Tonganoxie Public Library is offering a winter coat exchange for kids throughout the month of November.

If you have coats your child has outgrown, we can give them a new home! Bring any freshly laundered, gently used coats to the front desk to donate them.

You can see if there is a coat you’d like to take home. You can donate coats without taking new ones, and you can take a coat without donating one. All coats are free to a new home.

Yarn and Fabric Exchange this Saturday

The library’s annual Yarn and Fabric Exchange returns this Saturday!

Anything you’d like to donate for the exchange can be dropped off this Friday during open library hours. We’ll accept yarns, fabrics, patterns or books, unfinished projects or any accessories such as knitting needles.

Then from 11 a.m.-noon Saturday, anyone who has donated something can come shop first! After noon, the exchange is open to anyone looking for new materials.

Everything is offered to new homes for free.

Thanksgiving-themed activities for kids coming up

Youths will have two Thanksgiving-themed programs this month at the library!

First, we’ll have a DIY pumpkin pie slime day on Nov. 20. Those two years and older can get their hands sticky starting at 3:30 pm. Then at 1 p.m. Nov. 23, youths ages three years and older can make Thanksgiving treats in a children’s cooking class. Participants will make turkey cookie pops and cornucopia fruit cones.

Registration is only required for the cooking class and can be done by calling the library at 913-845-3281.

— Kim Downing is assistant director/circulation coordinator at Tonganoxie Public Library. She can be reached at 913-845-3281 or kimd@tonganoxielibrary.org.