Week Calendar

FCPL will be at this year's Frederick Nonprofit Summit, located on the Frederick Community College campus. 

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

Music, movement, and stories for the whole family. Designed for ages 0 and up with a caregiver.

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

Enjoy music, stories, and more! Designed for ages 0-5 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 "stay and play" for all to enjoy.

Songs, stories, and play for babies and their grownups.  Afterwards, we offer a baby playgroup for all to enjoy.

This program is for children ages 0-24 months with a caregiver.

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. Designed for ages 3-5 with a caregiver.

Join us for a Teddy Bear Storytime! Bring your favorite stuffed animal and enjoy delightful stories, songs, and fun activities. After the stories, we'll have a teddy bear parade outside. For ages 0-5 with a caregiver.

Join us for stories, songs, rhymes, and more! For ages 0-5 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! Designed for toddlers and their caregivers. Ages 18 - 36 mos.

Join us for stories, songs, rhymes, and more! This program is for toddlers ages 2-3 and their caregivers.

Understand the history and structure of the Chinese language.

Learn basic greetings and self-introduction.

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.

Join us at the Carroll Creek Amphitheater for Family storytime presented in partnership with Downtown Frederick Partnership. Enjoy stories, fingerplays, rhymes, and more.

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

Songs, stories, and fun for preschoolers and their grownups. This program is for children ages 3-5 with a caregiver.

Enjoy stories, songs, fingerplays, rhymes, and more! Designed for ages 2-5 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.

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.  

Need help with your devices, or would you like to discover the basics of browsing the web, setting up an email or writing a resume? We are here to help. Laptops provided. Join us at the Thurmont Senior Center this month.

Songs, stories, and fun for toddlers and their grownups. Designed for 2 year olds with a caregiver.

Music, movement, stories and more! 

Join us for stories, songs, rhymes, and more! This program is for children's ages 0-5 with a caregiver.

Enjoy stories, songs, fingerplays, rhymes, and more! Designed for ages 2-5 with a caregiver. 

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 play for babies and their grownups. Designed for ages 0-24 months with a caregiver.

Get ready for the new How to Train Your Dragon movie with stories and music about dragons! We'll enjoy some music, movement, and stories for the whole family. Designed for ages 0 and up 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. The Visitor Center is located at: 

14707 Park Central Road

Thurmont, MD 21788

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

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.

Shri Yoga is a calming but challenging style practiced in an informal environment. Classes include various asanas, breathing exercises, chakra vibration, mantras, and relaxation techniques. Attendees are welcome to bring their own mat.

Movement, music, stories and fun for the whole family. Designed for ages 0 and up with a caregiver.

Enjoy a storytime, craft, or other fun activity with the whole family.

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.

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!

Join us at the Little Red Barn in Jefferson to read stories, play games, and sing songs about ice cream!

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

Music, movement, and stories for the whole family. Designed for ages 0 and up with a caregiver.

Music, movement, and stories for the whole family. Designed for ages 0 and up with a caregiver.

Bring your wiggles for songs, stories, and fun for toddlers and their grownups. 

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.

Join us for this free yoga class offered by Sol Yoga's Good Cause Division. Wear comfortable clothes and bring a yoga mat. Donations accepted.

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.

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

Songs, stories, and fun for toddlers and their grownups. Designed for 2 year olds 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.

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

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.

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

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. 

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.

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. 

Learn how to create unique works of art using a gel printing plate. In this class, we'll use DIY stencils and improvised tools to create prints.

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.

Participate in a variety of experiences related to science, technology, engineering, art and mathematics.  This program is designed for children in grades K - 5 and their caregivers.

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.

Zines are self-published, low-circulation publications, often resembling mini-magazines or newsletters, characterized by their DIY nature, and serve as a platform for personal expression, community building, and sharing niche interests.

Come listen to 7 harpists as they play as a group and solo performances. 

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.)

Go bananas in this fun and quirky program where you’ll create “tattoos” on banana skins. Design your own masterpiece and take home a piece of fruity art!

Play our Nintendo Switch or bring your own and play with friends! Open to all skill levels for ages 13-18.

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

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!

Storytime, pajama style!  Enjoy movement, music, and stories with the whole family.  PJ's optional!  Designed for ages 0 and up with a caregiver.

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.

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

Oh Crit performs improv comedy fused with Dungeons & Dragons! Join them as they embark on an adventure of twists and turns, bizarre characters, occasional epic failure…

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! 

Learn about FCPL's amazing resources at our outreach tent!