Ellicottville Memorial Library

05/29/2026

04/29/2026

Today we read about a very hungry caterpillar and took turns feeding the caterpillar from Eric Carle's funny book. Our craft was rigatoni necklaces. Join us next week when the theme will be flowers.

04/23/2026

Happy National Library Week everyone!! The 2026 National Library Week theme is "Find Your Joy". Celebrated from April 19–25, 2026, this theme highlights how libraries foster joy, connection, and curiosity through books, programs, and community resources. The 2026 Honorary Chair is library advocate Mychal Threets. We have his children's book on display along with several fun activity sheets for kids. Stop in and check it out and all you gardeners, don't forget to stop in and check out the new seed library.🫛🍑🍅🫑

04/21/2026

The library is now a seed library - and what a great way to use the beautiful card catalog🥰. We currently have herb seeds and vegetable seeds. Hoping to acquire some flower seeds in the next week or two. There is a limit of 5 packs per library visit, so stop in often because spring is here - despite the snow flakes yesterday.🤣

04/16/2026

This week for story time we learned about the color red. So of course we talked about fire trucks. We even put together a large fire truck puzzle while Chase, our therapy dog, watched us. Join us next week for the color blue!🐟💧🚙

04/03/2026

We had fun at story time the last two weeks making sunflowers to go with the color yellow and grapes to go with purple. Join us next week for an Easter theme. We will have an Easter egg hunt, stories and crafts for all ages of kids. If you can't come Wednesday morning for story time, stop in any time next week for a special scavenger hunt and minute to win it games.

03/20/2026

For the next few weeks we are learning about colors during story time. Check out our fun shamrocks from this week celebrating the color green and last week our goldfish for the color orange. Next week is yellow followed by my favorite...purple.

02/20/2026

This past Wednesday morning we had a very special story time. Mike Morton arrived with his chickens and 3 day old baby chicks to present a "Green Eggs and Ham" event to about 45 interested patrons. We learned about chickens and eggs and got to meet Penny, his chicken that lays green eggs! Join us this coming Wednesday when Dr. Kate will be back to read a few stories, dance a few dances and make a craft. This week's theme is the color pink!

02/04/2026

Today at story time our theme was "love" and we decided that we love animals, so our craft was a homemade bird feeder from used lunchmeat containers. They were a little complicated for small hands so the adults had to help - consequently I didn't take very many pictures, but these two were worth sharing ☺️. Next week our theme is Valentine's Day followed by Mike Morton's Green Eggs and Ham program on February 17th!

01/27/2026

Sis will be missed by our library staff and board members as well as our entire community. We greatly appreciate all the time Sis donated to the library for close to 50 years! Whether she was reading stories for story time, fundraising for the new library, attending meetings, helping to clean the building - both inside and out, cooking hot dogs at the Pro Am or helping during Fall Festival, she was there with a smile on her face and ready and willing to work. To say that she was an active and dedicated board member is an understatement.
Sis's family have planned a celebration of life at the Ellicottville Memorial Library on Saturday, February 7th from 5 to 6 pm. We hope to see you there.