Week Calendar

children, families, and staff are welcome!

Staff, children, and families are welcome!

Want to brush up on your language skills, but need speaking practice? Look no further! This informal group for speakers of both English and Spanish is the perfect opportunity to learn in a fun, no-pressure environment. Come chat with us!

Children, families, and staff are welcome!

Read books, sing songs, make friends, and have fun at the library!  For ages 18-36 months.  Pre-registration with the Youth Services Department is required.  Online registration is not enabled.

Delight your senses with a visit to the beautiful Ivy Hill Farm this fall! Join us in the farm shop for fall themed stories, songs and fun. Afterwards make sure to visit the Bookmobile to take a few fall stories home with you!  

Everyone is welcome!

Share books, rhymes, and music with your baby at the library.  Open to children 6-18 months. Pre-registration with the Youth Services Department is required.  Online registration is not enabled.

Lindsay from the Washington County Health Department visits before storytime to discuss cold weather, and tips every family should know about preparing for severe weather and power outages. 

Bring your project and join this group.

So you have a Cricut (Joy, Joy Xtra, Explore, Maker, Venture.) Now you want to know what you can do with it. Join other crafters in the adventure that is creating with all things Cricut!

Read books, sing songs, make friends, and have fun at the library!  For ages 18-36 months.  Pre-registration with the Youth Services Department is required.  Online registration is not enabled.

Stories, felt stories, finger plays, and music. Join us and let's plan and learn together at Toddler Time.  All ages are welcome!

Children, families, and staff are welcome!

Join us after storytime to wiggle, play, and socialize in our storytime area. Organized activities will be provided from time to time. 

Babies ages 6 - 18 months and their caregiver will enjoy books, fingerplays, songs, and rhymes under the guidance of a librarian.  Please join us!

Share books, rhymes, and music with your baby at the library.  Open to children 6-18 months. Pre-registration with the Youth Services Department is required.  Online registration is not enabled.

Stories, music, and educational activities! Preschool Story Time takes place every Wednesday.  All ages are welcome. In the summer we will take storytime outside on Wednesdays! 

Join us after storytime to wiggle, play, and socialize in our storytime area. Organized activities will be provided from time to time. 

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Come to the Hancock Library for a lively morning of stories, music, dancing, movement and FUN! 

Toddlers aged 18 - 36 months and their caregivers will enjoy books, songs, flannel stories and rhymes with a librarian.

Calling all ages - join Miss Laura on Fridays at 11:00 AM for story time.  Books, fingerplays, flannel stories, songs and more.  No registration required.

Join us for our Pre-School Storytime for children ages 3-5.  

Had a baby in the last 18 months? Would you like to meet other parents and enjoy a few books and baby bounce rhymes/songs? This storytime is meant for wee ones, birth-18 months. Older siblings are always welcome too.

Hagerstown Homesteaders present Professional Cookie Decorating with April Frusher-Boyle.  Learns the tips and tricks of the professionals as we decorate varieties of cookies.

Join us for 30 minutes of stories, songs, activities and a craft.

Spend some quality time with your baby or toddler, and meet other adults with very young ones.  During this shorter story time for our youngest patrons, we will have fun with stories, fingerplay and music.

Join us for Kids Discover/Little Explorers STEM with special local guest Little Bear Apiary on Saturday November 15th from 11am-12pm. We'll learn all about beekeeping and have lots of special hands-on activities.

Join Miss Alyssa for a fun Themed Family Storytime with stories and songs.

This week we will be building a hide-out for Tom Turkey so he doesn't get eaten on Thanksgiving!

For ages 3+

We will be creating cute napkin rings with acorns and book pages.

Blast off on a reading adventure! Join us for a stellar story time that will launch your imagination into orbit with tales from across the universe.  After the stories, touch down for some out-of-this world crafts and fun!

LARP (Live Action Role-Play) group Barony of Phoenix Hollow is back for more cosplay and simulated battle demonstrations! Come check it out!

Craft Time for adults with intellectual and developmental disabilities. Join us for an engaging craft and social time each month at our center table. Craft along with your companion. All supplies are provided.  

For a Soldier at Antietam by Drew Broadhurst

Everyone is welcome!

Join us for a NEW Home School Enrichment Class offering: Coding & Typing Club. This introductory course will allow students ages 6 to 13 to explore touch typing concepts and beginner level coding at their own pace. 

Want to talk films? Reel Talk is our film discussion program - each month, we meet to talk about a different movie, discussing the process behind making it and its different themes. 

We welcome homeschool families to explore a variety of our STEM Makerspace activities.  We will have 4-5 stations for science, technology, engineering, and math. Ages 2-15

Everyone is welcome!

Everyone is welcome!

Children, families, and staff are welcome!

Children ages 4 and older, come build with LEGO. A new LEGO building idea every month. Materials must stay at the library. No registration necessary.

Everyone is welcome!

Join us for a NEW Home School Enrichment Class offering: Coding & Typing Club. This introductory course will allow students ages 6 to 13 to explore touch typing concepts and beginner level coding at their own pace. 

Come join us for a fun Storytime with rhymes, songs, and a craft.

Stories and activities in honor of the National Native American Heritage Month. 

Join us to learn about scientists that changed the world, their lives, and achievements.  Each session will include hands-on activities.  This month we will learn about Marie Curie.  Please register online.

Childern will put together both a paper airplane/launcher and a 3D printer glider to learn about the Science of Flight.

For ages 6-12

Space is limited. Register to save your spot.

Bring your favorite fall foods: sides, sweets, & meats! Registration required. 

Teen Afternoon-

We will be working on using recycled materials to make some fun crafts for the upcoming holidays. Please register in advance so we can have enough materials to accommodate everyone who wants to join in.

Lindsay from the Washington County Health Department visits to talk about Type 2 Diabetes, its risk factors, and how you can help prevent it. 

NEW! A weekly hangout and advisory board for 9 through 12 year olds. We will eat snacks, play games, make crafts, and talk about what fun things we should do at the library. No registration necessary. Be there or be square!

Did you know crafting can be relaxing, and help improve your mood?  Join us for a crafty hour for adults only.  All supplies are provided.

Find clues, solve puzzles, and face down timed challenges with your team to escape the room before the clock runs out!

Come to a short orientation to familiarize yourself with the expectations, potential jobs, and benefits of our VolunTeen program.  Then you will be all set to earn SSL hours!

Silent Book Club is a global community of readers with more than 900 chapters in 50 countries around the world led by local volunteers. SBC members gather in public to read together in quiet camaraderie.

Join us for our Family Story Night for children of all ages.