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Preschool Play & Learn: Math Wizards!

Friday, November 1, 2024 at 1:30pm - 2:30pm
Off-the-Lobby at Woodridge Public Library
Age Group:
Children, Family
Event Details:

Here is a chance for preschoolers and their grown-ups to play and learn together. Different early childhood learning skills will be covered each month. This month is Math Wiza...

Open
Required
Library Branch: Woodridge Public Library
Room: Off-the-Lobby
Age Group: Children, Family
Required
Seats Remaining: 11
Event Details:

Here is a chance for preschoolers and their grown-ups to play and learn together. Different early childhood learning skills will be covered each month.

golden Diwali candle decorations

Diwali Storytime with The Language Labs

Friday, November 1, 2024 at 6:00pm - 6:30pm
Off-the-Lobby at Woodridge Public Library
Program Type:
Storytimes
Age Group:
Children, Family
Event Details:

Join us for a special Diwali-themed Hindi Storytime! This bilingual event will introduce the basics of the Hindi language through engaging stories, interactive games, and fun riddl...

Open
Required
Library Branch: Woodridge Public Library
Room: Off-the-Lobby
Age Group: Children, Family
Program Type: Storytimes
Required
Seats Remaining: 18
Event Details:

Join us for a special Diwali-themed Hindi Storytime! This bilingual event will introduce the basics of the Hindi language through engaging stories, interactive games, and fun riddles.

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Drop-In: Letter to a Veteran

All Day 11/3 - 11/9
Children's Dept. at Woodridge Public Library
Program Type:
Other
Age Group:
Children, Tweens, Family
Event Details:

With Veteran’s Day around the corner, stop by the library to express your appreciation. Drop in any time to write a letter or draw a picture that will be sent to a service member s...

Library Branch: Woodridge Public Library
Room: Children's Dept.
Age Group: Children, Tweens, Family
Program Type: Other
Event Details:

With Veteran’s Day around the corner, stop by the library to express your appreciation. Drop in any time to write a letter or draw a picture that will be sent to a service member somewhere around the world.

Kym Frankovelgia

Live Music: Places in Song by Kym Frankovelgia

Sunday, November 3, 2024 at 2:00pm - 3:00pm
Off-the-Lobby at Woodridge Public Library
Program Type:
Other
Age Group:
Adults, Seniors
Event Details:

Cabaret singer Kym Frankovelgia will delight the audience with popular songs about fabulous places like My Kind of Town, I Left My Heart in San Francisco, and Tennessee Waltz....

Open
Required
Library Branch: Woodridge Public Library
Room: Off-the-Lobby
Age Group: Adults, Seniors
Program Type: Other
Required
Seats Remaining: 52
Event Details:

Cabaret singer Kym Frankovelgia will delight the audience with popular songs about fabulous places like My Kind of Town, I Left My Heart in San Francisco, and Tennessee Waltz.

Dino scratch art with dinosaur with name design and dots

Children's Take and Make: Dino Scratch Art

All Day 11/4 - 11/9
Woodridge Public Library
Age Group:
Children
Event Details:

Starting November 4 stop by the Circulation Desk in the lobby of the library to get a craft kit to take home.

Library Branch: Woodridge Public Library
Age Group: Children
Event Details:

Starting November 4 stop by the Circulation Desk in the lobby of the library to get a craft kit to take home.

Preschool Storytime: Ages 3 - 5

Monday, November 4, 2024 at 9:30am - 10:00am
Meeting Room AB at Woodridge Public Library
Program Type:
Storytimes
Age Group:
Children
Event Details:

Exciting interactive play, music, and stories for your preschool child. Kids are encouraged to attend independently; they will have a great time while learning social skills. ...

Open
Required
Library Branch: Woodridge Public Library
Room: Meeting Room AB
Age Group: Children
Program Type: Storytimes
Required
Seats Remaining: 14
Event Details:

Exciting interactive play, music, and stories for your preschool child. Kids are encouraged to attend independently; they will have a great time while learning social skills.

Toddler Time: Ages 2 - 3

Monday, November 4, 2024 at 10:15am - 10:45am
Meeting Room AB at Woodridge Public Library
Program Type:
Storytimes
Age Group:
Children
Event Details:

Toddler Time is filled with exciting interactive play, games, music, and stories for your 2- to 3-year-old child to enjoy with a caretaker. Registration is required.  ...

Open
Required
Library Branch: Woodridge Public Library
Room: Meeting Room AB
Age Group: Children
Program Type: Storytimes
Required
Seats Remaining: 19
Event Details:

Toddler Time is filled with exciting interactive play, games, music, and stories for your 2- to 3-year-old child to enjoy with a caretaker.

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Virtual: ESL Conversation Group

Tuesday, November 5, 2024 at 10:00am - 11:00am
Virtual
Program Type:
Other
Age Group:
Adults
Event Details:

Welcome! This English as a Second Language (ESL) conversation group will be conducted by an experienced volunteer from Literacy DuPage. Meetings give intermediate and abo...

Open
Required
Virtual Event
Library Branch: Virtual
Age Group: Adults
Program Type: Other
Required
Seats Remaining: Unlimited
Event Details:

Welcome! This English as a Second Language (ESL) conversation group will be conducted by an experienced volunteer from Literacy DuPage.

Toddler Time: Ages 2 - 3

Tuesday, November 5, 2024 at 10:15am - 10:45am
Meeting Room AB at Woodridge Public Library
Program Type:
Storytimes
Age Group:
Children
Event Details:

Toddler Time is filled with exciting interactive play, games, music, and stories for your 2- to 3-year-old child to enjoy with a caretaker. Registration is required.  ...

Open
Required
Library Branch: Woodridge Public Library
Room: Meeting Room AB
Age Group: Children
Program Type: Storytimes
Required
Seats Remaining: 16
Event Details:

Toddler Time is filled with exciting interactive play, games, music, and stories for your 2- to 3-year-old child to enjoy with a caretaker.

Preschool Storytime: Ages 3 - 5

Tuesday, November 5, 2024 at 1:30pm - 2:00pm
Meeting Room AB at Woodridge Public Library
Program Type:
Storytimes
Age Group:
Children
Event Details:

Exciting interactive play, music, and stories for your preschool child. Kids are encouraged to attend independently; they will have a great time while learning social skills. ...

Open
Required
Library Branch: Woodridge Public Library
Room: Meeting Room AB
Age Group: Children
Program Type: Storytimes
Required
Seats Remaining: 20
Event Details:

Exciting interactive play, music, and stories for your preschool child. Kids are encouraged to attend independently; they will have a great time while learning social skills.

Baby Lapsit: 0 - 24 Months

Wednesday, November 6, 2024 at 9:30am - 10:00am
Meeting Room AB at Woodridge Public Library
Program Type:
Storytimes
Age Group:
Children
Event Details:

Storytime designed for babies 0-24 months and their care. Simple stories, songs, fingerplays, and movement activities followed by fifteen minutes of social time. Registration...

Open
Required
Library Branch: Woodridge Public Library
Room: Meeting Room AB
Age Group: Children
Program Type: Storytimes
Required
Seats Remaining: 16
Event Details:

Storytime designed for babies 0-24 months and their care. Simple stories, songs, fingerplays, and movement activities followed by fifteen minutes of social time.

Toddler Time: Ages 2 - 3

Wednesday, November 6, 2024 at 10:15am - 10:45am
Meeting Room AB at Woodridge Public Library
Program Type:
Storytimes
Age Group:
Children
Event Details:

Toddler Time is filled with exciting interactive play, games, music, and stories for your 2- to 3-year-old child to enjoy with a caretaker. Registration is required.  ...

Open
Required
Library Branch: Woodridge Public Library
Room: Meeting Room AB
Age Group: Children
Program Type: Storytimes
Required
Seats Remaining: 21
Event Details:

Toddler Time is filled with exciting interactive play, games, music, and stories for your 2- to 3-year-old child to enjoy with a caretaker.

Image of Google Docs

Introduction to Google Docs

Wednesday, November 6, 2024 at 6:30pm - 8:30pm
Computer Training Lab at Woodridge Public Library
Program Type:
Computer Classes
Age Group:
Teens, Adults, Seniors
Event Details:

Learn how to create and format a Google document, share it with others, and download it as a PDF or Word document. A Google (or Gmail) account at accounts.google.com i...

Waitlist
Required
Library Branch: Woodridge Public Library
Room: Computer Training Lab
Age Group: Teens, Adults, Seniors
Program Type: Computer Classes
Required
Seats Remaining: 0
Event Details:

Learn how to create and format a Google document, share it with others, and download it as a PDF or Word document.

Baby Lapsit: 0 - 24 Months

Thursday, November 7, 2024 at 9:30am - 10:00am
Meeting Room AB at Woodridge Public Library
Program Type:
Storytimes
Age Group:
Children
Event Details:

Storytime designed for babies 0-24 months and their care. Simple stories, songs, fingerplays, and movement activities followed by fifteen minutes of social time. Registration...

Open
Required
Library Branch: Woodridge Public Library
Room: Meeting Room AB
Age Group: Children
Program Type: Storytimes
Required
Seats Remaining: 22
Event Details:

Storytime designed for babies 0-24 months and their care. Simple stories, songs, fingerplays, and movement activities followed by fifteen minutes of social time.

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Teen Volunteer Opportunity

Thursday, November 7, 2024 at 6:45pm - 8:15pm
Woodridge Public Library
Program Type:
Volunteering
Age Group:
Teens
Event Details:

Volunteers will assist staff with the Adult BINGO program. You will receive 1.5 service hours. Meet off the lobby. 

Full
Required
Library Branch: Woodridge Public Library
Age Group: Teens
Program Type: Volunteering
Required
Seats Remaining: 0
Event Details:

Volunteers will assist staff with the Adult BINGO program. You will receive 1.5 service hours. Meet off the lobby. 

Adult Autumn BINGO

Thursday, November 7, 2024 at 7:00pm - 8:00pm
Off-the-Lobby at Woodridge Public Library
Program Type:
Other
Age Group:
Adults, Seniors
Event Details:

Play BINGO! No fees. Small prizes. Fun guaranteed. Adults only, please!

Full
Required
Library Branch: Woodridge Public Library
Room: Off-the-Lobby
Age Group: Adults, Seniors
Program Type: Other
Required
Seats Remaining: 0
Event Details:

Play BINGO! No fees. Small prizes. Fun guaranteed.

Adults only, please!

colorful plastic dinosaur toys

Adopt-A-Saurus

Friday, November 8, 2024 at 10:00am - 10:30am
Meeting Room AB at Woodridge Public Library
Program Type:
Other
Age Group:
Children
Event Details:

Adopt your very own dinosaur to bring home. Choose a name, create a home, and have some dino fun! 

Open
Required
Library Branch: Woodridge Public Library
Room: Meeting Room AB
Age Group: Children
Program Type: Other
Required
Seats Remaining: 6
Event Details:

Adopt your very own dinosaur to bring home. Choose a name, create a home, and have some dino fun! 

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Senior Cards & Games

Friday, November 8, 2024 at 1:00pm - 3:00pm
Off-the-Lobby at Woodridge Public Library
Age Group:
Seniors
Event Details:

The library provides a friendly space and games on the 2nd and 4th Friday of each month. Library provides Yahtzee, decks of cards and poker chips, and Bunco. Attendees may ...

Library Branch: Woodridge Public Library
Room: Off-the-Lobby
Age Group: Seniors
Event Details:

The library provides a friendly space and games on the 2nd and 4th Friday of each month. Library provides Yahtzee, decks of cards and poker chips, and Bunco.

Featured Artist Reception: Mark and Denise Lanes

Friday, November 8, 2024 at 6:00pm - 7:00pm
Lobby at Woodridge Public Library
Program Type:
Other
Age Group:
Family
Event Details:

Stop by the Art Gallery to visit with artists Mark and Denise Lanes to discuss their artwork, background, and what inspires them.

Library Branch: Woodridge Public Library
Room: Lobby
Age Group: Family
Program Type: Other
Event Details:

Stop by the Art Gallery to visit with artists Mark and Denise Lanes to discuss their artwork, background, and what inspires them.

open box with question marks and confetti bursting out

Mystery Boxes

Friday, November 8, 2024 at 6:00pm - 7:00pm
Meeting Room AB at Woodridge Public Library
Program Type:
Other
Age Group:
Children, Tweens
Event Details:

What’s in the mystery boxes? Just reach in and find out! Can you and your team guess what's inside just by using your sense of touch?

Full
Required
Library Branch: Woodridge Public Library
Room: Meeting Room AB
Age Group: Children, Tweens
Program Type: Other
Required
Seats Remaining: 0
Event Details:

What’s in the mystery boxes? Just reach in and find out! Can you and your team guess what's inside just by using your sense of touch?

young black girl reading book

Sensory Storytime and Play

Saturday, November 9, 2024 at 10:00am - 10:45am
Meeting Room AB at Woodridge Public Library
Program Type:
Storytimes
Age Group:
Children, Family
Event Details:

This storytime program provides a modified environment and is intended for families with disabilities, on the autism spectrum, and/or sensory processing disorders.   If ...

Open
Required
Library Branch: Woodridge Public Library
Room: Meeting Room AB
Age Group: Children, Family
Program Type: Storytimes
Required
Seats Remaining: 10
Event Details:

This storytime program provides a modified environment and is intended for families with disabilities, on the autism spectrum, and/or sensory processing disorders.

 

TEEN PIZZA & SERVICE

Saturday, November 9, 2024 at 12:00pm - 1:30pm
Meeting Room AB at Woodridge Public Library
Program Type:
Volunteering
Age Group:
Teens
Full
Required
Library Branch: Woodridge Public Library
Room: Meeting Room AB
Age Group: Teens
Program Type: Volunteering
Required
Seats Remaining: 0
cute smiling fall leaves

Drop-in: Children's Scavenger Hunt-Unbe-LEAF-able!

All Day 11/10 - 11/16
Children's Dept. at Woodridge Public Library
Age Group:
Children
Event Details:

Search the department and win a sticker. Drop-in All Ages

Library Branch: Woodridge Public Library
Room: Children's Dept.
Age Group: Children
Event Details:

Search the department and win a sticker.

Drop-in

All Ages

Gnome Craft

Teen & Adult Take & Make: Gnome

All Day 11/11 - 11/15
Woodridge Public Library
Program Type:
Other
Age Group:
Teens, Adults, Seniors
Event Details:

Pick up at the Circulation Desk while supplies last. 

Library Branch: Woodridge Public Library
Age Group: Teens, Adults, Seniors
Program Type: Other
Event Details:

Pick up at the Circulation Desk while supplies last.