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Take part in a virtual scavenger hunt for a chance to win an e-gift card. Winners will be announced when the scavenger hunt closes. One entry per teen. 

Come pick up a craft at the library to take home with you! Practice your origami skills! Fold colorful assortment of lucky stars to keep in a jar! *Limited to first 12 teens*

REGISTRATION BEGINS ON MONDAY, JULY 6. Please email Katie Yager at kyager@mybpl.org if you're interested in this craft project. 

Join us on our social media and our website for a special storytime from Youth Services Staff's home. Each week we will read you stories, sing songs and perform fingerplays so you can enjoy storytime from your own home. This will be on our youtube page and linked out on our facebook. 

Take part in a virtual scavenger hunt for a chance to win an e-gift card. Winners will be announced when the scavenger hunt closes. One entry per teen. 

Enjoy a special happy cooks, happy books from your own home! Listen to stories and learn how to create a cool treat. This will be posted to our youtube page and linked out on our facebook.

Zoom Meeting

Join us on Zoom to learn about the decorative elements of drop caps and design your own with artist Lindsay Budzynski. Supplies needed: paper, pencils/erasers, ruler. Tracing paper, markers, or colored pencils optional. Computer, tablet, or phone is required to attend via Zoom. You will receive the Zoom meeting link by email 3 days before and the day of the event. If you don't receive the link, please check your spam/junk folder.

Registration is required and limited to 10 participants. Teens are welcome to register. 

Join us on our social media and our website for a special storytime from Youth Services Staff's home. Each week we will read you stories, sing songs and perform fingerplays so you can enjoy storytime from your own home. This will be on our youtube page and linked out on our facebook. 

Genealogy Club is moving to online meetings via Zoom. Learn about internet and archival genealogy and research support. Computer, tablet, or phone is required to attend via Zoom. You will receive the Zoom meeting link by email 3 days before and the day of the event. If you don't receive the link, please check your spam/junk folder.

Grade K-6

Are you feeling happy, sad, crazy or just plain poopy? Join us as we celebrate Emoji Day with stories, crafts, games and tons of fun! A bag full of activities and crafts will be available to the first 25 people that register. Please pick up your bag at the youth services desk. 

Take part in a virtual scavenger hunt for a chance to win an e-gift card. Winners will be announced when the scavenger hunt closes. One entry per teen. 

Zoom Webinar

From Depression Era and Victory Garden cooking through cake pops, what were the popular trends for home cooks? Enjoy this nostalgic, historic yet humorous look back at culinary creations. Registered attendees will receive recipes from presenter and cookbook collector Amy Alessio. You will receive the Zoom link by email 3 days before and the day of the event. If you don't receive the link, please check your spam/junk folder.

Enjoy a special happy cooks, happy books from your own home! Listen to stories and learn how to create a cool treat. This will be posted to our youtube page and linked out on our facebook.

The Monday Night Page Turners book discussion group meets on the third Monday of the month at 7:30 p.m., except August and December. The group reads contemporary and classic fiction and nonfiction.

Our July meeting will be held virtually via Zoom. Please email Jessica Frazier at jfrazier@mybpl.org if interested in registering for our book group.

The July title is The Glass Hotel by Emily St. John Mandel. Bloomingdale patrons may request it through our online catalog. 

Upcoming Book Group Titles

K-6 THIS IS A REGISTERED PROGRAM

Ready for some Bingo fun? Join us for Zoom bingo for a chance to win a fun prize! The coverall winner will receive a gift certificate to a local restaurant! Pick up Bingo cards at the library's Youth Services desk or print off your own at https://myfreebingocards.com/numbers/1-75

This program will be hosted on zoom and a link to this event will be sent out by email the day before. 

Join us on our social media and our website for a special storytime from Youth Services Staff's home. Each week we will read you stories, sing songs and perform fingerplays so you can enjoy storytime from your own home. This will be on our youtube page and linked out on our facebook. 

Take part in a virtual scavenger hunt for a chance to win an e-gift card. Winners will be announced when the scavenger hunt closes. One entry per teen. 

Enjoy a special happy cooks, happy books from your own home! Listen to stories and learn how to create a cool treat. This will be posted to our youtube page and linked out on our facebook.

Check out our YouTube video premiere of "Postage Stamp Collage Art" and learn how to make a simple and beautiful collage art piece for your home. The first 20 people to email Kristina Giovanni at kgiovanni@mybpl.org or call (630) 924-2735 will receive a take & make bag that includes colorful vintage postage stamps, a 5x7 cut out design, a glue stick, and a 5x7 white frame. Supplies are first come, first served and are limited to 20 Adults. 

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Anyone can follow along from home, but must provide their own supplies. Instead of postage stamps, you can use torn up magazines, stickers, or anything colorful to fill in your cutout design, which you can also make yourself by tracing a silhouette image onto construction paper and carefuly cutting it out with scissors. 

Join us on our social media and our website for a special storytime from Youth Services Staff's home. Each week we will read you stories, sing songs and perform fingerplays so you can enjoy storytime from your own home. This will be on our youtube page and linked out on our facebook. 

Pick up your craft kit and let the sun shine in with this sensational reimagining of Paper Stained Glass! Color‑in Stained Glass takes coloring sun catchers to radiant new heights. Decorate your windows to see beautiful colors and designs! Limited to 10 teens.  

REGISTRATION BEGINS ON SATURDAY, AUGUST 1.  Please email Katie Yager at kyager@mybpl.org if you're interested in this craft project. 

Zoom webinar

It was 50 years ago in spring/summer of 1970 that the Beatles called it quits. Incredibly, it was only 6 years earlier that the Beatles exploded in America on the Ed Sullivan Show.   However, in that brief period they became - and remain - the world’s most iconic band thanks to a treasure chest of memorable songs and an uncanny ability to chart fresh musical direction with every new release.  Using performance and interview clips we’ll investigate the reasons it all fell apart 50 years ago and what – if anything - could have been done to keep the band intact. It was 50 years ago in spring/summer of 1970 that The Beatles called it quits.  Using performance and interview clips, we’ll investigate the reasons it all fell apart and what - if anything - could have been done to keep the band intact. You will receive the Zoom link by email 3 days before and the day of the event. If you don't receive the link, please check your spam/junk folder.

Presented by Gary Wenstrup,a lecturer on pop music history at Oakton, Harper, and the College of DuPage. 

Zoom Meeting

Join us on Zoom to learn basic drawing techniques and draw your own unique character with artist Lindsay Budzynski. Supplies needed: paper, pencils/erasers, ruler. Tracing paper, markers, or colored pencils optional. Computer, tablet, or phone is required to attend via Zoom. You will receive the Zoom link by email 3 days before and the day of the event. If you don't receive the link, please check your spam/junk folder.

Registration is required and limited to 10 teens. Teen registration only. 

Join us on our social media and our website for a special storytime from Youth Services Staff's home. Each week we will read you stories, sing songs and perform fingerplays so you can enjoy storytime from your own home. This will be on our youtube page and linked out on our facebook. 

Zoom Meeting

Join us on Zoom to learn about Surrealism and create your own Surrealist drawing with artist Lindsay Budzynski. Supplies needed: paper, pencils/erasers, ruler. Tracing paper, markers, or colored pencils optional. Computer, tablet, or phone is required to attend via Zoom. You will receive the Zoom link by email 3 days before and the day of the event. If you don't receive the link, please check your spam/junk folder.

Registration is required and limited to 10 participants. Teens are welcome to register. 

Join us on our social media and our website for a special storytime from Youth Services Staff's home. Each week we will read you stories, sing songs and perform fingerplays so you can enjoy storytime from your own home. This will be on our youtube page and linked out on our facebook. 

Pick up your craft kit and decorate your own mini cakes, cookies and pies with air-dry clay. This kit includes all of the "ingredients" and instructions for rolling out clay just like fondant. Display your clay creations on a mini-cake stand or in a beautiful box to highlight your baking talents!  Limited to 10 teens. . 

REGISTRATION BEGINS ON MONDAY, AUGUST 17. Please email Katie Yager at kyager@mybpl.org if you're interested in this craft project. 

Zoom Webinar

In this living-history portrayal, Actress and Scholar Leslie Goddard, Ph.D., portrays suffragist Alice Paul, one of the most dynamic leaders in the fight to win votes for women. An innovative and tireless worker, Paul arranged parades, organized the first picketing demonstrations outside the White House, lobbied politicians, and endured imprisonment for women’s suffrage. As fearless as she was pioneering, she remains an icon in the struggle for equal rights. You will receive the Zoom link by email 3 days before and the day of the event. If you don't receive the link, please check your spam/junk folder.

Join us on our social media and our website for a special storytime from Youth Services Staff's home. Each week we will read you stories, sing songs and perform fingerplays so you can enjoy storytime from your own home. This will be on our youtube page and linked out on our facebook. 

Genealogy Club is moving to online meetings via Zoom. Learn about internet and archival genealogy and research support. Computer, tablet, or phone is required to attend via Zoom. You will receive the Zoom link by email 3 days before and the day of the event. If you don't receive the link, please check your spam/junk folder.

Join us on our social media and our website for a special storytime from Youth Services Staff's home. Each week we will read you stories, sing songs and perform fingerplays so you can enjoy storytime from your own home. This will be on our youtube page and linked out on our facebook. 

Pick up your craft kit because making soap has never been this easy! Melt and mold up to 10 soaps from scratch. With the included soap molds, bright colors, coconut papaya fragrance, soap stickers, and skin-safe glitter, you'll be well on your way to being squeaky-clean in no time. Limited to 10 teens. 

REGISTRATION BEGINS ON TUESDAY, SEPTEMBER 1. Please email Katie Yager at kyager@mybpl.org if you're interested in this craft project. 

Zoom Meeting

Join us on Zoom to learn about nature illustration and create your own Autumn inspired drawings with artist Lindsay Budzynski. Supplies needed: paper, pencils/erasers, ruler. Tracing paper, markers, or colored pencils optional. Computer, tablet, or phone is required to attend via Zoom. You will receive the Zoom link by email 3 days before and the day of the event. If you don't receive the link, please check your spam/junk folder.

Registration is required and limited to 10 participants. Teens are welcome to register. 

Pick up your craft kit and make your very own string art projects at home! Follow the step-by-step instructions to learn three simple techniques to make creative images, including a fun fox, a darling dandelion, a cute cat, an awesome owl.  Limited to 10 teens. 

REGISTRATION BEGINS ON MONDAY, SEPTEMBER 14. Please email Katie Yager at kyager@mybpl.org if you're interested in this craft project. 

John Lynn of Peoria has photographed all 2400 Illinois cities, villages, and towns. He has also hiked, biked, and canoed enough historic and scenic trails, roads, and rivers in North America and Britain to circle the globe. He has now shared his experiences with over 4000 audiences in three countries.

Genealogy Club is moving to online meetings via Zoom. Learn about internet and archival genealogy and research support. Computer, tablet, or phone is required to attend via Zoom. You will receive the Zoom link by email 3 days before and the day of the event. If you don't receive the link, please check your spam/junk folder.

Zoom Webinar

David Wylly of the Medicare Solutions Network will be presenting a free educational seminar to get you up to speed on what Medicare covers, what it doesn’t, and your potential out of pocket exposure. David will discuss Supplements, Advantage Plans, Part D Prescription Coverage, and cost saving strategies for the years ahead. You will receive the Zoom link by email 3 days before and the day of the event. If you don't receive the link, please check your spam/junk folder.

Genealogy Club is moving to online meetings via Zoom. Learn about internet and archival genealogy and research support. Computer, tablet, or phone is required to attend via Zoom. You will receive the Zoom link by email 3 days before and the day of the event. If you don't receive the link, please check your spam/junk folder.

Genealogy Club is moving to online meetings via Zoom. Learn about internet and archival genealogy and research support. Computer, tablet, or phone is required to attend via Zoom. You will receive the Zoom link by email 3 days before and the day of the event. If you don't receive the link, please check your spam/junk folder.