Event List

Come use your creativity and engineering skills to create a whimsical gingerbread house! We’ll be using cardboard templates for the houses and frosting, sprinkles, and other assorted candies as our tools. Ages 6-10 with a caregiver.

Help us celebrate Jane Austen's 250th Birthday, and create some Regency Era crafts that can easily be given as holiday gifts! This is an all-ages event. Registration is not required. 

Join us during Computer Science Education Week for an introduction to Sphero Minis and learn how to code your way through a race course! Ages 8-13. 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

Join us for this drop in family night where we will be learning traditional Hanukkah game with dreidels and other board games, learn the dreidel song on Otamatones and making a Hanukkah themed craft.  Ages 3-11.  Registration is not requ

What a combo! We're watching The Grinch, and building with Legos! Come and build something fun. Ages 5-11. 

Bring your Pokémon cards and games to trade, battle, and more with other local players. Hang out, chat with other fans, and make a craft. "Catch ‘em all" at the library this month! Ages 8-11. Registration is required.

Explore Science, Engineering, Technology, Arts and Math in this interactive program. Ages 8-11. Registration is required. 

Homeschoolers! Join us for fun activities each month! Ages 6 to 11. Registration is required.

Welcome to our daytime hangout for tweens at Bayside Library! Each meeting we will engage in games, arts & crafts, or STEAM related activities.

Perfect for homeschool; all are welcome!

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

Come join us for a showing of the movie The Lion, the Witch, and the Wardrobe before our Tween Book Club for December, where we'll be reading the C.S. Lewis classic. Ages 9-12. Registration required. 

Practice your reading skills by sharing stories with a therapy dog. Bring your own book or choose one from our selection!  Ages 5-11.  Registration is required.

Love reading? Join us for our tween book club! This month's book is The Lion, The Witch, and The Wardrobe by C.S. Lewis.  Grades 4-6. Registration required. 

Use your imagination to build creations out of stackable bricks and other materials. Ages 5-11. Registration is not required.

Explore Science, Engineering, Technology, Arts and Math in this interactive program.  This month, we will be exploring states of matter!

Ages 5-11. Registration is required.

Drop-in and hangout with us as we watch Frozen: Sing-Along! Please bring your own snacks.

Rated PG. Children ages 12 and under must be accompanied by an adult.

Bring your preschooler to explore different artistic styles. Please wear clothes you don’t mind getting messy! Ages 2- Grade 5 with caregiver. Registration is required**. 

**Please register each participant individually.

Celebrate the holidays by creating a paper gingerbread person as a family! All craft supplies will be provided.

For ages 3-11 and their caregivers. Registration is required. 

Ever curious about new (or new to you) technology? Join us for an opportunity to get some hands on experience trying out some of our different technology and coding robots. Ages 5-11.  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

Hang out, play the card game, and make a craft! Bring your Pokémon cards and games to trade, battle, and more with other local players. Ages 9-13. Registration is not required.

Calling all tweens! Knots do more than keep our shoes on! Come learn to tie a new kind of knot or two and create a project you can keep or give as a gift. Ages 9-13. Registration is required.