Week Calendar

Enjoy books, songs, activities, and rhymes chosen especially for lap babies, beginning walkers, and their caregivers. Then stay and play with a variety of toys and everyday objects.   

The McHenry County Department of Health will be offering wellness screenings for cholesterol, triglycerides, glucose, blood pressure, body mass analysis, A1C, and heart age assessment. Fasting is recommended but not required. 

Enjoy books, songs, activities, and rhymes chosen especially for toddlers. Then stay for a craft to help fine tune those fine motor skills.   

Storytimes will be offered in two 5-week sessions : 

Talk, read, write, play, and sing your way through learning with books, rhymes, flannel stories and activities. Then stay for a craft to help fine tune those fine motor skills.   

Join the Hollow Tree Spinners, a group of quilters and sewing enthusiasts, at the library for a fun and collaborative session.

The Spouses Caring for Spouses support group is facilitated by mental health professionals from Independence Health & Therapy and provides a place for spouses or life partners providing care to their companions to share their unique experience

Curious about how the County serves its Seniors? Know a Senior who could use some help?

Families who speak, or are learning to speak, Spanish can enjoy stories, crafts, and songs at our Spanish-language storytime. This program is conducted entirely in Spanish.   

Explore the world around you through different activities like making a musical instrument, using a compass, or even creating a book.  

Lori Gottlieb, New York Times bestselling author of Maybe You Should Talk to Someone, and co-host of the “Dear Therapists” podcast joins us for a thought-provoking conversation about mental health in anticipation of the winter holiday season.