Upcoming Events

Build early language and large motor skills through rhyme, songs, book sharing and hands-on activities with your child. Ages 6-24 months with caregiver. Registration is NOT required, but it will be a first come, first served program.

View art together to get your creative juices flowing.

Experiment with a variety of materials to create your own art. 

This program is every 2nd Monday of the month. 

All materials provided.

Bring your craft, your supplies and your passion! Meet other crafters and creators, share your ideas and get new ones! Adults. Registration is not required. 

Through music and stories in “Anansi & Me,” Arts for Learning’s Valerie Davis engages young children in an interactive program that shares the wisdom of animal "trickster tales” from Ghana. Ages 3-5 with caregiver.

Help your child on their journey to independent reading.  Each meeting we will play games and incorporate different reading strategies to help your reader gain confidence, fluency and independence in reading.  Ages 5-7.  Registratio

Join us for our Adults with Disabilities Game Day!  An assortment of board and card games will be available. Please note any specific accommodations required when registering. Adults. Registration is required. 

Learn to use our Silhouette cameo 4 desktop cutting machine! This orientation session, guided by library staff, covers everything you need to know to begin reserving time to work independently on our Silhouette Cameo 4 including:

Join us for a President's Day challenge where we will try to recreate Presidential monuments with building materials and 3D pens.  Ages 8-11.  Registration required.

Perform, create, and have fun! Join us to explore various art forms. Each class features a new skill, artist, artistic movement, or technique. Grades 3-5. Registration is required.

Rotating competition is organized by the club coordinator.  Knowledge of chess rules is required; limited instruction may be provided for beginners.  Chess equipment has been generously donated by Virginia Chess Federation, private donor

Celebrate the season with this beginner friendly sewing projects! Using basic stitches, design and create plushie hearts with the materials provided. Ages 12-18. Registration required.  

The quarterback just broke his leg! Can you design and create a catapult to score the game winning field goal? Ages 8-11

Join us on the 2^nd and 3^rd Monday nights for teen-only activities. Enjoy movies, games, crafts, & more – with different selections each week.  Ages 12-18.  Registration not required.

Weekly Themes

Build early language and large motor skills through rhyme, songs, book sharing, and hands-on activities with your child. Ages 3-24 months with caregiver. Registration is required.

Build early language and large motor skills through rhyme, songs, book sharing, and hands-on activities with your child. Ages 3-24 months with caregiver. Registration is required.

Boost independence and develop social skills using writing activities, basic concepts (i.e., colors, shapes, letters, etc.), large muscle movement, and social-emotional learning opportunities focusing on the whole child.

Bring your preschooler to learn about Science, Technology, Engineering, Arts, and Math in this interactive program. Age 3-5 with caregiver. Registration is required.

Boost independence and develop social skills using writing activities, basic concepts (i.e., colors, shapes, letters, etc.), large muscle movements, and social-emotional learning opportunities focusing on the whole child. Age 2 with a caregiver.

Designed for newly independent preschoolers, this storytime features books, rhymes and literacy-based activities that will help prepare your child to enter school ready to read.

Enjoy a warm and inviting space where you and your child can play and socialize with others in the community. Please note: This is a social event for both caregiver and child, as opposed to a traditionally structured program.

Bring your preschooler to learn about Science, Technology, Engineering, Arts, and Math in this interactive program. 

Ages 3-5 with caregiver. Registration is required.

Boost independence and develop social skills using writing activities, basic concepts (i.e., colors, shapes, letters, etc.), large muscle movement, and social-emotional learning opportunities focusing on the whole child.

Bring your preschooler to learn about Science, Technology, Engineering, Arts, and Math in this interactive program. Age 3-5 with caregiver. Registration is required.

Come discover the local wildlife of Virginia Beach with your young Nature Pals! Each month we will explore a different group of animals in this free grownup and me program for ages 3-7.