Grades 3-5. Many of our favorite books have been turned into movies, but was the book better? Come enjoy a warm cup of hot cocoa and watch The Best Christmas Pageant Ever with us. At the end you can vote to let us know if the book was better. Results will be posted on OPPL social media. REGISTRATION OPENS: Nov. 15

Local Event: Was the Book Better?

Cook County

Orland Park

Illinois

Was the Book Better?

Grades 3-5. Many of our favorite books have been turned into movies, but was the book better? Come enjoy a warm cup of hot...

Family Event. Stop by Stan’s Donuts for a deliciously frosted library event. Register online.

Local Event: Sprinkle Saturdays at Stan’s

Sprinkle Saturdays at Stan’s

Family Event. Stop by Stan’s Donuts for a deliciously frosted library event. Register online. 

Grades 6-12.&nbsp;Come relax and color with friends. Bring your own supplies or use ours. Share coloring tips, practice techniques, and drink some delicious hot chocolate.

Local Event: Color and Relax

Color and Relax

Grades 6-12. Come relax and color with friends. Bring your own supplies or use ours. Share coloring tips, practice techniques,...

Family Event. Start the new year with a movie night featuring dragons in honor of our Winter Reading Challenge. Bring your blankets and spread out on the floor. All in attendance get a Reading Dragons card! Registration is appreciated but not required.

Local Event: Reading Dragons Family Movie Night

Reading Dragons Family Movie Night

Family Event. Start the new year with a movie night featuring dragons in honor of our Winter Reading Challenge. Bring your...

Start your weekend off right! Bring the family together for stories, songs, and fun! Register online.

Local Event: Bright Starts Family Storytime

Bright Starts Family Storytime

Start your weekend off right! Bring the family together for stories, songs, and fun! Register online. 

We will have fun as we read, sing, and play together to build early literacy skills. Register online.

Local Event: Toddler Time

Toddler Time

We will have fun as we read, sing, and play together to build early literacy skills. Register online. 

Birth-11 months with parent or caregiver. Stories, songs, fingerplays and fun all while building early literacy skills.

Local Event: Baby Lapsit Storytime

Baby Lapsit Storytime

Birth-11 months with parent or caregiver. Stories, songs, fingerplays and fun all while building early literacy skills.

12-23 months with parent or caregiver.&nbsp;Stories, songs, fingerplays and fun all while building early literacy skills.

Local Event: Baby Walkers Storytime

Baby Walkers Storytime

12-23 months with parent or caregiver. Stories, songs, fingerplays and fun all while building early literacy skills.

Join us for this interactive storytime. Be ready to sing, shake, and move! Register online.

Local Event: Once Upon a Time Storytime

Once Upon a Time Storytime

Join us for this interactive storytime. Be ready to sing, shake, and move! Register online. 

Come hear stories and songs to end the day on a happy note. Register online.

Local Event: Night Owls

Night Owls

Come hear stories and songs to end the day on a happy note. Register online. 

Explore the art and science of glassblowing with Conor Strehl of Conair Glass Company. Discover the properties of glass as he demonstrates shaping molten material into intricate forms. Learn about tools, techniques, and the history of this fascinating craft. Register online.&nbsp;

Local Event: Glassblowing Demonstration 

Glassblowing Demonstration 

Explore the art and science of glassblowing with Conor Strehl of Conair Glass Company. Discover the properties of glass as he...

Play with sensory toys on a cold winter day. Register online. For ages birth to 23 months.

Local Event: Baby Winter Sensory Play

Baby Winter Sensory Play

Play with sensory toys on a cold winter day. Register online. For ages birth to 23 months.

Ageless Grace® is a highly effective brain fitness program that keeps participants moving and thinking through the power of play.&nbsp;&nbsp;

Local Event: Ageless Grace

Ageless Grace

Ageless Grace® is a highly effective brain fitness program that keeps participants moving and thinking through the power of...

In honor of National Rubber Duckie Day, let’s have a scavenger hunt and then make a cute craft to take home. Register online.&nbsp;

Local Event: Rubber Duckie, You’re the One!

Rubber Duckie, You’re the One!

In honor of National Rubber Duckie Day, let’s have a scavenger hunt and then make a cute craft to take home. Register online. 

Visit us at the library for a presentation about the new chapter in nuclear energy projects across the globe that will also discuss myths and misinformation about nuclear energy. &nbsp;

Local Event: Understanding Nuclear Energy

Understanding Nuclear Energy

Visit us at the library for a presentation about the new chapter in nuclear energy projects across the globe that will also...

Grades 3-5. Do you admire handknit hats, mittens, or scarves? This is your chance to learn to knit, so you can create your own. Parents are invited to accompany their children.&nbsp;

Local Event: Knitting Club

Knitting Club

Grades 3-5. Do you admire handknit hats, mittens, or scarves? This is your chance to learn to knit, so you can create your own....

Come spend an evening with Chef Susan Maddox learning about some great winter comfort cuisine featuring a soup, cozy casserole, and winter fruit bread pudding.&nbsp;

Local Event: Winter Comfort Cuisine

Winter Comfort Cuisine

Come spend an evening with Chef Susan Maddox learning about some great winter comfort cuisine featuring a soup, cozy casserole,...

Learn the basics of crochet, including how to chain stitch, single crochet, and count stitches while making a useful dishcloth. All materials will be provided. No experience necessary. Register online.

Local Event: Crochet Basics: Dishcloth

Crochet Basics: Dishcloth

Learn the basics of crochet, including how to chain stitch, single crochet, and count stitches while making a useful dishcloth....

Start the new year with gratitude and joy! Participants will learn the many benefits of practicing gratitude and joy as well as strategies for cultivating these powerful emotions. The person who is grateful will take joy in even the smallest things.&nbsp;&nbsp;

Local Event: Cultivating Gratitude and Joy

Cultivating Gratitude and Joy

Start the new year with gratitude and joy! Participants will learn the many benefits of practicing gratitude and joy as well as...

Grades K-2. It’s time for a craft all about our favorite silly old bear. Register online.&nbsp;

Local Event: Winnie the Pooh!

Winnie the Pooh!

Grades K-2. It’s time for a craft all about our favorite silly old bear. Register online. 

Orland Park Public Library

Lauren Traut

Chicago Metropolitan Area

Tinley Park

Will County

Mokena

Lorraine Swanson

Palos

Oak Forest

Andrea Earnest

Lemont

Frankfort

Alsip-Crestwood

New Lenox

Oak Lawn

Homer Glen-Lockport

On Saturday, December 20, 2025, the Castle Bell Hope Project will partner with the American Legion Rehfeldt-Meyer Post 474 in...

Hearts Of Valor Dinner

Join us for our annual Home for the Holidays Concert and Food Drive benefitting the New Lenox food pantry.  Cash donations...

The Southwest Community Concert Band Presents: Home For the Holidays Concert and Food Drive

Free Scrap Metal Pickup. 7 Days a Week. We Pickup: Farm Machinery, Garden Tractors, Snowmobiles, Motorcycles, Furnaces, All Appliances, Car Parts, plus Nails, Nuts, Bolts, Screws and much more.
Please Call Brian @ 815-210-8819

Free Scrap Metal Pickup 

Free Scrap Metal Pickup. 7 Days a Week. We Pickup: Farm Machinery, Garden Tractors, Snowmobiles, Motorcycles, Furnaces, All Appliances, Car Parts,...

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Was the Book Better?

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Sprinkle Saturdays at Stan’s

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Color and Relax

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Reading Dragons Family Movie Night

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Bright Starts Family Storytime

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Toddler Time

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Baby Lapsit Storytime

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Baby Walkers Storytime

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Once Upon a Time Storytime

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Night Owls

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Glassblowing Demonstration

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Baby Winter Sensory Play

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Ageless Grace

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14921 S Ravinia Ave, Orland Park, IL

Rubber Duckie, You’re the One!

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6:30 PM

14921 S Ravinia Ave, Orland Park, IL

Understanding Nuclear Energy

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