Kids Create – Ames Public Library

by director@amesart.org | Apr 3, 2024

Drop in and enjoy this process-focused craft or activity meant for children and their grown-ups.

Lego® Builders – Ames Public Library

by director@amesart.org | Oct 6, 2022

Children in grades 3-5 are invited to get creative and build with lots of LEGO®! We’ll provide the bricks while the kids provide the imagination. All LEGO® will remain at the Library, so bring a camera to capture a photo of your build. Please leave your own...

Free Summer Meals for Kids and Teens

by director@amesart.org | Aug 16, 2022

Having a full stomach of good food is important! Eat a free lunch weekdays starting June 6 from 11:30am-12:30pm in the Library’s Auditorium. Lunch is free to all youth 18 years and younger; meals for adults accompanying youth are $3.50. (Sorry, no baby formula...

Making Butter the Pioneer Way (Ames History Museum)

by director@amesart.org | Jul 15, 2022

MAKING BUTTER THE PIONEER WAY Hoggatt School, 18th & Burnett Free & open to the public – all ages welcome! Experience how to make butter the way it was done in the days of Hoggatt School with a hands-on demonstration. Then see how it tastes! Click...

What’s in your Lunchbox? (Ames History Museum)

by director@amesart.org | Jul 15, 2022

WHAT’S IN YOUR LUNCHBOX? Hoggatt School, 18th & Burnett Free & open to the public – all ages welcome! Students in 1860s schools ate very different lunches than students do today. Come taste what lunch at Ames’s first school might have tasted like!...