Santa Clarita Public Library

🪴 Find your calm one grain of sand at a time ✨

Adults are invited to create their own mini Zen garden during a relaxing hands-on craft at Valencia Branch. Design a peaceful miniature landscape using sand, stones and simple decorative elements. Materials will be provided while supplies last.

📍 Location: Valencia Branch
📅 Date: Thursday, June 18
⏰ Time: 5:30 - 6:30 p.m.

🍽️ A delicious challenge is heating up! 🌋

Join us for Top Chef Jr. where kids will have 30 minutes to sculpt, shape and build their own volcano using food before creating an explosive reaction. Will your volcano nail it or will it be chopped?

📍 Location: Valencia Branch
📅 Date: Wednesday, June 17
⏰ Time: 4:00-5:00 p.m.

This free program is available while supplies last.

Come to Newhall Branch to create jewelry inspired by ancient insects preserved in amber. 🪳🔶 Using ethically sourced real bugs, tinted resin and UV light, you’ll craft a prehistoric keepsake that looks freshly unearthed from a dig site! 🪳🔶

📍 Location: Old Town Newhall
📅 Date: Tuesday, June 16
⏰ Time: 5:30-6:30 pm

🔍Supplies are limited—don’t miss your chance to excavate something timeless!💎

🦕 Dig into a prehistoric adventure! 🦴

Walk into an excavation site filled with dinosaur skeletons and dino discoveries. Children ages 3-12 can meet someone who worked at the La Brea Tar Pits, create a dinosaur tail and join in fun tail games.

📍 Location: Valencia Branch
📅 Date: Wednesday, June 10
⏰ Time: 4:00 - 5:00 p.m.

🌿 Make art with ancient inspiration! 🦴

Get creative with pressed leaf designs and fossil-inspired art using real plants and natural materials. Teens in grades 6 to 12 can make cool imprints and create artwork inspired by the ancient world.

📍 Location: Old Town Newhall Branch
📅 Date: Wednesday, June 10
⏰ Time: 3:30-4:30 p.m.

This free program is available while supplies last.

🦕 Create a dinosaur masterpiece! 🌈

Use colorful Perler beads to design your own pixel-style dinosaur, then fuse it and take home a prehistoric creation you made yourself.

📍 Location: Valencia Branch
📅 Date: Tuesday, June 9
⏰ Time: 3:30-4:30 p.m.

This free program is available while supplies last.

Join us at Old Town Newhall Branch for a free Plan with Peace workshop led by Certified Pre-Planning Advisor Martin Murphy. Learn how thoughtful end-of-life planning can help honor your wishes while easing stress for loved ones. Attendees will also receive a complimentary Personal Planning Guide.

📍 Location: Old Town Newhall Branch
📅 Date: Saturday, May 30
⏰ Time: 1:00 p.m.–2:00 p.m.

Parking will be limited due to the Farmers Market. Please consider using the Old Town Newhall Parking Structure at 22551 9th St, Santa Clarita, CA 91321.

A story shared across the coast ✨

Join us tomorrow at Old Town Newhall Branch for One Book, One Coast as we commemorate George Takei’s They Called Us Enemy. Explore the powerful biographical artistry of Takei and illustrator Harmony Becker then create your own life-inspired illustrations through art and self-reflective storytelling.

📍 Location: Old Town Newhall Branch
📅 Date: Friday, May 22
⏰ Time: 4:30-5:30 p.m.

One Book, One Coast is co-sponsored by the Los Angeles Public Library and the LA County Library and brings together numerous library systems across the West Coast.

🪨 Create a little friend to take home!

Join us tomorrow to decorate your own pet rock and make a one-of-a-kind keepsake to keep around.

📍 Location: Canyon Country Jo Anne Darcy Branch
📅 Date: Wednesday, May 13
⏰ Time: 6:00-7:00 p.m.

This free program is available while supplies last.