Ray County Library

Storytime!
2025-04-23 10:00 - 11:00 (America/Chicago) | Library Community Room
Early Literacy Storytime program for toddlers and preschoolers. This session’s theme is trains and will include fun stories, activities, and a craft!

Storytime!
2025-04-30 10:00 - 11:00
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 Bluey!

Storytime!
2025-05-07 10:00 - 11:00
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 rain!

Storytime!
2025-05-14 10:00 - 11:00
Early Literacy Storytime program for toddlers and preschoolers. This session’s theme is turtles and will include fun stories, activities, and a craft!

Storytime!
2025-05-21 10:00 - 11:00
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 windy days!

Kid Zone STEM
2025-05-27 16:00 - 17:00
This month’s kids’ craft program will be announced soon! This program is best for children in grades 1-5. Supplies and fun are provided!

Storytime!
2025-05-28 10:00 - 11:00
Early Literacy Storytime program for toddlers and preschoolers. This session’s theme is sharing and will include fun stories, activities, and a craft!

Storytime!
2025-06-04 10:00 - 11:00
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 under the sea!

MU Extension STEM program: Dissecting Owl Pellets
2025-06-10 10:00 - 11:00
Join us for a STEM program, presented by Ray County 4-H and MU Extension, and learn all about dissecting owl pellets! This program is best for grades 1-5.

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

Storyteller Joyce Slater Presents: Our World of Color
2025-06-12 11:00 - 12:00
Join us Thursday, June 12 at 11 am for a special storytime event, as Storyteller Joyce Slater presents Our World of Color. This program is best for toddlers, preschoolers, and up

Storyteller Sarah Poff Presents: Summer Waves
2025-06-17 11:00 - 12:00
Join us Tuesday, June 17 at 11 am as Multimedia Storyteller Sarah Poff assists in creating your own Wave Painting, inspired by The Great Wave off Kanagawa by Edo era Japanese artist Hokusai. Participants will learn a quick easy way to paint the waves on 8″x11″ canvas board using acrylic paints. All supplies provided. This program is best for children ages 5 and up

Storytime!
2025-06-18 10:00 - 11:00
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 reptiles!

Kid Zone STEM: Chemical Reactions
2025-06-24 16:00 - 17:00
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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!
