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Once Upon a Hue: Story Time

Once Upon a Hue: Family Story Time

Thursday, July 3, 2025 at 1:30pm - 2:15pm
Yorktown Youth Programs Room at Yorktown Library

Age Group:

Children, Infants - Preschool, Elementary, Families

Event Details:

Color Our World through stories, songs, and crafts at this story time. Let us brighten your day with vibrant imagination, new friends, and lively learning.

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Library Branch: Yorktown Library
Room: Yorktown Youth Programs Room
Age Group: Children, Infants - Preschool, Elementary, Families
Program Type: Story Time
Registration Required
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Color Our World through stories, songs, and crafts at this story time. Let us brighten your day with vibrant imagination, new friends, and lively learning.

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Jane Austen Book Club: Sense & Sensibility

Thursday, July 3, 2025 at 6:30pm - 7:30pm
Yorktown Conference Room at Yorktown Library

Age Group:

Adults

Event Details:

Let’s celebrate Jane Austen’s 250th birthday this December by reading (or re-reading!) her work. From July-December 2025, we will meet monthly at the Yorktown Library to discuss on...

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Library Branch: Yorktown Library
Room: Yorktown Conference Room
Age Group: Adults
Program Type: Book Club
Registration Required
Event Details:

Let’s celebrate Jane Austen’s 250th birthday this December by reading (or re-reading!) her work. From July-December 2025, we will meet monthly at the Yorktown Library to discuss one of her beloved novels.

Fine Motor Fun

Fine Motor Fun

Monday, July 7, 2025 at 10:30am - 12:00pm
Tabb Meeting Room at Tabb Library

Age Group:

Children, Infants - Preschool

Event Details:

Fine Motor Fun is a program combining literacy and fine motor skill workouts. Activities will range from balancing, matching, sorting, to tactile sensory fun! Children can make fri...

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Library Branch: Tabb Library
Room: Tabb Meeting Room
Age Group: Children, Infants - Preschool
Program Type: Other
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Fine Motor Fun is a program combining literacy and fine motor skill workouts. Activities will range from balancing, matching, sorting, to tactile sensory fun!

Bubble Art

Bubble Art

Tuesday, July 8, 2025 at 10:30am - 11:15am
Yorktown Patio at Yorktown Library

Age Group:

Children, Infants - Preschool, Elementary, Families

Art, Crafts, and DIY:

Event Details:

Adventurers are welcome to come and participate in our Bubble Art Party. There will be a variety of bubble themed activities for the whole family to enjoy!

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Library Branch: Yorktown Library
Room: Yorktown Patio
Age Group: Children, Infants - Preschool, Elementary, Families
Program Type: Art, Fun & Games
Event Details:

Adventurers are welcome to come and participate in our Bubble Art Party. There will be a variety of bubble themed activities for the whole family to enjoy!

Rob Westcott Magic

Magician Rob Westcott

Thursday, July 10, 2025 at 2:30pm - 3:30pm
Tabb Meeting Room at Tabb Library

Age Group:

Children, Infants - Preschool, Elementary, Families, Middle & High School

Event Details:

Rob Westcott is an award-winning professional comedy magician who has performed thousands of shows for children and adults at parties, schools, libraries, festivals, military and c...

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Library Branch: Tabb Library
Room: Tabb Meeting Room
Age Group: Children, Infants - Preschool, Elementary, Families, Middle & High School
Program Type: Fun & Games, Movies & Entertainment, Other
Event Details:

Rob Westcott is an award-winning professional comedy magician who has performed thousands of shows for children and adults at parties, schools, libraries, festivals, military and corporate events. The magic is fun, fast-paced and amazing.

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Shopping and Travel Safety

Thursday, July 10, 2025 at 6:00pm - 7:30pm
Yorktown Meeting Room at Yorktown Library

Age Group:

Adults

Event Details:

Join Deputy Kevin Taylor from the York-Poquoson Sheriff's Office for an educational program on shopping safety and travel safety.  The class will go into great detail identify...

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Library Branch: Yorktown Library
Room: Yorktown Meeting Room
Age Group: Adults
Event Details:

Join Deputy Kevin Taylor from the York-Poquoson Sheriff's Office for an educational program on shopping safety and travel safety.  The class will go into great detail identifying the hiding risk around shopping and travel at different time of

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Green Thumbs

Friday, July 11, 2025 at 11:30am - 12:30pm
Yorktown Youth Programs Room at Yorktown Library

Age Group:

Children, Elementary

Event Details:

Calling all budding (elementary) gardeners! In this program, we will learn how to grow and care for a variety of flowers and plants. Not only will you be able to help care for the ...

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Library Branch: Yorktown Library
Room: Yorktown Youth Programs Room
Age Group: Children, Elementary
Program Type: Gardening & Nature
Registration Required
Event Details:

Calling all budding (elementary) gardeners! In this program, we will learn how to grow and care for a variety of flowers and plants.

Summer Birthday Celebration

Summer Birthday Celebration

Saturday, July 12, 2025 at 10:15am - 11:30am
Tabb Meeting Room at Tabb Library

Age Group:

Children, Infants - Preschool, Elementary, Families

Youth Programs:

Event Details:

This will be a fun celebration for those forgotten summer birthdays. We will party at the library with a story, décor, music, and crafts. It will be a library birthday to remember!...

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Library Branch: Tabb Library
Room: Tabb Meeting Room
Age Group: Children, Infants - Preschool, Elementary, Families
Program Type: Crafts, Fun & Games, Story Time
Registration Required
Event Details:

This will be a fun celebration for those forgotten summer birthdays. We will party at the library with a story, décor, music, and crafts. It will be a library birthday to remember! 

Masterpieces & Mayhem

Masterpieces & Mayhem

Saturday, July 12, 2025 at 5:30pm - 7:30pm
Yorktown Meeting Room at Yorktown Library

Age Group:

Adults

Event Details:

Masterpieces & Mayhem: a library mystery eventThe Beaumont Museum of Fine Art and Antiquities is hosting a gala on July 12, 2025 to unveil a new exhibit on French artists. This...

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Library Branch: Yorktown Library
Room: Yorktown Meeting Room
Age Group: Adults
Registration Required
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Masterpieces & Mayhem: a library mystery event

Pictures of the front covers of Debra Kempf Shumaker's books Freaky Funky Fish and Peculiar Primates with the date June 14th.

Story Time with Author Debra Kempf Shumaker

Monday, July 14, 2025 at 10:30am - 11:15am
Yorktown Meeting Room at Yorktown Library

Age Group:

Infants - Preschool, Families

Event Details:

Join author Debra Kempf Shumaker as she reads her rhyming nonfiction picture books PECULIAR PRIMATES and FREAKY, FUNKY FISH, gets kids moving, and sings some silly songs. For ...

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Library Branch: Yorktown Library
Room: Yorktown Meeting Room
Age Group: Infants - Preschool, Families
Program Type: Author Event, STEM, Story Time
Event Details:

Join author Debra Kempf Shumaker as she reads her rhyming nonfiction picture books PECULIAR PRIMATES and FREAKY, FUNKY FISH, gets kids moving, and sings some silly songs.

 

For Families, no registration required.

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LEGO Club

3:30pm–5:30pm
Children, Infants - Preschool, Elementary
Tabb Meeting Room
Library Branch: Tabb Library
Room: Tabb Meeting Room
Age Group: Children, Infants - Preschool, Elementary
Program Type: Fun & Games, STEM
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What can you build? Stop by to build and create with us! 

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Accompanying Adults

This program is designed for children and accompanying adults. Please plan to attend and be engaged with your child for this program. Drop-offs will not be permitted.

Story Time with Author Debra Kempf Shumaker

10:30am–11:15am
Infants - Preschool, Families
Yorktown Meeting Room
Library Branch: Yorktown Library
Room: Yorktown Meeting Room
Age Group: Infants - Preschool, Families
Program Type: Author Event, STEM, Story Time
Event Details:

Join author Debra Kempf Shumaker as she reads her rhyming nonfiction picture books PECULIAR PRIMATES and FREAKY, FUNKY FISH, gets kids moving, and sings some silly songs.

 

For Families, no registration required.

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Accompanying Adults

This program is designed for children and accompanying adults. Please plan to attend and be engaged with your child for this program. Drop-offs will not be permitted.

Elementary Animal Adaptations with Author Debra Kempf Shumaker

11:30am–12:30pm
Elementary
Yorktown Meeting Room
Library Branch: Yorktown Library
Room: Yorktown Meeting Room
Age Group: Elementary
Program Type: Author Event, STEM
Event Details:

Join author Debra Kempf Shumaker for an interactive reading of her STEM-themed picture book Freaky Funky Fish. Kids will learn some amazing and weird facts about fish adaptations, followed by an adaptation activity.

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Accompanying Adults

This program is designed for children and accompanying adults. Please plan to attend and be engaged with your child for this program. Drop-offs will not be permitted.

Mad Science

10:15am–11:30am
Children, Infants - Preschool, Elementary, Families, Middle & High School
Tabb Meeting Room
Library Branch: Tabb Library
Room: Tabb Meeting Room
Age Group: Children, Infants - Preschool, Elementary, Families, Middle & High School
Program Type: Concerts & Performances, STEM
Event Details:

This spectacular show thrills audiences as they discover the difference between magic and science.

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Accompanying Adults

This program is designed for children and accompanying adults. Please plan to attend and be engaged with your child for this program. Drop-offs will not be permitted.

Intro to 3D Printing

3:30pm–5:00pm
Middle & High School
Yorktown Technology Room
Upcoming
Registration Required
Library Branch: Yorktown Library
Room: Yorktown Technology Room
Age Group: Middle & High School
Program Type: STEM, Technology, Makerspace
Registration Required
Event Details:

Have you ever wanted to learn how to 3D print? Well, now is your chance! In this Intro to 3D Printing class, you will learn the basics of creating your own 3D model, which you can then use to print on one of the library's 3D printers.

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Teen Permission Form

Teens and their parent or guardian must have a completed a Teen Program Permission Form on file to participate in this program. 

Mad Science

10:15am–11:30am
Children, Infants - Preschool, Elementary, Families, Middle & High School
Yorktown Meeting Room
Library Branch: Yorktown Library
Room: Yorktown Meeting Room
Age Group: Children, Infants - Preschool, Elementary, Families, Middle & High School
Program Type: Concerts & Performances, STEM
Event Details:

Kids will get tuned-in to learning with exciting demonstrations focused on sound, including the singing pipe, the surprisingly loud Dinosaur-in-a-can, and a kid-created thunderstorm!

Disclaimer(s)

Accompanying Adults

This program is designed for children and accompanying adults. Please plan to attend and be engaged with your child for this program. Drop-offs will not be permitted.

Sunscreen Painting

2:00pm–3:00pm
Children, Infants - Preschool, Elementary, Families
Tabb Youth Services
Library Branch: Tabb Library
Room: Tabb Youth Services
Age Group: Children, Infants - Preschool, Elementary, Families
Program Type: Art, STEM
Event Details:

This quick STEAM themed program will give kids a visual understanding of the benefits of sunscreen. We will paint with sunscreen and see the protective barrier it leaves on the paper.

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Accompanying Adults

This program is designed for children and accompanying adults. Please plan to attend and be engaged with your child for this program. Drop-offs will not be permitted.

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Note: This activity may get you a little messy, so wear clothes that you don't mind getting dirty.