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.

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.

Preschoolers, get moving with action songs and rhymes, movement, and interactive stories that expand the imagination, inspire self-discovery, and develop early literacy skills.

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.

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. 

Join us for our weekly Friday restock!

A craft program for patrons of all abilities. Try out a new artistic activity twice a month!

This session, we will be making buttons.

No registration required.

Imagine all of what you can create in a single recycled jar! We will discuss the science behind the materials we are using as we create science in a jar.

For this session, we will create Glow Jars!

Join us every month as we work in different art mediums. This month we will try our hand at “terrariums." 

There are two sessions. Please only register for one session. 

Join us for a showing of Jurassic Park (1993). 

Popcorn will be provided. Registration is required. 

Join us for a Lemoncello-style scavenger hunt and challenge in the library stacks!

Designed for children in grades 3rd through 5th.

Learn about the history of paleontology and how our understanding of dinosaurs has changed with time.

Registration is required.

Learn the basics of Dungeons and Dragons in a slow-paced, friendly environment. Perfect for anyone with no D&D experience who wants to give it a try!

Join us throughout the summer to experiment with different art mediums.

Dino lovers! Take a trip back in time and discuss and explore the animals and habitats of the Permian to the Cretaceous Period all while engaging in fun activities and games.

Join us all summer long for summer camp at the library! Each week we'll have a craft and a special activity. This week, make Shrinky Dinks and get ready for a water balloon fight!

Join us to learn the basics of making custom cosplay.

Join us on Thursdays all summer to explore the outside world with crafts and activities to get you in touch with nature. This week, join us for an outdoor scavenger hunt!

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

There will be a limited number of mats to borrow.

Meet to hang out, discuss our favorite books, select new books to read, and do fun fandom art together!

This month, we'll be discussing the Wings of Fire series.

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.

Get moving at this high energy drumming and dance program led by certified fitness instructor Coleen Bortz!

Designed for children ages 6 to 11.

Bring your fiber arts project or questions to this casual gathering of fellow artists. 

Practice crocheting with an instructor.

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

Join us for our weekly Wednesday restock!

Food catered by Fresh Prep PGH, resources, prize opportunities, quick voter registration!

Topics including, but not limited to:

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. 

Unleash your artistic creativity! Try different art mediums and styles in Art Explorers!

This week, we'll be exploring Lego Printmaking.

Join us after the library closes for laser tag! We'll have snacks and video games while you wait for your turn.

Learn how to draw a dinosaur with a dinosaur in this step-by-step drawing course. 

Registration is required

According to most up-to-date scientific understanding, birds are considered to be modern-day dinosaurs, specifically descended from a group of theropods.

Join us for our Documentary Film Club! 

Join us at Acclamation Brewing to paint beer glasses. This is an OFFSITE PROGRAM and patrons must provide their own transportation. No purchase is required to participate.

Registration is required.