Library Events
Movers and Shakers Story Time
Join Miss Celeste at our moving and shaking Story Time! Music, Play, and Stories! This story time is perfect for babies and toddlers who are working on fine motor skills, language skills, and social skills! Come wiggle, giggle, and learn with us!
No Registration Required!
Christmas Cupcakes (For Kids)
Join River Valley District Library to decorate Christmas Cupcakes! Santa’s Hat cupcakes, wreath cupcakes, Christmas lights cupcakes, and snowman cupcakes! Stop in for a sweet time!
This event has reached max capacity. To be added to a waitlist, please call the front desk, or email marketing@rivervalleylibrary.org
Tween Scene: Pajama Movie Night!
Put on your comfiest coziest pajamas and enjoy snacks and crafts while watching "How the Grinch Stole Christmas" with your friends! For ages 8-12.
Homeschool Tween D&D
Create a fantasy character and embark on an epic journey! This famous tabletop roleplaying game encourages creativity and imaginative play while helping kids sharpen their math and reading skills.
*This event has reached max capacity.
Movers and Shakers Story Time
Join Miss Celeste at our moving and shaking Story Time! Music, Play, and Stories! This story time is perfect for babies and toddlers who are working on fine motor skills, language skills, and social skills! Come wiggle, giggle, and learn with us!
No Registration Required!
Tween Scene: Mini Golf Course Construction
Join River Valley District Library to create a Mini Golf Course! The golf course participants create will be used for our Winter Reading Kickoff Future Mini Golf Event! Use neon/glow-in-the-dark paint, tape, paper and more to create a challenging Golf Course that the community can enjoy!
Movers and Shakers Story Time
Join Miss Celeste at our moving and shaking Story Time! Music, Play, and Stories! This story time is perfect for babies and toddlers who are working on fine motor skills, language skills, and social skills! Come wiggle, giggle, and learn with us!
No Registration Required!
Slime Time for Kids
Join River Valley District Library to make Future inspired slimes! We will be making 3 different styles of slime with different textures and themes!
Homeschool Tween D&D
Create a fantasy character and embark on an epic journey! This famous tabletop roleplaying game encourages creativity and imaginative play while helping kids sharpen their math and reading skills.
Movers and Shakers Story Time
Join Miss Celeste at our moving and shaking Story Time! Music, Play, and Stories! This story time is perfect for babies and toddlers who are working on fine motor skills, language skills, and social skills! Come wiggle, giggle, and learn with us!
No Registration Required!
Tween Scene: Giant Beaded Critters
Join RVDL for a creative adventure where we take those nostalgic beaded critters we loved as kids—and supersize them! Instead of tiny beads, we’ll be using colorful pool noodles to build HUGE, eye-catching critters you can proudly display!
Movers and Shakers Story Time
Join Miss Celeste at our moving and shaking Story Time! Music, Play, and Stories! This story time is perfect for babies and toddlers who are working on fine motor skills, language skills, and social skills! Come wiggle, giggle, and learn with us!
No Registration Required!
Figge Art Class for Kids!
Join River Valley District Library for an art class led by Kelsey Vandercoy of The Figge Art Museum!
Homeschool Tween D&D
Create a fantasy character and embark on an epic journey! This famous tabletop roleplaying game encourages creativity and imaginative play while helping kids sharpen their math and reading skills.
Movers and Shakers Story Time
Join Miss Celeste at our moving and shaking Story Time! Music, Play, and Stories! This story time is perfect for babies and toddlers who are working on fine motor skills, language skills, and social skills! Come wiggle, giggle, and learn with us!
No Registration Required!
Tween Scene: 80's Throwback Crafts
Get ready to travel back in time—neon colors, funky patterns, and all! Join us for an epic 80’s-themed craft night just for tweens!
Cookies, Cocoa and Canvas: For Kids
Join River Valley District Library to create your very own painting with step-by-step instructions while enjoying Hot Cocoa and Cookies!
Tween Scene: DIY Instruments
Step into the swingin’ 60’s and make your own far-out musical instruments! Join us at the library for a hands-on crafting session where we’ll build colorful, retro-inspired instruments and try them out in a mini jam session. Come craft, play, and get groovy! ✌️
T.rex Tea Party
Join River Valley District Library for a roaring good time at our T.rex Tea Party! Crafts, games, dinosaur etiquette classes and more!
Homeschool Tween D&D
Create a fantasy character and embark on an epic journey! This famous tabletop roleplaying game encourages creativity and imaginative play while helping kids sharpen their math and reading skills.
DIY Winter Village (For Kids)
Join River Valley District Library to create your very own Winter Village! Use paint, glitter, markers, mini figurines, and wooden buildings to design a magical winter scene perfect for decorating your home or playing with on a cold winter night.
*This event has reached maximum capacity. To be added to a waitlist, please call the front desk at (309)716-1393.
Movers and Shakers Story Time
Join Miss Celeste at our moving and shaking Story Time! Music, Play, and Stories! This story time is perfect for babies and toddlers who are working on fine motor skills, language skills, and social skills! Come wiggle, giggle, and learn with us!
No Registration Required!
First Chapter Book Club for Kids: Movie Screening
Join RVDL’s First Chapter Book Club for Kids movie screening! We will discuss the book we’ve read, watch the correlating movie, and select our next book!
Movers and Shakers Story Time
Join Miss Celeste at our moving and shaking Story Time! Music, Play, and Stories! This story time is perfect for babies and toddlers who are working on fine motor skills, language skills, and social skills! Come wiggle, giggle, and learn with us!
No Registration Required!
Homeschool Tween D&D
Create a fantasy character and embark on an epic journey! This famous tabletop roleplaying game encourages creativity and imaginative play while helping kids sharpen their math and reading skills.
Cancelled: Movers and Shakers Story Time
Join Miss Celeste at our moving and shaking Story Time! Music, Play, and Stories! This story time is perfect for babies and toddlers who are working on fine motor skills, language skills, and social skills! Come wiggle, giggle, and learn with us!
No Registration Required!
K-Pop Party
Our K-Pop party is going to be GOLDEN! Grab your Soda Pop and come show us how it’s done-done-done! Be our idol and show off your favorite cosplay or K-Pop outfit while playing games, doing crafts, and listening to our favorite K-Pop hits.
DIY stuffed Animals for Kids
*Program is full
Join River valley District Library in making no-sew stuffed animals!
Movers and Shakers Story Time
Join Miss Celeste at our moving and shaking Story Time! Music, Play, and Stories! This story time is perfect for babies and toddlers who are working on fine motor skills, language skills, and social skills! Come wiggle, giggle, and learn with us!
No Registration Required!
Homeschool Tween D&D
Create a fantasy character and embark on an epic journey! This famous tabletop roleplaying game encourages creativity and imaginative play while helping kids sharpen their math and reading skills.
First Chapter Book Club for Kids
Join us for our first chapter book club where we meet, read the first chapter of a selected book as a group, then take the rest of the book home to finish. When we meet again, we will discuss the book and watch the correlating movie!
Movers and Shakers Story Time
Join Miss Celeste at our moving and shaking Story Time! Music, Play, and Stories! This story time is perfect for babies and toddlers who are working on fine motor skills, language skills, and social skills! Come wiggle, giggle, and learn with us!
No Registration Required!
Pickle Party
It's a pickle party! Play pickle-themed games and taste test a variety of pickles, then vote for your favorite!
Spanish Lesson for Kids
Join River Valley District Library and Señor Moore for a Spanish Class for Kids! We will read a story, learn new vocab words, and make a craft!
Movers and Shakers Story Time
Join Miss Celeste at our moving and shaking Story Time! Music, Play, and Stories! This story time is perfect for babies and toddlers who are working on fine motor skills, language skills, and social skills! Come wiggle, giggle, and learn with us!
No Registration Required!
Friends of the Library Trunk or Treat
Pop by the library for some Halloween fun! 🎃 The Friends of the River Valley Library will be hosting Trunk-or-Treat in the library parking lot. Stop by their decorated trunks and collect some sweet treats!
Homeschool Tween D&D
Create a fantasy character and embark on an epic journey! This famous tabletop roleplaying game encourages creativity and imaginative play while helping kids sharpen their math and reading skills.
Baby Costume Rave
Calling all babies and toddlers! Join River Valley District Library for a Halloween Dance Party for your littles! Come dance the night away in your costumes under blacklights and neon decorations! Play with scarfs and bubbles while showing off your dance moves!
*Best for kids 3 and under
Movers and Shakers Story Time
Join Miss Celeste at our moving and shaking Story Time! Music, Play, and Stories! This story time is perfect for babies and toddlers who are working on fine motor skills, language skills, and social skills! Come wiggle, giggle, and learn with us!
No Registration Required!
LEGO Club: Minifigure Exchange
Join River Valley District Library for our LEGO Club Minifigure Exchange! Bring a minifigure (Or many) that you would like to exchange for a different minifigure! Minifigures must have heads, bodies, arms, hands, and legs in order to be exchanged.
Tween Scene: Murder Mystery Night
*Event is full. Please contact us at (309) 523-3440 with any questions
Join River Valley District Library to solve a Halloween Mystery! Tweens ages 8-11 will work together to solve the puzzle of The Haunted Halloween Heist!
Potions 101 for Kids
Program is full. Please call us at (309) 523-3440 to be placed on a waitlist
Vanishing ink, bubbling cauldrons, glimmering concoctions, slime, and more! Join River Valley District Library for a science and art class where we make Halloween potions while learning the science behind them!
Best for kids 6+
Movers and Shakers Story Time
Join Miss Celeste at our moving and shaking Story Time! Music, Play, and Stories! This story time is perfect for babies and toddlers who are working on fine motor skills, language skills, and social skills! Come wiggle, giggle, and learn with us!
No Registration Required!
Homeschool Tween D&D
Create a fantasy character and embark on an epic journey! This famous tabletop roleplaying game encourages creativity and imaginative play while helping kids sharpen their math and reading skills.
Spooky Story Time
Join River Valley District Library for Halloween stories, treats, and games at or SpoOoOoky Story Time! Best for kids 6 and younger!
Movers and Shakers Story Time
Join Miss Celeste at our moving and shaking Story Time! Music, Play, and Stories! This story time is perfect for babies and toddlers who are working on fine motor skills, language skills, and social skills! Come wiggle, giggle, and learn with us!
No Registration Required!
Tween Scene: Make Your Own Mask and Edible Haunted House
Join RVDL for a very spooooky tween scene! Decorate your own mask with feathers, furs, gems, or scales! Then create a terrifyingly delicious haunted house with graham crackers and candy!
First Chapter Book Club for Kids: Movie Screening
Join RVDL’s First Chapter Book Club for Kids movie screening! We will discuss the book we’ve read, watch the correlating movie, and select our next book!
Movers and Shakers Story Time
Join Miss Celeste at our moving and shaking Story Time! Music, Play, and Stories! This story time is perfect for babies and toddlers who are working on fine motor skills, language skills, and social skills! Come wiggle, giggle, and learn with us!
No Registration Required!