Week Calendar

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

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.

Join Tim Kueberth, financial planner and advisor with Prudential as he focuses on risks that face retired investors, like uncertain markets, inflation and the risk of outliving your money.  

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

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

Join us at the Catoctin Mountain Park Visitor Center for a Storytime followed by an easy-going hike in the woods.

Catoctin Mountain Park

14707 Park Central Road

Thurmont, MD 21788

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

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

Get ready for an energetic music show that inspires fun, laughter and dancing! 

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.

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.

Get ready for a fun-filled day under the sun! Join us for Outdoor Games Day, a high-energy event packed with classic games, friendly competition, and community spirit.

Join local author and tea sommelier, Paulella Burchill, for a special summertime iced tea tasting! Ideal for adults and teens.

Tweens welcome with adult supervision.

Play testing in-progress tabletop game designs with the designers to give feedback and have fun.

Children practice reading skills to the patient and adorable Reading Education Assistance Dogs. For Children Grades K-5. 

Theatricks is run by veteran circus artist and all-around fantastic family entertainer Mark A Lohr and his family. Two generations of circus performers bring fun and frivolity to audiences in MD and beyond!

Children practice reading skills to the patient and adorable Reading Education Assistance Dogs. For Children Grades K-5. 

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.

Blast off with us as we explore outer space with games and activities that are out of this world!

Create your own flag that represents you! Choose from a variety of markers, stickers, and other materials to make a personal flag! Age Groups: Birth-5, Elementary.

Celebrate the start of summer vacation with an ice cream sundae bar! Pick your favorite toppings, hang out with friends, and kick off summer with a sweet treat.

Let's celebrate the beginning of Summer Challenge at the Middletown Library! Come sign up for the Summer Challenge, checkout some summer reads, and join us for a fun afternoon of ice cream, activities, crafts, games and more! 

Explore your "galactic neighborhood" and experience the moon, the stars, and the planets in our solar system through hands-on activities. Geared for elementary-aged children.
 

It is time to get excited about Reading all Summer with FCPL's Summer Challenge! Kick off the summer with fun, games and more starting right after school at 3:30 p.m. 

Make a friend to take on summer vacation! You'll be able to track your adventure, or watch them take their own by using a QR code!

Join us for an afternoon of Minecraft creation. This program is for elementary age children who are ready to have fun crafting a world together. Never played, no problem, staff will be on hand to help with the basics.

Get started with crocheting, a life-long hobby - with the talented ladies of the Woodlands! Learn how to hold the hook & yarn and how to make a starting chain - then build from there! 

Join us for a fun and relaxing afternoon of Yoga, presented by a teacher from our local Yoga studio, Roots and River. Please bring a mat if you have one (we will have some available for those who don't.)

What never gets old? Summer friendship! Celebrate both by making a friendship bracelet or anklet from an assortment of beads and charms that are, well, bead-dazzling!   

Join us in the library garden.  Learn how to properly care for vegetables and flowers.  This hands-on activity will take place next door to the library along Cedar Avenue.  Be sure to wear old shoes!

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 share a story with a specially trained therapy dog from WAGS for Hope!

Interested in owning a pet reptile or other unusual critter? Meet and learn how to care for some of the most popular pet reptile species with Jenn’s Uncommon Critters! 

Interested in owning a pet reptile or other unusual critter? Meet and learn how to care for some of the most popular pet reptile species with Jenn’s Uncommon Critters! 

Bring your family, blankets, and stuffed animals to a screening of How to Train Your Dragon! Just leave your real dragons at home! Age Groups: Elementary, All Ages.

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

Join Go Team Therapy Dogs to improve your reading confidence and make a new friend when you read aloud to a therapy dog.

Join Thurmont area resident and retired U.S. Ambassador Shaun Donnelly in a group conversation on International Affairs!

This event is located at 9023 Harris Street, a few blocks away from the Urbana Regional Library.

Get your popcorn ready, because Starlight is back!