Week Calendar

Use 1 of 5 Brother sewing machines on Your Own Project. Must Know How to Sew.  Machines Available on first come first serve basis.

Join us for stories, songs and rhymes, fun activities, and a craft. Best for ages 0-5, but the whole family is welcome!

Join Miss Taylor for Arts & Crafts Storytime! Featuring a special craft each month this storytime fosters creativity, engages learning, and creates special bonds between children and their caretakers.

Join us at the Fruitville Library with your knit/crochet projects. All ages and skills are welcome. Supplies and knowledgeable members are on hand to help anyone interested in learning to knit or crochet. 

Come and socialize with fellow knitting, crocheting and sewing enthusiasts! All levels welcome. Bring your current project to work on.

For ages 2-5. Join us for story time filled with a variety of early literacy activities that include music, stories, movement, crafts and school readiness. 

Come one Come all and Join us for a fun and exciting Storytime and Craft.  A special guest from The Ringling Museum and Art will read an exciting book that will be connected back to a special feature at the museum and followed by an fun craft

Join Carolyn Robinette to create a crossbody canvas bag, perfect to carry your phone and other essentials or to give as a gift!

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

Stroll through our Reading Garden with your little one as YOU become the storyteller. Enjoy a different book the first Saturday of every month!

In case of rain, Story Trail will be set up in the Kids' Zone.

Join us for an enjoyable craft session in the Veranda Room at the North Port Public Library! It will be a fun time of learning and building new crafting skills.

This free storytime program engages toddlers, preschoolers, and primary school students in activities that connect art and early literacy. Join us for a story and accompanying art activity based on a work of art in the museum collection.

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

Homeschool Meetup

Learn to sew a bowl cozy - perfectly designed to keep you hands comfortable when holding hot soup or relaxing with a cold dish of ice cream.

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!

Are you curious about our Creation Station? Join us for Open Lab, where library patrons can explore and experiment with a variety of tools and equipment such as Osmo technology, robots, button makers, and more. 

LAST Stop is a drop-in program designed for teens in 6th through 12th grade to participate in fun activities, talk with friends, have snacks, and play games.

LAST Stop is a drop-in program designed for teens in 6th through 12th grade to participate in fun activities, talk with friends, have snacks, and play games.

Get ready to become an engineer as we use a tool called a Chompsaw, a safe, easy-to-use cutting device, to design and build your very own buildings entirely out of cardboard.

We're back with Session #9! If you weren't at our last sessions, don't worry! Everyone starts somewhere. ✨

If you were with us before, continue meeting your goals and designing more pages with us. 

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LAST Stop is a drop-in program designed for teens in 6th through 12th grade to participate in fun activities, talk with friends, have snacks, and play games.

LAST Stop is a drop-in program designed for teens in 6th through 12th grade to participate in fun activities, talk with friends, have snacks, and play games.

A different project every week!

Recommended for ages 6 and up.

Meet the Marvel artist behind various comics such as Thor, X-Men, Wolverine, and more! Join Jerry DeCaire as he showcases his art process and conducts an art demonstration. 

In the Teen Center, watch anime and discuss your favorite characters. Explore anime-inspired crafts. Ages 9-18 are welcome!

Come paint seashells using liquid watercolors. 

Embellish a box by sculpting paper clay creatures and objects onto the surface. Register for part 2, painting your box, on September 11; and register for part 3, adding feet to your box and finishing touches, on September 25.

This felting craft will give teens two options - to make a felt succulent or to make a felt succulent that looks like a funky monster cactus!

Join other fiber arts enthusiasts on Wednesdays from 5 to 7:30 p.m. in the Selby Rotunda. Bring your crochet, spinning, knitting, or any needle work you enjoy. 

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