Weekly Kids Play Date
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Join us for a special uninterrupted playtime with your child and meet other caregivers. Discover how play and learning go hand-in-hand. (ages 0-5). Supported by the Friends of the Burke Library.
Join us for a special uninterrupted playtime with your child and meet other caregivers. Discover how play and learning go hand-in-hand. (ages 0-5). Supported by the Friends of the Burke Library.
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Uninterrupted playtime for children, caregivers meeting and exploring play‑learning connections, supported by the Friends of the Burke Library at Ellen Coolidge Burke Branch Library, for ages 3–12.
Uninterrupted playtime for children, caregivers meeting and exploring play‑learning connections, supported by the Friends of the Burke Library at Ellen Coolidge Burke Branch Library, for ages 3–12.
Uninterrupted playtime for children, caregivers meeting and exploring play‑learning connections, supported by the Friends of the Burke Library at Ellen Coolidge Burke Branch Library, for ages 3–12.
Uninterrupted playtime for children, caregivers meeting and exploring play‑learning connections, supported by the Friends of the Burke Library at Ellen Coolidge Burke Branch Library, for ages 3–12.
Storytelling, music, and movement activities at Ellen Coolidge Burke Branch Library, with supplies provided by the Friends of the Burke Library, for ages 3–12.
Stories, music, and movement designed for toddlers in the Sherwood Meeting Room, Alexandria, registration required, for ages 18–35 months.
Unstructured outdoor playtime in the Reading Garden with supplied toys; tickets available at the Children’s Desk, handed out starting at 10:30, for ages 3–12.
Songs, games, movement activities and bubbles fill the Kate Waller Barrett Branch Library for ages 0–23 months.
Stories, songs, and movement fill the library’s outdoor Reading Garden; yoga mats provide seating and tickets are given at the Children’s Desk, for ages 0‑5 with an adult.
Mark Groves discusses his book Liberated Love, covering codependency, boundary setting, emotional safety, and relationship transformation in a virtual talk for ages 18 and up.
Hands‑on building challenges let participants design, test, and create simple engineering projects in John Marshall Library meeting rooms for ages 5–10.
Story and song lapsit session for babies and caregivers in the Martha Washington Library meeting room, for ages birth to 17 months with adult, ages 3 and under.
Stories, songs, movement, and early literacy activities for preschoolers at Sherwood Regional Library’s Sherwood Meeting Room, for ages 3–5.
Make bracelets and necklaces while meeting new friends at the Charles E. Beatley Jr. Central Library, Alexandria, for ages 3–12.
At James M. Duncan Jr. Branch Library, DM John leads a dino DnD adventure across rival kingdoms, uncovering a secret; registration required, ages 13–18.
Storytelling Spooktacular at Charles E. Beatley Jr. Central Library offers gentle spooky tales early, followed by spine‑tingling stories later, all ages.