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Week 1

Week 1 Handout

Activity downloads:

  • Suncatcher Craft
  • Aesop Word Search
  • Paper Airplane Templates

Week 4

Week 4 – Handout

Activity Downloads:

  • Pizza Dough
  • Banyan Tree Paper Craft
  • Mandala Craft
  • Tiger Cube
  • Maze of Bangladesh

Week 7

Week 7 – Handout

Activity Downloads:

  • Feather Bookmark
  • Krispie Kritters
  • Paper Weaving

Week 2

Week 2 Handout

Activity Downloads:

  • Yarn bracelet
  • True-False activity
  • Hansel & Gretel Maze

Week 5

Week 5 – Handout

Activity Downloads:

  • Dragon Eggs
  • Make Your Own Coat of Arms
  • Dragon Paper Chain
  • Writing Prompt
  • Draw a Dragon

Week 8

Week 8 – Handout

Activity Downloads:

  • Grecian Urns
  • Unicorn Card
  • Greek Gods Word Search
  • Greek God Match-up/Minotaur Coloring Sheet
  • Archery with Artemis

Week 3

Week 3 Handout

Activity Downloads:

  • Grow Your Own Beanstalk
  • Spiral Beanstalk Paper Craft
  • Germinating a Seed
  • Jack & the Beanstalk Word Search

Week 6

Week 6 – Handout

Activity Downloads:

  • Jam Tarts
  • Alice’s Mystery Potion
  • Mystery Color-by-letter
  • DPL Similes & Metaphors
  • What’s Your Wonderland Name?

Virtual Story Times

Visit our YouTube channel to see our virtual story times! Story videos are uploaded every Tuesday morning at 8am. Click on the story time below for an activity that goes along with it!

  • Kick-off – Llama Llama Story Time
  • Week 1 – Creepy Story Time
  • Week 2 – Story Time with a Beat
  • Week 3
  • Week 4
  • Week 5
  • Week 6
  • Week 7
  • Week 8

Special Guest Story Time

These virtual story times will post to our YouTube channel on the following Thursdays at 10:30am CT. Be sure to subscribe!

  • June 11th – The Brave Little Tailor told by Jonathan Wessner & Snow White told by Donna Robertson
  • June 18th – Jack and the Beanstalk with Kerrie Hoffner
  • June 25th – Epossumundus with Elizabeth Thompson CLICK HERE for a printable coloring sheet!
  • July 9th – Story Time with Rapunzel*/1000 Books Before Kindergarten graduation
  • July 16th – The Three Little Pigs with Kerrie Hoffner

While Special Guest Story Times will be released on these dates, they will remain available. You can watch any story, any time, and get the code word to complete your activities in READsquared!

*Rapunzel appears courtesy of Magical Memories AL.

Virtual Events

Our Summer Reads Virtual Events are available on DPL’s YouTube channel beginning on the dates below.

  • June 4th – Southeastern Indians presented by Alabama Department of Archives & History
    • Southeast Indians Information
    • Animal Hide Drawing
    • Pottery
    • God’s Eye Craft
  • June 18th – Live Reptiles “Zoom to You” Party presented by Riverside Reptiles Education Center
  • July 2nd – Dragons: Return of the Ice Sorceress presented by Science Tellers
  • July 23rd – Wildlife with Ranger Daphne presented by Daphne Moland from Wheeler National Wildlife Refuge

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504 Cherry St. NE
Decatur, AL 35601

Contact Us
(256) 353-2993

Hours of Operation

Mon - Thu: 10am-6pm
Fri: 10am-5pm
Saturday: 10am-4pm
Sunday: CLOSED

e-books

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Library Services

  • 1000 Books Before Kindergarten
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We no longer have a media only book drop. Please return DVDs, books on CD, & kits in the book drop which faces 6th Avenue. You can deposit any return item in either of the slots. Thanks!