Week Calendar

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.

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.

Start your week off with Mahjong! Come learn the rules of this traditional Chinese game and play with others. No experience necessary. Adults. Registration is not required. 

Join us as we investigate this well loved winter animal.  Learn about their habitat and the special adaptations they have to keep them warm during the long winter months. Ages 3-8. Registration is required. 

Bayside Library and Westminster Canterbury are providing a brain-fitness program for older adults designed to maximize physical, mental, and social well-being through fun, stimulating activities. 

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

Join us as we investigate this well loved winter animal.  Learn about their habitat and the special adaptations they have to keep them warm during the long winter months. Ages 3-8. Registration is required. 

Use creative robotics to learn and play! Navigate Cubetto over the river and through the woods to Grandmother's house!  Ages 3-8. Registration required.

Build confidence and independence with an increased focus on more complex books, emphasizing alphabet and letter recognition, shapes, and hands-on activities. Age 3 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.

Calling all homeschool tweens! Here's your chance to meet other tweens, make new friends, and enjoy fun activities. This month's activity is creating colorful holiday cards.

Grades 4-8. Registration is required.

If you are a non-native English speaker, join us to practice your conversational English in a friendly setting. Adults. Registration is not required.

Book Title:  Palace of the Drowned by Christine Mangan

Build confidence and independence with an increased focus on more complex books, emphasizing alphabet and letter recognition, shapes, and hands-on activities. Age 3 with caregiver. Registration is required. 

Bring your preschooler to learn about Science, Technology, Engineering, Arts and Math in this interactive program. Age 3-5 with caregiver. 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. Adults. Registration is not required.

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

Hi Homeschoolers!

Let's try out a Sphero obstacle course!

Grades 6-12. Registration is required.

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.

Fellow teen knitters, come hang out, and work on your knitting!  

We will go over a simple project for all experience levels, including beginners.  Registration required only for the project.

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. 

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

Bring your babies to explore different artistic styles. Please wear clothes you don’t mind getting messy! Ages 3 months- 24 months with caregiver. Registration is required.

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.

Bring your preschooler to explore different artistic styles. Please wear clothes you don’t mind getting messy! Ages 3-5 with caregiver. Registration is required. 

We're only a week away from the start of Kwanzaa and you might be asking yourself, Wait, what is Kwanzaa? Join us to explore and learn about Kwanzaa, a celebration of 7 core values: Umoja (Unity), Kujichagulia (Self-Determination), U

Get together with other adults with disabilities for socializing and entertainment. Build friendships, offer support, and share accomplishments. Adults. Registration required. 

Learn about the Winter Solstice and make a luminary themed craft. Wear your cozy pajamas if you like! Or dress in black and white. 

Grades 1-5. Registration is required. 

Hanukkah, Christmas, Kwanzaa, and New Year's... OH MY! December and January are full of fun-filled holidays, so let celebrate and learn about them!

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

Join us for a Christmas-themed storytime, share traditions, and make something to take home. Grades K-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

Join us Tuesday nights for teen-only events. Enjoy games, crafts, and other activities.

Grades 6-12. Registration is not required, drop in any time!
 

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. This session we will be illustrating Pokemon battles! "Catch ‘em all" at the library this month! Grades 3-5.

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

Explore Science, Engineering, Technology, Arts and Math in this interactive program. Grades 3-5.  Registration is required. 

Come join us for coffee, cookies and conversation as we discuss how to reduce the stigma around mental health and different methods to overcome it.

Adults. Registration is required.

Adventure awaits! Join a new Dungeons & Dragons campaign with other interested teens led by a Library Game Master. No prior experience required, new players welcome! All supplies and character sheets will be provided. 

Learn how to make a simple circuit and light up the night with a torch you put together. Registration required. 

Commemorate a year of reading with us! We’ll be creating custom waterless snow globes filled with miniature books based on what you’ve read this year. All materials will be provided. Adults. Registration is required.

Join us Tuesday nights for teen-only activities. Enjoy movies, games, crafts, and more, with different selections each week. 
 
Grades 6-12. Registration is not required, drop in any time! 
 

Join us Wednesdays for teen-only activities. Enjoy movies, games, crafts, and more, with different selections each week. Grades 6-12. Registration is not required; drop in any time!

Weekly Themes:

Are you a Kindergartener-2^nd Grader who likes to use your imagination and be creative? Come to Tinker Time where you will have a variety of creative building manipulatives to bring your ideas to life.

Want to have fun while earning community service hours? Join us Thursday nights for teen-only activities. Help with various library tasks every third Thursday; tasks will change monthly.

Join us at Vibrant Shore Brewing Co. to create a collage bookshelf to track all the book titles you read in 2024.

Adults. Registration is required.