Drawing with Jason Chin!
Make your own handstitched book dummy.
Library Events Calendar
BOARD Game on!
Screen free BOARD GAME On!
Author Event with Jason Chin!
Hurricane is the new book from Award Winning Author & Illustrator Jason Chin
Teen Open Mic Poetry Night
Middle and high school students perform poetry with professional poet.
Author Event: Dan Nott
Dan Nott discusses his nonfiction graphic novel, Hidden Systems: Water, Electricity, the Internet, and the Secrets Behind the Systems We Use Every Day
Kawaii Culture in Japan and Beyond
Join us for a talk about the past and present of "Kawaii" culture.
CANCELED-KIDS Great Jigsaw Puzzle Race
KIDS Great Jigsaw Puzzle Race - 8 teams race to the finish!
KIDS Great Jigsaw Puzzle Race! SIGN UP!
KIDS Great Jigsaw Puzzle Race - 8 teams race to the finish!
Kids Chess Club
Kids ages 5 and up play chess independently in the Marabella Kidspace
Popcorn and a movie! Drive-in Movie Theater in the Marabella Kidspace!
Make a car, watch a movie and have some popcorn!
Anti-Racist Storytime
January 25, at 10:00am, Vermont Student Anti-Racism Network presents a storytime in the Marabella Kidspace at the South Burlington Public Library
Your Brain on ART: Musical mark-making featuring the music of Black American jazz artists.
Make art as we move and explore the music of Black American jazz greats!
Award Winning Author Katherine Paterson introduces her new book
New picture book biography from Award Winning Author Katherine Paterson!
Author Event with Liza Woodruff ~Phil's Big Day: A Groundhog's Story
Phil's Big Day: A Groundhog's Story
Fire Safety Storytime
Fire Safety Storytime with Michelle Collins, Firefighter/AEMT, Fire Prevention Coordinator
Kids' Puzzle Swap
Trade kids puzzles 24 to300 pieces
Kids' Puzzle Swap
Trade kids puzzles 24 to 300 pieces
Friday Movie in the Auditorium: Muppet Treasure Island
The Muppets are back in action as they sail the high seas in their own twist of the classic tale by Robert Louis Stevenson.
School Vacation Movie in the Auditorium: Walt Disney's Moana
Walt Disney's Moana is an animated movie from 2016.
School Vacation Movie in the Auditorium: Walt Disney's The Secret World of Arrietty
The Walt Disney's 2010 movie The Secret World of Arrietty is Adapted from the 1952 Mary Norton novel, The Borrowers.
Friday Movie in the Auditorium: Alice in Wonderland
All star cast! 1999 made-for-television film adaptation
Friday Movie in the Auditorium: How the Grinch Stole Christmas!
Classic Chuck Jones' animated How the Grinch Stole Christmas
Friday Movie in the Auditorium: Chitty Chitty Bang Bang
Chitty Chitty Bang Bang is a 1968 children's musical fantasy film.
School Vacation Craftytown! Celebrating Ashley Bryan
Visit us at the library and make a craft in the Katie O'Brien Activity Room!
School Vacation Craftytown! Watercolor Self Portraits
Visit us at the library and make a craft in the Katie O'Brien Activity Room!
School Vacation Craftytown! Perler Beads
Visit us at the library and make a craft in the Katie O'Brien Activity Room!
School Vacation Craftytown! Stick Season Wands
Visit us at the library and make a craft in the Katie O'Brien Activity Room!
School Vacation Craftytown! Jointed Cardboard Animals
Visit us at the library and make a craft in the Katie O'Brien Activity Room!
School Vacation Craftytown! Sparkly Things
Visit us at the library and make a craft in the Katie O'Brien Activity Room!
Cozy Family Storytime
Wear your cozy pajamas to Family Storytime!
Family Storytime
Family Storytime celebrates the Freedom to Read!
Craftytown! Collage inspired by Romare Bearden
Collage inspired by the works of Romare Bearden
Craftytown! Make a Unicorn
Make your own freestanding Unicorn!
Craftytown! Spring Sheep
Make your own flock of sheep
Craftytown! Make a Peg Doll Bunny
Make your Make a Peg Doll Bunny with Carrot bunting
Craftytown! Paper Map Bird
Where on the map is your bird from?
Craftytown! Make a Superhero
Make your own Poseable Superhero!
Craftytown! Make a Tissue Paper Lantern!
Make your own Tissue Paper Lantern!
Craftytown! Make a Fa La LLama
Make your own Fa La LLama!
Craftytown! Make a Clothespin Skier
A colorful skier takes to the slopes!
Craftytown! Make a Superhero
Make your own Poseable Superhero!
Barbie Zombification!
Barbie Zombification!
Dad Guild Library Play Group
Dad Guild Play Group at the South Burlington Public Library
Half Day Craftytown! Paper Heart Garland
It's Hafty Crafty Day! Early release from school- Come to the library and craft with us!
Half Day Craftytown! Stencil Stamping
It's Hafty Crafty Day! Early release from school- Come to the library and craft with us!
Half Day Craftytown! Paper Petal Mosaics
It's Hafty Crafty Day! Early release from school- Come to the library and craft with us!
Half Day Craftytown!
Arts & Crafts for Elementary students
Half Day Craftytown!
Arts & Crafts for Elementary students
Half Day Craftytown!
Arts & Crafts for Elementary students
Half Day Craftytown!
It's Hafty Crafty Day! Early release from school- Come to the library and craft with us!
Half Day Craftytown! Pinecone Fairy
It's Hafty Crafty Day! Early release from school- Come to the library and craft with us!
Middle School Makers: Arts & Crafts
Bring a friend and join us for some arts and crafts fun!
Middle School Makers: Arts & Crafts
Bring a friend and join us for some arts and crafts fun!
Middle School Makers: Arts & Crafts
Bring a friend and join us for some arts and crafts fun!
Middle School Makers: Arts & Crafts
Bring a friend and join us for some arts and crafts fun!
Middle School Makers: Arts & Crafts
Bring a friend and join us for some arts and crafts fun!
Middle School Makers: Arts & Crafts
Bring a friend and join us for some arts and crafts fun!
CANCELED: Solve the Mystery~ "A Who-Dun-It?" Adventure!
Can you Solve the MYSTERY? "A Who-Dun-It?" Adventure for kids in grades 4 and up!
Stuffy Sleepover Drop-off
Stuffed animals have their own sleepover adventure in the library!
Stuffy Sleepover Pick-Up
Stuffed animals have their own sleepover adventure in the library!
Game Changers!
Game Changers! Board Games for grades 4 and up!
CANCELED-Farmers' Ball for ages 3-7
Farmers' Ball- A tea party for farmers, gardeners and growers! Ages 3-7
Summer Reading Craftytown! 10am Session
Adventure Boxes
Summer Reading Craftytown! 4pm Session
Bird Books
Summer Reading Craftytown! 10am Session
Seed Bombs!
Summer Reading Craftytown! 10am Session
Bird Books
Summer Reading Craftytown! 10am Session
Rock Bags
Summer Reading Craftytown! 4pm Session
rock bags
Summer Reading Craftytown! 4pm Session
seed bombs
Summer Reading Craftytown! 4pm Session
Adventure Boxes
Summer Reading Craftytown!
Rock On! Geology in our Green Mountain state with Master Naturalist Fred Kosnitsky
Summer Reading Craftytown!
Natural Dyeing with Indigo and Local Color Farmer Karen Cornish!
Summer Reading Craftytown!
Bug Hotel
Summer Reading Craftytown!
Joe Frogger cookies for Juneteenth!
Summer Reading Program Kick-Off Event!
Author Event ~How to Make a Mountain: In Just 9 Simple Steps and Only 100 Million Years! by Amy Huntington
Classical Encounters: Chamber Music Fellows' Recital
Green Mountain Chamber Music presents Classical Encounters in the South Burlington Public Library Auditorium
Friday Movie: Big Kids Productions & Vermont Story Works’ Let’s Go to the Farm
Big Kids Productions & Vermont Story Works’ Let’s Go to the Farm
Friday Movie: Walt Disney Pixars' A Bug's Life
A misfit ant, looking for "warriors" to save his colony from greedy grasshoppers, recruits a group of bugs that turn out to be an inept circus troupe.
Friday Movie: Walt Disney Pixars' Wall E
In the distant future, a small waste-collecting robot inadvertently embarks on a space journey that will ultimately decide the fate of mankind.
Friday Movie: Walt Disney's Bedknobs and Broomsticks
Bedknobs and Broomsticks is a 1971 American musical fantasy film based on the book by Mary Norton.
Natural Resources Committee Wildlife table
The Library is hosting the Natural Resources Committee in sharing information about spring wildlife and babies in your yard and what to do with them.
Build a Kinetic Sculpture for the Bike Path!
Middle and High School students are invited to build a kinetic sculpture with artist and educator Katie O'Brien!
Space Movies Saturday: Wall-E
In the distant future, a small waste-collecting robot inadvertently embarks on a space journey that will ultimately decide the fate of mankind.
Stories from the Vermont Queer Archives
See the objects that mark milestones in Vermont's queer history and hear the stories that go with them.
Summer Babytime -9:15am
Babytime for non-mobile infants and their adult caregivers.
Babytime
Babytime for non-mobile infants and their adult caregivers.
Paper Bag Princess Day!
Stand up to Dragons on Paper Bag Princess Day!
Baby Dedication Books and Brunch
Welcome to all new South Burlington babies
Toddler Stay and Play
Free play and social time just right for Toddlers and their caregivers.
Musical Storytime with Ms. Liz
Musical Storytime for infants to age 4!
Read to a Dog!
Read to Emma the Therapy Dog
Read to a Dog!
Read to Emma the Therapy Dog
Chanukah "Pajama" Storytime
Chanukah "Pajama" Storytime with Mazal Fernandez-Portnow from Gan Yeladim Preschool.
Storybook Craftytown
Storybook Craftytown: Crafts Inspired by favorite kids books
Vacation Craftytown! Yarn Collage Painting
Paint with colorful yarns!
Vacation Craftytown! Puzzle Piece Art
Make art with a mix or puzzle pieces
Vacation Craftytown! Doodle and Paint
Free Play Doodle and Watercolor Painting
Vacation Craftytown! Spiral Flower Weaving
Create your own woven flower!
Friday Movie in the Auditorium: Frozen 2
Walt Disney's Frozen 2
Friday Movie in the Auditorium: Princess and the Frog
Disney's Princess and the Frog
Friday Movie in the Auditorium: My Neighbor Totoro
My Neighbor Totoro is a 1988 Japanese animated fantasy film written and directed by Hayao Miyazaki and animated by Studio Ghibli for Tokuma Shoten.
Friday Movie in the Auditorium: Sword in the Stone
Walt Disney's Sword in the Stone
Friday Movie in the Auditorium: Polar Express
Warner Brothers Polar Express
Friday Movie in the Auditorium: Willy Wonka
Warner Bros. Willy Wonka and the Chocolate Factory
Friday Movie in the Auditorium: Winnie the Pooh
Disney's Winnie the Pooh
Friday Movie in the Auditorium: March of the Penguins
It took one year for the two isolated cinematographers Laurent Chalet and Jérôme Maison to shoot the documentary, which was shot around the French scientific base of Dumont d'Urville in Adélie Land.
Friday Movie in the Auditorium: Walt Disney's Meet the Robinsons
Walt Disney's Meet the Robinsons based on the book A Day with Wilbur Robinson by William Joyce
Friday Movie in the Auditorium: Walt Disney Pixar's Cars
Walt Disney Pixar's Cars is set in a world populated entirely by anthropomorphic vehicles.
Friday Movie in Kids' Activity Room: Universal Studio's Despicable Me
In a happy suburban neighborhood surrounded by white picket fences with flowering rose bushes, sits a black house with a dead lawn.
Pop-Up Halloween Family Storytime
Miss Alexa Leads a not-too-spooky Halloween Storytime for kids and caregivers
Game On!
Join us in the Activity Room for some gaming with our Nintendo Switch on the big screen!
Game On! is Canceled 3/5/2025
Join us in the Activity Room for some gaming with our Nintendo Switch on the big screen!
Game On! Holiday Hours
Join us in the Activity Room for some gaming with our Nintendo Switch on the big screen!
Game On CANCELED
Join us in the Activity Room for some gaming with our Nintendo Switches on the big screen!
REGISTRATION IS CLOSED. WE ARE AT CAPACITY Author event with Tracey West!
New York Times Bestselling Author Tracey West comes to Vermont!
Author event with Joe Roman!
Eat, Poop, Die; How Animals Make Our World- NAMED A TOP-TEN BEST BOOK OF 2023 BY SCIENTIFIC AMERICAN
Author event with Angela Burke Kunkel!
Read & Paint with Local Author Angela Kunkel
Free Play Art! Printing
We supply the materials, you bring the fun!
Free Play Art! Painting with Feathers
We supply the materials, you bring the fun!
Free Play Art! Block Printing
We supply the materials, you bring the fun!
Free Play Art! Rainbow Drawing
We supply the materials, you bring the fun!
Craftytown! Still Life Watercolor Painting
Looking closely at flowers and painting with watercolors.
Craftytown! Name Bunting
Make a paper Name Bunting to hang on your wall.
Craftytown! Ribbon Fairy Wands
Welcome Summer with your own Ribbon Fairy Wands
Craftytown! Make a Woodland Gnome
A Woodland Gnome peg doll with an acorn cap and gunnysack
Craftytown! Make Toadstool house and Pegdoll
Make a Pegdoll that will live in a Toadstool house
Craftytown! Sew a Candy Corn Stuffie!
A Soft Squishy Candy Corn that won't give you cavities.
Craftytown! Make a Yarnbird
A fanciful bird to hang inside
Craftytown! Sew a Heart Sachet
Hand-sew a Heart Sachet filled with fragrant dried herbs.
Craftytown! Sew a Bird
Hand-sew a Bird
Craftytown! Clothespin People
New friends await to meet you! Come on in and make a couple of Clothespin People.
Kids Book Club for K-2
A book club for our young readers and their parents!
Kids Book Club for K-2- CANCELED FOR TODAY
A book club for our young readers and their parents!
Kids Book Club for K-2
A book club for our young readers and their parents!
Kids Book Club for K-2
A book club for our young readers and their parents!
Kids Book Club for K-2
A book club for our young readers and their parents!
Kids Book Club for K-2
A book club for our young readers and their parents!
Craftsbury Chamber Players
Join members of the Kompass Quartet to explore what makes the classical string quartet such a magical and enduring ensemble. The program includes music of multiple eras and styles from the quartet's beginnings to current trends. This interactive performance includes music of Beethoven, Haydn, Coleridge-Taylor, and more. Light refreshments to follow.
August Pop-Up Activities! Perler Beads
Perler Bead Craft
August Pop-Up Activities! Space and Solar System Activities
Space and Solar System Activities
Spanish Playdate with Lainie
Join us for Citas de Juego.
Classical Encounters: Chamber Music Fellows' Recital
Green Mountain Chamber Music presents Classical Encounters in the South Burlington Public Library Auditorium
Litter Pick-Up
Pick up litter and make our community a little brighter.
802 Reptiles
A live python experience in the SBPL Community Room
See It Sketch It Bird It: Draw & Learn
In this interactive program, Birds of Vermont Museum staff will use bird carvings and other items to teach you techniques for sketching birds that will ultimately help you become a better birder (and sketcher!)
Fancy Pants Tea Party
Princes and Princesses welcome! Bring your fanciest manners and wear your best dress-up outfit.
Dance Party in the Auditorium!
Bring a friend and wear your dancing shoes!
Readers' Theater
Using scripts and simple props, we will perform a folktale in one afternoon! For able readers in grades 2-5.
Kazoo Jam Band
Drop in for some community Music making!
Summer Reading Craftytown! - Puzzle Pieces
Weekly Summer Program for kids grades Kindergarten and up with an adult helper.
Summer Reading Craftytown! - Our Four-Legged Friends
Weekly Summer Program for kids grades Kindergarten and up with an adult helper.
Summer Reading Craftytown! - Kindness Rocks
Weekly Summer Program for kids grades Kindergarten and up with an adult helper.
Summer Reading Craftytown! - Friendship Bracelets
Weekly Summer Program for kids grades Kindergarten and up with an adult helper.
Summer Reading Craftytown! - Art from the Heart
Weekly Summer Program for kids grades Kindergarten and up with an adult helper.
Summer Reading Craftytown! - Pretzel Love Knots
Weekly Summer Program for kids grades Kindergarten and up with an adult helper. Today we will be making homemade pretzels.
Summer Reading Craftytown! - Field Guide to YOU!
Weekly Summer Program for kids grades Kindergarten and up with an adult helper. Today we will be making books.
Baby Social Time
Baby Social Time for infants birth to 12 months and their caregivers.
Family Storytime
Family Storytime for ages infant-5 with adult caregiver
Lyric Theater presents Elephant and Piggie "We are in a Play!"
Elephant & Piggie’s “We Are in a Play!” will have the entire family dancing and cheering!
Lyric Theater presents Elephant and Piggie "We are in a Play!"
Elephant & Piggie’s “We Are in a Play!” will have the entire family dancing and cheering!
Middle School Makers: Arts & Crafts - Kindness Rocks
Middle School Makers for students in Grades 5-8
Middle School Makers: Cooking - Coffee Cake Muffins
Cooking for Middle school students grade 4-8
Middle School Makers: Arts & Crafts - Painted Sunflower Pot
Today we will be painting a pot for a sunflower. Participants will take home soil and a sunflower seed to plant.
Middle School Makers: Cooking - Spinach Pie Fritters
Cooking for Middle school students grade 4-8
Middle School Makers: Cooking - Pot Stickers
Cooking for Middle school students grade 4-8
Middle School Makers: Cooking
Cooking for Middle school students grade 5-8
Middle School Makers: Cooking
Cooking for Middle school students grade 5-8
Middle School Makers: Cooking
Cooking for Middle school students grade 5-8
Middle School Makers: Cooking
Cooking for Middle school students grade 5-8
Middle School Makers: Cooking
Cooking for Middle school students grade 5-8
Middle School Makers: Cooking
Cooking for Middle school students grade 5-8
Middle School Makers: Cooking- Waffles
Cooking for Middle school students grade 4-8
Middle School Makers: Cooking
Cooking for Middle school students grade 5-8
Middle School Makers: Cooking
Cooking for Middle school students grade 4 & up
Middle School Makers: Cooking
Cooking for Middle school students grade 4-8
Middle School Makers: Cooking
Cooking for Middle school students grade 4-8
Middle School Makers: Cooking
Middle school students grade 5-8 cook mac 'n cheese
Middle School Makers: Cooking - Tacos
Cooking for Middle school students grade 4-8
Middle School Makers: Cooking - World Peace Cookies
Cooking for Middle school students grade 4-8
Middle School Pizza and a Movie: The Princess Bride
Pizza and Movies for Middle school students grade 5-8
Middle School Pizza and a Movie: E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial
Pizza and Movies for Middle school students grade 5-8
Middle School Makers: Cooking -Apple Popover
Cooking for Middle school students grade 4-8
Middle School Pizza and a Movie: Onward
Pizza and Movies for Middle school students grade 5-8
Middle School Makers: Cooking
Cooking for Middle school students grade 4-8
Middle School Makers: Cooking
Middle school students grade 5-8 cook Spring Rolls
Middle School Makers: Cooking
Middle school students grade 4-8 Make and decorate sugar cookies
Middle School Makers: Cooking
Middle school students grade 5-8 Make Maple Bacon Popovers
Middle School Makers: Cooking
Middle school students grade 4-8 Make Upside Down Onion Tart
Middle School Makers: Cooking -Veggie Burgers
Cooking for Middle school students grade 4-8
Middle School Pizza and a Movie: Inside Out
Pizza and Movies for Middle school students grade 5-8
Middle School Makers: Cooking - Pretzel Love Knots
Cooking for Middle school students grade 5-8
Friday Movie in the Auditorium: Whisper of the Heart
A love story between a girl who loves reading books, and a boy who has previously checked out all of the library books she chooses.
Friday Movie in the Auditorium: Tale of Despereaux
The main plot follows the adventures of a mouse named Despereaux Tilling, as he sets out on his quest to rescue a beautiful human princess from the rats. The book won the 2004 Newbery Medal award.
Friday Movie in the Auditorium: Muppets take Manhattan
The Muppets Take Manhattan is a 1984 American musical comedy-drama film directed by Frank Oz and the third theatrical film featuring the Muppets.
Friday Movie in the Auditorium: Ratatouille
Set mostly in Paris, the plot follows a young rat Remy (Oswalt) who dreams of becoming a chef at Auguste Gusteau's restaurant.
Friday Movie in the Auditorium: Toy Story
A cowboy doll is profoundly threatened and jealous when a new spaceman action figure supplants him as top toy in a boy's bedroom.
Friday Movie in the Auditorium: Shrek
Shrek is a 2001 American computer-animated fantasy comedy film loosely based on the 1990 children's picture book of the same name by William Steig.
Friday Movie in the Auditorium: Secret Garden
A young, recently-orphaned girl is sent to England after living in India all of her life.
Friday Movie in the Auditorium: Frozen
Walt Disney Animation Studios, the studio behind "Tangled" and "Wreck-It Ralph," presents "Frozen," a stunning big-screen comedy adventure.
Friday LEGO Builders
Come and check out our massive collection of LEGO!
Friday LEGO Builders CANCELED TODAY
CANCELED TODAY Come and check out our massive collection of LEGO!
First Thursdays: Music and Movement with Miss Emma
Miss Emma music and movement for kids. Singing, scarf play, movement and jam session.
Toddlertime- 9:15am Session
A weekly storytime for toddlers and their caregivers!
Toddlertime- 10:30am Session
A weekly storytime for toddlers and their caregivers!
