Day Calendar

Bond with your infant and build early language skills through rhymes, repetition, music and sign language. Your child will enjoy quality board books and one-on-one book sharing. Ages 3-12 months with caregiver.

Build early language and large motor skills through rhyme, songs, book sharing and hands-on activities with your child. Ages 6-24 months with caregiver. Registration for this 5-week series is required.

Help build early language skills as your child moves from crawling to walking. Storytimes include rhymes, books, and hands-on activities to build pre-reading and large motor skills. Ages 12-24 months with caregiver.

Build early language and large motor skills through rhyme, songs, book sharing and hands-on activities with your child. Ages 3-24 months with caregiver. Registration for this 5-week series is required.

Learn about the benefits of using Ancestry.com with your Virginia Beach Public Library card! We will cover the basics of getting started in your family research, building a family tree, and provide some searching tips as well. Adults.

Enjoy a warm and inviting space where you and your child can play and socialize with others in the community. Please note: This is a social event for both caregiver and child, as opposed to a traditionally structured program.

Help prepare your child to enter school ready to read!  This storytime includes books, rhymes, and literacy activities that emphasize alphabet and letter recognition plus activities that support independence and confidence building.

Help build early language skills as your child moves from crawling to walking. Storytimes include rhymes, books, and hands-on activities to build pre-reading and large motor skills. Ages 12-24 months with caregiver.

Bring your preschooler in to learn about Science, Technology, Engineering, Arts and Math in this interactive series. Age 3-5 with caregiver. Registration for this 5 week-long series is required. 

Build early language and large motor skills through rhyme, songs, book sharing and hands-on activities with your child. Ages 6-24 months with caregiver. Registration for this 5-week series is required.

Enjoy a casual chat about popular books. Talk about titles you like and hear what others enjoy. Swap favorites old and new or spread the word about your favorite reads. 

Enjoy stories, rhymes, songs, concepts (i.e. colors, shapes, etc.) and early literacy tips with your curious toddler, as they develop independence as well as pre-literacy and social skills. Age 2 with caregiver.

Help prepare your child to enter school ready to read!  This storytime includes books, rhymes, and literacy activities that emphasize alphabet and letter recognition plus activities that support independence and confidence building.

Bring your craft, your supplies and your passion! Meet other crafters and creators, share your ideas and get new ones! Adults. Registration is not required. 

Help prepare your child to enter school ready to read!  This storytime includes books, rhymes, and literacy activities that emphasize alphabet and letter recognition plus activities that support independence and confidence building.

Drop in for a fun weekly craft in our Children’s Room! 

Families/All Ages.  No registration required.

Rotating competition is organized by the club coordinator.  Knowledge of chess rules is required; limited instruction may be provided for beginners.  Chess equipment has been generously donated by Virginia Chess Federation, private donor

Join in a lively discussion of the first book in Erin Hunter's Bravelands series: The Broken Pride, featuring a young lion cast out by his pride, an elephant who can read the bones of the dead and a baboon rebelling his destiny.

Use your imagination to build LEGO creations inspired by different themes each month. Grades K-5. Registration is required.

Express yourself by painting a colorful snail! Follow along to the directions or create your own unique masterpiece!

Grades 6-12. Registration is required.

Feeling artsy? Come on in and paint some stones to add to a stone garden- or to keep! Grades 6-12. Registration required.