Family Activities, Visual Arts and Crafts

Listen to lyrical medieval Welsh poetry, in both old Welsh and English, read by Harvard student Samuel Puopolo.

Join in for our follow-up event to Vampire-O! Travel Fresh Pond Reservation, looking for checkpoints using a map - but you better move fast, some tricky leprechauns will be moving the checkpoints!

Join staff member Tayana Fincher for a talk focusing on healing through the creation of art and close looking.

Recitals are performed on Harvard’s famous 1958 D. A. Flentrop organ, at Adolphus Busch Hall.

Join us for a workshop to make a small quilted potholder or trivet. Using the ‘assembly line” quilting method, you will plan, cut, and sew a quilt using our sewing machines.

Join us for stories, songs and rhymes!

Join the Watercolor Painting Workshop

Join us to watch a movie on Central Square Library's big screen and eat popcorn! No registration required.

We invite children and their grown-ups to join us for 20-25 minutes of songs, stories, and rhymes.

No registration is required. Please call (617) 349-4019 for details.

It's a Library dance party!

Bring your project and come join other fiber crafters in your community!

Put on your dancing shoes and head over for a morning of singing and dancing! We'll sing and move together, and share a story or two. For children of all ages and their grown-ups. 

Join us for a half hour of stories for children of all ages and their caregivers.

We invite children and their caregivers for 20-25 minutes of stories and songs.

Drop by to contribute to a collaborative mural in the south lobby.

Join us for stories, songs, and rhymes. For children of all ages and their grown-ups. 

If you're looking to shake your sillies out before bed, join us for thirty minutes of music and movement!

Come to the Library to create something special!

Join us for a new hour-long program, featuring thirty minutes of songs and stories and thirty minutes of open play!

Curator Horace D. Ballard closely examines a work of art that speaks to the shifting contexts of American art.

Join HMSC volunteers for a live story reading and hands-on, family-friendly activities at the Harvard Museum of the Ancient Near East. Recommended for ages 5–12. Admission to the museum is free.

Delve deeper into ancient sculpture, from a time when Celtic and Classical cultures clashed, with art historian Kimberly Cassibry.

Recitals are performed on Harvard’s famous 1958 D. A. Flentrop organ, at Adolphus Busch Hall.

Learn about and remake the first synthetic blue pigment in history with art conservators Lisa Barro and Carolyn Riccardelli.

Kids in 6th, 7th and 8th grade can come to the Library to make designs with fuse beads! Snacks provided. No registration necessary.

Free event at the Cambridge Public Library.

Join staff as they discuss and activate this experimental device from 1930 by László Moholy-Nagy, a Bauhaus pioneer.