Week Calendar

Join us as we have fun using props to groove to the beat with our whole body! Toddlers will develop body and spatial awareness that supports early literacy.

Work on paintings in the company of others. Collaborate, discuss, and share your work at this painters' meetup.

Bond with your little one and meet other parents and caregivers while doing so! We will explore the fun of rhythm and rhymes, bounces, and books to support early learning. Best for pre-walkers and crawlers but all are welcome!

Come to the library to sing, move, dance, and make music together. Music and Movement is designed for children ages 1 to 4 years old and focused on developing gross motor skills. 

Most importantly, we will have fun!

Preschoolers, get moving with action songs and rhymes, movement, and interactive stories that expand the imagination, inspire self-discovery, and develop early literacy skills. Designed for ages 4-5 years old. 

We will wiggle and giggle together as we share age- and developmentally- appropriate interactive stories, songs, movement activities, and fingerplays. Designed for ages 2-3 and their caregivers. 

Come to the library to sing, move, dance, and make music together. Music and Movement is designed for children ages 1 to 4 years old and focused on developing gross motor skills. 

Most importantly, we will have fun!

Join us for our weekly Friday restock!

Join us for a brief background on identity theft including topics such as:

Spring into Music and Movement where we will sing and shake! Music and Movement will be followed by an indoor Egg Hunt with a fun activity and prizes, as well as a chance to win an additional prize in our Outdoor Scavenger Hunt challenge!

Hop on over to our sensory-friendly Storytime for our library friends who need a little more space and quiet! Followed by sensory activities, an indoor Egg Hunt, as well as a chance to win a prize by completing our outdoor Scavenger Hunt!

Children ages 6-11, create your own terrarium or mini ecosystem with greenery, creatures, and favorite characters. The activity will be followed by a special outdoor Egg Hunt and Scavenger Hunt with prizes. Rain or shine!

Join us to discuss a new mystery book every month. 

This month we will be reading First Lie Wins by Ashley Elston.

Each month, we will have a two session art project where we will build on the work from the previous session. 

This month we will making a screen print. 

Join us for an outdoor egg hunt!

Play chess with us at the library. Bring your own set or use one of ours. There will not be an instructional component.

Bring your own yoga mat and towel to this free class.

There will be a limited number of mats to borrow.

Bond with your little one and meet other parents and caregivers while doing so! We will explore the fun of rhythm and rhymes, bounces, and books to support early learning. Best for pre-walkers and crawlers but all are welcome!

Join us for fun STEM experiments! Today, build a contraption out of Legos that can win in a zipline race.

Create your own custom magnets with air dry clay!

Practice painting the sides of books with one-of-a-kind art!

Join a volunteer from Pittsburgh Black Pride in making a craft and chatting about what's going on in your life.

Let’s get crafty together! We will be designing no-sew blankets in this session!

Like Scrabble? Join us for a few games every Tuesday at the Penn Hills Library.  

Join us for our weekly Wednesday restock!

Come to the library to sing, move, dance, and make music together. Music and Movement is designed for children ages 1 to 4 years old and focused on developing gross motor skills. 

Most importantly, we will have fun!

Children ages 6 to 11, come brainstorm and have fun building with different materials as we come up with solutions to unique real-world problems. The engineering design process will be our focus as we investigate and create models. 

Join us to hunt for eggs and win prizes after hours at the library!

Registration is required.

Learn about Nesbit's fascinating journey from celebrated model and actress to the subject of the nations first "Trial of the Century." Discover how her tumultuous life intertwined with the glamorous and gritty sides of the Gilded Age.

Learn from author Richard Gazarik about the exciting history of the Pittsburgh Mafia, their connection to political struggles in Cuba, and gun running from Ohio to New Kensington.

Join author and historian Thomas White as he explores western Pennsylvania’s criminal history.

Join us for our new VIRTUAL session of Graphic Novel Book Club! This session is in ADDITION to our in-person session on Saturday.

In this program, we will dig into the history of Pittsburgh’s women of vice: roadhouse and brothel proprietors, bootleggers, and numbers runners.