Week Calendar

Join Barbara Kemerer, from Brunswick Bird City, for a morning walk along the canal in recognition of Migratory Bird Day. Bring your binoculars if you have them. Supervised children are welcome.

Understand the history and structure of the Chinese language.

Learn basic greetings and self-introduction.

Is your child interested in learning how to care for a garden? Look no further! Join us for a fun morning of exploring, creating, and learning how to care for plants and gardens at the Emmitsburg Library. Ages 0-12. 

Dress your best or come as you are to dance the morning away! Designed for our 0-5 year old patrons with a caregiver.

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

Join us to learn how culinary favorites like garlic, cinnamon, and hibiscus can support heart health.  The heart-healthy benefits of olive oil and chocolate will also be discussed.

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. 

An SBA representative will be available every third Wednesday of each month to assist with your small business needs.

Counseling | Funding | Contracting

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.

Has your little one always wanted to dabble in the arts, but the supplies are so expensive, you just never had the Monet? This is the perfect program for you!

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

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

Join us for an encore presentation of the Myersville-Wolfsville Area Historical Society's mini-program on the impact of the Civil War on Central Maryland.

Calling all knitters—whether you're a seasoned pro, a curious beginner, or somewhere in between! The Knitting Help Circle is a cozy and collaborative space where Frederick’s fiber enthusiasts come together to stitch, learn, and share.

Bring some sunshine to the library! Join us for a fun window painting program where we'll transform our library windows into works of art with colorful summer designs.

Puzzles, puzzles, puzzles....let's play with puzzles! Join us as we have fun doing different projects using puzzle pieces.  There is no limit to the creative way puzzle pieces can be used. Geared for elementary ages.

What do art and AI have in common? Everything! Art and literature envision new worlds, not just the world given to us.

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.

Create a scrapbook for storing your summer memories.

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.

Get creative and turn old CDs into amazing works of art! 

Spring has sprung and what better way to celebrate than with your very own Sharpie Tie Dye Pillowcase (perfect for summer day naps and picnics)! Get your art on and see what you can create! All materials provided while supplies last.

Spring is here and the fae have come out to play! Create your own fairy house, using recycled and natural materials.

Create a mason jar light to take home and display in your room or outside on the deck. We will provide the jar, battery operated lights and lots of decorative items to make your own unique creation.

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.

In this course you’ll learn three quick techniques to help save a life before someone bleeds out:

(1) How to use your hands to apply pressure to a wound;
(2) How to pack a wound to control bleeding;

Take a break from your school work and de-stress with therapy dogs from Wags for Hope!

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

Want to review safety tips for your upcoming vacation, or wonder if you should invest in trip insurance? Krista Page, travel agent with AAA, will teach us how to plan safe travels for a stress-free vacation.

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