Week Calendar

Get creative at North Side and enjoy our cart of arts and crafts supplies!

Create a marble maze! Drop in to North Side and use a variety of materials to make a maze for a marble inside of a small cardboard box.

Learn to make a variety of paper projects at the North Side Library with ASAP bilingual Teaching Artist Lunita. Lunita will show us how to make paper projects like mini-piñatas and personal planners. 

Are you looking for a great place to volunteer? Become a volunteen and help with library projects and programs.

Children and teens ages 8-18 can join us at the North Side Library on the 2nd Tuesday of each month for Art Club!

This month's project is watercolor flowers!

Join the fun at Chess Club! Chess is one of the world's most popular games and is played by millions of people worldwide. Learn to play or come to test your skills with other players.

Earn volunteer hours by helping out with library programs and projects! Teens ages 12 to 18 can drop in any Wednesday we are open and volunteer for one hour.

Join The Dealt Hand for School of Adventure!  If you're looking to learn the basics of Dungeons and Dragons and participate in an epic adventure, join us for 3 weeks of D&D fun!  Week one will be an overview of the rules of D&D w

Music is a universal language, and everyone is invited to jam with Jordan at ASAP. We’ll use a variety of instruments to keep beats, strengthen our listening skills, create our own melodies, and have fun expressing ourselves through sound.

Learn about the purpose and function of the Sustainable Iowa Land Trust (SILT).

Get crafty and create your own adorable Pop-Tart plushie! Teens will use fabric, felt, and other materials to design and sew their own soft, squishy Pop Tart-inspired creations.

Join Des Moines Public Schools for a screening of The Right to Read, a documentary on the literacy crisis and the Science of Reading.