Everyone loves Bubbles! Go to Windmill Park for this interactive bubble experience hosted by Absolute Science, where kids of all ages & adults get to make small bubbles, big bubbles, and all bubbles in between!

Looking to feel more comfortable around dogs? Need a little extra love? Or do you just love dogs? Join us at this drop-in dog therapy session!

Join us at City Hall for a visit from Sioux County Conservation. The conservationists will provide some hands-on nature education! You might even get to meet some fun animal friends.

Who doesn't love visiting the zoo? Since we can’t all visit the zoo together, the Great Plains Zoo is going to visit us at City Hall! Join us to see and hear about some fascinating animals.

Whether he’s counting monsters, fixing spaceships, or swimming in peanut butter, Dino brings concepts to life and audiences to their feet with his musical and educational programs. A former preschool and elementary teacher, Dino has performed all over the country, telling stories and teaching songs to legions of fans. 

Dino’s shows weave music, stories, and animations into interactive performances that teach topics such as astronomy, geography, earth science, mathematics, and early literacy.

For pet owners of all ages, come hear Dr. Laura Vander Stelt & Dr. Ashley Hoogland from Family Animal Care present practical and applicable advice on taking care of our furry friends! Whether cats, dogs, fish, or fowl, Dr. Vander Stelt & Dr. Hoogland will have advice about maintaining the health and happiness of your pet.

Move and groove in this unique story time with active stories, song and dance, and sensory-rich toys. Featuring Brown Bear, Brown Bear, What Do You See?, this story time keeps kids moving and is a great introduction to story time. Designed for ages birth-3 and caretakers, but all are welcome!

Join us for stories, songs, crafts, and games geared for children ages 3–6 and their caregivers, but all are welcome to join! This session, we will be learning more about plants! How they grow and produce fruit, and growing gardens.

Kindergarten-4th Grade: Enjoy some fun stories and create your own stuffed reading buddy in this stuffed animal workshop. The workshop will repeat three times – limited to one registration per person. *Registration and adult helper required.

Kindergarten-4th Grade: Children will create some cookie artwork in this fun and frosting-filled event! Come learn some simple piping tips and tricks, then put them into practice to create some cookie art that is both nice to look at and good to eat!  *Registration required.

Grades 5-12: This game relies on simple chemistry and an imaginative tale to create a magical experience.  Participants must solve a series of riddles to find the ingredients to make four potions.  The colors of the potions reveal the combination to open a chest revealing magic pixie dust.  *Registration required.

Meet librarian Victoria at The Floral Market store front for a very special story time! We will get to hear Erica De Jong, owner of The Floral Market, share about her job and business. We will also get to read a few books about plants and gardening, fitting for our summer plant theme!

Kindergarten-4th Grade: Create some musical instruments out of recyclables, clean trash, and other objects from around the house, erm, library! Then, bring them with you to the Omaha Street Percussion performance at Windmill Park at 5 pm that evening! Just like we will, the Omaha Street Percussion group makes instruments out of unusual and unexpected objects! *Registration required.

Grades 5-12: Using Demco Stick Together Generator, create Pixel Sticker Art! Just like the library sticker art, but smaller and customized. Once you’ve created your “mat,” you will be able to use stickers to “color” the artwork to take home.  *Registration required.

Excited by fun board games? Enticed by Eco-restoration? Looking for a way to learn more about Prairies?  Come play Perennial, a prairie restoration game, with one of it’s creators, Dordt Prof Jeff Ploegstra! In this game, you are working together as different parts of a restoration team to bring back the native prairie ecosystem of the Midwest, while working against factors such as invasive species and burns! *Registration encouraged.

With a copy of the “Prairie and Woodland Flowers Coloring Book” as reference, this presentation by Dr. Danuta Hutchins of Humanities Iowa identifies prairie wildflowers, their common English names and Linnaeus-based classification in Latin. Learn when they blossom, where they grow, and what medicinal and food uses have they served during the times of early pioneers and Native American Peoples. This program includes a “hands-on” component of drawing/coloring images of those flowers.

Learn strategies to save money on food expenses and incorporate new ideas into menu planning and food shopping while exploring the Spend Smart. Eat Smart. website. There's a gift to the first 10 who sign up.

Ever wanted to learn to embroider? Now you can! Special Presenter Lindsay Kuiper will walk you through some basic stitches and techniques to help you get started, or level up your embroidery! You will be provided with all the materials for the event. *Registration required.