EVENT FULL. Ages 8 to 11. Thursday, August 22 at 3:45pm. Enter the amazing world of Stop Motion Animation – a filming technique in which objects are photographed in slightly different position so the objects appear to move. Led by MacInspires, this course will encourage writing, brainstorming, planning, sequencing, teamwork and project management. MacInspires is a local organization that educates children with technology.

TICKET REQUIRED. Ages newborn to 4 years. Monday, August 26 at 10:00am. Join us a we sing, dance and play instruments with babies, toddlers, preschoolers, and the grown-ups who love them. We’ll be signing together with Karen Hamlin of Sounds Good Westchester. Come build a special bond with your child through music!

TICKET REQUIRED. Ages newborn to 4 years. Monday, August 26 at 10:45am. Join us a we sing, dance and play instruments with babies, toddlers, preschoolers, and the grown-ups who love them. We’ll be signing together with Karen Hamlin of Sounds Good Westchester. Come build a special bond with your child through music!

EVENT FULL. Ages 8 to 11. Monday, August 26 at 3:45pm. Explore popular graphic novel artists like Raina Telgemeier and Judd Winick and learn how to draw their characters.  A different character will be done each week. Mike Teator is a local artist who instructs children in cartooning, 3-D drawing and computer animation in the after school programs.  Mike appeared on NBC’s Today Show in both 2005 and 2009 and demonstrated art.

TICKET REQUIRED. Ages 4 and up. Tuesday, August 27 at 3:00pm. Avast, ye hearties!  Come and get your arrrr on with us.  We’ll read the best pirate stories, have yummy food (can you guess what?  Hint: Booty is in the title), learn your pirate name and make a pirat-y craft.

EVENT FULL.  Ages 5 to 7. Wednesday, August 28 at 3:00pm. You are cordially invited to very fairy tea party. Dress in your fairy finest and join us for fairy crafts, games, and snacks.

TICKET REQUIRED. Friday, September 6. Ages 1 ½ to 3 at 9:30am. Can you clap up high? Sing down low? Tiptoe so quietly? Together we’ll learn new songs, sing old favorites, play rhythm instruments, dance, laugh, and snuggle. Join the faculty from the Larchmont Music Academy and see just how much fun music can be!

TICKET REQUIRED. Friday, September 6. Ages 1 ½ to 3 months at 10:15am. . Can you clap up high? Sing down low? Tiptoe so quietly? Together we’ll learn new songs, sing old favorites, play rhythm instruments, dance, laugh, and snuggle. Join the faculty from the Larchmont Music Academy and see just how much fun music can be!

TICKET REQUIRED. Friday, September 6.  Ages 4 months to 17 months at 11:00am. Can you clap up high? Sing down low? Tiptoe so quietly? Together we’ll learn new songs, sing old favorites, play rhythm instruments, dance, laugh, and snuggle. Join the faculty from the Larchmont Music Academy and see just how much fun music can be!

All ages. Friday, September 6at 8:15pm. Online registration required. (rain/cloud date Saturday, September 7 at 8:15pm). Did you know the Moon, Jupiter and Saturn are all visible on September 6th and 7th? Come check them out up close with our Orion StarBlast Telescope and other telescopes on loan from members of the Westchester Amateur Astronomers Club! We will have guidance from former Club President Dr. Lawrence Faltz as to how to use the telescope and what to look for. We will gather in the parking lot next to Hommocks Middle School and walk into Flint Park. Please bring a flashlight.

TICKET REQUIRED. Ages 3 to 6. Tuesday, September 10 at 3:45pm. Celebrate the brilliant book series with us and the latest addition, The Pigeon Has To Go To School by Mo Willems.  We’ll hear stories, do the Pigeon app together and have pigeony snacks.

Ages 3 months to 1 year. Thursday, September 12 at 11:30am. No registration required. Did you know that babies learn hands on and sensory play activities let them explore on their own to learn?  Join us for a storytime that incorporates different sensory stations for hands on fun for your baby.

All ages. Saturday, September 14 from 1:00 to 4:30pm. No registration required. Take a break from all the excitement and create! Stop by the Children’s Room to make a truck craft to take home.

TICKET REQUIRED. Ages 3 to 4. Tuesday, September 17 at 3:45pm. Fall is almost upon us, so let’s celebrate with apples!  We will hear our favorite apple stories, do an apple craft and enjoy apple dumplings together.

TICKET REQUIRED. Ages 3 months to 1 year. Thursday, September 19 at 11:30am. Join us for some learning based play!  Check out our collection of baby toys and get to know other babies.

Ages 5 to 7. Thursday, September 19 at 3:45pm. Online registration required. How did they do that? Listen to true stories about amazing structures and their builders followed by a bridge building challenge? Can you span the distance?

Ages 6 to 9. Saturday, September 21 at 3:30pm. Online registration required. Come join Paula Romeo and hear about the friendship between a boy named Gaqka and the Face Rock of the mountain, and find out how stories came to be! We will have fun picking our favorite parts of the story, creating dialogue for the characters, and then acting out our dialogues for each other!

TICKET REQUIRED. Ages 3 to 4. Tuesday, September 24 at 3:45pm. Almost time to go apple picking!  We’ll hear the best apple picking stories and explore some science behind apples, like seeing if they sink or float and finding out why apples turn brown.  We’ll also make apple prints and explore the different parts of the apple.

TICKET REQUIRED. Ages 3 months to 1 year. Thursday, September 26 at 11:30am. Bring your baby in your baby carrier and rock out to tunes with us!  It will be a great introduction for your baby to rhythm, music and movement, and dancing is known to increase endorphins in adults.  Plus it will be super fun!

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Ages 5 to 7. Thursday, September 26 at 3:45pm. Online registration required. Listen to the Legend of Johnny Appleseed, followed by some delicious apple-themed antics!

Ages 3 to 5. Thursdays, August 1, 8, 15, 22, 29 at 10:30am. No registration required. Interactive story time gets children involved with reading, and continues early literacy development.

TICKET REQUIRED. Ages 18 months to 3 years. Wednesdays, August 7, 14, 21, 28 at 10:30am. Little movers and shakers can embrace their inner groove in this early literacy program. A parent or caregiver must attend. Space is limited. You must have a ticket to attend. Tickets are free and are given out the day of the program on a first come first served basis.

Ages 3 months to 17 months. Wednesdays, August 7, 14, 21, 28 at 11:15am. No registration required. Delight and stimulate your baby’s mind with books and music. A parent or caregiver must attend.

TICKET REQUIRED. Ages 18 months to 3 years. Wednesdays, September 4, 11, 18, 25 at 10:30am. Little movers and shakers can embrace their inner groove in this early literacy program. A parent or caregiver must attend. Space is limited. You must have a ticket to attend. Tickets are free and are given out the day of the program on a first come first served basis.

Ages 3 months to 17 months. Wednesdays, September 4, 11, 18, 25 at 11:15am. No registration required. Delight and stimulate your baby’s mind with books and music. A parent or caregiver must attend.

Ages 3 to 5. Thursdays, September 5, 12, 19, 26 at 10:30am. No registration required. Interactive story time gets children involved with reading, and continues early literacy development.

TICKET REQUIRED. Ages 4 and up. Mondays, September 16, 23 at 3:30pm. Come to the library, enjoy stories and games with our local teenagers and make a cool craft.

TICKET REQUIRED. Ages 18 months to 3 years. Tuesdays, September 17, 24 at 10:00am. The songs, rhymes, finger plays and fun in this four-week series create a strong foundation for learning and a love of reading. A parent or caregiver must attend.

TICKET REQUIRED. Ages 6 months to 17 months. Tuesdays, September 17, 27 at 11:15am. Join us for our early literacy enhanced storytime with books, music, rhymes, cuddles and fun! Online registration is required and is limited to Larchmont Library cardholders.

Anyone old enough to not eat a sticker. Wednesdays, September 18, 25 at 3:45pm. No registration required. Hear our favorite new stories and let your child’s creative juices flow!  There is no right or wrong in this open-ended craft with the supplies being our leftover craft scraps and of course, stickers, tape and glue!

TICKET REQUIRED. Ages 18 months to 3 years. Fridays, September 20, 27 at 10:00am. The songs, rhymes, finger plays and fun in this four-week series create a strong foundation for learning and a love of reading. A parent or caregiver must attend.

TICKET REQUIRED. Ages 6 months to 17 months. Fridays, September 20, 27 at 11:15am. Join us for our early literacy enhanced storytime with books, music, rhymes, cuddles and fun! Online registration is required and is limited to Larchmont Library cardholders.