Explore Library Events
Grab your passport to Spring Break this week! Get your passport stamped for every program you participate in for a chance to win prizes while having fun.
Each day we will have a craft station set up for you to come in during regular Library hours to create on your own time.
Monday:
- 1PM Robots & Games
- 3PM Teen Resin Jewelry Making
- Craft Station: Jewelry Making
Tuesday:
- Noon Board Games
- 3:30PM Kids Dungeons & Dragons
- Craft Station: Origami
Wednesday:
- 10:30AM Story Time!
- 1PM Kids Art
- Craft Station: Paper Lanterns
Thursday:
- 10AM 3yo-Kindergarten Homeschool (Everyone welcome, even if you don’t homeschool)
- 11:30AM 1st grade & Up (Everyone welcome, even if you don’t homeschool)
- 4PM Legos
- Craft Station: Foam Rainbows!
Friday:
- 1PM SLIME TIME!
- 4PM Movie & Craft: Watch Moana and make Kakamoras!
- Craft Station: Slithering Caterpillars
Saturday:
- 10:30AM Special Story Time on Space!
- 3:30PM Learn about the Solar Eclipse that is happening on April 8th
- Craft Station: Macaroni Jewelry
Self-expression through art is an important part of human nature. You don’t have to be in art school, or create marble sculptures, or create realistic paintings to be an artist. Whatever you create is an extension of you, and it is beautiful in that regard.
Join us on Tuesdays from 9:30 to 11:30 AM to let your creativity shine! In this class we will explore different mediums such as sketch, paint, multimedia and more!
- Keeps dementia at bay.
- Decreases possibility of depression.
- Improves hand-eye coordination.
- Trains concentration and pattern recognition.
- Helps benefit short-term memory
Adult Crafts is moving to Tuesdays! Every other Tuesday at 1 PM join in on the crazy crafty fun!
Kid’s D&D is moving to Tuesdays, 3:30 PM, after school!
Level up your gaming experience by taking on the role of a mighty hero in the world’s most popular fantasy role-playing game, Dungeons and Dragons
Teens, level up your gaming experience by taking on the role of a mighty hero in the world’s most popular fantasy role-playing game, Dungeons and Dragons! We meet in the Activity Center Wednesdays, after school, at 3 PM.
Grab your characters and join us for our new Dungeons and Dragons campaign on Wednesdays at 5 PM!
The homeschool group has been growing and we are splitting groups to accommodate everyone. We will still meet on Thursdays with Kindergarten & under group meeting from 10 AM-11 AM and the 1st grade and up group will meet from 11:30 AM-12:30 PM. There will be different themed activities for both learning and fun!
The homeschool group has been growing and we are splitting groups to accommodate everyone. We will still meet on Thursdays with Kindergarten & under group meeting from 10 AM-11 AM and the 1st grade and up group will meet from 11:30 AM-12:30 PM. There will be different themed activities for both learning and fun!
Fun with Legos! Thursdays from 4 PM to 5 PM in the Activity Center.
Spanish class has moved from Wednesdays to Thursdays! Still at 6 PM, this community led program teaches the basics of Spanish at the Marathon Branch of the Monroe County Public Library. To register email retomarathon@gmail.com
Would you like to learn more about your camera, or camera phone, and how it works? Are your pictures underexposed, overexposed, out of focus, poorly composed, or just plain old dull, and boring? If you answered yes to any of these questions join us on Friday mornings from 11 AM till 1 PM in the Activity Center to learn how to take better pictures and do fun assignments! Not only will you learn how to take better pictures, but you can also reap the benefits of photography.
Top Benefits of Photography
- Photography is a form of self-care.
- Photography improves a person’s well-being through community interaction.
- It also improves well-being through the potential for reminiscence.
- Helps to find beauty in our world.
- Enhances memory and keeps your brain healthy.
- Gets you outdoors and makes you exercise.
- Photography makes you enjoy what you are doing more.
- Photography can help people who are struggling with depression.
- Stimulates and improves your creativity.
Join us at 4 PM Friday, February 9th, in the Activity Center for our kids & teen crafts. Each week we will do a different craft or activity!
Join us for stories, songs and activities for children ages 2-5 and their caregivers.
Saturdays at 10:30 AM Children’s Area
2nd Floor
Join us on March 23rd at 2PM. We will have a NASA Solar system Ambassador and a representative from the Florida Keys Astronomy Club come visit us to talk about Eclipses and how to view them safely. There will be activities, demonstrations, and some telescopes to look at the sun!
This will be great information to prepare you for the Solar eclipse on April 8th. Glasses for that eclipse will be handed out at the end of the program. We do have a limited supply and will give out one per family while supplies last.
3D Printing is back after a short break!
Mondays from 10AM until Noon come in to learn about 3D printing.
- Meaningful social interaction
- Strengthening communication and teamwork skills
- Maintaining mental sharpness
- Boosting immunity to ward off illness
- Improving test scores
- Delaying the onset of Alzheimer’s and other forms of dementia
- Being an inexpensive form of entertainment
- Being a career path
- Being good clean fun
Teen Connect is now Teen Crafts! Come in on Mondays at 3 PM for an afternoon of fun crafting with friends.
February 5 – Resin Jewelry
February 12 – Clay Beads
February 26 -Key Chains
Self-expression through art is an important part of human nature. You don’t have to be in art school, or create marble sculptures, or create realistic paintings to be an artist. Whatever you create is an extension of you, and it is beautiful in that regard.
Join us on Tuesdays from 9:30 to 11:30 AM to let your creativity shine! In this class we will explore different mediums such as sketch, paint, multimedia and more!
- Keeps dementia at bay.
- Decreases possibility of depression.
- Improves hand-eye coordination.
- Trains concentration and pattern recognition.
- Helps benefit short-term memory
Kid’s D&D is moving to Tuesdays, 3:30 PM, after school!
Level up your gaming experience by taking on the role of a mighty hero in the world’s most popular fantasy role-playing game, Dungeons and Dragons
The last Tuesdays of the month at 5:30 PM is your opportunity to create RPG characters with the help of our resident GM! Use these new characters in one of our ongoing games or use them in one of your own campaigns.