Week Calendar

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

Inspired by Musical Storytime? Play with a variety of instruments from around the world and make some music of your own!

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.

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

Join Country Meadows as they help with the stress of moving and downsizing!  

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

A sensory experience, exploring texture and color that encourages toddler creativity & fine motor skills. Designed for ages 2-5, with a caregiver.

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

Practice reading with a furry friend! This program is for children ages 0-10 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 Bernadette Roche, Loyola professor and ecologist as she presents on animal and plant interactions!

Participants are encouraged to bring native seed to exchange or donate to the Middletown seed library. 

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.

Have fun exploring literacy, science, mathematics, and art through play-based activities that integrate essential school skills.  Designed for ages 3-5 with a caregiver. 

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.

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.

Grab your favorite stuffed animal friend and head over to the library for a peaceful, mindful program. See how well you and your stuffie can stretch and then enjoy a variety of sensory activities!

Come learn about nocturnal animals from the Catoctin Creek Nature Center! We invite all adults with developmental disabilities and their caregivers to join us for this fun, sensory event.

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

Spiritual experiences are not well understood or discussed. Experiencers often fear being misunderstood or judged. In recent years, several organizations have been set up to study and understand these and other spiritual phenomena.

Indulge in the flavors of fall with scrumptious cookies and warm apple cider. Our instructor-led painting session will feature a cozy autumn theme, using traditional fall colors. 

Join Wade Watson as he highlights items from his extensive collection of Civil War artifacts and describes how he went about collecting them from local Civil War battle sites.

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.

Learn how to boost infant brain development through talking, singing, sharing books and playing with your baby.

Join us for this Death Series program where we will be exploring deaths in different cultures, presented by Consetta Ambrose from Hood College. 

Learn what tarot is and what it isn't, and the framework that makes tarot cards unique. 

Join us for a frightfully fun dance class where ghosts groove and skeletons shimmy! From Thriller to the Time Warp, Carissa Barth with FIBE Dance will show you the moves. It's sure to be a fang-tastic good time!

Love anime and manga? Swing by our animanga club! Every month is something different - draw and chat with friends while doing themed crafts, learning some trivia, or watching an episode or two!

Decorate your own mask using paint, markers, and fun embellishments! Whether you choose scary, playful, or completely original styles, bring your design to life in any way you like.

Come learn about artist Yayoi Kusama and create a patterned artwork inspired by the artist's love of dots and pumpkins. Geared for elementary ages.

Create a felt mask (fox, deer or raccoon) for Halloween.  The best part about these masks is no sewing required.  Trace the pattern on the felt, cut it out and glue all the pieces together.  Cute, Easy and Fun!

Join instructors from the Literacy Council for a series of High Beginner/Low Intermediate ESL classes. 

Dive into the world of Table-Top Role Playing Games! Whether you're a seasoned veteran or a new recruit, you've got a spot at our table. Pull up a chair as we fight monsters on bikes or perform a daring heist while being a hungry bear.

Celebrate the Goosebumps books by making your own goopy, glowing slime!

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

Create your own mini ninja using pipe cleaners, beads, and imagination! These tiny warriors are fun to make and perfect to take home and display.

Join instructors from the Literacy Council for a series of High Beginner/Low Intermediate ESL classes. 

Laser Maze Box Challenge: Join us to learn a little bit about lasers and angles, then set to work using the knowledge you've gained and some hands-on experience to solve some laser box challenges. Ages 8-13.

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

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

Come hang out at this program specifically designed for teens with ASD and other developmental and intellectual disorders and their caregivers -if they chose to stay. Snacks and sensory friendly games and crafts will be provided.  

Join us for a fun, festive masquerade party! Make a mask or wear your own. Costumes welcome. Fun for families.

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

Learn to play Harmonies, a new tabletop game where you build landscapes and create habitats for your animals. Fun for the whole family!

Mine, build, and explore with like-minded tweens in our library Minecraft server! This program is intended for tweens ages 10-13. 

This education session encourages death positivity. It promotes open discussion and acceptance of death as a natural part of life, rather than something to be feared or avoided.

Can you fix it? Yes, you can! Can you sew a button? Can you hang a picture? Can you fix a bike? Join us for an evening full of making, mending, and repairing and earn the next stamp in your Elementary Explorer's passport.

Join us for a harvest themed evening of crafts, games and stem activities.  Families ages 3+.

Join us for a not-too-scary adventure filled with silly monsters, friendly ghosts, and some spooky fun! 

Inspired by Goosebumps's R. L. Stine - 2025 Frederick Reads featured author. 

Join us on a history walking tour around Emmitsburg.

Join us for FREE prenatal yoga from Family Connects with instructor DeAnna Houston.

Get creative and explore the world of art through hands-on projects and imaginative fun! Each session features a new artistic adventure designed for young artists to express themselves, try new techniques, and make something awesome.

Create a festive fall pumpkin design on fabric with wool! We'll learn about how to "paint" with wool using the art of needlefelting.

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.

Journey through the colonial witch trials, from Connecticut to Virginia (with a stop in Maryland), and uncover the truth behind the accusations.

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

Join instructors from the Literacy Council for a series of Low Beginner ESL classes.