Week Calendar

Visit your favorite FCPL staff person at our outreach table and learn about the amazing materials and resources we have to offer parents and families.

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.

Dress up for some Halloween fun!  Songs, stories, and play for babies and their grownups. Designed for ages 0-24 months 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!

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

Not-so-spooky songs, stories, and fun for children and their grownups. Costumes welcome! Designed for ages 0 and up 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.

Join us for stories, songs, rhymes, and more! Designed for toddlers and their caregivers. Enjoy trick or treating after storytime!

Join us this Halloween, for a not-so-spooky storytime! Costumes are not required but welcomed! All ages are welcomed!

We will also have activities out in the children's area after storytime.

A multi-sensory storytime designed to support children with autism or sensory processing challenges. This time is designed to meet your child where they are in, a fun, engaging environment. 

Songs, stories, and fun for the whole family. This Storytime is followed by a playgroup.  Designed for ages 0 -5, with a caregiver.

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

Enjoy stories, songs, fingerplays, rhymes, and more! Ages 0-5 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.

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

Music, movement, stories and more!  

Enjoy stories, songs, fingerplays, rhymes, and more! Ages 0-5 with a caregiver. 

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

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

This latin-inspired dance fitness class is perfect for all ages! Come merengue and salsa, with a little hip-hop tossed in! 

Calling all young writer's ages 12-17! We're inviting Teens to practice the craft of writing, share their work, and enjoy the wonderful world of writing. Stop by for activities and discussion with other teen writers.

We love a parade! Come see your library pals and other STEM organizations as we walk in the Maryland STEM Festival Parade, from Frederick High School to Baker Park.

Give your unused craft supplies a new home or come stock up!

Bring tools and materials for any type of crafting to the library to exchange with fellow crafters. 

Please be sure all contributions are in good condition.

Join us to explore songs, stories, and fun designed for our youngest audience and their caregivers.

Join us for a fun seasonal storytime. Dressing up in your favorite costume encouraged but not required. Designed for ages 0-5 with a caregiver.

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

Dress up for a session filled with fun not so spooky seasonal activities. Caregivers are encouraged to connect with their children and participate in the activities! *Costumes are not required to participate.

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!

Bring your wiggles for songs, stories, and fun for toddlers and their grownups. In the event of inclement weather, storytime will be held inside.

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

Preschoolers and their caregivers will build school-ready skills while having fun and exploring their social-emotional selves at this weekly kindergarten prep program. In the event of inclement weather, this program will be held inside.

Join potty-training expert Julie DeRoner to learn tips and tricks for potty-training your little ones! A playgroup will be provided for children during the presentation.

Join Mary Ellen Mitchell of Allow Me Consulting and Housing Frederick for this final session of her grant writing how-to series. 

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. 

Songs, stories, and fun for preschoolers and their grownups. Designed for ages 3-5 with a caregiver. In the event of inclement weather, storytime will be held inside.

Join us for a celebration of music and motion with the Frederick Children's Chorus! Children will enjoy music, rhythm, dancing and playing musical instruments. For ages 0-5 with a caregiver.

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

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

Join our special guests from NIH as we learn about previous missions to the moon as well as explore the aspirations of NASA to explore Mars!

This storytime welcomes children of all abilities ages birth-3 years old and is also open to children of any age who receive services from Frederick County's Infants &

Stories, movement, music, and fun for the entire family.  Designed for ages 0 and up with a caregiver. 

Meet and greet with Jenn and her Uncommon Critters! This is a show, tell, and touch experience focusing on general facts, unique characteristics, and animal stewardship.

Donna DiMarco brings deaf, hard of hearing and CODA babies and their families stories, interactive bonding moments and more in this ASL immersive storytime. A playgroup is featured afterward for families to connect. 

Enjoy a day of gaming with the Nintendo Switch! Come to learn, practice, or compete with family and friends for fun.

Lawyer in the Library provides free one-on-one legal advice from Maryland Legal Aid lawyers. Types of issues include:

Learn how to handcraft your own colorful buttons using a needle and thread.

Author and historian Bryan Main will reveal fascinating facts and stories about local Walkersville and Woodsboro cemeteries.

Come preview the haunted house and enjoy a costume party at the fireplace. 

This event is for Adults with Intellectual Disabilities and their caregivers. 

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

Join professional craftsperson Denise Wagenaar and see how easy it is to take 40 two-inch squares of fabric, some ribbon, and some pins to create a stunning Holiday Ornament.  All instructions and supplies are provided, just bring your Holida

Transport back in time with Rose Hill Manor as they present a day of living history! We will explore what it was like to live in the 1800s.This program is designed for elementary-aged children.

Do you love video games? How about making your own? Join local game developer Heiden for this exciting game development workshop and learn about the process of making video games from concept to finished build!

As you can tell by the title, this is not your usual book club!  On the last Sunday of each month, experts from Frederick Health Hospice will explore issues surrounding death AND life through a variety of books and other media. And no, y

Connect with other kids, create, and be curious together!

Practice reading skills to patient and adorable Reading Education Assistance Dogs (R.E.A.D.). For Children Grades K-5. 

Learn about the style of salsa, see a demonstration and even try a few moves! 

Join scientists from NIH for astronaut training. Students will discover the requirements it takes to become an astronaut. Students will participate in three different stations that stimulate that of astronaut training for NASA.

Join us at our monthly TLC meeting to help make the library the best place it can be for you!

Happy Halloween! Grades 6-12 are invited to join us for a spooky goody time at our Halloween Party! Come enjoy a variety of fun and games like spider races and candy tastings!

Children can learn and explore using STEAM-based activities. Caregivers are encouraged to connect with children and participate in the activities! Designed for elementary-aged students.

Teen Connect is a time to engage with friends, peer mentors, and teen-oriented community resources.

The story of the moved gravestones of the M. E. Church property in Buckeystown.

Stretchy, oozy, creepy goo -- all made by you! Create your own spooky slime; all materials will be provided.

STEAM Lab takes place every Tuesday afternoon at 4pm.

Join us Tuesdays at the library for your chance to learn a new skill, create art, and hang out with your friends!

Use recycled materials and art supplies to create your own costume, and then enjoy a dance party! Designed for students in kindergarten through 5th grade.

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

Ages 8-13 are invited to make DIY Pom Poms and create painted rocks to take home.

Teen hangout hour

Did you know that Urbana was the location of a prominent glass factory with 500 employees during the American Revolution? Learn about the history of the Amelung Glass Works and glass blowing from local glass artist, Kyle Troop of Glass Flo Art.

Join us as we learn about Georges Seurat, creator of the Pointillism technique. We'll take inspiration and make our own pointillism masterpiece.

Come in and enjoy an assortment of games to play with friends!

Parents and caregivers of neurodiverse children meet to connect and support one another. 

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.

Family Yoga is a fun way to enjoy mindful movement together. Join Fit2Shine Studio as we stretch like dogs, balance like flamingos, fly like butterflies, and stand strong like tall trees, breathing through it all.

Join Chris Rush, internationally best-selling horror author and lead investigator for Paranormal Researchers Ireland (PRI) and fellow PRI members for an evening of Irish ghost stories.

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

We welcome adults who want to practice their English to a conversation class hosted by the Literacy Council of Frederick County.

Join us for Walkersville Branch Library's annual Trunk-or-Treat sponsored by Walkersville's Friends of the Library and community partners. We will also be hosting a spooky haunted house designed for children ages 0-12 and their caregivers.

Join local musician Cristina Rivero and bring your acoustic guitar, mandolin, fiddle, violin, ...  to jam with us!  

*Come in costume on Halloween!

Join students from Walkersville High School Spanish club to celebrate Dia de los Muertos in this all-ages storytime featuring songs, stories and rhymes in both English and Spanish!

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

Maryland Legal Aid is a nonprofit organization that provides free civil legal services to low/no-income individuals.  This presentation will address the different areas of civil law that Maryland Legal Aid covers, as well as specific clinics

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

Watch a demonstration, learn about belly dancing, and even try a few moves!

Decorate a rock to keep for yourself or hide for someone else to find!

Are you ready to embark on an exciting journey into the world of babysitting? Get ready to become the ultimate go-to babysitter in your neighborhood with the Frederick County 4-H Babysitting 101 course.

Tweens and teens, grades 6 through 12, meet to collaborate with each other and teen librarians on upcoming library events and to plan teen-led projects.  Teen Library Council (TLC) is an opportunity for teens to make an impact within the libr

Aaron Clayton, author of “Dead, White and Blue : the Zombie and American National Identity”.