Upcoming Events

Make a turkey-themed craft to decorate your home for Thanksgiving with local volunteer, Mary Ann Cormier. This program is best for school-aged children with adult supervision. No registration is required.

Bring your whole family to a free viewing of the animated musical, Vivo. No registration is required. Parents/caregivers must stay with their child(ren) during the movie. Rated PG, running time: 99 minutes.

Let's hang out and read together. Bring your own book or borrow one of ours, and we will all enjoy some quiet reading time. Afterwards we can share what we have read, or not, the choice is up to you.

Create Christmas-themed characters from paper towel rolls, glue, pom-poms, and more. Crafty Kids is a weekly crafting program led by local volunteer, Mary Ann Cormier. This program is best for school-aged children with adult supervision.

Beloved children's book author/illustrator and Maine native, Chris Van Dusen, will be at Auburn Public Library for an author talk!

This year we have white elephant tables for both children and adults!  APL Conference Room will feature tables with gently used white elephant gifts for $1.00 each, for children to purchase.  The Androscoggin Room will have white elephan

Local volunteer Mary Ann Cormier will lead school-aged children and their families in a session of shell découpage using beautiful papers with holiday patterns to allow children to make a handmade gift for a loved one.

We'll provide a beautiful selection of paper and craft materials to handmake cards with local volunteer, Meg Kudlack.

Baking enthusiasts ages 8–12 are welcome to join children's department staff as we layer cookie ingredients into a jar. We'll decorate our jars and send you home with printed instructions to bake the cookies at home.

Embellish cardboard trees with colorful macaroni and sequins to decorate your home. Crafty Kids is a weekly crafting program led by local volunteer, Mary Ann Cormier. This program is best for school-aged children with adult supervision.

Drop in for a holiday crafting session. The library will provide several winter holiday crafts to create with your family. Best for children ages 3–12. No registration is required.

Mr. Brandon is excited to introduce children to one of his favorite hobbies–diamond art. This involves using an adhesive canvas that has symbols and numbers to correspond with different colored gems.

Paint, glue, and cut colorful paper into a festive holiday scene featuring Santa sliding down a chimney.

The Hour of Code is an introduction to computer science through fun activities. In this session for beginners, we will use drag-and-drop programming to problem-solve through entertaining games.

Drop in the Children's room to make coffee-filter snowflakes to celebrate the first day of winter.

Drop into the children's department to find eleven hidden snowmen. Each snowman has a letter clue to will help you answer a silly pun. Participants who complete the challenge will receive a small item from our prize drawer. 

Pokemon fans can bring their cards and trade, battle, or just hang out! This is a drop-in program, registration is not required!

Bring your whole family to a free viewing of the animated coming-of-age film, Inside Out 2. No registration is required. Parents/caregivers must stay with their child(ren) during the movie. Rated PG, running time: 100 minutes.

Let's hang out and read together. Bring your own book or borrow one of ours, and we will all enjoy some quiet reading time. Afterwards we can share what we have read, or not, the choice is up to you.

We'll provide fabric markers and stencils to personalize a provided canvas tote bag. Children ages 5+, teens, and adults are welcome to attend. Supplies are limited, please register for only one session.

We'll provide fabric markers and stencils to personalize a provided canvas tote bag. Children ages 5+, teens, and adults are welcome to attend. Supplies are limited, please register for only one session.