Day Calendar

Try our Cubetto, the library coding toy meant for new coders! Guide Cubetto over a map to help tell the story, The Fairiest Fairy. Learn computer coding basics and STEAM skills. Ages 3-5. Registration required.

Drop in for a fun new craft in our Children’s Room!  Family.  No registration required.

Join us for a StoryWalk® featuring I Promise by LeBron James. Engage in fun activities while you read the story and explore outdoors! While supplies last, take home a craft that goes along with the story.

Let’s get those fingers working! Build eye - hand coordination and muscle strength in your child’s hand and fingers. Practice skills like cutting with scissors, writing, aiming, and more with exciting learning activities! Preschool - Grade 2.

Bond with your infant in a face-to-face rhyme time and build early language skills through rhymes, repetition, music and baby sign. Children are introduced to quality board books and one-on-one book sharing. Ages 3-12 months with caregiver.

Come celebrate the First Day of Summer at the Kempsville Library!  We emphasize alphabet and letter recognition and activities that support independence and confidence building.

Kick off the 2022 Summer Reading Challenge with a colorful storytime. The Crayons in the book may have quit, but other crayons are still hard at work every day. Join us as we celebrate them with storytime and a to-go craft!

Enjoy stories, rhymes, songs, concepts (i.e. colors, shapes, etc.) and early literacy tips with your curious toddler, as we develop independence as well as pre-literacy and social skills. Age 2 with caregiver. Registration is required.

Join us for a StoryWalk® featuring The Day the Crayons Quit by Drew Daywalt. Engage in fun activities while you read the story and explore outdoors! 

Kick off the 2022 Summer Reading Challenge with a colorful storytime. The Crayons in the book may have quit, but other crayons are still hard at work every day. Join us as we celebrate them with storytime and a to-go craft!

If you are a non-native English speaker, join us to practice your conversational English in a friendly setting. Each week we discuss a different topic and do fun activities!

Adults. Registration is not required.

It’s a paint party! Create a beautiful painting following step-by-step instructions or free-style your own masterpiece. Grades 4-7.  Registration is required.

Adventure awaits! Join an in-person Dungeons & Dragons campaign with other interested teens under the direction an experienced Library Game Master. No prior experience required. On-going campaign, new players welcome!

Try out the library’s newest coding toy! Cubetto is a cube-shaped robot. Your child will learn to guide Cubetto over a fun map to help tell a story. Learn computer coding basics and STEAM skills. Grades K-2.

We emphasize alphabet and letter recognition and activities that support independence and confidence building. This storytime includes books, rhymes and literacy activities to help children enter school ready to learn to read.

Celebrate Pride Month with us as we learn about Pride while painting.