Event List

Strap into a virtual reality headset to explore worlds beyond your imagination and compete in immersive games!

Strap into a virtual reality headset to explore worlds beyond your imagination and compete in immersive games!

Strap into a virtual reality headset to explore worlds beyond your imagination and compete in immersive games!

Strap into a virtual reality headset to explore worlds beyond your imagination and compete in immersive games!

Strap into a virtual reality headset to explore worlds beyond your imagination and compete in immersive games!

Have fun and brighten someone’s day by writing to a homebound senior!

We will provide the supplies needed to write uplifting letters to isolated adults in need. 

Partnership with Letters Against Isolation.  

Jam and learn in the Teen Center with your teen teacher, Anni Szantosi, and her numerous instruments! This club is for tween and teen music lovers who want to learn to play an instrument or find people who enjoy music. 

Meet other coders in the Teen Center and work on your coding project. Share with others and troubleshoot as a team. Led by Levi Szantosi whose top picks are Python, Scratch, and Unreal Engine.

Bring your Dungeons and Dragons characters to life with your friends as we discover what is rotten at the core of Appleton! Please bring your completed DnD 5e character sheet to this game.

If you like writing your own pieces or would like to grow your creativity, come join us for our Teen Writers Club!  Enhance your writing skills, participate in free-writing exercises and get feedback on written work.

Join us for a fun painting lesson from local artist Shelly Augsbury.  Learn how to paint a gnome for St. Patrick's Day.  Don't forget to wear green!  Best for ages 7-12.  Registration required.

Stop in and celebrate GREEN!! We will have two different good luck crafts available: leprechaun traps and friendship bracelets. While supplies last.

Calling all families with readers! Our dog friends from the Suncoast Humane Society are returning to the Jacaranda Library, and they want you to read to them!

Join us in the teen center to watch anime, discuss our favorite characters, and enjoy a small craft or art activity!

This is recommended for tweens and teens, ages 9-18.

Spring into style and DIY your own t-shirt design!

Use crafting supplies to draw your own wearable designs.

Work on your own creations or build as a team. We provide the LEGO® bricks, you provide the imagination.

A priceless Monet painting has recently gone missing from the Metropolitan Museum of Art. We have reason to believe it’s been nabbed by the new museum curator, Vincent Hahn. Use your wits to get the painting back undetected. 

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!

Children are invited to read with certified pet therapy dogs. The program encourages conversation and develops reading and communication skills.

This program is intended for children who can read independently  

Make a fun Japanese koi windsock using a cardboard tube, tissue paper, and streamers. 

Do you wanna be the very best? Like no one ever was? 

Make colorful, original bookmarks for yourself or a friend using watercolors!

Recommended for ages 9-18.

If registering multiple tweens/teens, please fill out the form for each participating tween/teen.

We provide the supplies, you bring the creativity! A variety of materials will be available for you to explore and create. Recommended for ages 4-12.

Explore your thoughts and stresses through the creative process to discover problem-solving skills and solutions. Relax with a guided visualization and complete 2-3 drawings followed by discussion. No art experience required or necessary!