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Create a fall wind chime.
Tell us what you are thankful for!
Children's Monthly Craft Program
Children of All Ages
Join us for a fun story time!
Create a fall leaf suncatcher!
Join us and celebrate your favorite stories!
Doodle on a sticky note!
Children of All Ages
Ages 2 to 3 years old
Join us for a "beary" fun time!
Regular Stop
Paint with us!
Tell us what you are thankful for!
Children's Monthly Craft Program
Children of All Ages
Ages 6 to 24 months, walkers, and pre-walkers
Doodle on a sticky note!
Join us for a "beary" fun time!
Ages 6 month through preschool
Children of All Ages
Ages 6 to 24 months, walkers, and pre-walkers
Create your own junk journal!
Create a fall suncatcher.
Children's Monthly Craft Program
Doodle on a sticky note!
Tell us what you are thankful for!
Children's Monthly Craft Program
Children's Monthly Pre-K Program
Doodle on a sticky note!
Tell us what you are thankful for!
Children's Monthly Craft Program
Children's Monthly Story and Movement
Join us for a "beary" fun time!
Decorate your turkey day float!
Children create and decorate a holiday centerpiece with Kingwood’s Education staff using live greens. Bring personal pruners and gardening gloves if preferred. Registration includes admission and materials for one adult and up to two children to create one centerpiece together. Non-member $35 Member $28 Registration includes admission for up to two children and one accompanying...
The Mansfield Symphony Youth Strings (MSYS) program provides young musicians with valuable ensemble experience while nurturing their musical growth and passion for performance. Comprised of talented student musicians, MSYS performs a dynamic repertoire of classical and contemporary works while developing important skills in collaboration, technique, and musicianship. As part of the Mansfield Symphony’s education initiative,...
Doodle on a sticky note!
Children of All Ages
Stop in for a fun craft!
Snacks & Relax
Compete in Turkey challenges!
Create a junk journal!
Join us for a F.N.A.F carnival!
Tell us what you are thankful for!
Children's Monthly Craft Program
Children's Monthly Craft Program
Children of All Ages
Ages 2 to 3 years old
Join us for a family book club!
Doodle on a sticky note!
Stop by the Main Library for your Christmas photos!
Children of All Ages
Ages 6 to 24 months, walkers, and pre-walkers
Regular Stop
Come hang out with your friends or make new ones!
Create a diamond turkey!
Come to the library with the family and play some games!
Tell us what you are thankful for!
Mansfield is the town where The Shawshank Redemption was filmed at the Ohio State Reformatory, now a museum. Kingwood Center Gardens, the Richland Carrousel Park downtown, one of the first hand-carved carousels built in the US since the 1930s, and Malabar Farm are the family fixtures. Mansfield/Richland County Public Library serves the county.
Holiday events for kids in Mansfield, 2026: tree lightings, light displays, Santa visits and gingerbread workshops, day by day.
69 children’s events are on in Mansfield in the next seven days, read every night from the calendars of Mansfield/Richland County Public Library (12 branches, 223 upcoming programmes), plus Renaissance Theatre and Kingwood Center Gardens. Library programmes are free. Museum and zoo events say “admission may apply”; check the venue for prices.
The same calendars serve Bellville and Butler, so searching any of those names finds the same events.
39 places to collect. Tap “I'm here” when you're at one and the stamp goes in your book; collect 5 and print the certificate.
Stamps live on your phone. Open your passport to see them all, print the certificate, or save them to your email.
Yes and no. Every event, time, address and link is open to anyone. An account only lets you save outings you plan to go to.
Each library and venue calendar is re-read every night, so a cancelled storytime disappears within a day. Times are shown in Mansfield’s own time zone.
Babies and toddlers, preschoolers, early grades, tweens and teens. Pick an age range above to narrow the list; leave them all off to see everything.
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