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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.
Magnetic Tile Monday at Northwest One Neighborhood Library offers open play with colorful Magna‑Tiles for ages 0–12, providing all materials for building and creativity.
Fall-themed crafts offered in the Children’s Room, with limited supplies on a first‑come, first‑served basis, for ages 5–12.
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.
Rabbi Jenna leads a text study and open art session exploring Jewish spirituality, with supplies provided, at Sacred Studio, Sixth & I, Washington, DC.
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.
Neurographic art workshop at Washington Printmakers Gallery guides participants through mindful line, shape, and color exercises for self‑discovery, stress reduction, and personal growth, leaving them lighter and inspired.
Contemporary Watercolors Course with Christine Vineyard (Hill Center DC) — explores tube, liquid, pencil watercolors and household items, teaching basics on paints, paper, brushes; ages 18+.
Bessie Coleman’s journey is narrated, then participants make banners celebrating hopes, at the Steven F. Udvar‑Hazy Center.
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.