Create some fun musical instruments to take home.

Drop-in event, £1 per child.

Suitable for children age 3+ (younger siblings are welcome)

Children must be accompanied.

Kindly sponsored by March Lions.

Join Vicki from Future Stars for a fun workshop of drama and singing, based on the Matilda musical.

Suitable for children aged 4-10, £3 per child. Places are limited and must be booked with cash at the library counter. 

Children must have a responsible adult stay in the building throughout the session.

Kindly sponsored by Metalcraft Community Fund.

Grab your colouring sheets, take inspiration from the images and follow the steps to create a music themed cubist masterpiece.

How bold will your design be?

Available during opening hours from 3rd to 8th August.

Join us for a fun, beginner-friendly, introduction to yarn craft. All materials will be provided.

Create colourful musical notes and help us build the first line of a song in our community artwork or make some notes to take home.

 Please reserve your place by visiting the library or emailing: BarHill.Library@cambridgeshire.gov.uk            £3 per family

 Starts at 10am.

Parents and guardians must remain on site.

In conjunction with Cambridgeshire County Council Waste Management team.

• Come and join us at your local library and make a musical shaker from a plastic bottle

• Join our professional chef and prepare a tasty fruit sundae

• Test your recycling knowledge with our fun bean bag game

• Make a plant pot from newspaper

• PLUS free drinks and refreshments

Grab your colouring sheets, take inspiration from the images and follow the steps to create a music themed cubist masterpiece.

How bold will your design be?

 Available during opening hours from 4th to 8th August.

Grab your colouring sheets, take inspiration from the images and follow the steps to create a music themed cubist masterpiece.

How bold will your design be?

 Available during opening hours from 4th to 8th August.

Join our FREE Digital Music Workshops and discover the exciting world of music creation using GarageBand.

Learn how to create beats, write songs, and bring your ideas to life in a fun, creative, and supportive environment. No experience is needed, and iPads are provided.

Children must be accompanied by an adult.

Come and have fun with rhymes. Nonsense poems, limericks, revolting rhymes, performance poetry, shape poems… write them, illustrate them and perform them! We can guide you as experiment with ideas in a structured way - and then you can get creative and play about with ideas of your own.

For ages 7 -11 years. £2.00 per child.

Children must be accompanied by an adult.

To reserve your place ask at the library desk, telephone 0345 045 5225 or email stives.library@cambridgeshire.gov.uk

Come along to our exciting ukulele lesson with 20Twenty and discover just how much fun making music can be.

No experience or equipment needed. Just bring your enthusiasm and get ready for a musical adventure!

Free event, suitable for children aged 8+

Places are limited and must be booked.

Join us every Wednesday morning for hands on summer craft session filled with colour, creativity and fun. Come make something brilliant and start your day with a spark of inspiration.

Please book in advance at the library desk. Suitable for children aged 4+

Children must be accompanied by an adult.

Creator of Super Happy Magic Forest, the hit CBBC show, Matty Long is coming back to Ely library. In his workshop he will demonstrate how to draw the characters from his Super Happy Magic Forest books step-by-step.

Suitable for children aged 5-8 years old.

£4 per child, adults must remain with their children.

Join us in a musical reading of The Gruffalo. This fun session will involve rapping and musical instruments for a special, interactive story time.

This event is designed for children age 3+. Parents/carers must stay with children at all times.

Free drop in session. Starts at 3.30pm

Join the Great Fen team for a really wild crafty adventure.

For ages 4 - 11 years. FREE event, donations welcome (Great Fen)

DROP IN!

Children must be accompanied by an adult.

For more information ask at library desk, telephone 0345 045 5225 or email stives.library@cambridgeshire.gov.uk

Join our FREE Digital Music Workshops and discover the exciting world of music creation using GarageBand.

Learn how to create beats, write songs, and bring your ideas to life in a fun, creative, and supportive environment. No experience is needed, and iPads are provided.

Children must be accompanied by an adult.

Join the Great Fen team for a really wild crafty adventure.

For ages 4 - 11 years. FREE event. Limited places.

Children must be accompanied by an adult.

To book your place ask at library desk, telephone 0345 045 5225 or email stives.library@cambridgeshire.gov.uk

Craft your own aquatic themed jar to take home.

Drop-in event, £1 per child.

Suitable for children age 3+ (younger siblings

 are welcome)

Children must be accompanied.

Come along to our exciting digital music workshop with 20Twenty.

Learn how to bring your ideas to life in a fun and supportive environment. No experience needed and iPads will be provided.

Free event, suitable for children aged 8+

Places are limited and must be booked.

Come and listen to St Neots Folk Club play local folk songs and get your little ones inspired to write their own stories!

Free to attend.

[Cover image shows a hand playing a guitar. Free image licence. Photo credit: Katherine Hanlon on Unsplash.]

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Craft your own fun sea creature to take home.

Drop-in event, £1 per child. Suitable for children age 3+ (younger siblings are welcome)

Children must be accompanied.

Kindly sponsored by March Lions.

Explore how music can be expressed visually. Using paint and sequins, add vibrant bursts of colour flowing from a trumpet image and represent sound in a lively, sparkling artwork.

Free, drop-in during opening hours. Suitable for ages 4+

Join us in a musical reading of The Gruffalo. This fun session will involve rapping and musical instruments for a special, interactive story time.

This event is designed for children age 3+. Parents/carers must stay with children at all times.

Free drop in session. Starts at 1.30pm

Join us for a one-off drop in session where Rhyme-time meets Story-time - with a musical twist. Come along for songs, stories and lots of toe-tapping fun!

Starts at 10am.

Free drop-in session. Aimed at children up to 6 years old.

Join us for a hands-on workshop where creativity meets caring for our planet!

· Reduce - Make a Fruit Sundae and learn how to reduce food waste at home.

· Reuse - Have fun throwing bean bags in our sorting game and see if you know what goes where in each of the bins.

· Recycle - Turn plastic bottles into colourful Maracas.

 Free drop-in event. Adult participation is encouraged.

Refreshments available 

All children must be accompanied by an adult.       

An afternoon of craft activities for children of all ages.

Drop in and join in the fun.

£1 per child.

Children must be accompanied by an adult.

Come along to our exciting digital music workshop with 20Twenty.

Learn how to bring your ideas to life in a fun and supportive environment. No experience needed and iPads will be provided.

Free event, suitable for children aged 8+

Places are limited and must be booked.

Come and create your own dinosaur costume with craft resources and recycled materials. Make masks, headbands, tails and dinosaur feet shapes with claws. You will be stomping and roaring all the way home!

Suitable for ages 5 - 11 years. £2.00 per child.

Children must be accompanied by an adult.

To reserve your place ask at library desk, telephone 0345 045 5225 or email stives.library@cambridgeshire.gov.uk

Pete Bradshaw, squire of Red Cuthbert Morris from Bedford and a morris dancer for over 30 years, discusses  that eternal question - What is morris dancing? He will trace the history of this folk custom in England from the middle ages to the present day, exploring its traditions and how they continuously evolve.

Free event, donations welcome.

To book your place, email stneots.library@cambridgeshire.gov.uk or ask at St Neots library.

Join us every Wednesday morning for hands on summer craft session filled with colour, creativity and fun. Come make something brilliant and start your day with a spark of inspiration.

Please book in advance at the library desk. Suitable for children aged 4+

Children must be accompanied by an adult.

Record a song in our state of the art recording booth. Age 8+, under 16s must be accompanied.

Please book a free 30 min slot at the counter. 

ONE song will be recorded up to three times to get the best take. It will then be produced and sent to you as an mp3 via email.

Any backing track must be emailed to: tom@20twentyproductions.co.uk by 6th August.

Come and create your own colourful sound collage based on the story ‘Here comes Frankie’ by Tim Hopgood. Be inspired by musical instruments and colourful artworks.

For ages 4 - 11 years. This is a FREE event kindly supported by Warboys Parish Council. Suggested donation £2.

DROP IN!

Children must be accompanied by an adult.

For more information ask at library desk, telephone 0345 045 5225 or email stives.library@cambridgeshire.gov.uk

Join Wisbech Art Club for an art workshop here at the Library.

This event is free.

All children must be accompanied by an adult.

Please book at the library help desk or Wisbech.library@cambridgeshire.gov.uk

Join us for a fun, beginner-friendly, introduction to yarn craft. All materials will be provided.

Create colourful musical notes and help us build the first line of a song in our community artwork or make some notes to take home.

 Please reserve your place by visiting the library or emailing: BarHill.Library@cambridgeshire.gov.uk£3 per family

10am Start.

Parents and guardians must remain on site.

Come and create your own dinosaur costume with craft resources and recycled materials. Make masks, headbands, tails and dinosaur feet shapes with claws. You will be stomping and roaring all the way home!

For ages 4 - 11 years. - Younger siblings welcome. £2.00 per child.

Children must be accompanied by an adult.

To book your place ask at library desk, telephone 0345 045 5225 or email stives.library@cambridgeshire.gov.uk

Join Vicki from Future Stars for a fun workshop of drama and singing, based on the Matilda musical.

Suitable for children aged 4-10, £3 per child. Places are limited and must be booked at the library counter. 

Children must have a responsible adult stay in the building throughout the session.

Kindly sponsored by March Town Council.

Create your own cress caterpillar to take home and look after.

Drop-in event, £1 per child.

Suitable for children age 3+ (younger siblings are welcome)

Children must be accompanied.

Enjoy board games? We have lots of games for all ages. Try something new, or play something you’re familiar with.

No need to book, come along and join in.

Come and join us at March Library for a Peppa Pig story time, craft and you can meet Peppa and have a photo taken with her!

There will also be a prize raffle

£2 per child, Children must be accompanied by an adult

Create your own cress caterpillar to take home and look after.

Drop-in event, £1 per child.

Suitable for children age 3+ (younger siblings are welcome)

Children must be accompanied.

Kindly sponsored by March Lions.

Grab your colouring sheets, take inspiration from the images and follow the steps to create a music themed cubist masterpiece.

How bold will your design be?

 Available during opening hours from 17th to 22nd August.

The fabulous Future Stars Youth Theatre presents a fin-packed, inspiring and active introduction to youth theatre with a workshop on the theme of Roald Dahl’s Matilda the Musical including a performance at 12:45 for parents

Suitable for children aged 4-11

£3 per child.

Limited places, booking at the desk is essential.

Children must be accompanied by an adult.

Step into the spotlight and get creative as you cut, layer, and collage your way to the ultimate popstar. Using magazines, patterned papers, and mixed media, design your favourite music artist, reinvent yourself as a superstar, or dream up a brand‑new icon bursting with personality.

Free drop-in session. Parents and guardians to remain on site. Aimed at ages 4+

Join us every Wednesday morning for hands on summer craft session filled with colour, creativity and fun. Come make something brilliant and start your day with a spark of inspiration.

Please book in advance at the library desk. Suitable for children aged 4+

£1 per child.

Children must be accompanied by an adult.

We'll be creating magical effects based around music, turning a bone into a trom-BONE, making music come from nowhere, using the magic flute to make wonderful things happen. In other words, lots of other amazing funny effects.

£4 per child.

suitable for age: 3-12 years old.

Spaces Limited- please book at the library help desk.

All children must be accompanied by an adult.

We'll be creating magical effects based around music, turning a bone into a trom-BONE, making music come from nowhere, using the magic flute to make wonderful things happen. In other words, lots of other amazing funny effects.

£4 per child.

suitable for age: 3-12 years old.

Spaces Limited- please book at the library help desk.

All children must be accompanied by an adult.

Come along and be entertained at this exciting and interactive magic show based around music.

Suitable for children age 3-12. £4 per child.

Please book in advance with cash at the library counter. Children must be accompanied.

Kindly sponsored by Metalcraft Community Fund.

Join us every Wednesday morning for hands on summer craft session filled with colour, creativity and fun. Come make something brilliant and start your day with a spark of inspiration.

Please book in advance at the library desk. Suitable for children aged 4+

Children must be accompanied by an adult.

Explore how artists have used musical instruments in their paintings and make your own collage inspired by our collection of REAL instruments!

Free drop-in session.

Come and create your own dinosaur costume with craft resources and recycled materials. Make masks, headbands, tails and dinosaur feet shapes with claws. You will be stomping and roaring all the way home!

Suitable for ages 4 - 11 years.

FREE event kindly supported by Warboys Parish Council. Suggested donation £2.00.

DROP IN!

Children must be accompanied by an adult.

For more information ask at library desk, telephone 0345 045 5225 or email stives.library@cambridgeshire.gov.uk

We'll be creating magical effects based around music, turning a bone into a trom-BONE, making music come from nowhere, using the magic flute to make wonderful things happen. In other words, lots of other amazing funny effects.

£4 per child.

suitable for age: 3-12 years old.

Spaces Limited- please book at the library help desk.

All children must be accompanied by an adult.

Calling all young music lovers aged 8 and over!

Come along to our exciting ukulele lessons at the local library and discover just how much fun making music can be.

Learn cool songs, make new friends, and build your confidence as you strum your way to becoming a ukulele superstar. No experience needed - just bring your enthusiasm and get ready for a musical adventure!

Children must be accompanied by an adult.

Craft your own fun sea creature to take home.

Drop-in event, £1 per child.

Suitable for children age 3+ (younger siblings are welcome)

Children must be accompanied.

Come along to our exciting ukulele lesson with 20Twenty and discover just how much fun making music can be.

No experience or equipment needed. Just bring your enthusiasm and get ready for a musical adventure!

Free event, suitable for children aged 8+

Places are limited and must be booked.

Join us in a musical reading of The Gruffalo. This fun session will involve rapping and musical instruments for a special, interactive story time.

This event is designed for children age 3+. Parents/carers must stay with children at all times.

Free drop in session. Starts at 10.30am

Come along and create your own princess and pirate using pencils, pens and collage.

Drop-in event, £1 per child.

Suitable for children age 3+ (younger siblings are welcome)

Children must be accompanied.

Kindly sponsored by March Lions.

Come and join our exciting LEGO Bridge Challenge!

Design, build, and test your own LEGO bridge to discover whose creation can hold the most weight. Put your engineering skills to the test and see if your bridge comes out on top!

For children aged 6+.

£2 per child. Book your place at St Neots Library.

Children must be accompanied by an adult.

Join us for a hands-on workshop where creativity meets caring for our planet.

Reduce - Make a Fruit Sundae and learn how to reduce food waste at home.

Reuse - Have fun throwing bean bags in our sorting game and see if you know what goes where in each of the bins.

Recycle - Turn plastic bottles into colourful musical Maracas.

Free event - Refreshments will be available.

Please reserve your place by visiting the library or emailing ely.library@cambridgeshire.gov.uk

Join us every Wednesday morning for hands on summer craft session filled with colour, creativity and fun. Come make something brilliant and start your day with a spark of inspiration.

Please book in advance at the library desk. Suitable for children aged 4+

£1 per child.

Children must be accompanied by an adult.

Colour, decorate and assemble your very own unique wooden windchime using beads, tubes and ribbons. Once completed, take it home, hang it up and let it make music in the breeze.

For ages 5 - 11 years. £2.00 per child.

Children must be accompanied by an adult.

To reserve your place ask at the library desk, telephone 0345 045 5225 or email stives.library@cambridgeshire.gov.uk.

Meet the grammar school master, find out what school was like in the 17th century, and take part in a lesson or two!

FREE - drop-in. No booking required. Suitable for ages 6+

Children must be accompanied by an adult.

For information please ask at Huntingdon Library, call 0345 045 5225, or email

Huntingdon.Library@cambridgeshire.gov.uk

This event kindly provided by the Cromwell Museum, Huntingdon.

Join us every Wednesday morning for hands on summer craft session filled with colour, creativity and fun. Come make something brilliant and start your day with a spark of inspiration.

Please book in advance at the library desk. Suitable for children aged 4+

Children must be accompanied by an adult.

Calling all young music lovers aged 8 and over!

Come along to our exciting ukulele lessons at the local library and discover just how much fun making music can be.

Learn cool songs, make new friends, and build your confidence as you strum your way to becoming a ukulele superstar. No experience needed - just bring your enthusiasm and get ready for a musical adventure!

Children must be accompanied by an adult.

Join us in a musical reading of The Gruffalo. This fun session will involve rapping and musical instruments for a special, interactive story time.

This event is designed for children age 3+. Parents/carers must stay with children at all times.

Free drop in session. Starts at 11.30am

Celebrate rhythm and rhyme, decorate your favourite nursery rhyme or pen your own poem. Design a frame for your masterpiece! We will be there to support and inspire.

For children 4-11 years.

FREE event kindly supported by Warboys Parish Council. Suggested donation £2.

DROP IN!

Children must be accompanied by an adult.

For more information ask at the library desk, telephone 0345 045 5225 or email stives.library@cambridgeshire.gov.uk

Come and make some wonderful bead art with our Hama beads!

£3 per child

Please book your space at the library help desk.

Suitable for age 5+

Children must be accompanied by an adult

Enjoy the magic of rhythm and rhyme as you decorate your favourite nursery rhymes or have a go at writing your very own poem. We will be there to support and inspire.

For ages 4-11 years. £2.00 per child.

Children must be accompanied by an adult.

To book your place ask at the library desk, telephone 0345 045 5225 or email stives.library@cambridgeshire.gov.uk

Come along and decorate your own princess and pirate using pencils, pens and collage.

Drop-in event, £1 per child.

Suitable for children age 3+ (younger siblings are welcome)

Children must be accompanied.

Come along and enjoy our Read to the Beat themed treasure hunt around the library with prizes to be won.

Free drop-in event, all ages welcome.

Children must be accompanied.

Come along and enjoy our Read to the Beat themed treasure hunt around the library with prizes to be won.

Free drop-in event, all ages welcome.

Children must be accompanied.

Come and discover the adventurous history of pioneer women aviators.

Tickets £3 from the library or contact BarHill.Library@cambridgeshire.gov.uk

Doors open at 7pm for refreshments.

Books will be available to purchase at the event

Join us for a quick spin around the world of beekeeping and honey gathering, from Neolithic man to the present day, as local beekeeper Colin Bell presents a short history of man and the honey bee.

FREE talk (donations welcome). Adults only.

Booking required. Please ask at Huntingdon Library, call 0345 045 5225, or email Huntingdon.Library@cambridgeshire.gov.uk

If you are looking to start tracing your family history and don’t know where to begin, or need some help with an elusive ancestor - do come and see our friendly volunteers from the Cambridgeshire and Huntingdonshire Family History Society. You never know what you might discover...

FREE Drop-in session.  No need to book.