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🌱June at Maroa Public Library🌱
- maroalibrary
- Jun 1
- 6 min read
Happy June! There's lots going on at the library this month as we kick off our summer reading program Plant a Seed, Read! This year’s program encourages our community to grow a love of reading while enjoying a variety of fun, educational, and creative activities.
Whether you’re planting the seeds of reading for the first time or continuing to grow a lifelong habit, there’s something for everyone this summer at the library. Stop in, sign up, and watch your reading—and imagination—bloom!
To register for events, visit our website here!
Participants will track their reading and visit the library for weekly check-ins, where they’ll earn coupons and prizes just for reading. The more you read, the more you grow—leading up to exciting grand prizes at the end of the summer!
In addition to reading rewards, the library will host a full schedule of engaging programs for all ages, including:
Hands-on youth activities like Bug Motel building, Farm Equipment exploration, and learning about Native American Tribes!
Educational presentations from Macon County Conservation District, such as “Ready, Set, Grow!”, “Illinois Grow,” and Native American Lifeways
Creative experiences like a Thrifted Art Makeover and “Fields of Fall” Candle Making Class
NEW! Relaxing, family-friendly community evenings with Lawn Chairs at the Library
Fun-filled youth afternoons featuring movies, snacks, puzzles, and coloring
Special take-home crafts like the Book Flower Take & Make
In addition to our regularly scheduled library programs!
Register here!
Read, Eat, Play: Library Road Trip
Organized by the Williamsfield Public Library
May 22nd - September 11th
To complete your Road Trip and be entered into a prize drawing:
Collect stickers or stamps from your home library (the library that issued your library card) and at least 9 others for a total of 10 different libraries.
When visiting any library, please be sure to take your Passport to the main circulation desk to receive your sticker or stamp.
Don’t forget to return to your home library and drop off your Passport by September 18th to get entered into their prize drawing!
Be sure to share all of your fun on social media using:
Register online here for our next take and make craft!
We will pack up all the supplies you need (minus the hot glue gun) for this sweet summertime flower garland made out of recycled book pages.
Tuesday, June 2nd at 4 pm
One in Four Illinoisans Have Something Waiting for Them Better known as I-CASH, Illinois State Treasurer Michael Frerichs currently oversees more than $5 billion in cash, stocks, jewelry and other items in need of being reunited with their owners. By law, Treasurer Frerichs is the custodian of unclaimed property and is obligated to required to return it to its rightful owners or their heirs no matter how long it takes. Over the last decade, Treasurer Frerichs has returned more than $2.5 billion worth of assets to constituents.
Tuesday, June 2nd at 5:30 pm
Bring in a thrift shop picture that you want to add pizazz to! We will have the supplies and creativity you need to redo any boring piece of art!
Join us in reading Catch Her If You Can by Tessa Bailey!
Madden Donahue, the newest catcher for the Yankees, has been in love with Eve Mitchell since high school, but for some mysterious reason, the burlesque club owner always turns him down. That never stopped him from being her self-appointed protector. Case in point, now that Eve's sister has left Eve with her two children indefinitely, Madden steps in with a proposition--marry him for the much needed health benefits. What starts as a marriage of convenience soon ignites into something much hotter, and now it's up to Madden to convince Eve that their connection is far more than a business arrangement. As the passion builds, can their fake marriage become the real deal?
Stop into the library to pick up a copy, and join us for our next meeting on Thursday, June 4th at 6 pm for discussion and snacks! 😊 Register here to join us!
Ready, Set, Grow! Presented by MCCD
Friday, June 5th at 1 pm
Explore the parts of a plant and learn what makes them so important. Each child will receive a germinated seed to plant and take home.
All About Bugs: Make Your Own Bug Hotel
Friday, June 5th at 2 pm
Make a bug motel, name the motel, go outside and try to identify and catch a bug!
For Macon County residents only, you have to be 60+
If you do not sign up within the first two weeks of class, then unfortunately you cannot attend. The library's regular Lively Library Bingo will resume August 19th at 1:30 PM!
Any questions concerning guidelines for Bingocize,
please contact Carol Logan: 217-428-3458 ext. 231
Friday, June 12th at 1 pm
What was life like for Native Americans who inhabited Illinois 200 years ago? What natural resources were available and how did they use them? Take a trip back to a different time and culture. Play traditional games!
Friday, June 12th at 2 pm
Learn about some Native American tribes, fun facts, and a craft! Kids below second grade will need an adult with them.
NEW! Lawn Chairs at the Library
Thursday, June 18th at 6 pm
The Amazing Dudley will be performing a magic show for the whole family, bring your lawn chairs and get ready to be amazed!
Register here!
Thursday, June 25th at 6 pm
The Macon County Dulcimer Club from Rock Springs Nature Center will be bringing a unique musical experience and entertainment for the whole family!
Register here!
Children's Storytime (Ages 0-5)
Join us every other Thursday at 10 am for stories, songs, and simple crafts—fun for little learners and their grown-ups!
Friday, June 19th at 1 pm
During the movie and snacks there will also be coloring pages and puzzles for kids to work on.
Anyone below second grade needs to have an adult with them.
Join us Saturday, June 20th at 10 am for the 3 C's
☕ Coffee
💭 Conversation
🤗 Community
Mariah's Mums Agritourism Talk
Tuesday, June 23rd at 3 pm
Join us in reading West With Giraffes by Lynda Rutledge!
'Few true friends have I known and two were giraffes...' Woodrow Wilson Nickel, age 105, feels his life ebbing away. But when he learns giraffes are going extinct, he finds himself recalling the unforgettable experience he cannot take to his grave. It's 1938. The Great Depression lingers. Hitler is threatening Europe, and world-weary Americans long for wonder. They find it in two giraffes who miraculously survive a hurricane while crossing the Atlantic. What follows is a twelve-day road trip in a custom truck to deliver Southern California's first giraffes to the San Diego Zoo. Inspired by true events, the tale weaves real-life figures with fictional ones, including the world's first female zoo director, a crusty old man with a past, a young female photographer with a secret, and assorted reprobates as spotty as the giraffes.
Part adventure, part historical saga, and part coming-of-age love story, West with Giraffes explores what it means to be changed by the grace of animals, the kindness of strangers, the passing of time, and a story told before it's too late.
Stop into the library to pick up a copy, and join us for our next meeting on Friday, June 26th at 11 am for discussion and snacks with new and old friends 😊
Friday, June 26th at 1 pm
Where does our food come from and why is Illinois such a hot spot for farming? Learn the history of agriculture in Illinois and make a seed bomb to take home!
Friday, June 26th at 2 pm
John Zelhart will bring some farming equipment for the kids to look at and ask questions about!
Freedom Fest Bingo!
Saturday, June 27th
1 pm at City Hall
Tuesday, June 30th at 5:30 pm
Carolyn Fox will be coming to our library and showing us the skills it takes to make a candle like she does!
We'll see you this week to kick off Summer Read!
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