Kunkel Creation Station  

EXTRA! EXTRA!! Join our journalism club! This summer, teens and tweens can work together on a newspaper. Assignments will include interviewing staff and patrons, writing book and movie reviews, covering the 2024 Olympic Games, covering large library events like concerts and performers, writing about our garden and more. We will publish 3 issues of the newspaper (name to be decided at the first meeting). This program is for tweens ages 9 - 12. Registration is required. 

Kunkel Creation Station  

EXTRA! EXTRA!! Join our journalism club! This summer, teens and tweens can work together on a newspaper. Assignments will include interviewing staff and patrons, writing book and movie reviews, covering the 2024 Olympic Games, covering large library events like concerts and performers, writing about our garden and more. We will publish 3 issues of the newspaper (name to be decided at the first meeting). This program is for tweens ages 9 - 12. Registration is required. 

Tuesday, July 9, 5:00 pm – 8:00 pm, Community Room  

Stop by to use our LEGOs, Snap Circuits, Turing Tumble Coding, board games and more. Children need to attend with a parent or caregiver. This is not a drop-off program.

5 pm, Small Meeting Room
Check out our Tween Summer book club this summer! Copies of each book are supplied. Book titles are TBD. This program is for tweens ages 9-12. Registration is required.  

5 pm, Kunkel Creation Station
Check out our Tween Summer book club this summer! Copies of each book are supplied. Book titles are TBD. This program is for tweens ages 9-12. Registration is required.  

6 pm - 7:30 pm in the Community Room
Meet up with other LEGO mega fans for free building and themed challenge builds. We supply all of the bricks – you bring your imagination! This program is for tweens ages 9-12. Parents, caregivers and siblings may attend. Registration is required for summer sessions.  

Saturday, July 13 at 1:30 – 2:30 pm, Courtyard or Community Room 

Bring your best doll or stuffed friend and join us for a tea party! You and your friend will play games, make crafts, and, of course, enjoy snacks and drinks. Recommended ages 6 – 10. Registration required.  

Tuesday, July 23 at 10: 30 am, Community Room  

The Air Weaver Super Terrific Happy Funtime Balloon Show of Pure and Complete Awesomeness! (Big Balloon Show for short) connects to kids and adults of all ages and brings together magic, balloon artistry, storytelling and tons of audience engagement for a one-of-a-kind entertainment experience.     Recommended Ages 0 –18. No registration required.  

6:30 pm, Community Room
We are so excited to welcome back, Ryan Bridge, “The Bug Man,” to Fredricksen Library! He will present an all-ages event focusing on how people are taught to dislike and thus, be afraid of bugs and insects. Breaking stereotypes and common fears about the most important creatures on our planet, he will teach everyone that “nothing in Nature WANTS to harm us.” Best of all, everyone will have a chance to pet and hold Live Bugs! Keeping insect education fun and exciting, audiences will experience the world of Entomology like never before! Recommended ages 0 - 18 years old. No registration required.

10:30 am on the Lawn Being a REPTILE is an adventure! These ectothermic animals are buried alive as babies, they grow up as orphans, and they learn how to survive without teachers or parents! Jesse Rothacker shares his house with over 100 of these cold-blooded creatures. Come laugh and learn with Jesse and his scaley sidekicks, and check out some animal books, too! Recommended ages 0 – 18. No registration required.