Week Calendar

Join us inside to explore songs, stories, and fun designed for our youngest audience and their caregivers! This program is intended for children 0-12 months and their families.

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

Join us for a caregiver-led discussion and playgroup for tips and tricks to help navigate raising little ones. 

Songs, stories, and play for babies and their grownups.  Designed for ages 0-24 months with a caregiver.  Afterwards, we offer a baby playgroup for all to enjoy.

Inspired by Musical Storytime? Play with a variety of instruments from around the world and make some music of your own! Designed for ages 0 and up with a caregiver.

Music, movement, stories, and more! 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 for stories, songs, rhymes, and more! Designed for toddlers and their caregivers.

Songs, stories, and play for babies and their grownups. Designed for ages 0-24 months with a caregiver.   Afterwards, we offer a "stay and play" for all to enjoy.

Enjoy stories, fingerplays, rhymes, and more! Designed for kids ages 0-5 with their caregivers.

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

Designed with beginning mobility in mind, join us for movement, songs, stories and more that will guide caregivers toward early learning and literacy for toddlers.

Enjoy stories, fingerplays, rhymes, and more! Designed for kids ages 0-5 with their caregivers.

Music, movement, stories and more!  

Join us for stories, songs, rhymes, and more! For ages 0-5 with a caregiver.

Music, movement, stories, and more! Designed for ages 0 and up with a caregiver.

Join us for performances and art by local students, make and take crafts, and a Trolley display from the H & F Railway Historical Society. Check back here for a schedule of events.

Ready to exercise! Ready to dance! Ready to shake off the pounds? Come on in for Zumba at the Library on Saturday mornings!

This fun activity is just what you've been looking for!

Myersville Elementary School holiday music performance

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

Join us in our backyard with your blanket and energy to explore songs, stories, and fun designed for our youngest audience and their caregivers

Enjoy a variety of activities to help develop the skills needed for school. Designed for ages 3-5 with a caregiver.

Enjoy music, stories and more.

Bring a blanket and your wiggles for songs, stories, and fun for toddlers and their grownups.

Enjoy a variety of activities to help develop the skills needed for school. Designed for ages 3-5 with a caregiver.

We're turning storytime up to 11! Come explore books and stories through music, movement, and plenty of dancing to kid-friendly tunes. Geared for children ages 0-5. Siblings welcome!

Aging in place, or remaining in your own home safely for as long as possible as you age, doesn't just magically happen. As we get older, our needs for our home environment change.

Introducing toddlers and their caregivers to a variety of preschool-readiness skills including fine motor development, social emotional skills, and early literacy activities.

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

Preschoolers and their caregivers will learn all about the world of science, technology, engineering, art, and mathematics with a variety of hands-on activities.

Enjoy a variety of activities to help develop the skills needed for school. Designed for ages 3-5 with a caregiver.

Explore Science, Technology, Engineering, Art, and Math concepts. 

We've taken storytime outside where preschoolers and their caregivers will learn early literacy skills with fun songs, story telling, movement, and more. Don't forget a blanket for sitting on the ground.

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

Young learners can practice skills they will need for school - listening, asking, writing, cutting, tracing, and more.

Preshoolers and their caregivers will practice school-readiness skills with cutting, tracing, play, and other literacy activities.

Discover the properties of light and sound through hands-on STEM activities. In the event of inclement weather, the program will be held inside.

Stop in between 11-2 and meet one of Frederick’s most well known “makers”, Erin Aylor, as he gives a tour of his Story Time Tree, which is the highlight of the C. Burr Artz Childrens Programming Room.

Yearly local author showcase highlighting a variety of regional writers and their works in the lobby of C. Burr Artz. Visit with the authors and learn more about their work.

Wolfsville Elementary student holiday presentations

Connecting stories with concepts in Science, Technology, Engineering and Math creates a hands-on learning experience for preschoolers at the library. Be prepared to jump in and connect with your child during this program.

A holiday celebration for teens.  Make hand felted soap or sugar scrubs for stocking stuffers.

Join Mary Mannix, Maryland History and Genealogy Archivist and Librarian, as she discusses researching your own genealogy.

An afternoon of music and celebration! This is an opportunity to celebrate the hard work and accomplishments of those who participate in adapted lessons or therapy with Notable Progressions, a local music therapy provider. 

Looking for a place to do homework or work on a project with friends? Come to the library! Your friendly Teen Services Librarian will be on hand to help you with reference questions and highlight library resources to help your studies!

Join us at the Natelli Community Center for songs, stories, and fun for the whole family. Designed for ages 0 and up with a caregiver.

Let's gather together as a community to sing holiday carols, make crafts and enjoy some delicious hot chocolate. Featuring the music of Carolen, an accordion and banjo duo who will delight you with their engaging performance.

Join artist Logan S. Kline, author and illustrator of Finding Fire (published by Candlewick Press).

Join us at Links Bridge Vineyards to sample wine from local wineries as you learn the 6 S's of wine tasting.  Tasting available on a first come, first served basis for attendees 21 and older.  Wine provided by Maryland Wine Association.

For English as a second language learners, a place to practice conversational English.

COVID-19 vaccinations and boosters information at www.frederickcountymd.gov/covidvaccine.

Calling all teens! Join us to explore, create, and experiment with STEAM activities!

We invite Grades 6-12 to join us in making their own candy Blizzard Bark! A perfect sweet, snowy treat for teens!

Expand your horizons, make friends and more as we explore Science, Technology, Engineering, Art and Math with hands-on afterschool activities! Elementary Explorers takes place every Tuesday afternoon at 4pm.

Join us as we get creative exploring art, science, history, and more!  Grades K-5.

Learn about a variety of musical instruments and then try them out with staff from Music & Arts!

Discover and explore the world around you through science, math, technology, history, art, and literature. Designed for kids in grades K-5.

Let's create! We'll learn and be inspired by the great children’s book illustrators by looking at their art and discussing how it brings their stories to life.

Create a piece of paper to take home and learn a little bit about paper's fascinating history.

COVID-19 boosters for ages 12+.  Please pre-register at: www.frederickcountymd.gov/covidvaccine

Drop in from 5-6pm to create a festive Ukrainian ornament and participate in other holiday activities. All ages.

The Mount Saint Mary's University Flute Ensemble performs in the Emmitsburg Library to celebrate the Emmitsburg Annual Tree Lighting Ceremony.

Join us for fun holiday activities, music, and a visit with Jolly Old Saint Nick! Head across the street to Creamery Park for the Community Tree Lighting Ceremony at 7:00 p.m.

Build a holiday gingerbread house! We'll supply the graham crackers, sweets and treats for your ultimate design. Creations are welcome to enter our library Gingerbread Contest, or brought home to enjoy. Geared for Grades K-5.

Join us for this free yoga class offered by Sol Yoga.  Be sure to wear comfortable clothes.

Space and math collide in this fun and hands-on program! Sharpen your math skills as a family, learn about all things outer space, and blast off to bedtime! 

Join the adventure! Elementary ages and up are welcome to join us at Middletown Library for Dungeons and Dragons! All skill levels welcome!

American households waste thousands of dollars on unused food every year. Then, if thrown away, all that food contributes to climate change, by creating methane gas in landfills.

Join us in the Urbana Library for music, movement, and stories for the whole family. Designed for ages 0 and up with a caregiver.

Join us for bedtime themed songs and stories--pajamas are welcome!

Challenge your friends and make some new ones during a night of games and fun!