2025
Halloween Boo Bash!
📆 Monday, October 13, 2025 ⏰ 4 - 5:30 pm
📍 Rakow Branch - Lawn
Who's excited for Halloween?! Wear your costume, enjoy a professional pumpkin carver demonstration along with games, crafts, and lots of fun! Drop on by!
Tween Time: Halloween Perler Bead Creations - Grades: 3-6
📆 Monday, October 20, 2025 ⏰ 4:45 - 5:30 pm
📍 South Elgin Branch - Shales Children's Activity Room
Register to join in creating Perler beads with a Halloween theme.
Haunted Escape Room - Grades: 7-12
📆 Tuesday, October 21, 2025 ⏰ 4:30 - 5:30 pm
📍 Main Library - Sally Lee Fox & Eagle Rooms
You are trapped in a haunted house! Can you work together with other teens to solve puzzles and open the locks imprisoning you? Hurry - it will soon be too late!
Not-Too-Spooky Storytime
📆 Saturday, October 25, 2025 ⏰ 10:30 - 11 am
📍 South Elgin - Hoffer Meeting Room
Little Pumpkins will enjoy stories, songs, and activities fit for the season! Costumes are welcomed!
Creativity Corner: Smoky Witch Cauldron Art - Grade: K-2
📆 Tuesday, October 28, 2025 ⏰ 4:45 - 5:30 pm
📍 South Elgin Branch - Shales Children's Activity Room
Creating smoky witch cauldrons is magical, haunting, and perfect for Halloween. Register to create your cauldron and make some beautiful witchy art.
It's Alive!: The Birth of Universal Monsters
📆 Tuesday, October 28, 2025 ⏰ 7 - 8 pm
📍 Main Library - Meadows Community Rooms
Universal Pictures wasn't a big player during the early years of Hollywood. But when studio executives discovered audiences wanted thrills, they turned their energies towards the horror genre.
Spooky Cookie Decorating - Grades: 7-12
📆 Wednesday, October 29, 2025 ⏰ 6 - 7 pm
📍 Main Library - Studio 270
Let's decorate and devour cookies in the spirit of Halloween! Registration required.
Teen Scream Horror Film Fest - Grades: 7-12
📆 Thursday, October 30, 2025 ⏰ 3 - 9 pm
📍 Main Library - Studio 270
Celebrate Halloween with a night of Horror Films, snacks, crafts, and a screaming contest. Costumes encouraged, but not required. Optional registration. Drop ins are welcome.
Halloween Preschool Party!
📆 Wednesday, October 29, 2025 ⏰ 10 - 11 am
📆 Thursday, October 30, 2025 ⏰ 10 - 11 am
📍 Main Library - Meadows Community Rooms
Calling all little pumpkins! Join us for a spook-tacular Halloween storytime, a parade throughout the library, and trick-or-treating. Costumes encouraged!
*Please register for one session only.
Cardboard Creations: Spooky Build & Imagine!
📆 Friday, October 31, 2025 ⏰ 2 - 3 pm
📍 Main Library - Sally Lee Fox & Eagle Rooms
Make fun Halloween creations with cardboard.—costumes encouraged! Grades 3-6 ¡Crea divertidas creaciones de Halloween con cartón—¡se anima el uso de disfraces! Grados 3-6.