Valentine Public Library

Board Meeting
2025-09-22 16:30 (America/Chicago)
The regular meeting of the Valentine Public Library Board will be held on Monday, September 22, 2025, at 4:30 p.m. in the Library Meeting room to conduct any business that may properly come before them. A current agenda will be on file at the public library.

Board Meeting
2025-09-22 15:00 - 16:30
NOTICE OF SPECIAL MEETING
The Valentine Public Library Board will hold a special meeting on Monday, Sept. 22, 2025 at 3:00 p.m. at the Valentine Public Library. This meeting is open to the public and an agenda is available for public inspection during regular business hours at the office of the Valentine Library Director.

Caroline Graham
Library Director

Craft Hour: Apple Doodle Art
2025-09-23 15:45 - 16:45
🍎🎨 Celebrate the season with some colorful creativity! Kids in grades 3–8 will get an apple template to decorate using bright colors, doodles, and patterns. You can use one of our example designs for inspiration or make your own totally unique apple!
No great artistic ability needed—anyone can doodle! 🎉 All supplies provided, just bring your imagination and have fun. 🍏🍎

Lego Challenge!
2025-09-25 15:45 - 16:45
🧱🎡 🚀🏰 Kids in grades 3–8 are invited to put their building skills to the test! Spin the challenge wheel to see what type of creation you’ll build—it could be a towering castle, a speedy car, a futuristic robot, or something totally unexpected!
Once you know your challenge, let your imagination run wild with our LEGO bricks and see what amazing creation you can design. This is a fun way to explore creativity, problem-solving, and engineering—all while playing with one of the world’s favorite building toys.
All supplies provided—just bring your ideas and get ready to build, spin, and have a blast! 🏗️✨

Pre-K Story Time: Johnny Appleseed Day
2025-09-26 09:30 - 10:00
Join us for Story Time—designed especially for Pre-K kids and their grown-ups!Each Friday from 9:30 to 10:00 a.m., we explore a fun new theme through stories and hands-on crafts that spark creativity and learning.
What to Expect:

Themed Story Time: Listen to an engaging story each week.
Music & Motion: Join the music fun with rhythm sticks, egg shakers, and more—perfect for wiggling and giggling!
Craft Activity: Create a fun craft related to the story’s theme.

Bring your little ones for an enjoyable and creative start to their day! And don’t rush off after story time—stay for some “Fun with Friends” time in the kid’s corner. The kids can play while their caregivers connect and socialize. It’s a wonderful opportunity to make new friends and build community bonds.
Who: all toddlers and preschool-aged children accompanied by an adult are welcome!
Date and Time: Every Friday, 9:30 am – 10:00 am
We look forward to seeing you and your little ones here!

Craft Hour: Glow-in-the-Dark Pet Ghosts
2025-09-30 15:45 - 16:45
👻🫙💡Kids in grades 3–8 can make their very own glowing pet ghost in a jar! Using glow-in-the-dark paper, you’ll create a spooky-cute little ghost that you can keep and enjoy all October long.
It’s the perfect mix of craft and Halloween fun—no tricks, just treats for your imagination! 🎃

Craft Hour: Q-Tip Fall Tree Painting
2025-10-02 15:45 - 16:45
🍂🎨 Kids in grades K–5 are invited to join us for an hour of creative fun! We’ll be making autumn-inspired scenes using Q-tips to paint in the style of pointillism. It’s a hands-on, colorful way to celebrate the season! 🍁✨
All supplies are provided—just bring your imagination!

Pre-K Story Time: Leaves
2025-10-03 09:30 - 10:00

Board Meeting
2025-10-07 10:00 - 11:00
The Valentine Public Library Board will hold a special meeting on Tuesday, October 7, 2025 at 10:00 a.m. at the Valentine Public Library. This meeting is open to the public and an agenda is available for public inspection during regular business hours at the office of the Valentine Library Director.

Craft Hour: Smoking Cauldron
2025-10-07 15:45 - 16:45
🪄✨🎨 Kids in grades 3–8 are invited to brew up some spooky fun by creating their very own smoking cauldron picture! Using a mix of art supplies, you’ll design a bubbling pot filled with swirling “smoke” and magical details. Add your own colors, patterns, and imagination to make your cauldron as creepy—or as whimsical—as you like!
It’s a crafty mix of art and creativity with a dash of Halloween magic! 🧙‍♀️🌫️

STEM: Balloon Hovercraft
2025-10-09 15:45 - 16:45
💨🚀 Kids in grades K-5th are invited to build their very own Balloon Hovercraft! Using a cardstock disc and a balloon, you’ll create a simple machine that glides smoothly across a surface. Then we’ll explore the science behind it—how trapped air escapes from the balloon, reducing friction and letting your hovercraft float!
It’s a perfect mix of crafting, experimenting, and discovering the power of air pressure in action. 🎈⚙️

Pre-K Story Time: Fire Safety
2025-10-10 09:30 - 10:00
It’s Fire Safety Week, and we’ve got a special surprise planned for our Pre-K friends!

Fire Safety Story Time!

Our friends from the Valentine Fire Department are visiting Pre-K Story Time this Friday, October 10th at 9:30 AM!

Kids will get to meet real firefighters, see a fire truck up close, and even say hello to Smokey Bear!

It’s going to be a fun, hands-on morning all about fire safety and community helpers — don’t miss it!

Valentine Public Library
Friday, October 10 | 9:30 AM
For Pre-school age children and their grown-ups

#VPLKids #valentinepubliclibrary

Join us for Story Time—designed especially for Pre-K kids and their grown-ups!Each Friday from 9:30 to 10:00 a.m., we explore a fun new theme through stories and hands-on crafts that spark creativity and learning.
What to Expect:

Themed Story Time: Listen to an engaging story each week.
Music & Motion: Join the music fun with rhythm sticks, egg shakers, and more—perfect for wiggling and giggling!
Craft Activity: Create a fun craft related to the story’s theme.

Bring your little ones for an enjoyable and creative start to their day! And don’t rush off after story time—stay for some “Fun with Friends” time in the kid’s corner. The kids can play while their caregivers connect and socialize. It’s a wonderful opportunity to make new friends and build community bonds.
Who: all toddlers and preschool-aged children accompanied by an adult are welcome!
Date and Time: Every Friday, 9:30 am – 10:00 am
We look forward to seeing you and your little ones here!

Craft Hour: Fall Bean Mosaic
2025-10-14 15:45 - 16:45
🍂🎨 Kids in grades 3 and up can celebrate the season with a Fall Bean Mosaic! Using an assortment of colorful dried beans, you’ll glue and arrange them to create a festive fall picture—maybe pumpkins, leaves, or anything autumn inspires. Each design will be one-of-a-kind, textured, and totally creative.
It’s a hands-on way to turn simple beans into beautiful art! 🌟🌾

Dictionary Day at VPL!
2025-10-16
Did you know Dictionary Day is celebrated every year on October 16th—the birthday of Noah Webster, the famous American lexicographer? In 1806, his groundbreaking dictionary paved the way for what we now know as the Merriam-Webster Dictionary.
This year, Dictionary Day falls on Thursday, October 16, 2025—and we’re celebrating the power of words right here at the library! 🎉
👉 Stop by, look up our Word of the Day in the dictionary, tell a librarian the definition, and you’ll win a sweet treat*! 🍬
Come join us in celebrating words, language, and the joy of learning! 📝💡
*While supplies last

Board Meeting
2025-10-16 10:30 - 11:30
The Valentine Public Library Board will hold a special meeting on Thursday, October 16, 2025, at 10:30am at the Valentine Public Library. This meeting is open to the public and an agenda is available for public inspection during regular business hours at the office of the Valentine Library Director.

Pre-K Story Time: Scarecrows
2025-10-17 09:30 - 10:00

Shhhh!...We’re Reading Book Club: Wild Fire
2025-10-20 16:00 - 17:00
Teens & tweens, get ready for a page-turner you won’t want to put down! This month, we’re diving into Wild Fire by Dee Garretson.
When a simple summer camp in the wilderness turns into a fight for survival, four teens must rely on their wits, courage, and each other to make it out alive. With danger closing in and the odds stacked against them, friendships are tested, secrets are revealed, and every choice could mean life or death.
Join us for a thrilling conversation and plenty of fun. This book is perfect for kids who love adventure, suspense, and stories that keep you on the edge of your seat!
Book description:
The president’s retreat, Camp David, is one of the safest places in the United States. So, why can’t the President’s son, Luke, and his friends, Theo and Callie, stay there without Secret Service agents constantly hovering over them, watching their every move? And yet, when an earthquake sets off a raging wildfire, causing a chain reaction that wreaks havoc at Camp David, they are suddenly on their own.
Now Luke needs a plan:

To override the security systems
To save those who were supposed to save him
To get through an impassable gate
To escape Camp David

Debut author Dee Garretson delivers a heart-pounding tween thriller—an action-packed adventure with undeniable suspense.

Beyond the Book Event: Willa Cather
2025-10-20 17:00 - 19:00
Join us at the library as we host Impact Nebraska Artists and their traveling exhibition, A Tapestry of Life – Impact Willa Cather.

This collection showcases original works by Nebraska artists inspired by Cather’s writings, exploring themes of migration, resilience, and life on the Great Plains. Enjoy refreshments and a chance to visit with some of the artists, then stay for a screening of the documentary Yours, Willa Cather.

Drop In Anytime- 30-minute Film Showing at 6 pm

Free Admission
Open to the Public
Teens and Adults

Sponsored by: Friends of the Valentine Library, Sand Painters Art Club, & The Sandhills Area Foundation

Craft Hour: Pumpkin Yarn Art
2025-10-21 15:45 - 16:45
🎃🧶 Kids in grades 3 and up are invited to get crafty with a Pumpkin Yarn Craft! Using yarn and glue, you’ll shape and design your very own pumpkin creation—perfect for adding a cozy fall touch to your seasonal décor.
It’s simple, fun, and a little bit messy…the best kind of crafting! 🍂

Craft Hour: Spooky Watercolor Painting
2025-10-23 15:45 - 16:45
🕷️🎨 Kids in grades K–5 are invited to make a Spooky Watercolor Painting! First, you’ll draw spider webs on your paper using a white crayon. Then, watch the magic happen as you spread watercolor paint across the page—the webs stay white while the colors swirl around them.
It’s a mix of art and mystery that’s perfectly spooky for the season! 🕸️✨🎃

Pre-K Story Time: Pumpkins
2025-10-24 09:30 - 10:00

Board Meeting
2025-10-27 16:30 - 17:30, 2025-10-28 00:00
The regular meeting of the Valentine Public Library Board will be held on Monday, October 27, 2025, at 4:30 p.m. in the Library Meeting room to conduct any business that may properly come before them. A current agenda will be on file at the public library.

Craft Hour: Halloween Perler Bead Creations
2025-10-28 15:45 - 16:45
👻🎨 Kids in grades 3 and up can get spooky and creative with Halloween Perler Beads! Design your own haunting creation or choose from one of our fun Halloween patterns—think pumpkins, bats, ghosts, and more. Once the beads are fused, you’ll have a festive decoration to take home and enjoy.
It’s pixel art with a Halloween twist! 🦇🎃✨

Craft Hour: Fall Lanterns
2025-10-30 15:45 - 16:45
Kids in grades K–5 are invited to join us for a cozy autumn craft!
Using paper and colorful tissue, each child will design and create their own fall-themed lantern. When finished, we’ll add a safe tea light inside to make the lantern glow beautifully. This fun project is the perfect way to celebrate the colors and light of the season!

Pre-K Story Time: Monsters (Kids can wear their costumes!)
2025-10-31 08:00 - 17:00
Happy Halloween! This week’s theme is Friendly Monsters! Kids can wear their Halloween costumes (any kind!) to storytime fun—then stop back by the library at 4:30 for the Annual Scare in the Square Trick-or-Treat Parade!
Join us for Story Time—designed especially for Pre-K kids and their grown-ups!Each Friday from 9:30 to 10:00 a.m., we explore a fun new theme through stories and hands-on crafts that spark creativity and learning.
What to Expect:

Themed Story Time: Listen to an engaging story each week.
Music & Motion: Join the music fun with rhythm sticks, egg shakers, and more—perfect for wiggling and giggling!
Craft Activity: Create a fun craft related to the story’s theme.

Bring your little ones for an enjoyable and creative start to their day! And don’t rush off after story time—stay for some “Fun with Friends” time in the kid’s corner. The kids can play while their caregivers connect and socialize. It’s a wonderful opportunity to make new friends and build community bonds.
Who: all toddlers and preschool-aged children accompanied by an adult are welcome!
Date and Time: Every Friday, 9:30 am – 10:00 am
We look forward to seeing you and your little ones here!

Turkey Hunt Tuesday
2025-11-04
The Turkey Hunt Is Back!Starting November 4, our sneaky 12-inch plush turkey returns to the library—and he could be hiding anywhere in the main area! Everyone is welcome to join the hunt, so keep your eyes peeled and search high and low.
When you find him, stay quiet to keep the surprise alive for others, then let a librarian know. You’ll receive a treat and we’ll add your feather to a turkey in our window display, showing that you’re an official turkey hunter. Let the turkey tracking begin!

Kid’s Craft Hour – Beaded Corn Creations
2025-11-04 15:45 - 16:45
Hey kids in grades 3 and up-get ready to get crafty! Join us for a fun-filled hour of creativity as we make colorful beaded corn ears using pipe cleaners and beads. These cute creations are perfect as decorations, key chains, backpack charms—or anything your imagination dreams up!
This hands-on craft is a great way to build fine motor skills, express creativity, and enjoy time with friends. Come make something unique and festive to take home!

Adult Book Club Night
2025-11-04 19:00 - 20:00
Join us on the first Tuesday of the month at 7:00 PM for our Adult Book Club! This month, we’ll be diving into The Midnight Library by Matt Haig—a thought-provoking novel that explores life’s possibilities and the choices that shape our destinies. Enjoy great conversation, good company, and a welcoming atmosphere. New members are always welcome!

Ag-Citing Science: Pumpkins to Pie!
2025-11-06 15:45 - 16:45
Join 4-H educator, Blair Speck, as brings agriculture to life for kids in grades K-5th! This collection of hands-on modules, created by the Nebraska 4-H Youth Development Ag & Food Systems Team and Nebraska Ag in the Classroom materials, is utilized to help youth explore agriculture.
Pumpkins to Pie – a hands on journey with a tasty finish! Perfect for Fall or Halloween, youth will explore the pumpkin life cycle and from seed to pumpkin. We
will use all our of sense when learning about pumpkins during this STEM lesson!
