Saturday mornings are for investigation! Elementary aged children and parents/guardians/ care-givers are invited to participate in a STEAM project that they will work on individually or with others.
Participants will be encouraged to share their findings or work with the group. We will also celebrate the scientists, mathematicians, engineers, and artists who inspired today’s project.
Saturday, December 14 – Engineering: Building Challenge
Saturday, December 21- Math: Calculating Distance, Rate and Time
Saturday, December 28 – Making Snow and Slime
Saturday, January 4 – Computer Science: Making a Cardboard Guitar Play
Saturday, January 11- Art: Poured Canvas Art
Saturday, January 18 – Physics: Bubbles and Balloons
Saturday, January 25 – Ecology: Biomes vs Habitats
Saturday, February 1 – Biology: Building our Own Cell
Saturday, February 8 – Robotics: Make Your Own Robot
Saturday, February 15 – Acoustics: Seeing Sound
Saturday, February 22 – Art: Creating Optical Illusion Art
Saturday, February 29 – Optics: Explore Light with Prisms
We always recommend confirming details before attending. We hope to see you there!
“Mother Goose on the Loose” is a 20-minute nursery rhyme program for newborns to three-year-olds, followed by a 30-minute playtime. This program helps strengthen babies’ and toddlers’ foundation for literacy with rhymes, rhythm, repetition, story and movement.
We always recommend confirming details before attending. We hope to see you there!
Teens will have the opportunity to play an assortment of video games, board games, or card games.
Each week, teens will have the opportunity to play an assortment of video games, board games, or card games. Special Virtual Reality events will happen as well!
We always recommend confirming details before attending. We hope to see you there!
Join us for stories, rhymes, and songs.
Grow your child’s love of reading by attending Preschool Story Time. Each week explore new stories, songs, and rhymes.
We always recommend confirming details before attending. We hope to see you there!
Join us at the Coralville Public Library for a free Movie Night!
Toni Morrison: The Pieces I Am
Tuesday, February 25, 6:00 pm
This documentary about Nobel Prize-winner Toni Morrison is “an artful and intimate meditation on the legendary storyteller” that examines “race, history, America, and the human condition”
Interviews with: Hilton Als, Angela Davis, Fran Lebowitz, Walter Mosley, Sonia Sanchez, Oprah Winfrey.
This movie is 2 hours long. Refreshments, including fresh popped popcorn, will be provided.
Join the ukulele revolution! Local musician volunteers will lead Ukulele Cafe, where you’ll learn a few simple chords and leave playing a tune. Doesn’t get much better than this. Ukuleles provided.
Please register by calling the library or online at www.crlibrary.org on the events page.
We always recommend confirming details before attending. We hope to see you there!
“Mother Goose on the Loose” is a 20-minute nursery rhyme program for newborns to three-year-olds, followed by a 30-minute playtime. This program helps strengthen babies’ and toddlers’ foundation for literacy with rhymes, rhythm, repetition, story and movement.
We always recommend confirming details before attending. We hope to see you there!
A relaxed, casual session playing this great universal game!
Join the All-Ages meeting of the Cedar Rapids Chess Club from 5:30 to 7:30 pm weekly on Wednesdays at the Downtown Library for a relaxed, casual session playing this great universal game! Whether you are interested in learning chess, advancing your knowledge of the game, or teaching others, you are invited to attend. For more information, connect with us on Facebook or visit www.chessiniowa.org/crchess.
We always recommend confirming details before attending. We hope to see you there!
Join us for stories, rhymes, and songs.
Grow your child’s love of reading by attending Preschool Story Time. Each week explore new stories, songs, and rhymes.
We always recommend confirming details before attending. We hope to see you there!
“Mother Goose on the Loose” is a 20-minute nursery rhyme program for newborns to three-year-olds, followed by a 30-minute playtime. This program helps strengthen babies’ and toddlers’ foundation for literacy with rhymes, rhythm, repetition, story and movement.
We always recommend confirming details before attending. We hope to see you there!
