All Ages

Elmore is a Concert at the Rocks favorite!

Find your groove, learn rhythms and drumming, and create music. Please bring your own drums, shakers, and rhythm makers! The DeForest Area Public Library has found a way to continue our annual Summer Concert Series. Permission to close streets and use parking spots in the area has been secured through the Village of DeForest and the DeForest Police Department as a way to allow concertgoers a chance to enjoy the music, and still protect the audience and the performers.

Duke’s energetic live show is filled with hilarious and imaginative songs to delight all ages.

The DeForest Area Public Library has found a way to continue our annual Summer Concert Series. Permission to close streets and use parking spots in the area has been secured through the Village of DeForest and the DeForest Police Department as a way to allow concertgoers a chance to enjoy the music, and still protect the audience and the performers.

Do more than just Imagine Your Story--animate it! Alex Thomas and Friends will show you how to do just that using Pencil 2D, freeware available at www.pencil2D.org.

The instructional video will be available June 5 through June 11. The link will be posted here on June 5.

We've missed seeing everyone explore and create in The Workshop, so we're going to work on bringing the spirit of The Workshop to you on our Facebook page. We will share a Workshop-style project or tips each Thursday at 9 am.

Help us kick off our Summer Reading Program: Imagine Your Story!

Decorate your car! Show us your favorite book! The Library Staff and our Read-to-an-Officer friends from the DeForest Police Department will be curbside on Library Street saying hello to you!

We've missed seeing everyone explore and create in The Workshop, so we're going to work on bringing the spirit of The Workshop to you on our Facebook page. We will post a fun STEAM (Science, Technology, Engineering, Arts, Math) activity each Friday at 9 am, just in time for the weekend.

Join us on our Library Facebook page for a fun learning experience through a special series of short videos.

Author Bev Davis will read the second half of her new book, Winging It: A Monarch Love Story.

All you need is some newspaper! Louise Valdovinos will show you how to fold newspaper to make seedling pots.

Be a monarch reporter. Lois Lehmann will tell us how we can report what we see -- milkweed plants growing and monarch activity.

Join us on our Library Facebook page for a fun learning experience through a special series of short videos.

Author Bev Davis will read from her new book, Winging It: A Monarch Love Story.

Meet Lois Lehmann, our local monarch lady, and learn about why monarch butterflies are so important to our world.

Join Lois Lehmann on her deck, as she shows us how she grows milkweed plants for monarchs caterpillars to munch.

Part 2 will be Thursday, May 14.

Missing the library? How about building your own for National Library Week?

Look around your house. What kinds of building materials do you see? Boxes, tape, clay, craft dough, plastic building bricks, popsicle sticks? Build your own library or your favorite part of the library using whatever you have handy.

Rumor has it that Brian the Mischievous Elf got himself locked in the DeForest Area Public Library. See if you can help him find his way out when you try our first virtual escape room.

Try it today!