Legacy Class

Sign up now! You don’t need to be an artist or crafty to do this class. This is for anyone and everyone that would like to enjoy something new and have fun in the company of others. Christy’s classes are always a great time!
A “button tree” is a piece of art where buttons are used to represent leaves on a painted tree design. Choose from a wide variety of pre-drawn tree styles or design your own on a canvas. Then, glue buttons onto the branches to create a colorful and unique piece of art. Your tree doesn’t have to look realistic and everyone’s art piece will look different. However, we will all use the same instructions and materials.

Back to School Scavenger Hunt

We hope the kids are excited to be begin school next week. To help them celebrate, we’re kicking off the new school year with a fun scavenger hunt themed, ‘Back to School!’ at the library. There will be new areas, all related to classrooms and more, where kids can search for hidden pictures. Find them all and receive a little treat. The scavenger hunt will begin the first Tuesday of September.

September Adult Book Club

Books are in for September Adult Book Club!
If you’d like to join, please call or stop in the library.

Thank you

Last nights Community Night Grill Out was amazing!
I would like to give a huge thank you to the Friends of the Library for all their planning and hard work they put in each year for this event. It’s quite a process and they always do an incredible job of getting all the little details put together to make the evening as enjoyable as possible for the community. I would also like to thank the following for their donations, contributions, support, and time:
Essentia Health; Tri-County Co-op; Ag Country; Big Stone Dairy Association; Dennis Foley and friends for their lively music; Christy Puetz, the fun crafty lady; our three grillers, Dana Tchida, Dale Anderson, and Nathan Fischer; the two in charge of showing the firetrucks, John Risvedt, Duane Richardson, and Dep. Alex Goergen and K9 Kota with the Big Stone County Sheriff’s Dept. If I have overlooked someone, thank you and I apologize. I hope everyone that came last night had a good time enjoyed the food, company, music, crafts, games, and giveaways. We hope to see you again next year!
The following photos are courtesy Denese Gustufson with the Northern Star. Thank you Denese!

Book Lovers Challenge

Starting a day late, but we still have the whole month!
Starting tomorrow, come in and challenge yourself and find out how well you know your books! It’s easy and it’s fun!

National Book Lovers Day

Let’s celebrate it for the whole month!
Starting in the middle of next week, we will have a fun game of ‘Match the Quote to the Book” for kids and adults. Its easy! Posters of the book covers will be hanging, and there will be quote cards that you have to match and hang under the correct book! If you get them all right on the first try, you’ll get a little something fun. These books will be on display also and available for check out so be sure to bring your library cards with you when you come!

Community Night Out

The Friends of the Graceville Library are holding their annual Community Night Out freewill donation meal on Thursday, Aug 21st. It will be held in the community building again this year. We hope you’ll join us for great food, music, and company. You’re support for the library is immeasurable! Thank you!

National Chocolate Chip Cookie Day

Who likes chocolate chip cookies? 🙋‍♀️
I’m so glad there is a day made special just for them! Yes, Monday August 4th is National Chocolate Chip Cookie Day and we’d like to celebrate it at the library. However, because we are not open on Monday, we are going to extend the day and celebrate it on Tuesday the 5th! We have a few awesome people who volunteered to make choc. chip cookies using their special recipes. Some will be gluten free and sugar free. Others will be the good ol’ sugary kind. The cookies will be limited to what our volunteers are offering, so please join us for cookies, coffee, or cocoa before they’re gone!

Paper Marbling

Signup now at the library for Meredith’s Paper Marbling class.
Paper marbling is a decorative art where colorful patterns are created by floating paints or inks on a liquid surface (like water) and then transferring the design to paper. It’s like creating unique, swirly, stone-like patterns on paper by manipulating paints on a liquid canvas.

Mixed Media Collages

Signup now for Christy’s Mixed Media Collages class! This will be fun for everyone!
A mixed media collage is a form of artwork that combines a variety of materials and techniques to create layers of imagery.
We will use art making materials like printed pictures, gel pens, colorful papers, stencils and more to create a unique and creative piece of art.
If you like scrapbooking, this project is for you.