Week Calendar

This silhouette lantern fits right with our summer reading theme: Dragons, Dreams and Daring Deeds. Choose a dragon for more thrilling adventure or a fairy for a softer more whimsical feel, both are included in each kit.

For babies ages 0 to 12 months with their caregivers. Registration required.

Drop-in program.

This high-energy music and movement class will have us dancing and laughing!  We'll start with a story and then move to the music.

Let’s move and groove together in the Library! We will read a fun book and do some dancing. We will meet in the Hoppin Gallery upstairs at the Barney. This is a drop in program.

Waterbury Symphony Orchestra's 'Creating Musical Readers' is a musical literacy program for children ages 10 and under.

Put together a beautiful tealight holder that looks just like a real lantern! Customize it with shadows of fantasy creatures to make it your own.

EmpowerSTEM is a program for kids aged 7-12 that fosters hands-on exploration and problem solving through interactive activities and experiments, igniting curiosity and creativity.

Local resident and retired educator, John Sherman, is bringing his love for one of our oldest board games – “The Game of Kings!” - to the Farmington Library.  Beginners through advanced are welcome.

Stop by the Teen Space to Make! You can select an item to print on our 3D-printer, work on a Glowforge project with our available materials, or just do some low-tech crafting! 

Come join an hour of fiber arts, and learn the basics of knitting. If you have access to your yarn and needles you're welcome to bring them with you. If not, we have plenty of yarn and needles that you may use!

Invent the Summer features weekly STEM challenges created by kids, for kids! Complete each challenge for a chance to win fabulous prizes!

EmpowerSTEM is a program for kids aged 7-12 that fosters hands-on exploration and problem-solving through interactive activities and experiments, igniting curiosity and creativity.

Play with clay and make some fun clay mushroom magnets (or whatever other small clay creation you want!) in the Teen Space!

Register for a reminder.

Open to those going into Grades 7-12.

Children ages 3-5 are invited to participate in a modified dance class and have the opportunity to meet a ballerina from the Hartt School of Dance!

Join us for A Very Royal Storytime where everyone can be a prince or princess. We will enjoy a story and then each child will be able to decorate their very own crown or tiara to take home. Costumes are welcome and encouraged!

Learn how to crochet a cute cuddly dragon along with the Teen Librarian in this weekly series! We will learn some basics of crochet and then make the dragon in pieces each week.

A shocking story of how this local Connecticut boy found pirate treasure! Come hear his story about his incredible findings! 

Join Keith Zalinger as he demonstrates the power of the human brain in this mind-blowing hour of entertainment and fun! May Keith read your mind? Predict the future? Can you read minds or read a person's personality from an item they are wearing?