Keyboard Class (with Music Theory Emphasis)

1:00pm - 1:45pm
Family, School Age (ages 6-11), Teen, Adult
Required
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Library Branch: J. Erik Jonsson Central Library
Room: Central Library - Shirley Philipson Pollock Performance Space (4th Floor)
Age Group: Family, School Age (ages 6-11), Teen, Adult
Program Type: Arts, Culture, & Literature
Required
Seats Remaining: 15
Event Details:

Join us for FREE weekly music classes with top-notch instructors at your local library! Instruments will be provided for use during class.

Beginning Guitar Class

2:00pm - 2:45pm
Family, School Age (ages 6-11), Teen, Adult
Required
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Library Branch: J. Erik Jonsson Central Library
Room: Central Library - Shirley Philipson Pollock Performance Space (4th Floor)
Age Group: Family, School Age (ages 6-11), Teen, Adult
Program Type: Arts, Culture, & Literature
Required
Seats Remaining: 14
Event Details:

Join us for FREE weekly music classes with top-notch instructors at your local library! Instruments will be provided for use during class.

Afterschool Supersnack / Recarga tus Energías con Nutrición

3:15pm - 3:45pm
Preschool, School Age (ages 6-11), Teen
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Library Branch: Hampton-Illinois Branch
Room: Hampton-Illinois - Classroom A & B
Age Group: Preschool, School Age (ages 6-11), Teen
Program Type: Civic Engagement
Event Details:

Refuel afterschool with a free, nutritious meal provided by Education PV. Open to ages 0-18. Meals are made possible through the Texas Department of Agriculture’s Child and Adult Care Food Program.

Afterschool Supersnack/Recarga tus Energías con Nutrición

3:15pm - 3:45pm
Preschool, School Age (ages 6-11), Teen
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Library Branch: Arcadia Park Branch
Room: Arcadia Park - Meeting Room B
Age Group: Preschool, School Age (ages 6-11), Teen
Program Type: Civic Engagement, Out-of-School Time/Summer Reading
Event Details:

Refuel afterschool with a free, nutritious meal provided by Equal Heart. Open to ages 0-18. Meals are made possible through the Texas Department of Agriculture’s Child and Adult Care Food Program.

Crafternoon: Rhythm of Heritage - Guiros

3:15pm - 4:15pm
School Age (ages 6-11)
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Library Branch: Audelia Road Branch
Room: Audelia Road - Children's Area
Age Group: School Age (ages 6-11)
Program Type: Arts, Culture, & Literature, Out-of-School Time/Summer Reading
Event Details:

Crafternoons every Thursday at the Audelia Road Branch Library!    

Afterschool Snacks

3:30pm - 4:00pm
Family, Preschool, School Age (ages 6-11), Teen
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Library Branch: Timberglen Branch
Room: Timberglen - Auditorium
Age Group: Family, Preschool, School Age (ages 6-11), Teen
Program Type: Civic Engagement, Early Literacy, Out-of-School Time/Summer Reading
Event Details:

Afterschool Supersnack/Recarga tus Energías con Nutrición

After School STEM: Lucha Libre Masks

3:30pm - 4:30pm
School Age (ages 6-11)
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Library Branch: Kleberg-Rylie Branch
Room: Kleberg-Rylie - Auditorium
Age Group: School Age (ages 6-11)
Program Type: Out-of-School Time/Summer Reading
Event Details:

Visit the library every week for different crafts, all supplies provided, take home what you make.

 

Celebrate Hispanic Heritage month and make your own fierce lucha libre masks!

Afterschool Snacks

3:30pm - 4:30pm
Preschool, School Age (ages 6-11), Teen
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Library Branch: Pleasant Grove Branch
Room: Pleasant Grove - Classroom A & B
Age Group: Preschool, School Age (ages 6-11), Teen
Program Type: Out-of-School Time/Summer Reading
Event Details:

Refuel afterschool with a free, nutritious meal provided by Education PV. Open to ages 0-18. Meals are made possible through the Texas Department of Agriculture’s Child and Adult Care Food Program.

Afterschool Supersnack/ Supermerienda extraescolar

3:30pm - 4:30pm
Infant & Toddler, Preschool, School Age (ages 6-11), Teen
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Library Branch: Prairie Creek Branch
Room: Prairie Creek - Classroom 1
Age Group: Infant & Toddler, Preschool, School Age (ages 6-11), Teen
Program Type: Civic Engagement
Event Details:

Refuel afterschool with a free, nutritious meal provided by Education PV. Open to ages 0-18. Meals are made possible through the Texas Department of Agriculture’s Child and Adult Care Food Program.

Celebrate Hispanic Heritage Month Craft- Maracas

3:30pm - 4:45pm
School Age (ages 6-11)
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Library Branch: Arcadia Park Branch
Room: Arcadia Park - Story Wall
Age Group: School Age (ages 6-11)
Program Type: Arts, Culture, & Literature, Civic Engagement
Event Details:

Hispanic Heritage Month is September 15 until October 15.

Every week Arcadia Park will have a different themed craft for kids to work on.  The craft will be out everyday afterschool, all week.

Afterschool Supersnack/Recarga tus Energías con Nutrición

3:45pm - 4:30pm
Preschool, School Age (ages 6-11), Teen
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Library Branch: Paul Laurence Dunbar Lancaster-Kiest Branch
Room: Paul Laurence Dunbar Lancaster-Kiest - Classroom A
Age Group: Preschool, School Age (ages 6-11), Teen
Program Type: Civic Engagement, Out-of-School Time/Summer Reading
Event Details:

Refuel afterschool with a free, nutritious meal provided by Equal Heart. Open to ages 0-18. Meals are made possible through the Texas Department of Agriculture’s Child and Adult Care Food Program.

Let's Build with LEGOs

4:00pm - 4:45pm
School Age (ages 6-11)
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Library Branch: Park Forest Branch
Room: Park Forest - Auditorium
Age Group: School Age (ages 6-11)
Program Type: Out-of-School Time/Summer Reading
Event Details:

Use your imagination and see what you can build! We will provide the LEGOs, you bring the ideas and the fun!

Animal Adaptations

4:00pm - 5:00pm
School Age (ages 6-11)
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Library Branch: Hampton-Illinois Branch
Room: Hampton-Illinois - Black Box Theater
Age Group: School Age (ages 6-11)
Program Type: Out-of-School Time/Summer Reading
Event Details:

A representative from Cedar Hill State Park will come to the library to engage with information about animal adaptations.

 

Lego Challenge

4:00pm - 5:00pm
School Age (ages 6-11)
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Library Branch: Preston Royal Branch
Room: Preston Royal - Auditorium
Age Group: School Age (ages 6-11)
Program Type: Out-of-School Time/Summer Reading
Event Details:

Join us the 4th Thursday of every month for a themed Lego challenge where we will listen to an introductory story and watch a Lego movie while you create. 

Work solo or in a team and flex your imagination and creation skills!

Let's Go Fly a Kite

4:00pm - 5:00pm
School Age (ages 6-11)
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Library Branch: Timberglen Branch
Room: Timberglen - Classroom
Age Group: School Age (ages 6-11)
Program Type: Out-of-School Time/Summer Reading
Event Details:

Learn about the forces that make a kite fly, then build your own!  Kites are affected by wind, weight or gravity, lift, drag, and thrust. They must be lightweight but also strong. Take your kite home to test it!

Mask Making

4:00pm - 5:00pm
School Age (ages 6-11)
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Library Branch: Paul Laurence Dunbar Lancaster-Kiest Branch
Room: Paul Laurence Dunbar Lancaster-Kiest - Bishop Larry Mcgriff Auditorium
Age Group: School Age (ages 6-11)
Program Type: Arts, Culture, & Literature
Event Details:

Participants will play with some mexican wooden and paper mache mexican masks and design their own mask inspired by masks from around the world in the first class, and create their own masks in the second class.

Mr. Bill’s Music Mayhem

4:00pm - 5:00pm
School Age (ages 6-11)
Required
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Library Branch: Vickery Park Branch
Room: Vickery Park - Auditorium
Age Group: School Age (ages 6-11)
Program Type: Arts, Culture, & Literature
Required
Seats Remaining: 12
Event Details:

4 p - 4:45 p Guitar 

Join us for FREE weekly music classes at Vickery Park Branch with top-notch instructors at your local library!

Game Day!

4:00pm - 6:00pm
School Age (ages 6-11), Teen
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Library Branch: Forest Green Branch
Room: Forest Green - Classroom 2
Age Group: School Age (ages 6-11), Teen
Program Type: Arts, Culture, & Literature
Event Details:

Calling all gamers!

Afterschool Crafts

4:30pm - 5:00pm
School Age (ages 6-11)
Required
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Library Branch: Lochwood Branch
Room: Lochwood - Classroom 1 & 2
Age Group: School Age (ages 6-11)
Program Type: Out-of-School Time/Summer Reading
Required
Seats Remaining: Unlimited
Event Details:

Explore Art, Science, Math and more through crafts!

 

Recommended for ages 6 to 13 years old.

 

Afterschool Supersnack/Recarga tus Energías con Nutrición

4:30pm - 5:00pm
Preschool, School Age (ages 6-11), Teen
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Library Branch: Highland Hills Branch
Room: Highland Hills - Classroom B
Age Group: Preschool, School Age (ages 6-11), Teen
Program Type: Out-of-School Time/Summer Reading
Event Details:

Refuel with a free, nutritious meal provided by Education PV. Open to ages 0-18. Meals are made possible through the Texas Department of Agriculture’s Child and Adult Care Food Program.

Afterschool Supersnack/Supermerienda extraescolar

4:30pm - 5:00pm
Infant & Toddler, Preschool, School Age (ages 6-11), Teen
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Library Branch: Martin Luther King, Jr.
Room: Martin Luther King, Jr. - Children's area
Age Group: Infant & Toddler, Preschool, School Age (ages 6-11), Teen
Program Type: Out-of-School Time/Summer Reading
Event Details:

Refuel afterschool with a free, nutritious meal provided by Education PV. Open to ages 0-18. Meals are made possible through the Texas Department of Agriculture’s Child and Adult Care Food Program.

Create Your Own Pet Rock

4:30pm - 5:30pm
School Age (ages 6-11)
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Library Branch: Grauwyler Park Branch
Room: Grauwyler Park - Craft Corner
Age Group: School Age (ages 6-11)
Program Type: Arts, Culture, & Literature
Event Details:

Have you ever had a pet?

How about a pet rock?

This is your chance to create your very own pet rock that needs no looking after! Just take it home and give it your love!

Hispanic Heritage Month STEAM: Frida Paper Dolls!

4:30pm - 5:30pm
Preschool, School Age (ages 6-11), Teen
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Library Branch: Pleasant Grove Branch
Room: Pleasant Grove - Black Box Theater
Age Group: Preschool, School Age (ages 6-11), Teen
Program Type: Out-of-School Time/Summer Reading
Event Details:

This week, in this artful challenge kids will be able to learn about mexican artist Frida Kahlo and make a paper doll of her!

Panamanian Molas

4:30pm - 5:30pm
School Age (ages 6-11)
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Library Branch: Lakewood Branch
Room: Lakewood - Auditorium
Age Group: School Age (ages 6-11)
Program Type: Arts, Culture, & Literature
Event Details:

Let's create paper molas to celebrate Hispanic Heritage Month!

After School Family Cinema!

5:00pm - 7:00pm
School Age (ages 6-11)
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Library Branch: Prairie Creek Branch
Room: Prairie Creek - Auditorium
Age Group: School Age (ages 6-11)
Program Type: Out-of-School Time/Summer Reading
Event Details:

Visit the Prairie Creek branch afterschool every Thursday night at 5:00pm for a different screening of a family friendly movie!

 

 

 

Comic Strip

5:15pm - 5:45pm
Preschool, School Age (ages 6-11), Teen
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Library Branch: Highland Hills Branch
Room: Highland Hills - Classroom B
Age Group: Preschool, School Age (ages 6-11), Teen
Program Type: Out-of-School Time/Summer Reading
Event Details:

Children will write and illustrate their own comic.

K - 2nd Story & Craft: Norman the Slug with the Silly Shell

6:00pm - 6:30pm
Family, School Age (ages 6-11)
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Library Branch: Audelia Road Branch
Room: Audelia Road - Auditorium
Age Group: Family, School Age (ages 6-11)
Program Type: Early Literacy, Out-of-School Time/Summer Reading
Event Details:

Join us on the 2nd Wednesday or the 4th Thursday of each month as we read a book and do a craft based on the book we read. This program is geared towards Kindergarten through 2nd graders.