Monday Seeds Storytime (13-24 mo) Summer 2026 10:00-10:45 AM, Monday, July 6th - August 10th Storytime full. Please email jwhitehead@cwmars.org with any questions. Children participate in stories, finger plays, songs, dancing, instrument play and crafts. Come spend some quality time with your child. We encourage all children to also register for Plant A Seed, Read!, [...]
Calling all Belchertown Teens for Summer D&D Mondays, 1-2:30, July 6, 13, 20, & 27, August 3 & 10 Join us for summer Dungeons & Dragons fun! The Undying Sands are a shifting, treacherous place. Treasures and monsters hidden by dunes, waiting for someone brave enough to journey forth. Prophecies of a Great Worm rising [...]
Join us to create your own zen masterpiece with crayons! All experience levels welcome. Marie Tucker will lead you step by step to make your own beautiful work of art. Registration required. Sign up here: https://forms.gle/mNY9SWHF3niWJhv78 Due to the high popularity of the program and limited capacity, seats will be filled by lottery drawn from [...]
Strum along with the Ukulele Play Along on the first Monday every month! Grab your ukulele and play along - because playing your ukulele is more fun when you do it with others. We'll be focusing on 3 and 4 chord songs, with lyrics and chords provided on screen. Participants will be muted, so don't [...]
Tuesday Seedlings Storytime (2-3 years) Summer 2026 9:30-10:30 AM, Tuesday, July 7th - August 11th Storytime full. Please email jwhitehead@cwmars.org with any questions. Children participate in stories, finger plays, songs, dancing, instrument play and crafts. Come spend some quality time with your child. We encourage all children to also register for Plant A Seed, Read!, [...]
Wednesday Getting Ready for Kindergarten, Summer 2026 9:30-10:30 AM, Wednesday, July 8th - August 12th Sign up here: https://forms.gle/KmH8CD6czH3aCRiR8 Children who will start Kindergarten in the fall will attend this storytime program on their own. We will read stories, sing songs and talk about what school will be like and the different feelings they may [...]
Our Mystery Book Group is held on the second Wednesday of each month at 2:00 p.m. Join us as we discuss a different mystery novel each month. Copies of the current month's pick available at the library. Email mmarszalek@cwmars.org with any questions.
Are you ready to puzzle? Sign up in a team of two for a speed puzzling competition where pairs of contestants race to finish a 500 piece puzzle. The 1st place finishers receive a puzzle. Registration required - sign your team up here for our July 8th Puzzle Competition: https://forms.gle/eDR9wxHVh4g5GquF7 The puzzles for this program [...]
Join us at 6PM on in the Town Hall Auditorium for an interactive show with local author, Dorothy Cresswell. Through songs and stories, children will learn about animals and be part of discussions about diversity, welcoming one and all, and recognizing the wonder in the world. https://youtu.be/RHdttS_NuSo?si=O89N5gOuLR-nRNQm Following the show, the Odyssey Bookshop will [...]
Join author Michael Parzymieso at the Clapp Memorial Library on Wednesday, July 8 at 7pm for a discussion of the places and people around Belchertown and the Quabbin that inspired the supernatural thriller, The Dale. This year, he will be doing a reading of the sequel to The Dale. Afterglow is set five years after [...]