MAY: Share an original spring flower(s) photo (taken by you) for a chance to win a gift card prize. Find a spring-blooming flower (or flowers) to photograph this month. A winner will be selected from the submissions received. Use the form below to submit/upload your photo entries. Entries for March must be received by May 31, 2026! For teens/grades 6-12. JUNE: Share an original summer fun photo (taken by you) for a chance to win a … Read more
Sign up for the Teen Summer Reading Challenge, catch up on your TBR (to-be-read) list, AND enter weekly drawings to win fabulous prizes! Visit the library’s Information Desk and pick up a paper log (logs may also be printed from our website) OR use Beanstack to participate online. THE CHALLENGE BEGINS JUNE 1, 2026!
A nice group of people attended the library’s holiday card-making event and designed dozens of cards for friends, family, and folks in assisted living residences. Happy holidays!
Teens attempted some beginner-friendly paint by number kits at our Art After Dark event this September. (If this is beginner, I’d hate to see advanced!) Enjoy our works in progress below!
Teens made the most amazing color-shifting potions using food coloring and mica powder in a water-rubbing alcohol solution, then decorated their bottles with various labels and sealing wax. These make great props for parties, or D&D, or cosplay! Lots of ideas and recipes and designs can be found here. Check out some of the potions we made!
A most excellent variety of wreaths were created by participants at the library’s Wreaths of Khan event this December. To Khan or not to Khan, that was the question. Check out our creations below!
Going on RIGHT NOW in Program Room #2 – the inaugural session of Girls Click Bricks, our new LEGO building program for girls in middle and high school. Today’s project is a candy dispenser and participants are already well on their way to completing their builds! Do you <3 LEGO? Join us next time! (Register for Girls Click Bricks events online, or call the library to sign up – 847-669-5386).
Teens played with shrink plastic at this fun event and we all ooh-ed and ahh-ed as we watched our creations brighten in color as they diminished in size. This is still so fun! See what everyone made below:
We hauled out some craft supplies and saved our recyclables this month so teens could repurpose them in new ways. Here are some of their creations: