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Family Night at the Library! - Lego Derby!

6:30pm–7:30pm
Toddlers, Preschool, School-Age Children, Teens, Adults
Open
Registration Required
Library Branch: Main Branch
Room: Community Room
Age Group: Toddlers, Preschool, School-Age Children, Teens, Adults
Registration Required
Event Details:

Get your family together and build the fastest (Funniest? Most creative?) Lego car you can! Build one car as a family or have everyone build their own car.

Tween Club Read - Bring Your Own Book

4:15pm–5:00pm
School-Age Children, Teens
Upcoming
Registration Required
Library Branch: Main Branch
Room: Community Room
Age Group: School-Age Children, Teens
Program Type: Book Club
Registration Required
Event Details:

This month, we want you to bring your own book to talk about! Bring your favorite book. Bring the book you're currently reading. Bring your LEAST favorite book. Just bring a book and be ready to tell us a little bit about it!

Inner Child: The Enchanted World of Margaret Wise Brown

6:30pm–8:00pm
Adults
Library Branch: Main Branch
Room: Community Room
Age Group: Adults
Program Type: Book Club, Program
Event Details:

Join us for our first meeting of the Inner Child discussion group!

Eagles Landing Homeowners Association

5:30pm–7:30pm
Library Branch: Main Branch
Room: Community Room
Purpose of Meeting

HOA Meeting
*This program is not sponsored by or affiliated with the West Des Moines Public Library.

YA Not Club Read

6:30pm–8:00pm
Adults
Open
Registration Required
Library Branch: Main Branch
Room: Community Room
Age Group: Adults
Program Type: Book Club
Registration Required
Event Details:

Are you a "Grown Up" but you like to read Young Adult books?  Are you looking for a book club that doesn’t take itself too seriously?  Then YA Not join us for YA Not Club Read!

Saturday Storytime

9:30am–10:00am
Babies, Toddlers, Preschool
Library Branch: Main Branch
Room: StoryRoom
Age Group: Babies, Toddlers, Preschool
Program Type: Storytime
Event Details:

Drop in and join us in the storyroom for Saturday Storytime! Build a lifetime love of books and reading as we share stories, songs, and interactive rhymes with an early literacy focus. For ages 0-6 w/adult. No registration.

MUFON Iowa

10:00am–12:00pm
Library Branch: Main Branch
Room: Community Room
Purpose of Meeting

UFO/UAP Education and current events
*This program is not sponsored by or affiliated with the West Des Moines Public Library.

WDM Writer's Group

10:00am–2:00pm
Adults
Library Branch: Main Branch
Room: Southwoods Room
Age Group: Adults
Program Type: Program
Event Details:

This in-person group is open to aspiring authors of all experience levels. Each participant brings an approximately 1500-word excerpt of their work-in-progress to read aloud.

Saturday Storytime

10:30am–11:00am
Babies, Toddlers, Preschool
Library Branch: Main Branch
Room: StoryRoom
Age Group: Babies, Toddlers, Preschool
Program Type: Storytime
Event Details:

Drop in and join us in the storyroom for Saturday Storytime! Build a lifetime love of books and reading as we share stories, songs, and interactive rhymes with an early literacy focus. For ages 0-6 w/adult. No registration.

Chinese Association of Iowa

1:00pm–4:00pm
Library Branch: Main Branch
Room: Community Room
Purpose of Meeting

Community service seminar.

(1) Chang to VISA application.

(2) Visiting China - Notes from recent visitors.

(3) Social time.

*This program is not sponsored by or affiliated with the West Des Moines Public Library.

Iowa Files: Iowans in Andersonville Prison

3:00pm–4:00pm
Adults
Library Branch: Main Branch
Room: Community Room
Age Group: Adults
Program Type: Program
Event Details:

214 Billy Yanks from Iowa were Starved, Fevered or Shot to Death At Andersonville Prison Camp by Johnny Reb in 1864-1865.

Lapsit Storytime

9:30am–10:00am
Babies
Library Branch: Main Branch
Room: StoryRoom
Age Group: Babies
Program Type: Storytime
Event Details:

Using puppets, rhymes, songs, and short stories, we will engage baby and caregiver in language-rich activities designed for pre-walking babies.

Lapsit Storytime

10:30am–11:00am
Babies
Library Branch: Main Branch
Room: StoryRoom
Age Group: Babies
Program Type: Storytime
Event Details:

Using puppets, rhymes, songs, and short stories, we will engage baby and caregiver in language-rich activities designed for pre-walking babies.

Club Read: Hybrid Edition

7:00pm–8:45pm
Adults
Open
Registration Required
Library Branch: Main Branch
Room: Community Room
Age Group: Adults
Program Type: Book Club
Registration Required
Event Details:

Join Alana and Amy on Monday, January 12th at 7p.m. for Club Read, a book club for adults. You may join us in the Community Room at the library or through Zoom.

Toddler Storytime

9:30am–10:00am
Babies, Toddlers
Library Branch: Main Branch
Room: StoryRoom
Age Group: Babies, Toddlers
Program Type: Storytime
Event Details:

Simple stories, gentle tunes, flannel boards, and nursery rhymes.

Toddler Storytime

10:30am–11:00am
Babies, Toddlers
Library Branch: Main Branch
Room: StoryRoom
Age Group: Babies, Toddlers
Program Type: Storytime
Event Details:

Simple stories, gentle tunes, flannel boards, and nursery rhymes.

Kids Club Read - Bring Your Own Book

4:15pm–5:00pm
School-Age Children
Upcoming
Registration Required
Library Branch: Main Branch
Room: Community Room
Age Group: School-Age Children
Program Type: Book Club
Registration Required
Event Details:

This month, we want you to bring your own book to talk about! Bring your favorite book. Bring the book you're currently reading. Bring your LEAST favorite book. Just bring a book and be ready to tell us a little bit about it!

Baby Doll Storytime

9:30am–10:00am
Toddlers, Preschool
Library Branch: Main Branch
Room: StoryRoom
Age Group: Toddlers, Preschool
Program Type: Storytime
Event Details:

Bring a favorite doll/stuffed animal or use one of ours and join us for Baby Doll Storytime. This program is inspired by Dr.

Newcomers Compass Club

9:30am–11:30am
Library Branch: Main Branch
Room: Community Room
Purpose of Meeting

Board meeting
*This program is not sponsored by or affiliated with the West Des Moines Public Library.

Baby Doll Storytime

10:30am–11:00am
Toddlers, Preschool
Library Branch: Main Branch
Room: StoryRoom
Age Group: Toddlers, Preschool
Program Type: Storytime
Event Details:

Bring a favorite doll/stuffed animal or use one of ours and join us for Baby Doll Storytime. This program is inspired by Dr.

After School Adventures - Lego Derby!

3:45pm–4:30pm
School-Age Children
Upcoming
Registration Required
Library Branch: Main Branch
Room: Community Room
Age Group: School-Age Children
Program Type: Program
Registration Required
Event Details:

Get your engineering hat on and build the fastest (Funniest? Most creative?) Lego car you can! Build a car on your own or work with a team. We’ll race them down the library’s new track and see who can cross the finish line first!

Family Storytime

6:30pm–7:30pm
Toddlers, Preschool
Library Branch: Main Branch
Room: Community Room
Age Group: Toddlers, Preschool
Program Type: Storytime
Event Details:

Join us in the Community Room for this class featuring stories, songs, and rhymes followed by gross and fine motor play all with an early literacy focus!

For ages 2-6 w/adult. 

 

Family Storytime

10:30am–11:30am
Toddlers, Preschool
Library Branch: Main Branch
Room: Community Room
Age Group: Toddlers, Preschool
Program Type: Storytime
Event Details:

Join us in the Community Room for this class featuring stories, songs, and rhymes followed by gross and fine motor play all with an early literacy focus!

For ages 2-6 w/adult. 

 

LIGHT: Mothers Night Out

6:00pm–8:00pm
Library Branch: Main Branch
Room: Community Room
Purpose of Meeting

A monthly gathering of the mothers in our Homeschool Co-Op.
We plan to share food and put a puzzle together.
*This program is not sponsored by or affiliated with the West Des Moines Public Library.