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Save your page in style! Learn how to make a custom bookmark using the embroidery machine.

Special playtime with craft, sensory, and activity stations. Fifteen name tags (children only). For birth–24 months and their grownups.

Special playtime with craft, sensory, and activity stations. Fifteen name tags (children only). For birth–24 months and their grownups.

Drop in to paint, stamp, weave, glue, and tape your way through a month of amazing crafts! For kids of all ages and their grownups.

Drop in to create a masterpiece together as a family. For adults and kids of all ages.

The Library Board of Trustees meets on the third Monday of each month.

Gratefully funded by the Friends of the Library.

Work with a partner to make dishes straight from the garden. For grades 3–5.

Learn to make tasty meals using only your microwave! Recipes will be posted with each event. Please email szagotta@gepl.org for additional information. 

Gratefully funded by the Friends of the Library.

Join neighbors to socialize while playing card and board games. Light refreshments provided.  

Explore hands-on STEM challenges each week using tech like Cubelets, Spheros, and LEGO bricks.  

Please visit glenellyn.org for details.

Gratefully funded by the Friends of the Library.

Experiment with sodas, juices, ice cream, and fun toppings to create your own custom float drink! For grades 6-8. 

This month's craft: Build Your Own Bouquet

Webs up, Spiders! Listen to superhero-themed stories and meet Spidey and Ghost-Spider. Costumes encouraged. Thirty name tags (children only). For birth-k and their grownups.    

Webs up, Spiders! Listen to superhero-themed stories and meet Spidey and Ghost-Spider. Costumes encouraged. Thirty name tags (children only). For birth-k and their grownups.    

Webs up, Spiders! Listen to superhero-themed stories and meet Spidey and Ghost-Spider. Costumes encouraged. Thirty name tags (children only). For birth-k and their grownups.    

Webs up, Spiders! Listen to superhero-themed stories and meet Spidey and Ghost-Spider. Costumes encouraged. Thirty name tags (children only). For birth-k and their grownups.    

The library normally offers passport photo services by appointment only. Have a passport photo taken without an appointment on a first-come, first-served basis by a passport agent. The fee for passport photos…

Drop in to paint, stamp, weave, glue, and tape your way through a month of amazing crafts! For kids of all ages and their grownups.

Learn to make your own acrylic jewelry using the laser.

Schedule your donation appointment at vitalant.org or call 877-25-VITAL. Walk-ins are welcome, but appointments are recommended.

Learn to make your own acrylic jewelry using the laser.

Gratefully funded by the Friends of the Library.

Learn about bug bodies, habits, and homes, and how bugs are used asa food source around the world. Optionally, taste an edible insect! Forgrades k–2.

Stop in with your questions or to troubleshoot an app or device issue on your laptop, tablet, or phone. 

Gratefully funded by the Friends of the Library.

A representative from Wright to Learn will discuss what people mean when they about AI, where it already shows up in your life, what it’s good (and not so good) at, and…

Learn how to establish your Common App account and complete the core personal data. Structure your application list. Prepare for your essays. Maximize these summer weeks to finish this process before school…

Join neighbors to socialize while playing card and board games. Light refreshments provided.  

Gratefully funded by the Friends of the Library.

The library normally offers passport photo services by appointment only. Have a passport photo taken without an appointment on a first-come, first-served basis by a passport agent. The fee for passport photos…

For beginner and seasoned adventurers who are middle or high school students.

Discover the nine major railroads that crisscrossed DuPage County. Learn from speaker Wayne Rosenwinkel how our railroads intertwined with the United States, Illinois, and our own county history.

Create a container out of recycled materials and plant a seed in the container to take home. For 3–6 years and their grownups.

Participate in a PollinatorBlitz journey through Glen Ellyn’s newest pollinator gardens, starting with storytime in the library's Butterfly Garden.10 am Meet at the Library Butterfly Garden for storytime.10:15 am Walk a one-mile Pollinator BioBlitz.11…

Staff-led program to learn basic skills using a piece of equipment by working on a beginner-level project. Please see Helpful Computer Skills for Maker Projects.

Drop in to paint, stamp, weave, glue, and tape your way through a month of amazing crafts! For kids of all ages and their grownups.

Gratefully funded by the Friends of the Library.

Celebrate Independence Day with a hands-on tie-dye program for the whole family! We’ll provide red and blue dye and guidance—just bring a plain white t-shirt or other cotton item to transform into…

Gratefully funded by the Friends of the Library.

Learn how to use Tinkercad to design the project of the month and 3D print the item to keep! Please register for each month separately. Prior month's attendance is not necessary. For…

Join neighbors to socialize while playing card and board games. Light refreshments provided.  

If you have already attended Beginner 3D Printing and are confident using Tinkercad, create your own design and then 3D print the item to keep! Please register for each month separately. Prior…

Gratefully funded by the Friends of the Library.

Enjoy light refreshments while admiring the new art on the Gallery Wall at this meet-and-greet honoring the month’s Gallery Wall artist.

Disfruta de libros y canciones en inglés y español. Para niños de todaslas edades y sus acompañantes. Stories and songs in English andSpanish! For kids of all ages and their grownups. 

Enjoy books, songs, and rhymes with a visual schedule and a modified environment. For kids of all ages and their grownups.