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.

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!

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! 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.

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.

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.

If you or someone you know is facing Alzheimer's disease, dementia or another chronic illness, it's never too early to put financial plans in place.

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.

Join us for a fun art activity. For ages 3-5 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.

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.

Artisans, vendors, and more!

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

Enjoy music, stories and more! Designed for ages 0-5 with a caregiver.

Children learn and explore through hands on activities using science, technology, engineering, art, and math concepts at the library. Caregivers are encouraged to connect with children and participate in the activities!

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.

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.

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.

We invite all adults with intellectual or developmental disabilities to join us for an afternoon of holiday-themed crafts, music, and games.

Join us for some carnival fun and try your hand at a variety of games and activities! 

Winnifred the Mini from Days End Horse Rescue and miniature cows from Triple M Highlands are here to help us get into the holiday spirit. Come say hello!

Celebrate the holidays with music by the Frederick Ensemble, students from Dr. Serrano's violin studio from Frederick Community College.

A visit from St. Nick and his merry elf!  Sponsored by Walkersville Historical Society.

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

Join Mrs. Claus for a cheerful storytime full of music and fun.

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

Supporting Older Adults Through Resources (SOAR) and the Aging Network Alliance provide reoccurring Senior Education Seminars in partnership with 

Try on a pair of Fatal Vision® Impairment Goggles provided by the Maryland Highway Safety Office and play some games, including a tricycle obstacle course, to experience the simulated effects of alcohol intoxication and how it impairs a person’s v

Get your game on! Use our Switch or bring your own (optional). Beginners welcome!

In celebration of Christmas in Thurmont, Santa makes his annual visit to the library. Hear a favorite holiday story and meet the Jolly guy himself!

Learn to create beautiful cupcake designs and take your creations home.

Bring yourself and your creativity. Everything else will be provided.

Join Master Gardener, Ellen West of the Maryland Extension Services, and learn how to decorate using natural local greenery from your own yard.  She will bring all the greens, the decor and some great ideas, you bring your holiday spirit!

An afternoon of music and celebration!

Design your own custom cookie cutter to be 3D printed here at the library!

This program is for teens in grades 6 through 12.

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

Join us for some December Holiday fun!!

We will be learning all about Diwali, Christmas, Hanukkah, Kwanzaa and Winter Solstice, through crafts, activities and games. 

Taiko are the amazing, impressive, and wonderfully powerful heartbeat drums of Japan. Taiko literally means “Big Drum,” but also refers to kumi-daiko, the ensemble group drumming grow

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

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.

Learn about engineering and anatomy as you create your very own robotic hand. STEAM Lab takes place every Tuesday afternoon at 4pm.

Test your forensic abilities in a fun escape room!

Explore our art supplies and create your own work of art! Designed for students in kindergarten through 5th grade.

Grades 6-12. Get in on the action and become the character. Create and participate in a live action role-playing game.

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

Elementary Explorers is a weekly after-school program that connects children in Grades K-5 to fun, hands-on experiences. Join other curious kids as we explore a different topic each week!

This week: STEM Adventures with Aavanee!

Need a quiet-ish place to study? We'll provide the tables, chairs, and some extra surprises to help you get the most of your cram sessions! 

A fun hands-on program exploring art and artists with a focus on expression, activism and community.  Ages 10-13 years.

11/30: Abstract Paper Quilts - Inspired by Gee's Bend Quilts 

Come Join us in front of More's Ice Cream to create a special holiday ornament.

Come Join us at More's Ice Cream for a magical holiday storytime with Mrs. Claus,

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.

The holidays bring out the creativity in all of us, so why not let the gingerbread structures and floral arrangements at this year’s Scents & Sweets competition inspire you?

Come celebrating the Villages of Urbana Christmas Tree Lighting with a fun craft!

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

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

Join us for an all-ages storytime after a long day of work and play. Unwind with stories, songs, and rhymes 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!

Try your hand at wet felting, using hot water and soap to turn wool into felt, and make a colorful garland to decorate your space!

Join the Walkersville High School National Science Honors Society for fun science demonstrations and activities for the whole family!

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.

Join us for a fun, learning guitar experience and discover techniques such as picking, chords, arpeggios, scales, rhythms, and notes. 

Optional: bring your own guitar. (Some guitars will be provided by Sloan School of Music)