Jeannie is back with seasonal read alouds, puppets, crafts, and library joy! All ages, all families welcome to drop in, no registration required.

2025-2026 Dates: 
Sept. 26, Oct. 31, Nov. 21*, Dec. 19*, Jan. 30, Feb. 27, Mar. 27, Apr. 24, May 29.
* denotes third Friday, rather than last Friday, due to holiday season.

Jeannie is back with seasonal read alouds, puppets, crafts, and library joy! All ages, all families welcome to drop in, no registration required.

2025-2026 Dates: 
Sept. 26, Oct. 31, Nov. 21*, Dec. 19*, Jan. 30, Feb. 27, Mar. 27, Apr. 24, May 29.
* denotes third Friday, rather than last Friday, due to holiday season.

Join us for a morning story time with Miss Shaleen Barrett, Occupational Therapist and Signing Time Certified Teacher. Join us for stories, felt board, songs, and best of all, PLAY! 

Target audience is ages 3-6; siblings welcome.

Jeannie is back with seasonal read alouds, puppets, crafts, and library joy! All ages, all families welcome to drop in, no registration required.

2025-2026 Dates: 
Sept. 26, Oct. 31, Nov. 21*, Dec. 19*, Jan. 30, Feb. 27, Mar. 27, Apr. 24, May 29.
* denotes third Friday, rather than last Friday, due to holiday season.

Celebrate the end of the summer with Youth Services librarian MG across the street at the Lebanon Farmers Market!

Join us for a multi-sensory story hour designed to engage young children through interactive storytelling, music, movement, and connecting with others. Led by Elena Fader Hurlburt, Speech-Language Pathologist, this program supports early literacy and communication development in a playful, inclusive environment. Target audience is ages 3-6, siblings welcome.

Summer dates: 6/2, 6/16, 6/30

Join Claire and Tristan to learn to play Tower of Hanoi.

Beginner level, no experience expected. The game sets we'll be playing on were 3D printed at the library! There will be some time challenges with prizes and, also pizza!

Ages 8-adult. Registration requested. 

Sign up at the adult circulation desk or call 860-642-7763.

Families with children of all ages are invited to come learn about sunspots and astronomy with rangers from The Last Green Valley!

Join us outside of the library (weather permitting) or in Lebanon's Jonathan Trumbull Library Community Room at 5:30 pm on Tuesday, Aug. 19.

Join us *twice a month this summer* for a morning story time with Shaleen Barrett, Occupational Therapist and Signing Time Certified Teacher. Join us for stories, felt board, songs, and best of all, PLAY!  Target audience is ages 3-6, siblings welcome.

Summer dates: 6/9, 6/23, 7/7, 7/21, 8/4, 8/18

At Art in the Afternoon, everybody is an artist.

Join Youth Services Librarian, MG, for creative process-based art. We'll play with different mediums and display our work in the Stairwell Gallery and elsewhere at JTL.

Ages 6+.

August 15th focus: Papier-mâché (paper mache)

Registration required, limited space and supplies. Call the library or stop in at the Adult Circulation desk to sign up.

Interested in using JTL's 3D printer? Join our resident team of 3D Printers, Mr. John Flegert and teen volunteers, Aiden & Tristan, for an introductory workshop. You'll learn about how to find a file to print from Thingiverse.com or Printables.com, receive a demo and training on how to set up the printer, and schedule a time to print your creation here at the library.

Registration required; sign up at the Adult Circ Desk. Space is limited.

Summer workshop dates:

Aug 6

Aug 13

Join us for a multi-sensory story hour designed to engage young children through interactive storytelling, music, movement, and connecting with others. Led by Elena Fader Hurlburt, Speech-Language Pathologist, this program supports early literacy and communication development in a playful, inclusive environment. Target audience is ages 3-6, siblings welcome.

Summer dates: 6/2, 6/16, 6/30

Join community member and Friend of the Library, Miss Jeannie, for three special summer story and craft programs. Wear clothes to get messy and meet downstairs in the Story Room first, then create artwork by Marcel or outside. 

Summer dates: Fridays at 11am; June 27, July 18, August 8

Interested in using JTL's 3D printer? Join our resident team of 3D Printers, Mr. John Flegert and teen volunteers, Aiden & Tristan, for an introductory workshop. You'll learn about how to find a file to print from Thingiverse.com or Printables.com, receive a demo and training on how to set up the printer, and schedule a time to print your creation here at the library.

Registration required; sign up at the Adult Circ Desk or call 860-642-7763. Space is limited.

Summer workshop dates:

Aug 6

Aug 13

Join us *twice a month this summer* for a morning story time with Shaleen Barrett, Occupational Therapist and Signing Time Certified Teacher. Join us for stories, felt board, songs, and best of all, PLAY!  Target audience is ages 3-6, siblings welcome.

Summer dates: 6/9, 6/23, 7/7, 7/21, 8/4, 8/18

Join UCONN Senior Chemistry scholar, Keera, to learn about the science of pigments and finding color in nature. Participants will make their own pigments using different plants and paint their own artistic creation by the end of the program.

Registration required; spots are limited.

This program is for ages 10+.

Call the library at 860-642-7763 or sign up at the adult circulation desk.

**This program has been postponed and will be rescheduled at a later date**

This program emphasizes the value of nature and rural places. 

Gwen Diane will be reading The Little House: Her Story, a classic children’s picture book by Virginia Lee Burton. This delightful book illustrates many changes that a house far out in the country witnesses over time with the turning seasons. Listeners will learn about the passage of time and thankfulness for what we now have.

Following the reading, participants of all ages can draw their favorite home in their own artistic style, using JTL's art supplies. If you'd like, you may bring a photo of the home you plan to draw, whether your own home or a home that you visit and love. We will also have copies of coloring sheets from the story book available.

Ages 4+; no pre-registration necessary.

Live animals at the library!

The Reptile Nook from Agawam, MA, returns to JTL with animal friends. Dive into learning about different reptile species with Master Herpetologist Jess, ask lots of questions, and have fun!

Meet Red the Uromastyx, Cream the corn snake, and Dahlia the Mexican Redknee Tarantula.

Join us for a multi-sensory story hour designed to engage young children through interactive storytelling, music, movement, and connecting with others. Led by Elena Fader Hurlburt, Speech-Language Pathologist, this program supports early literacy and communication development in a playful, inclusive environment. Target audience is ages 3-6, siblings welcome.

Summer dates: 6/2, 6/16, 6/30

Drop in for LEGO time with your friends, family, and community of builders. We'll have various creative prompts and you can put your work on display downstairs in Children's. 

If you have clean and sorted LEGO bricks you'd like to donate to JTL, please bring them in clear ziplock bags and our LEGO Leader will add them to our stash.

All ages welcome, duplos will be available for the youngest builders in the Play Corner.

Whether you already love to get your kids outdoors or you want to try more family outdoor adventures, this program will give you the information and ideas you need. We will start off with a pop quiz: “How many of the ranger's backpack essentials can you guess right away?” After we make our guesses, a TLGV Ranger will give advice on what to keep in your backpack for every outdoor adventure. They will also offer ideas for a “Go Kit” to keep in your car for unexpected opportunities for family outdoor fun.

Join members from The Last Green Valley to learn about what outdoorspeople keep in their packs. This is a multi-generational program.

Come practice your Story-telling and Art-working with local creator and library programmer Cailean. Together we will learn and share different techniques to create our own stories and art in all different forms. Bring something you're already working on or find inspiration at the library to create something new.

Ages 12+.

Color the Fair coloring sheets are due Tuesday, July 22 at the library!

The Lebanon Lions present Read & Win: Color the Fair!
Starting July 1st
This annual opportunity invites children to visit the library to pick up a coloring sheet provided by the Lebanon Lions Club, color it, and return it for display at the Lebanon Fair (July 25-27). 
Participants can win prizes!

Coloring submissions return date Tuesday, July 22.

Join us *twice a month this summer* for a morning story time with Shaleen Barrett, Occupational Therapist and Signing Time Certified Teacher. Join us for stories, felt board, songs, and best of all, PLAY!  Target audience is ages 3-6, siblings welcome.

Summer dates: 6/9, 6/23, 7/7, 7/21, 8/4, 8/18

Join us for a special all ages family read aloud of a classic fairy tale, The Plain Princess. We will meet in the Story Room to read and discuss this beautiful book published in 1945 with long-lasting enjoyment for all.

FOR ALL AGES 6 and up. It is a story of the main character's transformational journey in many ways, not just on the surface, from selfishness to selflessness, from haughty to kind and generous, from "plain" or ordinary, to beautiful. Is it true magic that causes the 3 different powerful magical transformations once for each of three months that the formerly "plain" girl lives in the cottage with the good widow and her 5 beautiful accomplished daughters?  Is it Love? Is it humility? Is it about finding the true meaning in life that changes one inwardly and outwardly? If one becomes a truly good person does that change how they look or how they are perceived? 

This is an especially thought provoking story for ages 6 to 18. Parents welcome to listen too. The story is not too short. It takes a captivating 35 minutes for Gwen to to read aloud with discussion to follow. Three are some lovely color illustrations that enhance the powerful story.

Join community member and Friend of the Library, Miss Jeannie, for three special summer story and craft programs. Wear clothes to get messy and meet downstairs in the Story Room first, then create artwork by Marcel or outside. 

Bring your own beloved stuffed animal to a classic Teddy Bear Picnic with Miss Jeannie on July 18!

Summer dates: Fridays at 11am; June 27, July 18, August 8

This summer, Lebanon Elementary School (LES) is partnering with the Jonathan Trumbull Library (JTL) by providing family read alouds!
Join Heather Lyon in the Pollinator Garden for story time. 
 
Rain/excessive heat location: Inside the Community Room

Join MG in the Pollinator Garden and out on the Green for a Big Blue Block Building Bonanza! We'll build and play with friends. Bring your own drink, snack, and picnic blanket for a cool-down read aloud.

In case of inclement weather, meet in the Community Room.

Interested in using JTL's 3D printer? Join our resident team of 3D Printers, Mr. John Flegert and teen volunteers, Aiden & Tristan, for an introductory workshop. You'll learn about how to find a file to print from Thingiverse.com or Printables.com, receive a demo and training on how to set up the printer, and schedule a time to print your creation here at the library. Registration required; sign up at the Adult Circ Desk. Space is limited.

Summer workshop dates:

July 2

July 9

July 16

Aug 6

Aug 13

This summer, Lebanon Elementary School (LES) is partnering with the Jonathan Trumbull Library (JTL) by providing family read alouds!
Join Jan Gervais in the Pollinator Garden for story time. 
 
Rain/excessive heat location: Inside the Community Room