Week Calendar

Join us for stories, songs, crafts, and more! 

Recommended ages 3-5 and their families. 

Come join certified instructor Sheila Blake for yoga poses with fun active storytelling and creative movement. Recommended for for ages 2-5, attending with their caregiver. Space is limited.

Use 1 of 4 Brother sewing machines on Your Own Project. Must Know How to Sew.  

Machines Available on first come first serve basis.

Looking to try something new and maybe make a friend or two?  Join the library book club! 

Enjoy this free storytime program from The Ringling that connects art with early literacy. At this program, we read together, make art, and learn about an object in the museum.

Get into the festive spirit by creating your own unique holiday cards! In this hands-on class, you’ll design and craft personalized cards to share.

For mobile babies to 5 years old. Drop in to enjoy special play time with your child, meet our friendly Parenting Educators and discover how Forty Carrots Family Center can help you enjoy parenting even more.

Get your bling on! 

 Looking to try a new craft/art form? Join us for our monthly Creation Station drop-in DIY jewelry making sessions!

Musical Motion is a FREE bilingual learn & play class that encourages bonding while developing early learning and literacy skills in children.

For infants to five years, attending with caregiver. The storytime includes simple stories, nursery rhymes, songs, fingerplays, and crafts. Space is limited. Free tickets are available at the youth desk beginning at 10 a.m.

Join Englewood crafter, Cris Walton, and learn how to transform paper into beautiful flowers! Rolled paper flowers are made using a paper template cut into a spiral shape, rolled tightly and released to create a flower.

For mobile babies to 5 years old. Drop in to enjoy special play time with your child, meet our friendly Parenting Educators and discover how Forty Carrots Family Center can help you enjoy parenting even more.

A time for homeschool children and their families to socialize, participate in arts and crafts, STEM activities and more!

Join us to make your own embroidered ornament! We'll have a few patterns to choose from, and you'll learn how to make your own. No experience required, no materials needed. Registration required.

This preschool-aged story time is led by a library staff member. Enjoy a variety of stories, songs, rhymes, and fun activities!

For mobile babies to 5 years old. Drop in to enjoy special play time with your child, meet our friendly Parenting Educators and discover how Forty Carrots Family Center can help you enjoy parenting even more.

Bring your projects, patterns, and questions to Elsie Quirk Library and join the Quirky Knitters for an afternoon of knitting and crochet.  All skill levels welcome.  Registration is not required, so come on in to knit and chat!

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Join the staff of the Sarasota County History Center for a hands-on tutorial on preserving your family collections at home.

Create a dreamy wall hanging to celebrate the season...even in Florida!  All materials provided.  These classes are popular.  Seating is very limited.  No registration required:  first come, first seated.

This neuroscience-research based workshop dispels outdated myths about the brain and brain function, specifically through the foundational concept of neuroplasticity.  This workshop describes new and exciting brain activation alternatives to

Learn to sew a carrier that will keep your cakes and pies right-side up when you want to share your holiday baking with others! You’ll learn basic quilting techniques and how to attach handles.

Even the most routine, mundane records can be a big help when you are searching for clues about an ancestor. Tax rolls are one of the unsung heroes of genealogical research!

Create a dreamy wall hanging to celebrate the season...even in Florida!  All materials provided.  No registration required:  first come, first seated.  These classes are popular.  Seating is very limited.

This Creation Station event invites you enjoy the traditional and well-loved craft of paper embroidery. Create artfully hand-embroidered, winter themed greeting cards to delight your family and friends.

Drop in to play games on our Nintendo Switch!

Recommended for ages 5 and up.

In this hands-on art program, our young artists will learn to use the Chompsaw, a safe easy-to-use cutting device, to create their very own dinosaur!

Calling all young scientists! Grow your scientific knowledge and dazzle with some cool hands-on science experiments with the help of Miss Jenny and the other librarians at Fruitville.

Join Sandi Grecco to take your guitar foundations to the next level. Expect to build your current skill set learning chords, scales, and songs.

Children are invited for a special opportunity to share a story with a furry friend! Take advantage of this no-pressure, judgment-free zone to practice reading with a certified therapy dog.  Space is limited. First come, first seated.

Join presenter Irina Rymshina for this workshop to discover the magic of creating circuits using simple materials like copper tape, LED lights, and paper. Recommended for ages 7-12. Registration required.

Make bird feeders from jars and other materials. Decorate small wooden bird houses with acrylic paint. Bird seed will be provided.

Join other teens at our monthly Teen Advisory Board Meeting. The Board will discuss topics related to teen library services, teen programs and the teen collections. Attendees will receive community service credit for their time at the meeting.

Ever wanted to learn how to write in cursive? Ever wanted to improve your cursive handwriting? This is a ten week course to learn and or practice the art of cursive handwriting.

Junk journaling is a creative hobby where you make a handmade journal from recycled and repurposed materials, such as old books, magazines, and scraps of paper, and fill it with your thoughts, memories, photos, and collected ephemera, such as tick

Everyone has a story, why not tell it to others? Join Kristin Owens for a memoir  writing workshop. This event is for those who wish to start writing their memoir but are unsure where to start.