Upcoming Events

Spend an hour honing your drawing skills! There will be games and light instruction.

Build a bridge across the generation gap while crafting a colorful reminder of community.  

Leave the mess of the beach behind and create a sandless sandcastle out of recycled materials. Show off your creativity and win prizes! This event is intended for kids grades 2 to 5.

Comfort and warm up patients at the Akron Children's Hospital by creating fleece blankets without sewing!  

Spend an hour honing your drawing skills! There will be games and light instruction.

Did your new hobby not work out? Your loss is someone else’s gain. Bring your unopened or gently used craft supplies to exchange, pick up something new, and mingle with other craft enthusiasts.

Mad Science will wow you with an interactive show full of colorful chemical reactions and "cool" dry-ice demonstrations.  

Competitors working either solo or in teams will be given cardboard, glue guns, cutting tools, and a variety of accesories and have 2 HOURS to make an artistic, craft, or practical creation.

Drop in during the session to build your own creation using our LEGO bricks.  Invite friends and family to vote on your creation July 21-Aug. 9.  Prizes for those with the most votes!  

Bring along your little one and make canvas artwork to always remember their growing fingers and toes. Please wear clothes you don’t mind getting paint on. 

Help organize the library’s assortment of stamps into an easy-to-view catalog. 

Teen fans of anime and manga are invited to join us each month for geekcrafts, culture, and fun. Cosplay encouraged!

June - Button Making

July - Manga Art Lesson w/ Doug Laubacher

August - Sticker Making

Spend an hour honing your drawing skills! There will be games and light instruction.

Enjoy a pizza party and final volunteer activity to wrap up the summer. 

This event is intended for students entering grades 6-12 in the fall and who have volunteered over the summer and/or attended other Volunteen events. 

Spend an hour honing your drawing skills! There will be games and light instruction.

Learn to make your own small, bound journal using a beginner method and decorate it, too! Participants will leave with a roughly A4 sized journal with blank paper.

Mix it up with us at a colorful storytime! Dress for a messy art project.

Be your own shipwright and captain! Join us to recycle materials into your own seaworthy vessel.

Spend an hour honing your drawing skills! There will be games and light instruction.