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Please join us for a little music on a Sunday afternoon for Songs from Shakespeare's Plays!
Come see our new temporary exhibit that shines light into the shadow of Abraham Lincoln’s legacy, where his son Robert carried the weight protecting his father’s memory.
Rhymes, songs, bounces, and books just right for your little one. Designed for children from birth to 18 months and their caregivers.
Wiggle, rhyme, read, and sing in this active storytime designed for children 18 months to 3 years and their caregivers.
Experience the brain-building power of loose parts! Curated everyday items take on all new significance when kids orchestrate their own play.
Become tuneful, artful babies and toddlers! Play and sing together, helping your child to build skills while exploring the expressive quality of music.
Grades 7-12: Hang out and meet other neurodiverse teens during this inclusive and sensory-friendly program. Each month will have a different activity!
Discover how leaves absorb and carry water and other nutrients via a process called capillary action.
Go beyond the basics of learning to operate your machine! Practice using your Cricut Maker 3 to create personalized paper maps!
Create your own fall luminaria to brighten up a gloomy day!
Come see our new temporary exhibit that shines light into the shadow of Abraham Lincoln’s legacy, where his son Robert carried the weight protecting his father’s memory.
Get ready to build, color, create, and play with different activities!
Stretch, sing, dance, and jump along in this fast-paced storytime perfect for active young children
Enjoy a playful storytime that uses the Kimochis characters to help children explore feelings and friendship.
Become tuneful, artful babies and toddlers! Play and sing together, helping your child to build singing, vocabulary and movement skills while exploring the expressive quality of music.
Children learn naturally when they read, sing, write, talk and play! This storytime combines books, songs, rhymes and fun for all ages and stages.
Become tuneful, artful preschoolers! Play and sing together, helping your child to build singing, vocabulary and movement skills while exploring the expressive qualities in music.
Join us to celebrate Native American Heritage Month by learning to make sunflower bracelets!
Join us for a FREE, virtual program on Tuesday, November 10th at 2:30 PM ET!
HSE (formerly GED) classes are being offered at the Allen County Public Library Grabill Branch.
Studio Hours at the Pontiac Branch!
Grades 7-12: Learn about light and dark values in art and create a painting using different concentrations of coffee.
Grades 7-12: You are trapped! Can you solve the puzzles and ciphers to escape? Join us at the library and play an escape game!
Learn basic embroidery skills to create your own personalized bookmark!
Come see our new temporary exhibit that shines light into the shadow of Abraham Lincoln’s legacy, where his son Robert carried the weight protecting his father’s memory.
Children learn naturally when they read, sing, write, talk and play! This storytime combines books, songs, rhymes and fun for all ages and stages.
Become tuneful, artful preschoolers! Play and sing together, helping your child to build singing, vocabulary and movement skills while exploring the expressive qualities in music.
Get ready to build, color, create, and play with different activities!
Rhymes, songs, bounces, and books just right for your little one. Designed for children from birth to 18 months and their caregivers.
Storytime at the park is the perfect combination of stories, fun, and learning.
Bring your preschooler for a nature themed story time. Our naturalist & a librarian from the Grabill Library will be here to read books, lead songs & go on a hike! COST: FREE!
Join us as we use art to express emotions, practice mindfulness, and learn resilience.
Create beautiful art using watercolor paint and spray bottles!
Open Studio Hours for the Studio at Hessen Cassel!
Have thoughtful discussions about amazing novels with other tweens and experience a variety of literary genres
Grades 7-12: Chat and connect with other teens while creating temporary body art!
Grades 7-12: Learn about the history and purpose of charm bracelets, then create your own.
Calling all builders! See where your imagination takes you when you create on our theme or choose to free build.
Grades 7-12: Ever wondered what junk journaling is?
Learn how to use the button maker! We will use the button maker to create magnetic bottle openers using fabric for the design.
Practice your reading with a trained and certified therapy dog!
Come see our new temporary exhibit that shines light into the shadow of Abraham Lincoln’s legacy, where his son Robert carried the weight protecting his father’s memory.
Step into the shoes of a field scientists and discover a hidden world invisible to the naked eye! In this hands-on workshop students will master the fundamentals of compound microscopes -- learning the parts, proper focusing techniques & specimen handling. Everyone will earn an official Metea Park Microscope License to take home! $40 (covers all three sessions, supplies and the microscope license!) Space is limited -- only 15 spots available!
Come see what you can build. We will have blocks and other building toys for young architects, designers, and builders to design the structure of their dreams.
Rhymes, songs, bounces, and books just right for your little one. Designed for children from birth to 18 months and their caregivers.
Become tuneful, artful babies and toddlers! Play and sing together, helping your child to build singing, vocabulary and movement skills while exploring the expressive quality of music.
Learn basic embroidery skills to create your own personalized bookmark!
Wiggle, rhyme, read, and sing in this active storytime designed for children 18 months to 3 years and their caregivers.
Grades 7-12: Join us for in-person Dungeons & Dragons. The number of attendees is limited so please register in advance.
Grades 7-12: Use rubber linoleum blocks, linoleum cutters, and pencils to create personalized stamps for printing.
Join us to celebrate Native American Heritage Month by learning to make sunflower bracelets!
Phonics is fun! Just come and see…and hear…and read.
Practice your reading with a trained and certified therapy dog!
HSE (formerly GED) classes are being offered at the Allen County Public Library Grabill Branch.
Learn the basics of electric cutting, by creating a personalized greeting card on a Cricut Maker 3 electric cutting machine!
Learn how to operate and design on the Glowforge Laer printer, by crafting your own glow-in-the-dark earrings!
Come see our new temporary exhibit that shines light into the shadow of Abraham Lincoln’s legacy, where his son Robert carried the weight protecting his father’s memory.
Wiggle, rhyme, read, and sing in this active storytime designed for children 18 months to 3 years and their caregivers.
Children learn naturally when they read, sing, write, talk and play! This storytime combines books, songs, rhymes and fun for all ages and stages.
Help your young child build early STEM skills with fun activities you can do together.
Join us for an opportunity to practice your German skills! Schließen Sie sich uns an, um Ihre Deutschkenntnisse zu üben!
Grades 7-12: Want to make art that really lights up a space? Make art using circuitry!
We have added over 300,000 new lights to make your Wild Lights experience even brighter! Under the glow over over one million lights, you can enjoy a dance party and nightly tree-lighting hosted by Santa’s elves, toast s’mores, ride the Z. O. & O Railroad, and decorate sugar cookies with festive favorites! Ticketing Information Fort … Continued
Come see our new temporary exhibit that shines light into the shadow of Abraham Lincoln’s legacy, where his son Robert carried the weight protecting his father’s memory.
Stretch, sing, dance, and jump along in this fast-paced storytime perfect for active young children.
Hours for the Studio at Shawnee!
Try out our advanced electric cutting machine! Learn how to use the Studio's Silhouette and Silhouette Studio software to create a paper craft camper van!
Join us to celebrate Native American Heritage Month by learning to make sunflower bracelets!
Come see what you can build. We will have blocks and other building toys for young architects, designers, and builders to design the structure of their dreams.
Same-day applications and adoptions with Fort Wayne Animal Care and Control at your local library branch.
Put your engineering skills to the test and build a boat that floats!
Grades 7-12: Want to make new friends, earn volunteer hours and make an impact on our community? Join the Teen Advisory Board!
Join us for the opening reception of the Fort Wayne Artists Guild Holiday Show in the Jeffrey R. Krull Gallery at the Main Library.
Take in the beauty of the changing season on a scenic hike through the tall trees and colorful trails of the Fawn River area. After enjoying the fall scenery and ...
Come see our new temporary exhibit that shines light into the shadow of Abraham Lincoln’s legacy, where his son Robert carried the weight protecting his father’s memory.
Experience the practice of forest bathing with certified guide Christy Knecht, who will lead you through mindful exercises designed to deepen your connection with nature. Leave feeling refreshed, grounded and ...
Talk, Read, Write, Sing, Play with your child through fun and hands-on early literacy activities.
Come see our new temporary exhibit that shines light into the shadow of Abraham Lincoln’s legacy, where his son Robert carried the weight protecting his father’s memory.
Rhymes, songs, bounces, and books just right for your little one. Designed for children from birth to 18 months and their caregivers.
Wiggle, rhyme, read, and sing in this active storytime designed for children 18 months to 3 years and their caregivers.
Grades 7-12: Ever wondered what junk journaling is?
Grades 7-12: Learn about the history and purpose of charm bracelets, then create your own.
Hours for the Studio at Shawnee!
Fort Wayne is Indiana's second city, where three rivers meet, and the Fort Wayne Children's Zoo is regularly ranked among the country's best for its size. Science Central, in the old power plant, the Botanical Conservatory and Promenade Park on the riverfront are the other family staples. The Allen County Public Library holds the largest genealogy collection of any public library in the country.
Holiday events for kids in Fort Wayne, 2026: tree lightings, light displays, Santa visits and gingerbread workshops, day by day.
93 children’s events are on in Fort Wayne in the next seven days, read every night from the calendars of Allen County Public Library (18 branches, 1,105 upcoming programmes), plus Fox Island County Park, Science Central, Bicentennial Woods - ACRES Land Trust, Fort Wayne Zoo and The Reef. Library programmes are free. Museum and zoo events say “admission may apply”; check the venue for prices.
The same calendars serve Grabill, Huntertown, Monroeville, New Haven and Woodburn, so searching any of those names finds the same events.
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Each library and venue calendar is re-read every night, so a cancelled storytime disappears within a day. Times are shown in Fort Wayne’s own time zone.
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