer Township Public Library District
Room: Family Activity Zone
Age Group: Children, Tweens
Program Type: Craft
Required
Seats Remaining: 0
Event Details:

Gingerbread House Craft

Sweeten up your holidays with a colorful, foam house you craft yourself!

Registration Required. Ages 3-12. Age 5 and under with adult. Limit 10.

Disclaimer(s)

This program is designed for children and accompanying adults. Please plan to attend and be engaged with your child for this program. Drop offs will not be permitted.

CIRCULAR FOAM CRAFT WITH SNOOPY, A SNOWMAN, AND WOODSTOCK

SNOOPY HOLIDAY CRAFT

All Day 12/9 - 12/15
Homer Township Public Library District
Program Type:
Craft
Age Group:
Children, Tweens
Event Details:

Warm up while you craft a holiday sign featuring Snoopy, Woodstock, and a cheerful snowman! One per child while supplies last.

Library Branch: Homer Township Public Library District
Age Group: Children, Tweens
Program Type: Craft
Event Details:

Warm up while you craft a holiday sign featuring Snoopy, Woodstock, and a cheerful snowman!

One per child while supplies last.

Candy cane wreath wrapped in red silk. Bright green glove on end holding a red ornament.

CRAFTEREVES - GRINCH CANDY CANE WREATH

Wednesday, December 11, 2024 at 4:30pm - 5:30pm
Family Activity Zone at Homer Township Public Library District
Program Type:
Craft
Age Group:
Children, Tweens
Event Details:

Grinch Candy Cane Wreath We will not have to twist your arm to come in and craft. This craft is such a cinch that even the Grinch could not resist!  Registration require...

Full
Required
Library Branch: Homer Township Public Library District
Room: Family Activity Zone
Age Group: Children, Tweens
Program Type: Craft
Required
Seats Remaining: 0
Event Details:

Grinch Candy Cane Wreath

We will not have to twist your arm to come in and craft. This craft is such a cinch that even the Grinch could not resist! 

Cancelled: Teen Craft: Yarn Christmas Trees

Thursday, December 12, 2024 at 6:00pm - 7:00pm
Homer Township Public Library District
Program Type:
Craft
Age Group:
Teens
Event Details:

Design and decorate your own mini yarn tree! Make it look traditional, wild, or like it escaped the Nightmare Before Christmas!Registration required. For teens in grades 6-12.

Cancelled
Required
Library Branch: Homer Township Public Library District
Age Group: Teens
Program Type: Craft
Event Details:

Design and decorate your own mini yarn tree! Make it look traditional, wild, or like it escaped the Nightmare Before Christmas!

Registration required. For teens in grades 6-12.

Painting of a girl with blue hair in a red jumper.

ART GLASS PAINTING WORKSHOP

Saturday, December 14, 2024 at 11:00am - 12:00pm
Family Activity Zone at Homer Township Public Library District
Program Type:
Craft
Age Group:
Children, Tweens
Event Details:

Capture your favorite character or image on glass using reverse painting techniques. Evie M. will guide you as you create your own work of art to take home. Registration require...

Full
Required
Library Branch: Homer Township Public Library District
Room: Family Activity Zone
Age Group: Children, Tweens
Program Type: Craft
Required
Seats Remaining: 0
Event Details:

Capture your favorite character or image on glass using reverse painting techniques. Evie M. will guide you as you create your own work of art to take home.

Registration required. Ages 8-12. Limit 15.

Black and white plaid tree

Adult Craft: Plaid Holiday Tree

Monday, December 16, 2024 at 6:30pm - 7:30pm
Homer Township Public Library District
Program Type:
Craft
Age Group:
Adults & Seniors
Event Details:

Need another holiday decoration? Of course you do! Make a plaid tree that will get you in the Christmas spirit. Registration required.

Required
Library Branch: Homer Township Public Library District
Age Group: Adults & Seniors
Program Type: Craft
Required
Seats Remaining: 23
Event Details:

Need another holiday decoration? Of course you do! Make a plaid tree that will get you in the Christmas spirit.

Registration required.

Frosty the snowman with 6 kids standing around him and a larger Frosty behind them.

FROSTY'S WINTER WONDERLAND

Tuesday, December 17, 2024 at 4:30pm - 5:30pm
Family Activity Zone at Homer Township Public Library District
Program Type:
Craft, Movies
Age Group:
Children, Tweens
Event Details:

Watch this jolly snowman keep his promise to visit his friends when he hears news of the first snowfall of the season! Enjoy a treat and a holiday craft! Movie run time is 30 minut...

Full
Required
Library Branch: Homer Township Public Library District
Room: Family Activity Zone
Age Group: Children, Tweens
Program Type: Craft, Movies
Required
Seats Remaining: 0
Event Details:

Watch this jolly snowman keep his promise to visit his friends when he hears news of the first snowfall of the season! Enjoy a treat and a holiday craft! Movie run time is 30 minutes. 

Disclaimer(s)

We cannot guarantee that food served at this program has not come into contact with tree nuts, soy, or other allergens.

Snowman with green stocking cap on holding red bird with blue stocking hat.

PAINT WORKSHOP - AGES 8-13 - SWEET SNOWMAN!

Thursday, December 19, 2024 at 4:30pm - 6:00pm
Family Activity Zone at Homer Township Public Library District
Program Type:
Craft
Age Group:
Children, Tweens
Event Details:

Sweet Snowman! Annie, from Divine Design Paint Studio, will lead a step by step painting class for children. Each child will leave with a finished, acrylic paint on canvas, mast...

Waitlist
Required
Library Branch: Homer Township Public Library District
Room: Family Activity Zone
Age Group: Children, Tweens
Program Type: Craft
Required
Seats Remaining: 0
Event Details:

Sweet Snowman!

Annie, from Divine Design Paint Studio, will lead a step by step painting class for children. Each child will leave with a finished, acrylic paint on canvas, masterpiece.

Multicolored beads frame the words, Beads & Beyond!

BEADS & BEYOND!

Monday, December 23, 2024 at 10:00am - 6:00pm
KidZone at Homer Township Public Library District
Program Type:
Craft
Age Group:
Children, Tweens
Event Details:

Stop in to create a cool, necklace or other beading project of your own design. It’s a beading free-for-all!            ...

Library Branch: Homer Township Public Library District
Room: KidZone
Age Group: Children, Tweens
Program Type: Craft
Event Details:

Stop in to create a cool, necklace or other beading project of your own design.

LIBRARY CLOSED

All Day
Homer Township Public Library District, Outreach
Closing
Branches:
Homer Township Public Library District, Outreach

LIBRARY CLOSED

All Day
Homer Township Public Library District, Outreach
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INFLATABLE FROSTY THE SNOWMAN WITH BLACK HAT, BLUE SCARF, AND BROOM

FROSTY FUN COLORING CONTEST

All Day 12/26 - 12/30
Homer Township Public Library District
Program Type:
Craft
Age Group:
Children, Tweens
Event Details:

Enter the Frosty Fun coloring contest between Dec. 26 - Jan. 31 for a chance to win a cool prize! Coloring sheets will be on display at the library and may be posted on social m...

Library Branch: Homer Township Public Library District
Age Group: Children, Tweens
Program Type: Craft
Event Details:

Enter the Frosty Fun coloring contest between Dec. 26 - Jan. 31 for a chance to win a cool prize!

LIBRARY CLOSED

All Day
Homer Township Public Library District, Outreach
Closing
Branches:
Homer Township Public Library District, Outreach
INFLATABLE FROSTY THE SNOWMAN WITH BLACK HAT, BLUE SCARF, AND BROOM

FROSTY FUN COLORING CONTEST

All Day 1/2 - 1/19
Homer Township Public Library District
Program Type:
Craft
Age Group:
Children, Tweens
Event Details:

Enter the Frosty Fun coloring contest between Dec. 26 - Jan. 31 for a chance to win a cool prize! Coloring sheets will be on display at the library and may be posted on social m...

Library Branch: Homer Township Public Library District
Age Group: Children, Tweens
Program Type: Craft
Event Details:

Enter the Frosty Fun coloring contest between Dec. 26 - Jan. 31 for a chance to win a cool prize!

Multicolored beads frame the words, Beads & Beyond!

BEADS & BEYOND!

Thursday, January 2, 2025 at 10:00am - 6:00pm
KidZone at Homer Township Public Library District
Program Type:
Craft
Age Group:
Children, Tweens
Event Details:

Stop in to create a cool, necklace or other beading project of your own design. It’s a beading free-for-all!            ...

Library Branch: Homer Township Public Library District
Room: KidZone
Age Group: Children, Tweens
Program Type: Craft
Event Details:

Stop in to create a cool, necklace or other beading project of your own design.

Blue container filled with white sand. Penguin and snowman with three snowballs and two candy canes. A couple of trees and a bench. Rake and pick next to it.

CRAFTEREVES - WINTER ZEN GARDEN

Wednesday, January 8, 2025 at 4:30pm - 5:30pm
Family Activity Zone at Homer Township Public Library District
Program Type:
Craft
Age Group:
Children, Tweens
Event Details:

Winter Zen GardenCreate a calming winter oasis to enjoy on a cold day. All the stress will melt away but the sparkling snow will stay!Registration required. Ages 8-12. Limit 12.&nb...

Open
Required
Library Branch: Homer Township Public Library District
Room: Family Activity Zone
Age Group: Children, Tweens
Program Type: Craft
Required
Seats Remaining: 1
Event Details:

Winter Zen Garden

Create a calming winter oasis to enjoy on a cold day. All the stress will melt away but the sparkling snow will stay!

Registration required. Ages 8-12. Limit 12. 

FROSTY THE SNOWMAN FOLLOWED BY SIX KIDS FOAM CRAFTS

FROSTY THE SNOWMAN CRAFT

All Day 1/13 - 1/19
Homer Township Public Library District
Program Type:
Craft
Age Group:
Children, Tweens
Event Details:

Frolic with Frosty as you craft a cheerful snowman and friends.          One per child while supplies last.

Library Branch: Homer Township Public Library District
Age Group: Children, Tweens
Program Type: Craft
Event Details:

Frolic with Frosty as you craft a cheerful snowman and friends.         

One per child while supplies last.

Red fox with white tail and face sitting in the snow and three birch trees in the back.

PAINT WORKSHOP - AGES 8-13 - FOX IN WINTER

Thursday, January 16, 2025 at 4:30pm - 6:00pm
Family Activity Zone at Homer Township Public Library District
Program Type:
Craft
Age Group:
Children, Tweens
Event Details:

Fox in WinterAnnie, from Divine Design Paint Studio, will lead a step by step painting class for children. Each child will leave with a finished, acrylic paint on canvas, masterpie...

Required
Library Branch: Homer Township Public Library District
Room: Family Activity Zone
Age Group: Children, Tweens
Program Type: Craft
Required
Seats Remaining: 15
Event Details:

Fox in Winter

Annie, from Divine Design Paint Studio, will lead a step by step painting class for children. Each child will leave with a finished, acrylic paint on canvas, masterpiece.

INFLATABLE FROSTY THE SNOWMAN WITH BLACK HAT, BLUE SCARF, AND BROOM

FROSTY FUN COLORING CONTEST

All Day 1/21 - 1/31
Homer Township Public Library District
Program Type:
Craft
Age Group:
Children, Tweens
Event Details:

Enter the Frosty Fun coloring contest between Dec. 26 - Jan. 31 for a chance to win a cool prize! Coloring sheets will be on display at the library and may be posted on social m...

Library Branch: Homer Township Public Library District
Age Group: Children, Tweens
Program Type: Craft
Event Details:

Enter the Frosty Fun coloring contest between Dec. 26 - Jan. 31 for a chance to win a cool prize!

GNOME INFLATABLE WITH RED HAT, BLUE SHIRT AND BROWN PANTS

READ GNOME MATTER WHAT COLORING CONTEST

All Day 2/3 - 2/16
Homer Township Public Library District
Program Type:
Craft
Age Group:
Children, Tweens
Event Details:

Enter the Gnome coloring contest between Feb. 3-28 for a chance to win a gnome-tastic prize! Coloring sheets will be on display at the library and may be posted on social media....

Library Branch: Homer Township Public Library District
Age Group: Children, Tweens
Program Type: Craft
Event Details:

Enter the Gnome coloring contest between Feb. 3-28 for a chance to win a gnome-tastic prize!

Coloring sheets will be on display at the library and may be posted on social media. Entries will not be returned.