Story Hour with Shaleen
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
Read & Win: Color the Fair by July 22
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.
Storytelling and Creative Art with Cailean
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+.
What's In a Ranger's Pack? with TLGV
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.
Let's Go, LEGO!
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.
Story Hour with Elena
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
Reptile Nook
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.
The Little House: Her Story, with Gwen Diane
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.
Chemistry in Color *Registration required
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.
Story Hour with Shaleen
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
3D Printing Workshops *Registration required
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
Summer Story & Craft
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
Story Hour with Elena
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
3D Printing Workshops *Registration required
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
Art in the Afternoon
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.
Story Hour with Shaleen
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
Game & Pizza *Register
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.
Story Hour with Elena
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
Back-to-School Farmers' Market
Celebrate the end of the summer with Youth Services librarian MG across the street at the Lebanon Farmers Market!
All Ages Read Aloud: The Plain Princess
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.
Summer Story & Craft: Teddy Bear Picnic
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
LES Teacher Read-Alouds
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
Big Blue Block Building
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.
3D Printing Workshops
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
LES Teacher Read-Alouds
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
Storytelling and Creative Art with Cailean
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+.
Story Hour with Elena
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
Let's Go, LEGO!
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.
Drumming About You
Our library is going to sparkle.
BOB BLOOM is returning with his colorful cargo of lovable drums for us to get our hands onto. Together with Bob at the helm, we’ll get playful with some of the world’s most joyous songs.
Bob’s 100% participatory music has enlivened entire audiences at: Bushnell Center for the Performing Arts; Wadsworth Museum; New Haven International Festival of Arts and Ideas; New Year’s Eve “First Night Celebrations” in Hartford, Westport, Worcester, Providence, Boston.
Art in the Afternoon
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+.
July 11th focus: collage
Registration required, limited space and supplies. Call the library or stop in at the Adult Circulation desk to sign up.
3D Printing Workshops
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
LES Teacher Read-Alouds
This summer, Lebanon Elementary School (LES) is partnering with the Jonathan Trumbull Library (JTL) by providing family read alouds!
Join Mrs. Allaire & Mrs. Brochu in the Pollinator Garden for story time.
Rain/excessive heat location: Inside the Community Room
Storytelling and Creative Art with Cailean
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+.
Story Hour with Shaleen
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
3D Printing Workshops
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
Read & Win: Color the Fair 7/1-7/21
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 TBA.
Storytelling and Creative Art with Cailean
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+.
Story Hour with Elena
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
Summer Story & Craft
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
Story Hour with Shaleen
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
Fam Jam: Summer Solstice!
Welcome all families to jam together! Youth Services Librarian MG and her spouse, Jaron (guitar teacher at Waldron's Studio 88 in Mansfield), are excited to facilitate an all-ages singalong here at JTL! Bring your voices and instruments to make joyful noise.
Big Collaborative Art & Big Blue Blocks
Come make some art with us on big paper with markers!
Come build with big blue blocks!
Let’s celebrate the beginning of summer and summer reading at the library out on the Green.
Reptile Nook
Reptile Nook visits and hangs out in the Pollinator Garden with a few animals. Stop by and say hello!
Welcome to Summer Reading
Summer Reading activities begin today!
This year’s theme is “Level Up at Your Library,” so get ready for some fun and games.
We’ll have all kinds of fun programs, special summer reading books on display, and prizes youth can collect after completing different ways to read throughout the summer.
Youth Summer Reading: Sign up any day during the summer to pick up your Ways to Read tracker. Youth prizes will be available from June 21 until September 5, 2025 (last day to enter for a grand prize).
Adult Summer Reading: Participate by reading and reviewing books between June 21 & September 5. Each review will earn you an entry into a drawing for a grand prize.
Our programs kick-off on Saturday, June 21 with a variety of Welcome to Summer Reading Activities!
Join us outside on June 21 for:
10am-1pm: Building Resilient Community w/ Grain Milling; Big Collaborative Art Making; and Big Blue Blocks
10am-12pm: Reptile Nook & reptile friends will be here!
12pm-1pm: Fam Jam: Summer Solstice in the Pollinator Garden
Last Day of Summer Reading
Last day to submit your tickets for the Summer Reading raffle!
Kids, bring your completed Ways to Read tracking sheet, a.k.a. “golden ticket” to the library before the library closes on Friday, August 16, 2024.
Adults, this is the last day to submit tickets for the Summer Reading raffle.
Winners will be contacted directly. You do not need to be present to win!
LES Teacher Read Alouds
Join the wonderful teachers from Lebanon Elementary School outside the library, in the Pollinator Garden for summer read alouds.
This week's reader: Jennifer Loura
Rain or excessive heat will bring us inside the library to the Story Room.
Neighborhood of Make-Believe
Hi, Neighbor! Join MG for a special summer program series where we will explore the most important work of childhood: play.
We'll dive into the world of Mister Rogers Neighborhood through viewing clips from his acclaimed television series and activities on the same theme.
This program is for children ages 4-6 and their caregivers.
Space is limited, registration required.
Register for this program:
LES Teacher Read Alouds
Join the wonderful teachers from Lebanon Elementary School outside the library, in the Pollinator Garden for summer read alouds.
This week's reader: Heather Lyon
Rain or excessive heat will bring us inside the library to the Community Room or Story Room.