Week Calendar

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

Join us for stories, songs, rhymes, and more! Designed for toddlers and their caregivers. Ages 18 - 36 mos.

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

Engage your baby's senses with activities designed just for them while visiting with other caregivers. For ages 0-24 months, with a caregiver.

Join us for play based learning, games and activities! Designed for toddlers and their caregivers.

This self-guided program is designed to help little learners (ages 3–5) build early school skills through fun, hands-on activities.

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

Variety of preschool aged activities to support early literacy and school readiness skills. Designed for ages 3-5 with a caregiver.

 Choose from a pre-set list of songs and then sing your heart out with family and friends in Intergenerational Karaoke! All skill sets welcome!

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

Explore Science, Technology, Engineering, Art, and Math concepts. Designed for ages 2-5 with a caregiver.

Join us for a morning of building! Use the library's blocks and building toys to build with your little one while working on fine motor skills! For ages 0-5 with a caregiver.

Young learners can practice skills they will need for school - listening, asking, writing, cutting, tracing, and more. Designed for ages 2-5 with a caregiver.

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

Enjoy a variety of activities to help develop the skills needed for school. Designed for ages 0-5 with a caregiver.

As our friend, Pete the Cat, likes to say, “The birds are singing. The sky is bright. The sun is shining. I’m feeling ALRIGHT!” You'll be feeling more than alright when you check out this program celebrating some of your favorite picture books!

Are you interested in volunteering and giving back to your community?

The American Civil War saw great advances in medical care and treatment of wounded soldiers.

Join Frederick Friends of Our County Animal Shelter (FFOCAS) to learn about the joys and care considerations of owning an older pet.

Join us for a Library Art Jam! We will have various art projects for families and kids of all ages to enjoy. Try your hand at something new, it's all about the process of creating and having fun together!

Please join us to hear from members of the Senior Service Provider Community.

Please join us to learn about and experience sound bath healing. Presented by a certified Sound Healing Practitioner, participants will listen and relax to the sounds of 7 crystal singing bowls.

Recurring mahjong and game event hosted by the Asian American Center of Frederick.

Join Ashley from Fox Haven Farm & Learning Center to learn about the first perennial plants to emerge after their winter slumber. From stinging nettles to soothing violets, learn about their uses and even taste some herbal infusions! 

Join Jaime Crosthwait from Terrapin Travel to learn about active adventure travel, using a Mediterranean cruise as an example.

This book club is designed to build on the excitement of emergent readers with different books and related activities to enjoy with their peers.

Join Master Gardener, Heather Longstaff, to learn what you can do in your yard/garden to provide much needed habitat for pollinators.

Join FCPL Maryland Room Archivist, Mary Mannix, as she discusses the factors, peoples, and communities that created today's Old-Line State. How much do you really understand about this southern state with a northern sensibility?

Join Lacey Walker of Fox Haven Farm and Learning Center to talk about how we can prepare our garden spaces for the coming year.

Preschoolers and their caregivers will build school-ready skills while having fun and exploring their social-emotional selves at this weekly kindergarten prep program. For ages 3-5 with a caregiver.

Join us for an introductory workshop that will explore image making and writing processes using mixed media art materials in a visual journal. Presented by Shepherd University Professor David Modler.

Enjoy fun trivia games with your friends! Snacks provided, while supplies last. For ages 11-18. 

Did you know that National Scribble Day takes place at the end of March?  Let's celebrate with lots of art fun!  We'll provide the supplies--you bring the creativity.

Join Denise Benoit-Turner with B-T's Honey Bees and learn about the incredible world of honeybees and beekeeping.

Love anime and manga? Come talk with fellow fans about your all-time favs and newest obsessions, and then watch a show or two!

Help bring some spring energy to our library by painting the windows with colorful designs to brighten up the space. 

It's time for science! Join us for seasonal themed science experiments and discovery! Geared for elementary-age children.

Celebrate the beginning of spring with Daisy Meadows' Rainbow Magic series! While shrunk to the size of a fairy, create a fairy wand pointer, make a flower crown, and more!

Have you ever wanted to see what it's like to be a librarian? Join us to learn what librarians do and take a tour of our work room and see the other side of the book drop!

Attention High School Juniors and Seniors!

Spend your Tuesday afternoons with us. Take time to create art, all supplies provided by the library. Program for teens and tweens to start a new work of art or bring a work in progress! For teens in grades 6-12.

Celebrate Maryland Day at the library with fun facts about our great state!

This program is for children in kindergarten through 5th grades (ages 5-10).

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

Help bring some spring energy to our library by painting the windows with colorful designs to brighten up the space.

Calling all young adventurers! Have you ever wondered what it would be like to create your own character and go on magical adventures with your friends? Do you enjoy playing games and being creative?

Ready to hang out and relax after a long day. Join us for art meant to help your brain chill. Known as neurographic art, this style helps create mindfulness and peace without too much structure and it is great for non-artists and artists alike!

Anxious, fidgety, or just unsure, our bodies communicate in many different ways. Take some deep belly breaths and spend time creating your own sensory bottle.

Learn how to convert table scraps and yard waste into rich soil for your garden with Fox Haven Learning Center farmer, Lacey Walker.

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

Pollinator Pods are a mixture of wildflower seeds, clay and compost. Join us for this step by step process of crafting several pollinator pods.  Make some for yourself and some to give away.

Join the Chronicles of Yarnia group for casual craft time! This is a group for those who would like to gather for a social time of crafting together. Instruction will be provided to new learners.

Come learn about tarot & how it can help your self-reflection journey. Presented by Mary Mannix, FCPL Librarian & Maryland Room Manager.

In this introductory class, teens will learn how to perform hands-only chest compressions in the event of sudden cardiac arrest on teens and adults to continue the circulation of the remaining oxygenated blood through the body.

Come and decorate the Teen Zone windows with fun art!

This program is for teens in 6th through 12th grades (ages 11-18).

Songs, stories and fun for the whole family -- pajamas are welcome!  Designed for ages 0-5, with a caregiver.

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