Ray County Library

Kid Zone STEM: Chemical Reactions
2025-06-24 16:00 - 17:00 (America/Chicago) | Library Community Room
This month’s kids’ STEM program will be chemical reactions! This program is best for children in grades 1-5. Supplies and fun are provided!

Storytime!
2025-06-25 10:00 - 11:00 | Library Community Room
Early Literacy Storytime program for toddlers and preschoolers. This session’s theme is summer fun and will include fun stories, activities, and a craft!

Storytime!
2025-07-02 10:00 - 11:00 | Library Community Room
Research shows that children benefit from active participation in early learning activities. Bring your children to this event for stories and craft activities. This week’s theme is 4th of July and will include a patriotic sensory bottle craft!

Storytime!
2025-07-09 10:00 - 11:00 | Library Community Room
Research shows that children benefit from active participation in early learning activities. Bring your children to this event for stories and craft activities. This week’s theme is gardens and will include a ladybug art craft!

Mad Science Presents: Lights, Color, Action Hands-on Workshop!
2025-07-10 16:00 - 17:00 | Library Community Room
Join us Thursday, July 10 as MAD Science presents Lights, Color, Action! This hands-on workshop for kids 6-12 will explore the color spectrum with prisms and diffraction glasses, and blend colors to produce white light and split white light into colors. Event spots are limited, so please RSVP with a librarian or register online here: https://forms.gle/idVNEJxTKKNQ9H3R9

Storytime!
2025-07-16 10:00 - 11:00 | Library Community Room
Research shows that children benefit from active participation in early learning activities. Bring your children to this event for stories and craft activities. This week’s theme is chickens and will include a paper plate chicken craft!

StoneLion Puppet Theatre Presents: Art Outside the Box
2025-07-22 10:00 - 11:00 | Library Community Room
Join us Tuesday, July 22 at 10 am as StoneLion Puppet Theatre presents Art Outside the Box, an artistic and inspirational puppet show!

Looking for inspiration? Have no fear: The Inspiration Instigator is here! With just a humble box, and the inspiration of the great masters, he can motivate you to create your own masterpiece. Lately, however, he’s found himself in a real pickle: someone is replacing famous artworks with pickles! Who could ‘produce’ such a nefarious scheme? Help solve the mystery, and discover where your own art can come from, in this interactive production of puppets, pickles, and perspective.

This program is best for children in preschool through 5th grade

Storytime Cancelled
2025-07-23 10:00 - 11:00 | Library Community Room
Research shows that children benefit from active participation in early learning activities. Bring your children to this event for stories and craft activities. This week’s theme is outer space and will include a rocket craft!

MU Extension STEM Program
2025-07-29 10:00 - 11:00 | Library Community Room
Join us Tuesday, July 29 at 10 am as Ray County 4H and MU Extension present a STEM activity for grades 1-5. Take a spin on a bike to make a smoothie! All supplies provided.

Kid Zone STEM: Alien Invasion
2025-07-29 16:00 - 17:00 | Library Community Room
This month’s program has been moved to July 29, 2025, @4:00-4:45 p.m.
July’s stem activity is creating rocket straws, and using them to crash land UFO’s that have infiltrated the library! This program is best for children in grades 1-5. Supplies and fun are provided!

Storytime!
2025-07-30 10:00 - 11:00 | Library Community Room
Research shows that children benefit from active participation in early learning activities. Bring your children to this event for stories and craft activities. This week’s theme is pets and will include an accordion dog craft!

Storytime!
2025-08-06 10:00 - 11:00 | Library Community Room
Research shows that children benefit from active participation in early learning activities. Bring your children to this event for stories and craft activities. This week’s theme is frogs!

Storytime!
2025-08-13 10:00 - 11:00 | Library Community Room
Early Literacy Storytime program for toddlers and preschoolers. This session’s theme is dinosaurs and will include fun stories, activities, and a craft!

Storytime!
2025-08-20 10:00 - 11:00 | Library Community Room
Research shows that children benefit from active participation in early learning activities. Bring your children to this event for stories and craft activities. This week’s theme is wings and wiggles!

Kid Zone STEM: Ice Cream In A Bag!
2025-08-26 16:00 - 17:00 | Library Community Room
This month’s kids’ STEM program is ice cream in a bag! This program is best for children in grades 1-5. Supplies and fun are provided!

Storytime!
2025-08-27 10:00 - 11:00 | Library Community Room
Early Literacy Storytime program for toddlers and preschoolers. This session’s theme is kindness and will include fun stories, activities, and a craft!

Storytime!
2025-09-03 10:00 - 11:00 | Library Community Room
Research shows that children benefit from active participation in early learning activities. Bring your children to this event for stories and craft activities. This week’s theme is silly stories!

Storytime!
2025-09-10 10:00 - 11:00 | Library Community Room
Early Literacy Storytime program for toddlers and preschoolers. This session’s theme is apples & orchards and will include fun stories, activities, and a craft!

Storytime!
2025-09-17 10:00 - 11:00 | Library Community Room
Research shows that children benefit from active participation in early learning activities. Bring your children to this event for stories and craft activities. This week’s theme is fall!

Kid Zone- Inside the Egg: The Science of Chicks
2025-09-23 16:00 - 17:00 | Library Community Room
This month’s kids’ STEM program will be about the science of chicks! This program is best for children in grades 1-5. Supplies and fun are provided!

Storytime!
2025-09-24 10:00 - 11:00 | Library Community Room
Early Literacy Storytime program for toddlers and preschoolers. This session’s theme is farms and will include fun stories, activities, and a craft!

Storytime!
2025-10-01 10:00 - 11:00 | Library Community Room
Research shows that children benefit from active participation in early learning activities. Bring your children to this event for stories and craft activities. This week’s theme is nocturnal animals!

Storytime!
2025-10-08 10:00 - 11:00 | Library Community Room
Early Literacy Storytime program for toddlers and preschoolers. This session’s theme is pumpkins and will include fun stories, activities, and a craft!

Kid Zone STEM: Spooky Oobleck Halloween Science
2025-10-09 16:00 - 17:00 | Lawson Park, 101-199 W 4th St., Lawson, MO, 64062, United States
This month’s kids’ STEM program will be about Halloween science! This program is best for children in grades 1-5. Supplies and fun are provided!

Storytime!
2025-10-15 10:00 - 11:00 | Library Community Room
Research shows that children benefit from active participation in early learning activities. Bring your children to this event for stories and craft activities. This week’s theme is scarecrows!

Storytime at Lawson Park!
2025-10-15 13:00 - 14:00 | Lawson Park, 101-199 W 4th St., Lawson, MO, 64062, United States
Join us Wednesday, October 15 at 1:00 p.m. at Lawson Park for storytime & crafts, and get ready for some Halloween fun! All supplies provided. This program is best for toddlers and preschoolers.

Storytime!
2025-10-22 10:00 - 11:00 | Library Community Room
Early Literacy Storytime program for toddlers and preschoolers. This session’s theme is black cats and bats, and will include fun stories, activities, and a craft!

Lawson Fall Festival Craft Activity
2025-10-25 11:00 - 13:00 | Lawson Fall Festival, Lawson, Missouri, United States
Join the Ray County Library for some crafts at the Lawson Fall Festival!

Kid Zone STEM: Trick or Tator
2025-10-28 16:00 - 17:00 | Library Community Room
This month’s kids’ STEM program will be trick or tator! Build a monster out of a potato! This program is best for children in grades 1-5. Supplies and fun are provided!

Storytime!
2025-10-29 10:00 - 11:00 | Library Community Room
Research shows that children benefit from active participation in early learning activities. Bring your children to this event for stories and craft activities. This week’s theme will be Halloween!
