Monday Firststeps (12-24 months) Summer 2023 10:00-10:45 AM, Mondays, July 10, 17, 24, 31, August 7 & 14 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, click here to sign up. Registration [...]
PROGRAM FULL Come learn the art of needle felting at the Clapp Memorial Library! Local fiber artist Anna Sunschauer will teach you how to sculpt fluffy wool fiber into a bluebird ornament using felting needles. No prior needle felting experience is necessary, but it is recommended that all participants have good fine motor skills to [...]
Tuesday Toddler Time (2-3 years) Summer 2023 9:30-10:30 AM, Tuesdays, July 11, 18, 25, August 1, 8, 15 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, click here to sign up. [...]
Getting Ready for Kindergarten Summer 2023 10:00-11:00 am, Wednesdays, July 12, 19, 26, August 2, 9, 16 Getting Ready for Kindergarten is for children entering Kindergarten this fall and beings at @ 10:00 AM. Getting Ready for Kindergarten feature age-appropriate stories, songs, finger plays and art activities independent of their caregivers to prepare young children [...]
Join us at 6PM on July 12th for an evening full of stories and music on the Library Lawn (in the case of rain, Town Hall Auditorium)! Sing, Dance & Join right in Diane’s Musical Stories in this fun-loving family event. We’ll learn the song of the wind in the Old Apple Tree tale and [...]
STORYTIME FULL WITH WAITLIST. Raising Readers Story Time (3-6 years) Summer 2023 9:30-10:30 am, Thursdays, July 13, 20, 27, August 3, 10, 17 Raising Readers Story Time is for ages 3-6 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, [...]
Take a fun and enlightening journey through Boston Red Sox history with the author of The Ultimate Boston Red Sox Time Machine Book. This presentation features exciting and nostalgic videos of the greatest and most fascinating players, teams, events and moments in franchise history. The program also includes trivia questions for patrons to ponder and [...]
The Friends of the Library are collecting donations for their Fall Book Sale! Clearing your shelves? Have boxes of books that need a home? Load your car up and drive up on Saturday, July 15th or Saturday, August 12th, from 9am-12PM. Friends of the Clapp Memorial Library will be on hand to unload any book [...]
Raising Our Voices Together: A Song and Story Performance and Workshop by Davis Bates! Teens are invited to the library on Tuesday, July 18th at 2:00PM for a lively event by award-winning singer and storyteller, Davis Bates! The program will include sea shanties, songs from the sixties, union songs, civil rights songs, & stories about [...]
Join us at 6PM on July 19th, Belchertown Town Hall Auditorium for storytelling and origami making with Motoko! Motoko Dworkin, a native of Osaka, Japan, first came to the U. S. as an exchange student to University of Massachusetts. She has performed professionally since 1993, going to hundreds of schools, libraries, museums, festivals, and even [...]
