Week Calendar

This week, we’re continuing our Color Our World Summer Reading Program with a fun and vibrant craft—Jazzy Pinwheels!

Flutter into fun at our special Storytime & Craft! Kids will enjoy a delightful story before creating their own colorful coffee filter butterflies.

Toddler Tales will be for children aged birth to 5 years of age.  During this time, we will sing, play and read stories to help promote a love of reading and practice those gross and fine motor skills necessary for this age group to develop.

Get ready for an unforgettable experience with Aaron Acosta—the multi-award-winning magician who brings jaw-dropping magic, side-splitting slapstick comedy, and nonstop audience interaction to every show!

Join us for an hour of moving and grooving with a little mingle in the middle.  Tuesday and Thursday are exercise days at the library.  Come and join us.  Everyone is welcome and all ages are invited. 

Flutter into fun at our special Storytime & Craft! Kids will enjoy a delightful story before creating their own colorful coffee filter butterflies.

We’ll begin with storytime featuring colorful and fun books, followed by a hands-on Color Wheel Art Project where little ones can explore the world of colors and create their own beautiful artwork! Let’s make this summer a colorful adventure!

Get ready for an unforgettable experience with Aaron Acosta—the multi-award-winning magician who brings jaw-dropping magic, side-splitting slapstick comedy, and nonstop audience interaction to every show!

STEM Join us for a fun, hands-on program where kids will create secret code bracelets using beads and a special coding system!

Each Wednesday Miss Sherri has storyhour for Tykes.  She reads a different story each week and kids will enjoy a song and dance or other entertainment.  Snacks are provided.  Come and join us!

Get crafty at the library! In this fun program, kids will create their own woodland critters on a stick using paper, glue, and plenty of creativity.

Join us for an hour of moving and grooving with a little mingle in the middle.  Tuesday and Thursday are exercise days at the library.  Come and join us.  Everyone is welcome and all ages are invited. 

Get ready for an unforgettable experience with Aaron Acosta—the multi-award-winning magician who brings jaw-dropping magic, side-splitting slapstick comedy, and nonstop audience interaction to every show!

Enjoy a story and STEM activity. Get ready for a magical art experiment that will WOW your little one!

Join us to design vibrant Perler bead creations using pixel coloring sheets, then bring your designs to life!

Join us at The Coal County Library and adopt your very own stuffed animal to stuff. What will you name your animal friend? 

Join us as we explore the vibrant world of illustrator Sally Payne! We'll read some of her books and then create our own characters inspired by her stories.

Join your friends at The Coal County Library for some sensational sensory fun. Enjoy our different sensory stations and make your very own sensory bottle to take take home. 

SAIL (Staying Active and Independent for Life), is a an exercise program developed by the OU Health Sciences Center to help promote long and active lives for individuals.

Get ready for an unforgettable experience with Aaron Acosta—the multi-award-winning magician who brings jaw-dropping magic, side-splitting slapstick comedy, and nonstop audience interaction to every show!

The library will be having another STEM program for Summer Reading.  Come on out to the library and join us.  Today it is all about Mosaic Madness

Come and join us at the Creation Station.  Each week children will enjoy different crafts and other activities as well as a snack.   This week will be all about making a Paper Sculpture by using paper to make different shapes.

Welcome to Fiber Fanatics, the club designed for multiple crafting disciplines.  No matter the fiber art that you are engaged in, you can come sit and mingle with other craft loving people.  Maybe you will get to try your hand at somethi

Join us to create light-up greeting cards while exploring the basics of circuitry!

Get ready for an unforgettable experience with Aaron Acosta—the multi-award-winning magician who brings jaw-dropping magic, side-splitting slapstick comedy, and nonstop audience interaction to every show!

We will shape tin foil into a bowl shape and use sugar, sand, and rock salt mixed with glue and food coloring to achieve a sparkly geode looking craft.

SAIL (Staying Active and Independent for Life), is a an exercise program developed by the OU Health Sciences Center to help promote long and active lives for individuals.

Get ready for an unforgettable experience with Aaron Acosta—the multi-award-winning magician who brings jaw-dropping magic, side-splitting slapstick comedy, and nonstop audience interaction to every show!

Unwind and get creative with the calming art of mandalas! In this hands-on craft program, teens will create their own beautiful mandalas using a variety of colors.

Please bring a shirt, preferably, white and a partner. We will then paint each others arms with a color of their choosing and HUG each other leaving a lasting print for years to come.

Paint string art is a fun and messy way to create beautiful designs using paint and string. But did you know that this activity also teaches us about physics and motion? Ms.

Get ready for an unforgettable experience with Aaron Acosta—the multi-award-winning magician who brings jaw-dropping magic, side-splitting slapstick comedy, and nonstop audience interaction to every show!

Unwind and get creative with the calming art of mandalas! In this hands-on craft program, teens will create their own beautiful mandalas using a variety of colors.

Are you ready to dive into a beachy sensory storytime experience?! Sun, Sand & Stories is an interactive program designed for children of all abilities.

 A large canvas will be set up outside with painters tarp laid down.

SAIL (Staying Active and Independent for Life), is a an exercise program developed by the OU Health Sciences Center to help promote long and active lives for individuals.

If you like to crochet, sew, quilt, do needlework and etc. come down to the library for 2 hours of fun and fellowship.   If you don't know how, come on down anyway, and they can teach you.  

The public library's adult craft program is a haven for creativity. Participants, guided by skilled instructors, delve into diverse projects, fostering a sense of community and artistic expression.

SEOLS Bookmobile will be making a stop in Broken Bow to help us kick off Summer Reading!! Make plans to attend, tour the bookmobile and meet our Bookmobile Librarian, Kaylee Stanfield and driver Stan Younts.

We color every Thursday afternoon.  Come and join us.  We have everything you need to color.  We even furnish a picture.  Come and visit while you color.  Sure to be a fun time at the library.

Make your own playdough, and then turn it into a volcano to learn about chemical reactions.

Discover the fun of yarn art!  Simply choose a design (or create your own!) and cover it with colorful yarn.  This artform is also known as "Huichol," which is a traditional art done by the indigenous people of Mexico.

ESports at the Coal County Library!

Enjoy a story and STEM activity.  Get ready to press, color, and shine in this unique, hands-on art program!

Let your child’s creativity shine in this fun and expressive self-portrait craft! In this engaging craft program, kids will create their own unique self-portraits using a variety of art materials like crayons, markers, collage pieces, and more.

The Library is starting a Chess Club.  Come on out and join us for our first outing.  If you know how to play chess test your skills at the library.  If you want to learn how to play come on down too.

The public library offers a dynamic senior fitness program, fostering health and community engagement. Tailored for seniors, it combines low-impact exercises, flexibility training, and social activities.

ESports at the Coal County Library!

Get ready to watch color explode and create your own stunning flowers in this exciting, hands-on program!

Are you ready to dive into a beachy sensory storytime experience?! Sun, Sand & Stories is an interactive program designed for children of all abilities.

Miss Julie is starting a Teen Book Club.  Come and join us for our first meeting.  You tell us what you want to read and talk about.  

Get ready for a magical, wiggly adventure! In this fun hands-on program, you’ll use markers, paper towels, and water to create your very own colorful worms—and then watch them stretch and

Get ready to soar high with Soaring Science—a fun and exciting STEM project where you'll design, build, and fly your very own kite!

Discover the dazzling world of geodes and crystals! In this fun, hands-on program, participants will learn how geodes are formed in nature—and then create their very own sparkling crystal geode using simple materials.

ESports at the Coal County Library!

Shutter Vibes: Color Pop!

A Teen Photography Series

Come and join other teens for an hour  of x-box 360 games.  Several other games are available to play as well.  Each week a different game.

Explore the colorful world where art meets science! In this hands-on program, participants will experiment with watercolor paints and salt to create stunning, one-of-a-kind prints.

Artistic Odyssey: Join the Sarah and the Coal County Library as she leads guests on a challenging art program you can share with your friends. Teens

Join us for this month’s Teen Craft Circle, where we’ll be creating dazzling temporary tattoos! Teens will design and apply their own shimmering, skin-safe tattoos using special temporary tattoo paper, glitter, and metallic accents.

Join us for a creative sidewalk painting session using washable paint! Come help decorate the library with beautiful designs!

The OSU Extension office will be at the library each Thursday in May to talk about Eating Healthy with Diabetes.  Come and join us and learn what you can eat while living with diabetes.  

STEMS Put your problem-solving skills to the test in our STEM Challenge for teens!

Need to slow down, unwind, and let go of your day? Join Tara at the Coal County Library and Brush it Off! Guests will be painting a floral scene as the second part of an art series, to follow the proverb, "April showers, bring May flowers"!

Our Friends of the Library Book Club has an all new name.  Come and read with us between the covers.  Bring your favorite book and talk about it and find other books you may want to read.  This month the group will be all reading th

Come get (temporarily) tatted up with henna! Nerd Herd is a teen program designed to be attended independently by teens. Accommodations can be made by request.