Monday Firststeps (12-24 months) Spring 2024 10:00-10:45 AM, Mondays, July 8, 15, 22, 29, August 5 & 12 Firststeps is for ages 12 – 24 months and begins @ 10:00 AM. Registration is required. Our story times feature age-appropriate stories, songs, finger plays and art activities. Registration and confirmation required. Registration open until all slots [...]
On Monday, July 8th at 6:30pm, come to the Clapp Memorial Library for a presentation by Cliff McCarthy, Stone House Museum archivist and author/editor of several books on Belchertown’s history. “The Rescue of Angeline Palmer” is the true story of a free-born, African American girl who was nearly kidnapped and sold into slavery in the [...]
Tuesday Toddler Time (2 years) Summer 2024 9:30-10:30 am, Thursdays, July 9, 16, 23, 30th, August 6 & 13 Toddler Storytime is for children aged 2 years, and begins @ 9:30 AM. Registration is required. Our story times feature age-appropriate stories, songs, finger plays and art activities. Registration and confirmation required. Registration open until all [...]
Program is full, new sign-ups will be added to our waitlist and will get an email about our fall campaign. Calling all Belchertown Teens for Summer D&D 1:00-3:00PM, July 9th, 16th, 23rd, 30th, August 6th and 13th. Sign up to play in a Summer D&D campaign with GM Jordan Winfield! Enter the Feywilds and explore [...]
9:30-10:30 am, Wednesdays, July 10, 17, 24, 31, August 6 & 12, Getting Ready for Kindergarten is for children entering Kindergarten this fall and beings at 9:30 AM. Getting Ready for Kindergarten feature age-appropriate stories, songs, finger plays and art activities independent of their caregivers to prepare young children for school. Program will be held [...]
Our Mystery Book Group is held on the second Wednesday of each month at 1:00 p.m. Join us as we discuss a different mystery novel each month. Email [email protected] with any questions.
Join us at 6PM on July 10th for an evening full of stories and music on the Library Lawn (in the case of rain, Town Hall Auditorium)! Multi cultural puppet tales that celebrate how we learn (“Read, Renew”) and we can enjoy taking the time to get things right (repeat!)! Read Renew Repeat! Features original [...]
9:30-10:30 am, Thursdays, July 11, 18, 25, August 1, 8 & 15 Preschool Story Time is for ages 3-5 and begins @ 9:30 AM. Registration is required. Our story times feature age-appropriate stories, songs, finger plays and art activities. Registration and confirmation required. Registration open until all slots are filled. If the program is full [...]
Teens ages 12-18 are invited to the library's third annual Summer Reading Bingo program on Monday, July 15th from 6:00-7:00PM. Teens will play bingo for the chance to win big prizes like gift cards, board games, signed books, and more! All attendees will earn a raffle ticket for the Teen Summer Reading Program. Teens can [...]
Join us at 6PM on July 17th at the Town Hall Auditorium for Gross, Weird, Cool Science - Things to make you go "EW!" "What?!" and "WOW!!!" The world is full of gruesomely gross, wildly weird and incredibly cool things. Animals, insects, microbes, plants, even the earth itself is full of unbelievable wonders waiting to [...]
