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Friday Night Fun: Learn Balloon Animals with Billings Best Balloons!

5:30pm - 6:30pm
Arts & Crafts
Open
Registration
Library Branch: Billings Public Library
Room: Community Room
Age Group: Everyone
Program Type: Arts & Crafts
Registration Required
Seats Remaining: 1
Event Details:

Join us in welcoming Violet of Billings Best Balloons, who will be showing us how to start making balloon animals in this one-hour class. Balloons and expert instruction provided! 

Friday Night Fun: Gyotaku Fish Printing with FWP

5:30pm - 7:30pm
Arts & Crafts, Presentation, Workshop
Library Branch: Billings Public Library
Room: Community Room
Age Group: Everyone
Program Type: Arts & Crafts, Presentation, Workshop
Event Details:

Join us in celebrating Asian American and Pacific Islander Heritage Month with Montana Fish, Wildlife & Parks-Region 5 through an introduction on fish identification and the traditional Japanese method of fish printing, Gyotaku (魚拓,

Closed - Memorial Day

All Day
Closing
Branches:
Billings Public Library, Bookmobiles, Off Site
Description:

The library will reopen on Tuesday, May 28th at 9am.

Krafty Kids - Yarn Turtles

2:00pm - 3:00pm
Arts & Crafts, Workshop
Registration
Library Branch: Billings Public Library
Room: Craft Corner
Age Group: Children
Program Type: Arts & Crafts, Workshop
Registration Required
Seats Remaining: 10
Event Details:

Today's project is making yarn turtles!

Take and Make Craft CD Scratch Art

All Day
Arts & Crafts
Virtual Event
Library Branch: Billings Public Library
Room: Virtual Event 2
Age Group: Babies, Children, Tweens
Program Type: Arts & Crafts
Event Details:

Kids, let’s recycle and reuse and make a beautiful piece of art!  Kit includes everything needed to make an art piece out of an old CD.  Stop by the Children's desk starting June 4! &nb

Art Club for Tweens - Canceled

3:00pm - 4:00pm
Arts & Crafts
Library Branch: Billings Public Library
Room: Craft Corner
Age Group: Tweens
Program Type: Arts & Crafts

Art Explorers: Art Club for Tweens

Unleash your inner-artist by exploring fun art concepts. Create new projects every week… Painting, zines, mixed media, still life, portraits—you name it, we’ll do it! Ages 9-12. No pre-registration required.

Event Details:

 

Art Club for Tweens for today is canceled.  We apologize for the inconvenience.

World Wide Knit in Public Day

12:00pm - 2:00pm
Arts & Crafts
Library Branch: Billings Public Library
Room: Oculus 1st Floor
Age Group: Adults
Program Type: Arts & Crafts
Event Details:

Did you know that World Wide Knit in Public Day, first declared in 2005, is the largest knitting event in the world?

Art Club for Tweens - Canceled

3:00pm - 4:00pm
Arts & Crafts
Library Branch: Billings Public Library
Room: Craft Corner
Age Group: Tweens
Program Type: Arts & Crafts

Art Explorers: Art Club for Tweens

Unleash your inner-artist by exploring fun art concepts. Create new projects every week… Painting, zines, mixed media, still life, portraits—you name it, we’ll do it! Ages 9-12. No pre-registration required.

Event Details:

 

Art Club for Tweens for today is canceled.  We apologize for the inconvenience.

Krafty Kids - Potholders

2:00pm - 3:00pm
Arts & Crafts, Workshop
Registration
Library Branch: Billings Public Library
Room: Craft Corner
Age Group: Children
Program Type: Arts & Crafts, Workshop
Registration Required
Seats Remaining: 7
Event Details:

Today's project is making potholders on looms.

Art Club for Tweens

3:00pm - 4:00pm
Arts & Crafts
Library Branch: Billings Public Library
Room: Craft Corner
Age Group: Tweens
Program Type: Arts & Crafts

Art Explorers: Art Club for Tweens

Unleash your inner-artist by exploring fun art concepts. Create new projects every week… Painting, zines, mixed media, still life, portraits—you name it, we’ll do it! Ages 9-12. No pre-registration required.

Event Details:

We will be making animal collages.

 

Sketching with John Kennedy

1:30pm - 3:00pm
Arts & Crafts, Fine Art, Presentation
Registration
Library Branch: Billings Public Library
Room: Popular Materials
Age Group: Teens, Adults
Program Type: Arts & Crafts, Fine Art, Presentation
Registration Required
Seats Remaining: 15
Event Details:

Join us for an urban sketching demonstration with renowned local artist John Kennedy! During this short presentation John will demonstrate and talk about some of the ways he embraces his creative self though art, and hopefull

Take and Make Craft Water Bottle Bird Feeder

All Day
Arts & Crafts
Virtual Event
Library Branch: Billings Public Library
Room: Virtual Event 2
Age Group: Babies, Children, Tweens
Program Type: Arts & Crafts
Event Details:

Let’s recycle and reuse and help feed neighborhood birds.  Pick up a Water Bottle Bird Feeder kit at the Children's desk.  Each Kit includes materials create one bird feeder  Stop by the Childre

Chalk the Walk

1:00pm - 4:00pm
Arts & Crafts
Library Branch: Billings Public Library
Room: Parking Lot
Age Group: Everyone
Program Type: Arts & Crafts
Event Details:

Help us decorate our sidewalk. Stop by the children's desk and pick up some chalk, color the sidewalk and earn points in your Summer Reading Account.

Chalk the Walk

1:00pm - 4:00pm
Arts & Crafts
Library Branch: Billings Public Library
Room: Parking Lot
Age Group: Everyone
Program Type: Arts & Crafts
Event Details:

Help us decorate our sidewalk. Stop by the children's desk and pick up some chalk, color the sidewalk and earn points in your Summer Reading Account.

Art Club for Tweens - Plastic bag painting

3:00pm - 4:00pm
Arts & Crafts
Library Branch: Billings Public Library
Room: Craft Corner
Age Group: Tweens
Program Type: Arts & Crafts

Art Explorers: Art Club for Tweens

Unleash your inner-artist by exploring fun art concepts. Create new projects every week… Painting, zines, mixed media, still life, portraits—you name it, we’ll do it! Ages 9-12. No pre-registration required.

Event Details:

We will be using small plastic bags to paint flowers.

 

 

Chalk the Walk

1:00pm - 4:00pm
Arts & Crafts
Library Branch: Billings Public Library
Room: Parking Lot
Age Group: Everyone
Program Type: Arts & Crafts
Event Details:

Help us decorate our sidewalk. Stop by the children's desk and pick up some chalk, color the sidewalk and earn points in your Summer Reading Account.

Krafty Kids - Yarn Dolls

2:00pm - 3:00pm
Arts & Crafts, Workshop
Registration
Library Branch: Billings Public Library
Room: Craft Corner
Age Group: Children
Program Type: Arts & Crafts, Workshop
Registration Required
Seats Remaining: 10
Event Details:

Today's project is making our own yarn dolls!

Art Club for Tweens - Plastic Bag Painting

3:00pm - 4:00pm
Arts & Crafts
Library Branch: Billings Public Library
Room: Craft Corner
Age Group: Tweens
Program Type: Arts & Crafts

Art Explorers: Art Club for Tweens

Unleash your inner-artist by exploring fun art concepts. Create new projects every week… Painting, zines, mixed media, still life, portraits—you name it, we’ll do it! Ages 9-12. No pre-registration required.

Event Details:

We will be using plastic bags to make a flower mural to hang in the library.

 

Krafty Kids - Plastic bag painting flowers

2:00pm - 3:00pm
Arts & Crafts, Workshop
Registration
Library Branch: Billings Public Library
Room: Craft Corner
Age Group: Children
Program Type: Arts & Crafts, Workshop
Registration Required
Seats Remaining: 10
Event Details:

We will be using small plastic bags to paint flowers.

Art Club for Tweens - Crochet Hour

3:00pm - 4:00pm
Arts & Crafts
Library Branch: Billings Public Library
Room: Craft Corner
Age Group: Tweens
Program Type: Arts & Crafts

Art Explorers: Art Club for Tweens

Unleash your inner-artist by exploring fun art concepts. Create new projects every week… Painting, zines, mixed media, still life, portraits—you name it, we’ll do it! Ages 9-12. No pre-registration required.

Event Details:

 

Closed - Labor Day

All Day
Closing
Branches:
Billings Public Library, Bookmobiles, Off Site
Description:

The library will reopen Tuesday, September 3rd at 9am.