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 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.  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.

Talk to staff from the Asian American Center of Frederick to learn more about the Empower You free Tax Assistance program in the library lobby.

Let’s celebrate all the treasures Frederick County has to offer as it turns the big 2-7-5! Enjoy stories, songs, and more during this special anniversary storytime. For ages 0-5 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! For ages 0-5 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.

See your favorite library staff as we celebrate the wonders of science at the ESSL!

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

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

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.

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

Music, movement, stories and more!  

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

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

Celebrate winter with fun stories, songs and rhymes!  Then, enjoy snowman crafts in the Children's Department all weekend.

Join us for fun with music and stories. For ages 0-5 with a caregiver.

Freedom Bang is a pre-choreographed fusion of boxing, HIIT, hip hop, world dance, optional weighted gloves and just a touch of attitude.  Offering a wide range of intensity options to help you customize your workout.

Do you have jigsaw puzzles or board games sitting around collecting dust? Would you love to replace them with something new and different?

Let’s celebrate all the treasures Frederick County has to offer as it turns the big 2-7-5! Enjoy stories, songs, and more during this special anniversary storytime. For ages 0-5 with a caregiver.

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!

With some simple wrapping, coiling, and stitching we will create beautiful and useful yarn coil baskets. Local artisan, Amy Porter, will lead this creative activity. All materials will be provided.

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

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

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!

Join us for stories, songs, rhymes, and more! Designed for toddlers and their caregivers.

Explore Science, Technology, Engineering, and Math concepts. Children under age 8 must be accompanied by an adult.

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.

THIS EVENT HAS BEEN CANCELLED.  PLEASE EXCUSE THE INCONVENIENCE.

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.

Are you a fan of anime and manga? Join us to celebrate your fandom with stations about origami, basic Japanese, a photo booth, and art with Digital Creator Rival Verses! Cosplay is highly encouraged, but please do not bring any weapons.

Explore reading, science, history, and art through crafts, activities, and games!  Designed for elementary-aged learners.

When you need to hire a caregiver to help with daily activities, you want to make sure that your loved one is safe and comfortable.

Bring your creativity for fashion and design an outfit ready to impress using our recycled materials. Stick around to strut your stuff on our library runway!

Music and Arts will be here with instruments and entertainment. 

School's out! Join us for free play of all of our board games at the library! We will have experts in several games to help you learn if you want to play a game you never have before. Have a favorite that you want to share with others?

Join us for a variety of fun activities in the library.

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.

Join us as we read and discuss a short piece of fiction.  No homework required!

Join us for hands-on science experiments to learn about gravity, magnetism, and other forces with the National Institutes of Health.

Create a small terrarium using your favorite story elements.

Come build fantastic LEGO® creations with us and display them in the library. Designed for children in 3rd through 7th grade.

This is the first in a series of programs presented by Humana aimed at helping community members become more familiar with technology, specifically computers.

Math can be a fun part of kids’ everyday lives! We'll explore mathematical thinking through storytelling and hands-on activities featuring early math concepts. Get ready for some math fun! Geared for Preschool - 2nd graders.

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.

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

Grades 6-12, join us to make a sweet winter treat with marshmallows and candy melts!

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

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.

Make, practice or try new techniques using library materials in Teen Art Studio. This month: use your imagination to add your personality to a pre-painted piece of art. No pressure, just have fun! Snacks and sips provided.

Join staff from Catoctin Creek Nature Center to meet a real, live reptile! Fun activities to follow!

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

Join us for a fun and creative journey exploring the artwork of the masters!

Get your creativity going and try your hand at making a craft! This month we will be making flowers out of yarn! 

Did you know your library has games? Bring your neighbors, family and/or friends and choose your favorite from our selection!

COVID-19 vaccinations and boosters for ages 12 and up.

Come play on Open Game Night!  Board games, card games, chess and much more. It's a fun night of cooperative play and team building.

Join the library and LTC Jacob D. Johnson of the U.S. Army Medical Research & Development Command, Fort Detrick (USAMRDC) for a science program highlighting a career in the sciences and explore fun, hands-on science activities.

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! 

Teens in grades 6-12 are invited to join the Middletown Library Teen Advisory Board!

Wear your pajamas and join us inside for songs, stories, and fun for the whole family.

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!

Come share a story with a specially trained therapy dog form WAGS for Hope.

Set off on a new adventure with an unlikely band of heroes! Perfect for new and experienced players. This game will take place on Discord. Please register for this event to receive an invite link via email!

Are you new to D&D? We'll teach you how to build a level four character and you can join our campaign.

Returning to D&D? Congrats on leveling up! We'll upgrade your existing character to level four.

Start the New Year off right and learn about how to start, grow, expand, or recover your small business!

Improve your reading confidence and make a new friend when you read aloud to a Go Team Therapy Dog.

Discover the positive economic, social and political outcomes of trail development in the community presented by Thurmont's Bryant Despeaux, Emmitsburg's Tim O'Donnell and Clyde Hicks from The Trail House.

Hear best-selling author Brad Meltzer talk about his new book, The Nazi Conspiracy: The Secret Plot to Kill Roosevelt, Stalin and Churchill.

In partnership with Curious Iguana.