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Discover, create, and play! Unleash your creativity and dive into a new adventure each week with activities inspired by STEM, arts and crafts, gaming, and more.
Discover, create, and play! Unleash your creativity and dive into a new adventure each week with activities inspired by STEM, arts and crafts, gaming, and more.
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Weekly Maker Lab at Parklands‑Turner Neighborhood Library offers STEM‑inspired projects, arts and crafts, and gaming activities for ages 5–12.
Weekly Maker Lab at Parklands‑Turner Neighborhood Library offers STEM‑inspired projects, arts and crafts, and gaming activities for ages 5–12.
Weekly Maker Lab at Parklands‑Turner Neighborhood Library offers STEM‑inspired projects, arts and crafts, and gaming activities for ages 5–12.
Portrait Gallery Kids (Portrait Gallery Education Center, E151) — Hands‑on art activities, music and story times with educators each Monday, for ages 3–13.
Knitting and crocheting circle meets in the Parklands‑Turner Library space, offering an hour of yarn crafting, conversation, and tip‑sharing for all skill levels, ages 18 and up.
Bessie Coleman’s journey is narrated, then participants make banners celebrating hopes, at the Steven F. Udvar‑Hazy Center.
Two-hour Cricut and heat press reservation at Southwest Neighborhood Library STEAM Lab for personal projects, for ages 13–19 and 55 and up.
Hands‑on art‑making projects at Moonshot Studio, The REACH, Kennedy Center, celebrate creativity, for all ages.
Techy Tuesdays (Martin Luther King Jr. Memorial Library) — Two‑hour clinic teaching Chromebook, cellphone, tablet, laptop, Kindle functionality on 12 workstations, BYOD, limited to 12 participants, 18+.
Lego free‑play sessions let builders craft dream houses or flying machines in the Georgetown Neighborhood Library children’s room, lower level, ages 5–12.
Comics and zine creators meet in Labs at Martin Luther King Jr. Memorial Library’s A Level to discuss, trade, and work on projects, for ages 18 and up.
Stunning virtual reality takes visitors to 1776, showing Patriots coordinating to thwart a British invasion at the American History Museum.
Collage exercises evolve into 3D assemblages, ending with handmade earrings, necklaces, and bracelets at Washington Printmakers Gallery.
Rotating teen activities like video games, origami, crafts, and special presenters at Tenley‑Friendship Neighborhood Library, ages 13–19.
Three rounds of changing-category trivia in the Alma Thomas Teen Space, with team or solo play and a prize for the winner, ages 13–19.