Week Calendar

Idle hands? No problem. Library Associate Belle Han from the Urbana Regional Library created this video that will help you make your own origami creation. Get ready for some folding fun! Visit FCPL's Facebook page to attend this program.

Join us for a puppet show telling of the classic tale, The Three Little Pigs! Afterwards, get inspired to build your own houses and see which one stands up to the big bad hair dryer! Visit FCPL's Facebook page to attend this program.

Genealogists shouldn't overlook the importance of consulting published family histories and local histories to assist with their research.

Learn what it takes to run an aerial adventure park including the safety and science behind it all! Meet at TreeTrekkers, 9560 Old National Pike, New Market.

Songs, stories, and play for babies and their grownups. Designed for ages 0-24 months with a caregiver.

Songs, stories, and fun for toddlers and their grownups. Designed for 2 year olds with a caregiver.

Join us weekdays at 10 a.m. for our daily virtual storytime for children ages 0-5, then stick around to preview the amazing summer virtual performers FCPL has lined up all summer long! at Facebook.com/FredCoLibrary/.

Songs, stories, and play for babies and their grownups. Designed for ages 0-24 months with a caregiver.

Songs, stories, and fun for toddlers and their grownups. Designed for 2 year olds with a caregiver.

Music, movement, and stories for the whole family. Designed for ages 0 and up with a caregiver.

Songs, stories, and fun for preschoolers and their grownups. Designed for ages 3-5 with a caregiver.

Songs, stories, and fun for toddlers and their grownups. Designed for 2 year olds with a caregiver.

We're taking sensory play to a whole new level. Come play and leave your mess at the library!

Songs, stories, and play for babies and their grownups. Designed for ages 0-24 months with a caregiver.

Songs, stories, and fun for toddlers and their grownups. Designed for 2 year olds with a caregiver.

Songs, stories, and fun for toddlers and their grownups. Designed for 2 year olds with a caregiver.

Join us weekdays at 10 a.m. for our daily virtual storytime for children ages 0-5 at Facebook.com/FredCoLibrary/. Enjoy, stories, fingerplays, rhymes, and more. Watch past storytimes on our Youtube Storytime Channel.

Songs, stories, and play for babies and their grownups. Designed for ages 0-24 months with a caregiver.

Music, movement, and stories for the whole family. Designed for ages 0 and up with a caregiver.

Songs, stories, and fun for the whole family. Designed for ages 0 and up with a caregiver.

Music, movement, and stories for the whole family. Designed for ages 0 and up with a caregiver.

Songs, stories, and fun for preschoolers and their grownups. Designed for ages 3-5 with a caregiver.

Caregivers and children work together to practice and improve social skills.

STEM projects geared toward smaller hands and imaginations.

Storytime to engage your developing newborn. Ideal for babes in arms.

Music, movement, and stories for the whole family. Designed for ages 0 and up with a caregiver.

Songs, stories, and fun for preschoolers and their grownups. Designed for ages 3-5 with a caregiver.

Join us weekdays at 10 a.m. for our daily virtual storytime for children ages 0-5 at Facebook.com/FredCoLibrary/. Enjoy, stories, fingerplays, rhymes, and more. Watch past storytimes on our Youtube Storytime Channel.

Music, movement, and stories for the whole family. Designed for ages 0 and up with a caregiver.

Grow and harvest your STEM skills when House in the Woods Farm brings the garden to the library.

Songs, stories, and fun for preschoolers and their grownups. Designed for ages 3-5 with a caregiver.

Songs, stories, and fun for toddlers and their grownups. Designed for 2 year olds with a caregiver.

Songs, stories, and fun for toddlers and their grownups. Designed for 2 year olds with a caregiver.

Music, movement, and stories for the whole family. Designed for ages 0 and up with a caregiver.

Songs, stories, and fun for preschoolers and their grownups. Designed for ages 3-5 with a caregiver.

Songs, stories, and fun for preschoolers and their grownups. Designed for ages 3-5 with a caregiver.

Join us weekdays at 10 a.m. for our daily virtual storytime for children ages 0-5 at Facebook.com/FredCoLibrary/. Enjoy, stories, fingerplays, rhymes, and more. Watch past storytimes on our Youtube Storytime Channel.

Songs, stories, and play for babies and their grownups. Designed for ages 0-24 months with a caregiver.

Music, movement, and stories for the whole family. Designed for ages 0 and up with a caregiver.

Learn the process from fleece to rug, as local farmer Patty Sanville presents a hands-on re-telling of "The Goat in the Rug" by Charles L. Blood about a Navajo weaver and her goat.

Songs, stories, and play for babies and their grownups. Designed for ages 0-24 months with a caregiver.

Music, movement, and stories for the whole family. Designed for ages 0 and up with a caregiver.

Caregivers and children work together to develop school readiness skills with a music-themed format.

Use our equipment to convert your photos and analog home videos to digital formats you can share and enjoy today! Lab volunteers will be available to help. Formats accepted: mini DV tapes, VHS tapes, VHS-C tapes, photos, slides, and negatives.

With a caregiver, children can practice school-readiness skills such as cutting, tracing, play, and other literacy activities.

Explore different stories through activities and art.

Join us weekdays at 10 a.m. for our daily virtual storytime for children ages 0-5 at Facebook.com/FredCoLibrary/. Enjoy, stories, fingerplays, rhymes, and more. Watch past storytimes on our Youtube Storytime Channel.

Music, movement, and stories for the whole family. Designed for ages 0 and up with a caregiver. Creamery Park is located directly across from the library at the corner of Pennsylvania Avenue and Glade Road.

Songs, stories, and fun for toddlers and their grownups. Designed for 2 year olds with a caregiver.

Explore the various cultures that created Latin America through storytelling, music, and dance.

Songs, stories, and fun for toddlers and their grownups. Designed for 2 year olds with a caregiver.

Bang is a unique fusion of Boxing, Cardio, HIIT, Hip-Hop, World Dance, and Body Weight Training.

A long time ago in a faraway world, two brave villagers go on a daring journey to release the dragons and save the kingdom from the Evil Ice Sorceress.

Songs, stories, and fun for the whole family. Designed for ages 0 and up with a caregiver.

Children read to Reading Education Assistance Dogs.

Storytime to engage you developing newborn. Ideal for babes in arms.

Have you signed up the family for the FCPL Summer Challenge? Learn how to track activities and reading in Beanstack, then be introduced to noteworthy titles for Babies and Littles from the FCPL Summer Booklist Ages 0-5.

Make bath bombs and turn your next soak in the tub into a real retreat with natural bath products that you customize yourself.

Music, movement, and stories for the whole family. Designed for ages 0 and up with a caregiver.

A craft, activity, or playgroup designed for children ages 0 to 5 with a caregiver.

Songs, stories, and fun for preschoolers and their grownups. Designed for ages 3-5 with a caregiver.

With a caregiver, children can practice school-readiness skills such as cutting, tracing, play, and other literacy activities.

With a caregiver, children can practice school-readiness skills such as cutting, tracing, play, and other literacy activities.

Walkersville Branch Library

Storytime to engage your developing newborn. Ideal for babes in arms.

Songs, stories, and fun for preschoolers and their grownups. Designed for ages 3-5 with a caregiver.

Songs, stories, and play for babies and their grownups. Designed for ages 0-24 months with a caregiver.

Caregivers and children work together to develop and strengthen school readiness skills.

Using water and light to create library rainbows!

Walkersville Branch Library

Songs, stories, and fun for preschoolers and their grownups. Designed for ages 3-5 with a caregiver.

With a caregiver, children can practice school-readiness skills such as cutting, tracing, play, and other literacy activities.

STEM projects geared toward smaller hands and imaginations.

STEM projects geared toward smaller hands and imaginations.

Walkersville Branch Library

Songs, stories, and play for babies and their grownups. Designed for ages 0-24 months with a caregiver.

Little ones explore art materials to experience process art and the product is always unique!

STEM projects geared toward smaller hands and imaginations.

Walkersville Branch Library

A craft, activity, or playgroup designed for children ages 0 to 5 with a caregiver.

Enjoy songs, rhymes, and stories from around the world.

Family-friendly BINGO!

Children read to Reading Education Assistance Dogs.

Celebrate all things cycling including a complimentary bicycle tune-up from Bicycle Escape, high-wheeled bicycle demonstrations, live music, safety tips, and kids' bicycle parade.

Songs, stories, and fun for the whole family. Designed for ages 0 and up with a caregiver.

Learn some fun and easy ways to help your preschooler get ready for kindergarten.

The Frederick Community Action Agency provides a lunchtime meal for children and youth, preschool through Teen. A library activity included at each lunch.

The Frederick Community Action Agency provides a lunchtime meal for children and youth, preschool through Teen. A library activity included at each lunch.

Explore the world around you from the comfort of your home. Visit FCPL's Facebook page to attend this program. View past recordings of this and other virtual programs on FCPL's Recent Virtual Programs page.

The Frederick Community Action Agency provides a lunchtime meal for children and youth, preschool through Teen. A library activity included at each lunch.

Join us for this free yoga class offered by Sol Yoga's Good Cause Division. Wear comfortable clothes and bring a yoga mat. Donations accepted.

The Frederick Community Action Agency provides a lunchtime meal for children and youth, preschool through Teen. A library activity included at each lunch.

Local Graphic Novelist, Gareth Hinds, discusses visual storytelling and the process of adopting classic literature, such as The Iliad and The Odyssey, into graphic novels.

An interactive day at the library where the choice is all yours! Explore new paths with ScienceTellers, graphic novelist Gareth Hinds, fortune teller Madame Mims, a memory-making workshop for recording and sharing past adventures, and much more.

Children read to Reading Education Assistance Dogs.

Use your own Pokemon cards to make decks and play with others, and bring your Pokemon video games for exciting head-to-head battles!

Let's explore the fantasy world through STEAM activities and projects.

DJ, music, games, prizes, ice cream sundaes and snacks. Out on the deck!

Explore open-ended STEM challenges that encourage creative and imaginative solutions.

Create a new project each week.

Explore fairytales, fables and myths through hands-on activities.

Explore your Middletown! Meet a local hero or venture into the community to discover what it's like to work a day in their shoes.

Explore your universe through making. Projects might be messy. Dress accordingly.

Songs, stories, and fun for preschoolers and their grownups. Designed for ages 3-5 with a caregiver.

Mindful art projects, guest storytellers, relaxing games and more.

Participants will get to look at applications from local funders and review requirements. They will develop an understanding of what the funder is requesting and how best to answer questions.

A memorable introduction to West African culture through native dress, traditional music, storytelling, and dance.

Dancing, games and activities to help get rid of those summertime blues.

Explore nature through hands-on activities combining indoor and outdoor learning.

Make some magnificent messy masterpieces.

Kids and their grown-ups and Teens can make a Fairy House using natural materials and a hot glue gun. Limited to the first 20 builders or building teams.

Looking for adventure? Learn outdoor skills through games and activities.

Enjoy homemade butter beer while you watch a Harry Potter movie.

Create a Japanese fairy tale character using the Sumi-e technique.

Is love in your future? Or perhaps fortune? Let Madame Mims consult the cards and help you learn more about your life's adventure!

Explore Science, Technology, Engineering, and Math concepts in the STEM Lab. Caregivers, please accompany children under age 8.

Enjoy classic and indie hits from the Americana songbook.

Have you signed up the family for the FCPL Summer Challenge? Spark excitement with a virtual visit to a mystery location in the community. Can you guess where we are before the big reveal?

With a caregiver, children can practice school-readiness skills such as cutting, tracing, play, and other literacy activities.

Explore the world around you through science, math, technology, history, art, and literature.

Use our equipment to convert your photos and analog home videos to digital formats you can share and enjoy today! Lab volunteers will be available to help. Formats accepted: mini DV tapes, VHS tapes, VHS-C tapes, photos, slides, and negatives.

Enjoy different tales about magic and mythical creatures, then have fun with a craft, activity, or experiment.

Stop in for games, DIY projects, and special events.

Join Fit2Shine Studio at the library for yoga and stories.

Calling all Renn Faire fans! Join us to celebrate all things medieval, create dragon inspired art, and take a magical photo. Something for every age. Costumes strongly encouraged!

A memorable introduction to West African culture through native dress, traditional music, storytelling, and dance.

Kick off the summer with games, chalk, bubbles, and more.

Imagine a tale, a story from a favorite picture book. FCPL staff presents storytime in Spanish and English for children ages 0-5, at Facebook.com/FredCoLibrary/. Enjoy, stories, fingerplays, rhymes, and more.

Join your Dungeon Master for a night filled with adventure. Thanks to you, the audience, a quest will emerge, drama will unfold, and you will weep with joy and wonder. Come watch it all unfold on stage!

Free clinic to help attendees with their MD criminal record expungements. Walk-ins welcome.

Celebrate the start of summer vacation with music, games, and snacks!

Join us for hands-on, fun activities just for Teens!

Make and sample simple recipes made from seasonal ingredients.

Learn the basics of creating a character and join an adventure to learn strategy and leadership.

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Discover and explore the world around you through science, math, technology, history, art, and literature.

Join Gareth Hinds, author of graphic novels based on literary classics such as Beowulf, The Odyssey, and Romeo & Juliet, as he discusses his work as a graphic novelist and provides tips for creating your own graphic novels.

Explore the world of computer science and coding through various games and activities.

Make a Fairy Garden using natural and recycled materials.

Books and Bites: Join us for a snack and group discussion of your favorite titles.

Hang out with friends and join an activity.

Make the most of your pantry staples with simple and creative recipes. Visit FCPL's Facebook page to attend this program. View past recordings of this and other virtual programs on FCPL's Recent Virtual Programs page.

Celebrate the release of the "In the Heights" movie with music, icy piraguas, and art!

The performance is presented by RIT/NTID Sunshine 2.0 Educational Touring Theater Company, which includes interactive text reading, video, and sign language in a virtual way. It will be accessible to those who are ASL signers and non signers.

Young Adult book talks that build bridges and inspire Teens, followed by noteworthy YA titles from the FCPL Summer Booklist Grades 6-8 and Grades 9-12. View these information sessions at Facebook.com/FredCoLibrary/.

Jay Seaborg, author of two fantasy series for Adults and young Adults, explores the art of creating characters and developing plot in novels.

Are you ready to stretch your brain with fun Teen takeover trivia? Teens in grades 6 through 12 can join our Zoom webinar to play, or anyone can follow along and watch live on our Facebook page.  Trivia players will need to use Zoom to play.

Songs, stories, and fun for the whole family. Designed for ages 0 and up with a caregiver.

Use our equipment to convert your photos and analog home videos to digital formats you can share and enjoy today! Lab volunteers will be available to help. Formats accepted: mini DV tapes, VHS tapes, VHS-C tapes, photos, slides, and negatives.

Learn how to stretch your dollars to make make nutritious and delicious meals on a budget. Nutritionist Thu Huynh will share tips for affordable meal plans and recipes that will reduce food waste and improve your diet.