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 required.

Bring your preschooler to engage in exciting activities to develop an understanding of basic math concepts required for school readiness.

Ages 3-5. Registration is required.

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 required.

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.

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.

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 required.

Help prepare your child to enter school ready to read!  This Storytime includes books, rhymes, and literacy activities that emphasize alphabet and letter recognition plus activities that support independence and confidence building.

Come in and enjoy a Monday morning feature film. This month's showing: Selena. Adults. Registration is not 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.

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. Age 2 with a caregiver.

Bring your preschooler to engage in exciting activities to develop an understanding of basic math concepts required for school readiness.

Ages 3-5. Registration is required.

Enjoy a casual chat about popular books. Talk about titles you like and hear what others enjoy. Swap favorites old and new or spread the word about your favorite reads. 

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.

Explore your creativity with a paper project each month. No experience is necessary; simply bring your curiosity and discover the art of papercrafting in a welcoming environment.

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 and teens 16+.  Registration is not required.

Help prepare your child to enter school ready to read!  This Storytime includes books, rhymes, and literacy activities that emphasize alphabet and letter recognition plus activities that support independence and confidence building.

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. 

Use your pretend money to budget and shop for your favorite art supplies at Central Library's Art Mart!  Use your art supplies to make fun art. Grades Preschool through 2nd.  Registration is required. 

Join us in celebrating the first day of fall with a relaxing evening of guided painting! Canvases and paint provided.

Grades 3-6. 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

Come join us for coffee, cookies and conversation as we discuss how people connect with their communities.

Adults.  Registration is required.

Do you want to use a 3D Printer at a Virginia Beach Public Library branch? Register for a required 3D printer orientation with a VBPL staff member to learn how to use the 3D Printer. 

Explore Science, Technology, Engineering, Arts, and Math in this interactive program. Grades K-2. Registration is required.

Create and adopt a desk pet to keep you company while you work. Write a backstory for your animal and share with friends. Grades K-5. 

Come down to Oceanfront Area Library and gather with peers to write based on the prompt of the session.  Get that creativity flowing!

Registration not required.

Do you want to use a 3D Printer at a Virginia Beach Public Library branch? Register for a required 3D printer orientation with a VBPL staff member to learn how to use the 3D Printer.