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The library is closed on Monday 7/5/2021 in observance of Independence Day. We will resume our normal business hours on Tuesday 7/6/2021 at 10am.
Summer Reading begins. Open for all ages!
Come on a safari with us! Register at boxlib.beanstack.org and log your time spent reading or listening to books. Everyone who spends at least 15 minutes a day reading or listening to books gets a weekly prize! Plus, the more you read, the more animals you’ll find on our safari. For every animal you find, you’ll get a pin! Can you collect them all?
And for those who want to REALLY challenge themselves, we’ve added an extra special reward. If you read or listen for 100 hours during Summer Reading, you’ll get a Golden Eagle pin AND a bookplate in your favorite library book naming you a Summer Reading 2021 Champion!
Where: Library Lawn
Recommended for Ages: 18 months - 5years
Join us for a fun storytime full of silly songs, rhymes, and simple stories. Intended for toddlers and preschoolers, but all are welcome!
Registration Required
Where: On the Library Lawn
Recommended for Ages: 5 - 10
Join us for a fun craft or activity on Monday afternoons! If you can’t come in person, pick up a take-home activity kit anytime from the Children’s Room (first come, first served).
Registration Required
Where: Library Lawn
Recommended for Ages: 5 - 10
Stories for Big(ger) Kids! Join us to share and discuss longer, more complicated stories. We have lots of picture books to share that were written specifically for elementary aged kids, including folktales, biographies, adventure stories, and more!
Where: Library Lawn
Ages 12-17
New and experienced players alike are invited to join us for some swords and sorcery! We’ll go through character creation and play through two or three adventures.
Where: Library Lawn
Put on your “gettin’ messy” clothes and join us for some bubbly fun! We’ll have bubble solution, lots of different wands, and supplies to invent your own bubble blowing tools. Can you blow the biggest bubbles? The most colorful? The highest floating?
Registration Required
Ages 9 - 18
Ever seen panda, bamboo, waterlily, mountain or an old temple drawn digitally and wonder how to do that? This is a fun art workshop for students who want to explore the fundamentals of digital drawing and painting. Ms. Hongbing Tang, an award-winning artist and college faculty member, will guide students through step-by-step instructions on how to draw and paint an Asian art theme project digitally. Students will learn to use Adobe Fresco - a popular free app to create digital art on iPad or iPhone.
Please download the app from the Apple Store. A regular stylus pen is also recommended to use. A reference image will be provided to registered students by email. The class will be online and a zoom meeting link will be sent to students before class.
This program is sponsored by Acton-Boxborough Cultural Council. Space is limited and RSVP is required.
Where: Library Lawn
Recommended for Ages: 18 months - 5years
Join us for a fun storytime full of silly songs, rhymes, and simple stories. Intended for toddlers and preschoolers, but all are welcome!
Registration Required
Where: On the Library Lawn
Recommended for Ages: 5 - 10
Join us for a fun craft or activity on Monday afternoons! If you can’t come in person, pick up a take-home activity kit anytime from the Children’s Room (first come, first served).
Registration Required
Where: Library Lawn
Recommended for Ages: 5 - 10
Stories for Big(ger) Kids! Join us to share and discuss longer, more complicated stories. We have lots of picture books to share that were written specifically for elementary aged kids, including folktales, biographies, adventure stories, and more!
Where: Library Lawn
Ages 12-17
New and experienced players alike are invited to join us for some swords and sorcery! We’ll go through character creation and play through two or three adventures.
Where: Library Lawn
Recommended for: Babies 3mos - 18mos
Babies and their caregivers are invited to try out our Baby Lapsit Storytime. We’ll do 15-20 minutes of songs, rhymes, and movement stories selected specifically for babies, then spend the rest of the time having an informal playgroup.
Registration Required
Where: Library Lawn
Ages 12-17
Have you always wanted to play Dungeons and Dragons, but felt like it was too complicated/too much time commitment? This is the game for you! Honey Heist is a game about planning and executing a fool-proof robbery...as bears...with hats. It’s a fun and silly game where you can learn the mechanics of an RPG without any pressure.
Where: Library Lawn
Recommended for Ages: 18 months - 5years
Join us for a fun storytime full of silly songs, rhymes, and simple stories. Intended for toddlers and preschoolers, but all are welcome!
Registration Required
Where: On the Library Lawn
Recommended for Ages: 5 - 10
Join us for a fun craft or activity on Monday afternoons! If you can’t come in person, pick up a take-home activity kit anytime from the Children’s Room (first come, first served).
Registration Required
Where: Library Lawn
Recommended for Ages: 5 - 10
Stories for Big(ger) Kids! Join us to share and discuss longer, more complicated stories. We have lots of picture books to share that were written specifically for elementary aged kids, including folktales, biographies, adventure stories, and more!
Where: Library Lawn
Ages 12-17
New and experienced players alike are invited to join us for some swords and sorcery! We’ll go through character creation and play through two or three adventures.
Where: Library Lawn
Recommended for: Ages 3 - 10
Look in the sky! It’s a bunny! No, a duck! No, a submarine! It’s….it’s...whatever your imagination sees! Join us for some low-key cloud watching. We’ll talk about what shapes we see in the clouds and a little bit about cloud science. There will even be a cloud-related craft!
Where: Liberty Square Fields
Ages 12 - 17
Learn to find constellations and hear the myths and legends behind them. We’ll also go over the basics of reading a star map so you can have your own stargazing party anytime!
Registration Required
Where: Library Lawn
Recommended for Ages: 18 months - 5years
Join us for a fun storytime full of silly songs, rhymes, and simple stories. Intended for toddlers and preschoolers, but all are welcome!
Registration Required
Where: Library Lawn
Recommended for Ages: 5 - 10
Join us for a fun craft or activity on Monday afternoons! If you can’t come in person, pick up a take-home activity kit anytime from the Children’s Room (first come, first served).
Registration Required
Where: Library Lawn
Recommended for Ages: 5 - 10
Stories for Big(ger) Kids! Join us to share and discuss longer, more complicated stories. We have lots of picture books to share that were written specifically for elementary aged kids, including folktales, biographies, adventure stories, and more!
Where: Library Lawn
Ages 12-17
New and experienced players alike are invited to join us for some swords and sorcery! We’ll go through character creation and play through two or three adventures.
Where: Library Lawn
All Ages
We’re going to have a wild time at this photo shoot! Come to the library dressed up as your favorite animal and get your photo taken with some wild pals. Costumes can be based on ANY animal: real, imaginary, characters, wild, domesticated, you name it! You’ll earn a prize, and we’ll share all of the photos (with permission) on the library Facebook with their own special description. Maybe your costume will be “fuzziest” or “most spots” or “silliest”!
Where: Library Lawn
All Ages
We’re going to have a wild time at this photo shoot! Come to the library dressed up as your favorite animal and get your photo taken with some wild pals. Costumes can be based on ANY animal: real, imaginary, characters, wild, domesticated, you name it! You’ll earn a prize, and we’ll share all of the photos (with permission) on the library Facebook with their own special description. Maybe your costume will be “fuzziest” or “most spots” or “silliest”!
Where: Library Lawn
Ages 12-17
Have you always wanted to play Dungeons and Dragons, but felt like it was too complicated/too much time commitment? This is the game for you! Honey Heist is a game about planning and executing a fool-proof robbery...as bears...with hats. It’s a fun and silly game where you can learn the mechanics of an RPG without any pressure.
Where: Library Lawn
Recommended for Ages: 18 months - 5years
Join us for a fun storytime full of silly songs, rhymes, and simple stories. Intended for toddlers and preschoolers, but all are welcome!
Registration Required
Where: Library Lawn
Recommended for Ages: 5 - 10
Join us for a fun craft or activity on Monday afternoons! If you can’t come in person, pick up a take-home activity kit anytime from the Children’s Room (first come, first served).
Registration Required
Where: Library Lawn
Recommended for Ages: 5 - 10
Stories for Big(ger) Kids! Join us to share and discuss longer, more complicated stories. We have lots of picture books to share that were written specifically for elementary aged kids, including folktales, biographies, adventure stories, and more!
Where: Library Lawn
Ages 12-17
New and experienced players alike are invited to join us for some swords and sorcery! We’ll go through character creation and play through two or three adventures.
Where: Library Lawn
Recommended for: Babies 3mos - 18mos
Babies and their caregivers are invited to try out our Baby Lapsit Storytime. We’ll do 15-20 minutes of songs, rhymes, and movement stories selected specifically for babies, then spend the rest of the time having an informal playgroup.
Registration Required
Where: Library Lawn
Put on your “gettin’ messy” clothes and join us for some bubbly fun! We’ll have bubble solution, lots of different wands, and supplies to invent your own bubble blowing tools. Can you blow the biggest bubbles? The most colorful? The highest floating?
Registration Required
Where: Liberty Square Fields
Ages 12 - 17
Learn to find constellations and hear the myths and legends behind them. We’ll also go over the basics of reading a star map so you can have your own stargazing party anytime!
Registration Required
Where: Library Lawn
Recommended for Ages: 18 months - 5years
Join us for a fun storytime full of silly songs, rhymes, and simple stories. Intended for toddlers and preschoolers, but all are welcome!
Registration Required
Where: Library Lawn
Recommended for Ages: 5 - 10
Join us for a fun craft or activity on Monday afternoons! If you can’t come in person, pick up a take-home activity kit anytime from the Children’s Room (first come, first served).
Registration Required
Where: Library Lawn
Recommended for Ages: 5 - 10
Stories for Big(ger) Kids! Join us to share and discuss longer, more complicated stories. We have lots of picture books to share that were written specifically for elementary aged kids, including folktales, biographies, adventure stories, and more!
Where: Library Lawn
Ages 12-17
New and experienced players alike are invited to join us for some swords and sorcery! We’ll go through character creation and play through two or three adventures.
Where: Library Lawn
All Ages
See the show audiences are calling “Superb!”, “A blast!”, and “Heartwarming fun for the whole
family.” Join magician and juggler Scott Jameson for an extraordinary performance that will have you laughing out loud and perched on the very edge of your seat. Umbrellas will be plucked from thin air, a drawing will come to life, basketballs will be spun and juggled, and a member of the audience will unlock telekinetic abilities. For more information visit Scott’s website at www.scottjameson.com, or contact the library. Don’t miss it!
Today is the last day of Summer Reading. Thank you for participating!
Everyone’s favorite part of Zoom is when you get to see your friends’ pets, so we decided to have a Zoom Pet Show! Each participant will get a few minutes to show us their pet and tell us some fun facts about them. People who just want to see other people’s pets are welcome too!
This is a virtual event that will take place on Zoom.
Zoom link: https://zoom.us/j/96594118180?pwd=c2VFbEFiUUhnQU9USk5zYXYrOEFHUT09
The library is closed on Monday 9/6/2021 in observance of Labor Day. We will resume our normal business hours on Tuesday 9/7/2021 at 10am.
North Sea Gas, the award winning Scottish band, is making limited appearances in the States, but they are making a stop at the library with Celtic music and witty stories. Treat yourself to an hour of merry making with the North Sea Gas trio.
The library is closed on Monday 10/11/2021 in observance of Indigenous Peoples' Day. We will resume our normal business hours on Tuesday 10/12/2021 at 10am.
The library is closed on Thursday 11/11/2021 in observance of Veteran's Day. We will resume our normal business hours on Saturday 11/13/2021 at 10am.
The library will close early at 1pm on Wednesday, 11/24/2021 in observance of Thanksgiving. We will resume our normal business hours on Saturday, 11/27/2021 at 10am.
The library is closed Thursday, 11/25/2021 in observance of Thanksgiving. We will resume our normal business hours on Saturday, 11/27/2021 at 10am.
The library is closed Saturday, 12/25/2021 in observance of Christmas. We will resume our normal business hours on Tuesday, 12/28/2021 at 10am.
The library is closed Monday, 12/27/2021 in observance of Christmas. We will resume our normal business hours on Tuesday, 12/28/2021 at 10am.
The library is closed Saturday,1/1/2022 in observance of New Years Day. We will resume our normal business hours on Tuesday, 1/4/2022 at 10am.
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