Washburn Public Library

06/23/2026

6/22/26 Summer Reading Program
A HUGE thank you to Toni Ganje with the Garrison Dam National Fish Hatchery for hosting today's presentation! We learned about painted turtles and had so much fun watching them race on skateboards! We also studied shovelnose lake sturgeon and got to touch and hold them.

06/17/2026

Join the Washburn Public Library Tuesday, July 21st, at 6 pm, for our next book club discussion. We will be discussing 'The Winds of War' by Herman Wouk. The event is open to anyone interested. Don't have time to join book club? We have extra copies of the book!

06/16/2026

6/15/26 Summer Reading Program
A HUGE thank you to paleontologist Alex Gardner with the ND Geological Survey for teaching us about fossil collection, preparation, and preservation. We even got to excavate our own 3D printed fossils!

06/09/2026

6/8/26 Summer Reading Program
A HUGE thank you to Amanda Hendrix with the Badlands Dinosaur Museum for hosting today's presentation! This year they brought us a skull from T-Rex's ancestor (Daspletosaurus wilsoni) to look at and touch. We made adorable dinosaur I-Spy bottles as a craft.

06/09/2026

6/6/26 Riverboat Days Parade
Those crazy cats (Pete and by the end of the windy parade the Cat Without a Hat) had as much fun as always throwing out popsicles to beat the heat!

06/02/2026

6/1/26 Summer Reading Program
A HUGE thank you to Darian Kath with Knife River Indian Villages and his Conservation Corps team for kicking off our Summer Reading Program events for the summer! We learned about staple crops in Native American agriculture, the tools they used, how food was prepared, and how they stored their harvest over the winter. Everyone got to plant and take a yellow Arikara or red Hidatsa bean home with them.

05/20/2026

Join the Washburn Public Library for our Summer Reading Program events in June & July at the Nettle Creek Schoolhouse! You may register for the reading program at the library starting June 1st. You do not need to participate in the summer reading program to join us for program events.

05/20/2026

05/18/2026

5/15/26 3rd Grade STEAM Kit Field Trip
When we hosted the 3rd Grade STEAM Kit field trip to the library, they had SO much fun trying out GIANT Sorry and Candyland board games, checking out the microscopes and a microfossil dig, working with snap circuits, trying out the marble maze, working on a puzzle, playing with K'nex, building on the Lego table, learning about composting worms, and holding the chicks we raised in an incubator!

05/18/2026

5/14/26 4th Grade STEAM Kit Field Trip
When we hosted the 4th Grade STEAM Kit field trip to the library, they got to make 3D pen keychains, try out a GIANT Sorry board game, play Animal Trivia and Spot the Difference board games, check out the microscopes and a microfossil dig, try out the green energy snap circuits, try out the marble maze, work on a puzzle, use the Lego table, learn about composting worms, and hold the chicks we raised in an incubator!