Week Calendar

Join us at Sophie and Madigan's Playground for a visit filled with rhymes, songs, lots of movement, and fun!

Join us inside to explore songs, stories, and fun designed for our youngest audience and their caregivers! This program is intended for children 0-12 months and their families.

Join us for 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.

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

This special nature themed storytime coincides with the Frederick City Nature Challenge where you and your family can become citizen scientists! Designed for ages 0-5, with a caregiver.

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!

Designed for ages 0 and up 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! For ages 0-5 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.

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

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. 

Flowers are sprouting up around us! Let's celebrate all the new colors popping up in nature with songs and stories with our favorite pink haired troll! Designed for ages 3-5 with a caregiver.

Join us for a fun filled storytime, with songs, stories and so much fun! Designed for toddlers with a caregiver.

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.

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

Join us for songs, stories, and play for babies and their grownups. 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 for this special nature themed storytime to celebrate the Frederick City Nature Challenge where you and your family can become citizen scientists! Storytime will take place at Shelter 1 at Middletown Park.

Come see the brand new bookmobile at the Children's Festival.  At 10am we'll have the official ribbon cutting.  Come on board to check out the amazing selection of books.

Visit are table at the Children's Festival.  Say hi to your favorite library staff and learn about all FCPL has to offer.

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

Roll into Thurmont Library for a rock-solid good time for the whole family! We’ll dig into silly stories, sing toe-tapping songs, and roll through plenty of rocky fun together.

Practice reading to a real dog. This program is for children ages 0-10.

Engage your baby's senses with activities designed just for them while visiting with other caregivers. 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.

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

This special nature themed storytime celebrates with the Frederick City Nature Challenge where you and your family can become citizen scientists! Designed for ages 0-5, with a caregiver.

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

Bring your wiggles for songs, stories, and fun for toddlers and their grownups. Designed for 2 year olds with a caregiver.

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.

Enjoy a variety of activities to help your child learn through play while interacting with other children and adults. Designed for ages 0-5 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.

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.

Join us for a fun filled storytime, with songs, stories and so much fun! Designed for toddlers 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.

Tired of the gray of winter? Celebrate spring with pops of color that will leave you feeling mauve-lous!

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. 

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.

Park Ranger Mark Spurrier shares his experiences with bears in Maryland and reads his picture book, "Big Bears". 

Come build with us! This program is made for builders of all skill levels to get creative, socialize, and problem-solve with LEGO bricks. We provide the bricks; you bring the imagination. Ages 5-12.

It’s a PJ Party Storytime! Come dressed for bedtime (or not!) and enjoy a joyful mix of stories, singing, dancing, and snuggly fun for the entire family. Perfect for ages 0+ with a caregiver.

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!

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