We bring the LEGOs; you bring the imagination. Caretakers are asked to be present with any younger kids. Cleanup begins at 2:45 p.m.

Room: The Martin Room - Youth Services, 1st Floor
Age range: Kids & Tweens
No Registration
Repeats: Every four Saturdays unless noted, indefinitely

Visit with our showcase of local authors from the Racine area. Check the line-up for your favorites, and make sure to stop in to their presentations and panels. Throughout the day, authors will visit with community members, sign autographs and sell their products. 

Room: The Second Floor, including the Business Center and the Community Room
Age range: All Ages
No Registration

Burlington Public Library Description

Teens and Tweens, come on in and have a snack, make a pin, and chat with us. We want to hear your voices on the past school year at the library. What events, books, and interactions were impactful? What do you want to see next year? Let us know and we'll do our best!

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NOTE: Classes and clubs are subject to changes and/or cancellations. Visit the host’s event page to check on the current status.

More Tween/Teen Opportunities

Beginner Archery Class

Archers will learn bow and arrow anatomy as well as the basic skills needed to shoot archery in a safe and controlled environment! Participants will enjoy competing against others to shoot a variety of target centers such as mosquitoes, ticks, and more!

Archers must be at least 7 years old to participate and children under 12 must be accompanied by an adult.

All equipment is provided. 

• Wednesday, April 23, 5:30 pm – 7:30 pm (indoor)

• Wednesday, May 28, 5:30 pm – 7:30 pm (indoor)

• Wednesday, July 23, 5:30 pm – 7:30 pm (Outdoor)

• Wednesday, August 27, 5:30 pm – 7:30 pm (Outdoor)

• Wednesday, September 24, 5:30 pm – 7:30 pm (indoor)

• Wednesday, November 19, 5:30 pm – 7:30 pm (indoor)

• Wednesday, December 17, 5:30 pm – 7:30 pm (indoor)

Cost Per Class: $15.00. Registration is required; space is limited.

Theme: Build a Bridge

Explore science & technology, engineering, art, and math concepts through hands-on activities while meeting and socializing with other homeschool families! Children ages 4 and older and their caregivers are welcome.

*If you are new to our Homeschool STEAM group, please call or register online so we can ensure enough supplies are available.

Waterford Public Library Description

Tuesday, Apr. 22, 3:30 - 4:30

Tweens and teens in grades 6 - 12, if you're interested in earning volunteer hours and sharing your ideas for the library, join our Teen Advisory Board! TAB meets once a month for one hour during the school year. 

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NOTE: Classes and clubs are subject to changes and/or cancellations. Visit the host’s event page to check on the current status.

More Tween/Teen Opportunities

Waterford Public Library Description

Tweens ages 9 - 12, hang out with friends and create your own ice cream sundae! Registration required.

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NOTE: Classes and clubs are subject to changes and/or cancellations. Visit the host’s event page to check on the current status.

More Tween/Teen Hangouts

The River Bend Carving Club offers beginning wood carving classes on the 1st and 3rd Saturday of every month.

These drop-in classes are from 9:30 am to 11:30 am, and are open to everyone 12 years old and up! (parents should stay with carvers under 16.)

Classes are $5.00 per student.

Bring your projects, socialize and spend the afternoon crafting! No registration required.

Note: This is an adult event typically with the senior ladies in town. However, if you or your student are interested in learning to sew, this group loves young company and would likely be willing to lend a hand!

Stop by the Innovation Lab to learn about STEAM and try out tech like 3D printing, laser engraving, robots and virtual reality. We host different activities each month, so be sure to stop back in.

Room: The Innovation Lab - 2nd Floor
Age range: All Ages
No Registration
Repeats: Second Monday of every month, unless noted

Saturday, April 12th, 2025, 7:00 pm

People of all ages and paths are invited to join a drum circle as the sun sets and the waning crescent moon rises.

Gather at the pavilion at River Bend Nature Center to build community and common ground with music and intention around a warming campfire surrounded by the summer forest. You are welcome to bring a chair or blanket if you would like. There will be some extra drums available, but feel free to bring a drum or rhythm instrument of your own. Participants do not need previous musical experience; all ages and skill levels will enjoy the powerful rhythms. This is a drug/alcohol free event.  

The drum circle is free of charge; no reservations required; free-will donations are always welcome and sincerely appreciated.

Kids ages 11-17 are invited to our Library Kitchen to learn essential cooking skills. We'll work together to decide what to cook next time, then cook a recipe together. Along the way, we'll learn kitchen safety, essential skills, and some of the science behind cooking. This is a great chance to get kids some (mostly) independent time in the kitchen and build skills and confidence.

Theme: Static Electricity

Explore science & technology, engineering, art, and math concepts through hands-on activities while meeting and socializing with other homeschool families! Children ages 4 and older and their caregivers are welcome.

*If you are new to our Homeschool STEAM group, please call or register online so we can ensure enough supplies are available.

Explore a variety of art supplies with a community of like-minded crafters. Assorted art supplies will be made available to allow for creative reign. Miss Emily will also bring a specific craft to try out for those who wish to.

This spring we will be exploring some of the library's tech offerings as well!

Racine Public Library Description

Writing your next story or crafting a new poem? How about working on the storyboard for a graphic novel or the script for a screenplay? If you're a writer, you're invited. Share your work, gather ideas and hang out with other young writers.

 Room: The Martin Room - Youth Services, 1st Floor
Age range: Ages 8-18
Repeats: The first Monday the library is open every month, indefinitely, unless noted

Mini Pop Tart Plushie

Make a no-sew pop tart plush or pillow.

All children 8 and older are invited to be creative! We will offer a different project or themed activity each month. Please register online or by phone. 

The River Bend Carving Club offers beginning wood carving classes on the 1st and 3rd Saturday of every month.

These drop-in classes are from 9:30 am to 11:30 am, and are open to everyone 12 years old and up! (parents should stay with carvers under 16.)

Classes are $5.00 per student.

Grades 5-12

Free. Food. The catch? You have to make it! Join us for a new recipe each month. In order to allow everyone a chance to cook, we’ll be doing the same recipe a couple times in a row to make sure everyone has a chance to try it. Space is limited to 8 people per week. Sign up opens online on Thursday mornings for Friday’s event. If you are not here by 3:30, your spot may be given to someone else who is. Foodie Friday  is canceled during BASD school breaks.

Have some fun decorating a mug and meeting new friends. Then we'll turn that mug into a planter and start your own window garden! Just wait until that plant starts budding! Thanks to the Burlington Garden Club for their support!

Racine Library Chess Mates meets are casual chess sessions led by U.S. Chess Federation (USCF) member Edward Larkin. Sessions will be open play, meaning that we will provide chess boards for players to use to play against anyone available. Ed or another facilitator may be available to teach and play, but boards will always be available, with or without a facilitator. 

Racine Library Chess Mates is a U.S. Chess Federation affiliate club (A8861618) of the Racine Chess Mates, which is a nonprofit partnership between RUSD Extended Learning and EL Chess Academies. It teaches social and emotional learning through chess and hosts Chess Piece Summits at community centers throughout the Racine area.

Chess Mates currently has access to ChessKids.com until Thursday, May 1. If you're interested in getting access until May 1, please attend one of the Racine Library Chess Mates sessions or contact Ed at RacineChessMates@gmail.com.

Room:

• Most sessions:The Community Room - Adult Services, 2nd Floor

• May: The Business Center - Adult Services, 2nd Floor

Age range: All Ages

Repeats: Every two weeks, except Oct. 1 and Dec. 24 of 2025 and unless noted

Theme: Lego Math

Explore science & technology, engineering, art, and math concepts through hands-on activities while meeting and socializing with other homeschool families! Children ages 4 and older and their caregivers are welcome.

*If you are new to our Homeschool STEAM group, please call or register online so we can ensure enough supplies are available.

Bring your paper projects and join this group for crafts and conversation on Tuesday, January 7 from 9:30-3:30 pm! Meets monthly in the Community Room.

Note: This is an adult program but might be suitable to high school students who are putting together an end-of year student portfolio?

Explore science & technology, engineering, art, and math concepts through hands-on activities while meeting and socializing with other homeschool families! Children ages 4 and older and their caregivers are welcome.

*If you are new to our Homeschool STEAM group, please call or register online so we can ensure enough supplies are available.

• 3/26 - Paper Structures

Let STEAM surprise you! Spend some time tinkering with a variety of fun tech toys in our Innovation Lab. 

 Room: The Innovation Lab - 2nd Floor
Age range: All Ages

The harp is such an exciting instrument and we are thrilled to bring this solo concert to you.  Please join Maureen Conklin for this wonderful experience.  

How fast can you make it around the world?  You are making the quickest tour of the world to see some of the greatest sights of the modern world.  You have an hour to see the sights before you have to return home to write out your findings for a travel magazine. Families are welcome, but younger children will need supervision to complete the puzzles. Recommended for groups of 5 people.  Registration is required as there are multiple timeslots available.

How fast can you make it around the world?  You are making the quickest tour of the world to see some of the greatest sights of the modern world.  You have an hour to see the sights before you have to return home to write out your findings for a travel magazine. Families are welcome, but younger children will need supervision to complete the puzzles. Recommended for groups of 5 people.  Registration is required as there are multiple timeslots available.

We'll teach you to create programs that will take you from using computers to mastering them. Today's session is focused on the programming language Python. No supplies or experience is needed; everything you need will be waiting in the Lab.

Room: The Innovation Lab - 2nd Floor
Age range: Kids, Tweens, Teens, 5th Grade and above encouraged

How fast can you make it around the world?  You are making the quickest tour of the world to see some of the greatest sights of the modern world.  You have an hour to see the sights before you have to return home to write out your findings for a travel magazine. Families are welcome, but younger children will need supervision to complete the puzzles. Recommended for groups of 5 people.  Registration is required as there are multiple timeslots available.

Racine Library Chess Mates meets are casual chess sessions led by U.S. Chess Federation (USCF) member Edward Larkin. Sessions will be open play, meaning that we will provide chess boards for players to use to play against anyone available. Ed or another facilitator may be available to teach and play, but boards will always be available, with or without a facilitator. 

Racine Library Chess Mates is a U.S. Chess Federation affiliate club (A8861618) of the Racine Chess Mates, which is a nonprofit partnership between RUSD Extended Learning and EL Chess Academies. It teaches social and emotional learning through chess and hosts Chess Piece Summits at community centers throughout the Racine area.

Chess Mates currently has access to ChessKids.com until Thursday, May 1. If you're interested in getting access until May 1, please attend one of the Racine Library Chess Mates sessions or contact Ed at RacineChessMates@gmail.com. 

Room:

• Most sessions:The Community Room - Adult Services, 2nd Floor

• May: The Business Center - Adult Services, 2nd Floor

Age range: All Ages
Registration Encouraged: https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLScuYiYP605QXsGYVzwEJq8-I-pUVpT3wFnV3DnYkAi_pGwfBQ/viewform  

Repeats: Every two weeks, except Oct. 1 and Dec. 24 of 2025 and unless noted