Kids

Enjoy a day off school by building amazing Lego creations and meeting new friends.

A basic introduction to understanding and writing computer code. For ages 6-11. Registration required. Please email registrations to swevents@krl.org.

There is a lot of be discovered at the scene of a crime.  Learn how evidence is collected, preserved, and analyzed. For ages 6-11. Registration required. Please email registrations to swevents@krl.org.

Join us for a scientific investigation as we take a deeper look at the bugs living all around us. For ages 6-11. Registration required. Please email registrations to swevents@krl.org.

Creepy creatures! Moderately morbid monsters! Tentatively terrifying tours! Stop by the Library after hours for our second annual Haunted Library tours. All ages are welcome, but be warned, scares may abound. Costumes encouraged! Adults must accompany children on tours.

Enjoy not so spooky stories and rhymes. Afterwards, families are invited to go trick-or-treating at the different departments of the Library. Costumes encouraged, but not necessary. Please attend just one event time.

Enjoy not so spooky stories and rhymes. Afterwards, go trick-or-treating at the different departments of the Library. Costumes encouraged, but not necessary. Please attend just one event time.

Are you an aspiring writer? Do you love creating new worlds or sending characters on an adventure? Flex your creative muscles with fun writing prompts, share the stories you've been working on and try out new styles of writing. You will also be helping us work toward our very first Port Orchard Young Writers Anthology! We'll provide the snacks, you provide the creativity. Grades 3-8. Snacks generously funded by the Friends of the Port Orchard Library.

Do you love to read? Us too! If you're looking for your next great story, stop by the Tween Book Group. We will hand out the next book at each meeting, but if you miss it, just stop by the Children's Cove desk to pick up your copy. Snacks, discussion questions and activities will be organized by the Library. All you need to do is keep on reading! Grades 4-7 Snacks generously funded by the Friends of the Port Orchard Library.

Please join us for a special storytime for babies 0-18 months and their caregivers. We will encourage early literacy through rhymes, bounces, fingerplays, stories and songs. Stay and play with playgroup time after storytime.