Enjoy a small group storytime designed to allow children to explore a variety of sensory experiences.

Wondering what the "just right" books are for your early reader?  Trying to practice sight words?  Just trying to find some great books to motivate a reluctant reader?  Join us for this book talk that will highlight the best from ou

Get those fingers working! Build hand/eye coordination and muscles in your child's hand.  Practice skills like cutting with scissors, writing, and drawing with fun learning activities.  Ages 3-7 with caregiver.

Join us for a StoryWalk® featuring What If... by Samantha Berger. 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.

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.

Use your imagination to build creations out of stackable bricks and other materials. Grades K-5. Registration is not required.

Join us for a StoryWalk® featuring Here We Go Digging for Dinosaur Bones by Susan Lendroth. Engage in fun activities while you read the story and explore the library!

Celebrate the end of summer at our Back to School Send-Off! Join us at our outdoor event featuring a Storywalk of What If, fun family activities, community resources, and VBPL's Bookmobile.

The bookmobile will be celebrating the end of summer at Kempsville Area Library's Back to School Send-Off!

Join us for an afternoon movie and craft. We will be watching the 2024 film It Ends With Us, based on the novel by Collen Hoover while making fun DIY book tote bags. Total play time is 2 hours and 15 minutes, this film is rated PG-13. 

Join us for a StoryWalk® featuring What If... by Samantha Berger. 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.

Learn the rules of this traditional Chinese game and play some Mahjong. No experience necessary. Grades 6-12 and Adults. Registration is required.

Join us for Bayside Talks, a quarterly speaker series at the Bayside Library! The Department of Health joins us for a talk entitled: Taking the Fear Out of Falling: What You Can Do to Stay Safe and Independent

Make a mini bottle charm! You could write a secret message, and make your own unique message in a bottle, or make sand art, or have your own mini beach in a bottle.

Teens, grades 6-12.  Registration required.

Join us for an engaging workshop where you'll learn the basics of woodburning, using heat to create intricate designs on wood. Create personalized art, explore different techniques, and leave with your own woodburned masterpiece! 

Make a mini bottle charm! You could write a secret message, and make your own unique message in a bottle, or make sand art, or have your own mini beach in a bottle.

Adults.  Registration required.