Listen to rhymes! Join the circus! Feel your brain grow! Kids will learn circus skills: juggling, balancing sticks, spinning plates, flip-and-flyers, hula hoops, rhythm sticks, and romper stompers. For grades 1 and up.
Tuesday, August 13 at 2:00 pm
Registration required; registration opens July 13.
Tuesday, August 6, from 11:30 to 12:30 pm, join us in the Assembly Room for Tween Chocolate Making! Learn the sweet ins and outs of making chocolate and take some treats home with you! Licensed Chocolatier Kim Larkin will lead this awesome workshop on the history and techniques involved in making our favorite candy, and lead teens in making their own. For grades 4 to 6.
Registration required; sign up here!
Teens in grades 7 to 12 have their own session from 1:30 to 2:30 pm; sign up online here.
Calling all kid scientists: NASA satellites Aqua and Terra need our help measuring clouds! Join Children’s Librarians Deb and Rachel to learn about clouds, observe and record the sky outside, and do some fun activities. Recommended for ages 4 and up.
Weather permitting; rain location Flett Room.
Mondays, August 12 & 19 at 11:00 am
Wednesdays, August 14 & 21 at 1:30 pm
A lively, witty, cheerful, bounce-around, sing-along, get-out-of-your-seat, dance-like-no one’s-watching, wiggly, giggly musical
experience! Bring your friends for the fun! For all ages.
Thursday, August 8 at 10:30 am
Pop-up Art School combines art history and hands-on learning to teach a variety of art techniques. Make your own simple machine to send a rocket to the moon, based on the famous silent film Le Voyage Dans la Lun (A Trip to the Moon) by Georges Melies. For ages 8 and up.
Monday, August 5 at 6:00 pm
Registration required; registration opens July 8.
Come be amazed when the Mad Scientist is able to defy gravity in this energetic and spectacular special event. Foaming cups and steaming chemical reactions will introduce exciting chemistry, while centrifugal force demonstrations and our Mad Science
windbag will demonstrate some fun physics.
For ages 5 and up.
Tuesday, July 30 at 6:00 pm
Join us for a special performance by Seattle-based, award-winning, singer/songwriter Charlie Hope! Hear some classic well-known children’s songs as well as some of her originals that will get children singing and moving along. For ages 6 and under.
July 10th, 2019 at 10:30am
The music of Brazil comes to Boston! Come move, dance, and sing along with Sulinha and her band. Ages 2 & up.
Friday, June 28 at 10:30 am
Join Magician Mike Bent for some mind bending book tricks. For all ages.
July 11th, 2019 at 10:30am
Calling all budding artists! The library’s front sidewalk will become your concrete canvas. The chalk is provided, just bring yourself and your imagination. For all ages.
July 1st, 2019 at 10am
