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Mill Basin Presents Brainy Babies
Families enjoy stories and activities designed to encourage brain development and early learning practices. Each week we will read books, sing songs, and do fun activities that promote language development, social-emotional skills, and more....
Storytime!
Come and join us for songs, fingerplays, stories, and more while meeting other babies and caregivers in the neighborhood! Have fun hearing great picture books read aloud and playing with other children during this program.
Coloring for Kids
Kids receive age appropriate coloring sheets, crayons and create wonderful pictures.
Kids Create @ Gerritsen Beach
Come by Gerritsen Beach and get creative with a special DIY art project. All you need to bring is your imagination!
*Please note: Supplies are limited so program is first come, first serve. Thank you.
Kids Create: Bandanas
Make take-home creations based on monthly themes.
Library Lab: STEAM Pop-Up Cancelled
Join us as we wheel out the yellow craft cart for a different, sometimes-messy, sometimes-explosive STEAM activity on Friday afternoons! Get creative, and learn a little something new with the help of your children’s librarian and some crazy...
DEC
9
Sensory-Friendly Open Playroom
Pop by our children's area to tinker with our lightboard, practice shaping your letters, or experiment with kinetic sand. Older readers are welcome to play with toys, build towering Lego structures, or create their next artistic masterpiece....
Beaded Jewelry
Choose from a colorful selection of beads to make a stretchy bracelet. All materials are provided.
Saturday Storytime
Join us for Paerdegat's Saturday Storytime, designed to spark curiosity and inspire imagination in readers aged four to eight. Each week, we'll dive into a new picture book and chat about all things kid-lit! See you there!
DEC
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Chess Class with Vladimir Mazo
Learn to play or improve your game with instructor Vladimir Mazo!
For beginners or advanced players, ages 6-12
Register at the Juvenile Information Desk
1st Floor
This program is made possible by...
Kids Tech Time
Make new friends as we play an assortment of multiplayer console video games. Show off your gaming skills and help others improve.
Kids' Board Games
Join us for kid's board games, Mondays from 4-5PM!
Kids Create
Come and join us for Arts and Crafts!! There will be a different craft every week!!
Game On: Board Games for Kids
Play retro board games like Connect 4, Monopoly, Jenga and many more.
DEC
12
Grab & Go Craft Kit: Beads bracelet
Welcome Everyone!
Visit our Leonard's Library Pop Up at Talea. Pick up cute little bag with materials needed to make an amazing bracelet for yourself or someone you love! It's simple, fun and cute project.
Grab and Go Tuesday
Head out of the cold and into Paerdegat Library every Tuesday afternoon to nab your very own Grab and Go activity kit! Each week, mystery packs will contain instructions and supplies for an art, craft, or science experiment, an opportunity for...
Build with LEGO
Get creative with LEGO! Join us for an hour of building from suggestions or working on your own designs.
East New York Reads Homework Help
Brooklyn Public Library is offering in-person homework help sessions via the East New York Reads Initiative to school aged students at Cypress Hills Library. ALL students from K to 5th grade are welcome.
Build with Legos & Keva Planks
Get that imagination flowing! Come build with legos & keva planks.
For kids of all ages.
Kids Create: Hand Sewing
Kids come and learn the art of handsewing. Come and create your own handsewn square and other projects as well. The program is for children ages 8-16. The Mill Basin Library is located at 2385 Ralph Avenue. For more information and to...
Kids Coding: Block Coding
Ages 7 - 13
Have an interest in coding? First time coder? This is an introductory class in coding. Learn the basic concepts of coding by snapping together blocks of code to build a program. Learn how to create...
DEC
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Toddler Time at St. Paul's Episcopal
Join Ms. Sarah every Wednesday at St. Paul's Episcopal Church (199 Carroll St, Brooklyn, NY 11231) for a Toddler Time program. There will be songs, rhymes, fingerplays, and books! This program is geared towards ages 18-36months and their...
Musical Preschool Storytime
Stories and songs and puppets and fun! Join us for storytime every Wednesday morning this fall.
Story Play
A program of stories, songs, movement, and play time open to children ages 0-5 and their caregivers.
To request accessibility support, please call 718.230.2227.
Please stay home if you are not feeling well ♥
Toddler Time @ Mill Basin Library
Join us at the Mill Basin Library for stories, songs and fun! This program is geared for children 18-36 months.
Space is limited. Please pick up a free ticket at the front desk.
Please join us at the Mill Basin Library...
Toddler Time with Ms. Denise
Returning for Spring, join us for story and play with Ms. Denise at the Ulmer Park Branch.
For Ages 1 - 3
Toddler Time
Join us to hear new stories and your favorites, and sing fun songs.
Babies and Books at St. Paul's Episcopal
Join Ms. Sarah every Wednesday at St. Paul's Episcopal Church (199 Carroll St, Brooklyn, NY 11231) for a Babies and Books program. There will be songs, rhymes, puppets, and books! This program is a Lapsit Storytime geared towards ages 0-...
Kids Create
Flex your creative muscles and enjoy creating a new craft to take home every week! Kids 5+ welcome!
Chess Workshop
Enjoy a game of chess and get tips from our chess instructor, chess master Jose Villar! For ages 6 and up; kids and teens welcome.
DEC
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Brainy Babies Cypress Hills
Join us for a Brain Building storytime program, for children 0-3 years and their parents or caregivers in Cypress Hills. Early literacy tips, craft ideas, songs and fingerplay.
Paerdegat Makerspace
Pop by the branch as we open up Paerdegat's craft closet treasure trove and invite kids of all ages to craft something awesome. Please note, this program is self-guided and drop-in in nature; we'll provide the materials, you provide the...
Game On!
Come play Board Games with us!! Monopoly, Chutes and Ladders, Battleship and Uno. For Kids 5-12.
East New York Reads Homework Help
Brooklyn Public Library is offering in-person homework help sessions via the East New York Reads Initiative to school aged students at Cypress Hills Library. ALL students from K to 5th grade are welcome.
Kids Create
Join us for an afternoon craft for kids!
Chess Workshop
Come learn to play chess, or improve your skills with chessmaster William DeCastillo!
Kids Create: Arts & Crafts
Join us at the Library to create fun and easy art projects.
Brower Beats
Jam in our drum circle and craft new instruments. (Ages 6-12)
Teen Tech Time
Let’s play!
Join us for weekly gaming fun at Coney Island Library. Put your smash skills to the test, race against your peers, or have a dance off with your friends!
We have a wide selection of video games...
DEC
15
Mill Basin Presents Brainy Babies
Families enjoy stories and activities designed to encourage brain development and early learning practices. Each week we will read books, sing songs, and do fun activities that promote language development, social-emotional skills, and more....
Storytime!
Come and join us for songs, fingerplays, stories, and more while meeting other babies and caregivers in the neighborhood! Have fun hearing great picture books read aloud and playing with other children during this program.
Coloring for Kids
Kids receive age appropriate coloring sheets, crayons and create wonderful pictures.
Kids Create @ Gerritsen Beach
Come by Gerritsen Beach and get creative with a special DIY art project. All you need to bring is your imagination!
*Please note: Supplies are limited so program is first come, first serve. Thank you.
Kids Create: Snow Globes
Make take-home creations based on monthly themes.
DEC
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Saturday Storytime
Listen to stories, sing songs while playing musical instruments and play with toys!
Saturday Family Storytime
Join Ms. Ann for stories, songs and fun. All ages are welcome. The Mill Basin Library is located at 2385 Ralph Avenue. For more information please call 718-241-3973.
Beaded Jewelry
Choose from a colorful selection of beads to make a stretchy bracelet. All materials are provided.
Special Holiday Program
Get ready for a jolly good time! We're thrilled to invite you to a special holiday event in collaboration with our fantastic community partner, Gateways To Success Inc., at the Paerdegat Library on Saturday, December 16th, from 12:00 PM to 2:45...
Book Giveaway
Calling all kids and teens! Stop by Windsor Terrace Library from 1 pm - 4pm to pick up a free book!
Limit one per person, child or teen must be present to recieve a book.
Saturday Family Movie
Join us for our December Family Movies:
December 2 - Ice Age
December 16 - Home Alone
December 23 - Nightmare Before Xmas
December 30 - Snow Dogs
