Board Meeting
2025-09-03 10:00 - 12:00 (America/Chicago)
The Valentine Public Library Board will hold a special meeting on Wednesday, Sept. 3, 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: DIY Fly Toy
2025-09-04 15:45 - 16:45
🎈💨 Kids in grades K–5 can make their very own flying toy using just paper, a straw, and a ball. Once it’s built, test it out and see how your breath can make the ball float like magic! ✂️📄
It’s a fun craft with a splash of science—learn how air pressure works while you play. 🌬️✨ All supplies provided!

Pre-K Story Time: Farm Animals
2025-09-05 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!

CD Audiobook Sale – Stock Up Now!
2025-09-08 - 2025-09-12
📀✨ The Valentine Public Library is offering over 200 audiobooks on CD for sale—perfect for road trips, relaxing at home, or keeping you company while you work on projects. With so many patrons now discovering the ease of the Libby app, we’re offering you a chance to give some of our CD audiobooks a new home!
Our CD sale is happening Sept. 8-12, and these treasures won’t last long! Take as many as you like for a free-will donation. Every dollar supports your library!
Want to go digital too? We’ll also show you how to use the Libby app to borrow eBooks and audiobooks from the library anytime, anywhere. But if you still love having a CD in hand, don’t wait—come in and pick yours up today!

Craft Hour: Paint Your Own Tile Magnet!
2025-09-09 15:45 - 16:45
🎨 🖌️ Kids in grades 3–8 are invited to get creative at the library! We’ll be painting tile magnets that you can take home and display. Choose from one of our fun designs or come up with your own masterpiece—the choice is yours! All supplies will be provided.

Craft Hour: Bleeding Tissue Bookmarks
2025-09-11 15:45 - 16:45
🎨📚 Kids in grades K-5 can create their very own colorful bookmarks using tissue paper and water on cardstock. Watch as the colors “bleed” and blend to make amazing, one-of-a-kind designs! ✂️💧
All supplies provided—just bring your creativity and get ready to make your reading extra colorful. 🌈📖

Pre-K Story Time: ABC's
2025-09-12 09:30 - 10:00

Shhh! We're Reading Book Club
2025-09-15 16:00 - 17:00
📚✨ Kid’s Book Club: Save Me a Seat 🎉
Tweens and teens, grab a seat—literally! Join us at the library to dive into Save Me a Seat by Sarah Weeks and Gita Varadarajan.
Joe and Ravi come from very different worlds—Joe’s lived in the same town his whole life, and Ravi just moved to America from India—but they share one thing: school can be tough! Together, they face a common challenge (the biggest bully in class!) and embark on a wild week of friendship, teamwork, and learning to stand up for themselves.
A new friend could be sitting right next to you, so come ready for laughs, great conversation, and maybe even a few surprises along the way.
This club is perfect for tweens and teens who love stories, friendship, and a little bit of mischief!

Craft Hour: Build a Kaleidocycle!
2025-09-16 15:45 - 16:45
🔄✨ 🎨 Kids in grades 3–8 are invited to fold and create their very own paper kaleidocycle—a cool 3D paper toy that flips and turns in endless ways! Once it’s built, decorate it with colors and designs, then discover how movement makes the image change right before your eyes.
It’s a mix of art, math, and a little bit of science—all rolled into one amazing paper creation! 🌀✂️

Craft Hour: Cup and Ball Challenge
2025-09-18 15:45 - 16:45
🏆🎯 Kids in grades K–5 can build their very own cup-and-ball game using paper cups, string, and a small ball. Once it’s ready, test your skills and see how many catches you can make in a row!
It’s a classic game that’s simple to make, fun to play, and perfect for friendly competition. All supplies provided—just bring your focus and your fun spirit! 🎉

Pre-K Story Time: Talk Like a Pirate Day
2025-09-19 09:30 - 10:00

Board Meeting
2025-09-22 16:30
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

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! 🍂
