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Sketch & Stretch

3:00pm–4:00pm
Children
Children
Upcoming
Registration Required
Library Branch: Plainview - Old Bethpage Public Library
Room: Combined Room A & B
Age Group: Children
Program Type: Children
Registration Required
Event Details:

Grades 2-4. Children will explore various yoga activities and painting techniques. Each participant will leave this program with a completed painted canvas. Dress for a mess.

Disclaimer(s)

Family Center Age Restrictions

  ALL PROGRAMS ARE AGE SPECIFIC. NO YOUNGER OR OLDER SIBLINGS UNLESS SPECIFIED. The library holds the right to remove a participant from a program if they do not meet the registration requirements.

*All programs start promptly and no one will be permitted after 10 minutes. Please call to cancel if your child cannot attend the program. Failure to do so will lead you to be placed on the waiting list for future programs.*

Regents Review Course Registration - (In Person Registration Only)

All Day
Tweens/Teens
Teens
Library Branch: Plainview - Old Bethpage Public Library
Room: Room B
Age Group: Teens
Program Type: Tweens/Teens
Event Details:

Grades 8-12.  In person registration begins for the Regents Review Courses.  Please bring a check made out to the Plainview-Old Bethpage Public Library.  

Pretzel Charcuterie

4:00pm–5:00pm
Tweens/Teens
Teens
Upcoming
Registration Required
Library Branch: Plainview - Old Bethpage Public Library
Room: Room A
Age Group: Teens
Program Type: Tweens/Teens
Registration Required
Event Details:

Grades 5-12.  Celebrate National Pretzel Day at the library.  Tweens and teens will use a soft warm pretzel as a base for a fun take on a charcuterie board.

ADULT OPEN GAME DAY

12:30pm–3:30pm
Community Group Meeting
Adults
Library Branch: Plainview - Old Bethpage Public Library
Room: Room B
Age Group: Adults
Program Type: Community Group Meeting
Event Details:

Welcome to Open Game Day. Please bring your own game and your group of four; we will supply a well lit room with a standard card table and chairs. One table per group. One reservation per POB resident.

ADULT OPEN GAME NIGHT

5:30pm–8:30pm
Community Group Meeting
Adults
Library Branch: Plainview - Old Bethpage Public Library
Room: Room B
Age Group: Adults
Program Type: Community Group Meeting
Event Details:

Welcome to Open Game Night. Please bring your own game and your group of four; we will supply a well lit room with a standard card table and chairs. One table per group. One reservation per POB resident.

L I PEIR Program

10:00am–11:15am
Community Group Meeting
Adults
Library Branch: Plainview - Old Bethpage Public Library
Room: Auditorium
Age Group: Adults
Program Type: Community Group Meeting
Event Details:

To meet 

ENGLISH CONVERSATION GROUP

10:30am–12:00pm
Community Group Meeting
Adults
Library Branch: Plainview - Old Bethpage Public Library
Room: Room E
Age Group: Adults
Program Type: Community Group Meeting
Event Details:

The course is designed to provide students with the necessary English skills to function in an English speaking country.

LI PEIR Program

12:15pm–1:30pm
Community Group Meeting
Adults
Library Branch: Plainview - Old Bethpage Public Library
Room: Auditorium
Age Group: Adults
Program Type: Community Group Meeting
Event Details:

To meet

AL-ANON OPEN DOOR FAMILY GROUP

7:30pm–8:45pm
Community Group Meeting
Adults
Library Branch: Plainview - Old Bethpage Public Library
Room: Combined Room C & D
Age Group: Adults
Program Type: Community Group Meeting
Event Details:

Support for Al-Anon

FILM-How to Lose a Guy in 10 Days-116 min., (PG-13), 2003

2:00pm–4:30pm
Adult Program
Adults
Library Branch: Plainview - Old Bethpage Public Library
Room: Auditorium
Age Group: Adults
Program Type: Adult Program
Event Details:

A journalist writing an article about repelling men is wooed by an appealing ad man out to prove his own charm. 

Starring Kate Hudson, Matthew McConaughey and Adam Goldberg.

Recovery International

7:30pm–9:00pm
Community Group Meeting
Adults
Library Branch: Plainview - Old Bethpage Public Library
Room: Combined Room C & D
Age Group: Adults
Program Type: Community Group Meeting
Event Details:

Learn and practice a simple set of living skills which encourage and improve personal growth.

Bookmark It! (Community Service Opportunity) (Craft to Go)

All Day
Crafts to Go, Tweens/Teens
Teens
Virtual Event
Library Branch: Plainview - Old Bethpage Public Library
Room: Online
Age Group: Teens
Program Type: Crafts to Go, Tweens/Teens
Event Details:

Grades 5-12.  Color and create fun bookmarks that will be displayed and given out to children who visit the Family Center.  All registered participants are asked to pick up a craft kit, in the Family Center, containing three&nb

Cards for Hospitalized Kids (Community Service Opportunity)

All Day
Tweens/Teens
Teens
Virtual Event
Library Branch: Plainview - Old Bethpage Public Library
Room: Online
Age Group: Teens
Program Type: Tweens/Teens
Event Details:

Grades 5-12.  Tweens and teens will have the opportunity to make cards, both holiday and all season, for children and teens receiving treatment in hospitals. 

Please read the card making guidelines below before you begin. 

Color a Smile (Community Service Opportunity)

All Day
Tweens/Teens
Teens
Virtual Event
Library Branch: Plainview - Old Bethpage Public Library
Room: Online
Age Group: Teens
Program Type: Tweens/Teens
Event Details:

Grades 5-12.  Tweens and teens will have the opportunity to earn community service credit by coloring for Color A Smile.  As described on the organizations website, "Color A Smile&

Helping Hands - Travel Size Toiletries for the INN (Community Service Opportunity)

All Day
Tweens/Teens
Teens
Library Branch: Plainview - Old Bethpage Public Library
Age Group: Teens
Program Type: Tweens/Teens
Event Details:

Grades 5-12.  Tweens and teens will have the opportunity to assist the guests of the Interfaith Nutrition Network (The INN) in Hempstead through our new travel size toiletry program.

Recycling Rocks (Community Service Opportunity)

All Day
Tweens/Teens
Teens
Virtual Event
Library Branch: Plainview - Old Bethpage Public Library
Room: Online
Age Group: Teens
Program Type: Tweens/Teens
Event Details:

Grades 5-12.  Turn cans and bottles into community service hours by returning deposit bottles to a local supermarket.  Simply return the cans and bottles and then email a photo of the bottle return receipt to familycenter@poblib.org.&nbs

Overeaters Anonymous

10:00am–11:30am
Community Group Meeting
Adults
Library Branch: Plainview - Old Bethpage Public Library
Room: Room E
Age Group: Adults
Program Type: Community Group Meeting
Event Details:

A fellowship of individuals who through shared experience, strength and hope are recovering from compulsive overeating and other eating disorders.

Play Hooray Family

10:00am–10:45am
Children
Babies & Toddlers, Children
Upcoming
Registration Required
Library Branch: Plainview - Old Bethpage Public Library
Room: Combined Room A & B
Age Group: Babies & Toddlers, Children
Program Type: Children
Registration Required
Event Details:

Ages 6 months to 5 years old with accompanying adult(s). This themed program includes rhymes, books, music, dancing, and other activities.


 

Disclaimer(s)

Family Center Age Restrictions

  ALL PROGRAMS ARE AGE SPECIFIC. NO YOUNGER OR OLDER SIBLINGS UNLESS SPECIFIED. The library holds the right to remove a participant from a program if they do not meet the registration requirements.

*All programs start promptly and no one will be permitted after 10 minutes. Please call to cancel if your child cannot attend the program. Failure to do so will lead you to be placed on the waiting list for future programs.*

Jumping Fish and Dragonfly (Craft to Go)

11:15am–7:00pm
Crafts to Go, Tweens/Teens
Teens
Upcoming
Registration Required
Virtual Event
Library Branch: Plainview - Old Bethpage Public Library
Room: Online
Age Group: Teens
Program Type: Crafts to Go, Tweens/Teens
Registration Required
Event Details:

Grades 5-12.  Create a unique work of art featuring a fish and a dragonfly.

Whale Painting on Mini Canvas - Craft to Go!

11:30am–7:00pm
Crafts to Go, Video, Children
Children
Upcoming
Registration Required
Virtual Event
Library Branch: Plainview - Old Bethpage Public Library
Room: Online
Age Group: Children
Program Type: Crafts to Go, Video, Children
Registration Required
Event Details:

Grades K-4. 

Children will have a whaley good time learning how to paint their own whale on a mini canvas. 

Disclaimer(s)

Family Center Age Restrictions

  ALL PROGRAMS ARE AGE SPECIFIC. NO YOUNGER OR OLDER SIBLINGS UNLESS SPECIFIED. The library holds the right to remove a participant from a program if they do not meet the registration requirements.

*All programs start promptly and no one will be permitted after 10 minutes. Please call to cancel if your child cannot attend the program. Failure to do so will lead you to be placed on the waiting list for future programs.*

Stormtrooper Cupcakes

2:00pm–3:00pm
Children
Children
Upcoming
Registration Required
Library Branch: Plainview - Old Bethpage Public Library
Room: Combined Room A & B
Age Group: Children
Program Type: Children
Registration Required
Event Details:

Grades K-4. Don't be a Rebel, try this out! Follow Chef Rob and learn how to create your own Stormtrooper cupcakes. 

Disclaimer(s)

Family Center Age Restrictions

  ALL PROGRAMS ARE AGE SPECIFIC. NO YOUNGER OR OLDER SIBLINGS UNLESS SPECIFIED. The library holds the right to remove a participant from a program if they do not meet the registration requirements.

*All programs start promptly and no one will be permitted after 10 minutes. Please call to cancel if your child cannot attend the program. Failure to do so will lead you to be placed on the waiting list for future programs.*

Caribbean Soft Chicken Tacos with Street Corn Slaw

3:30pm–4:30pm
Tweens/Teens
Teens
Upcoming
Registration Required
Library Branch: Plainview - Old Bethpage Public Library
Room: Combined Room A & B
Age Group: Teens
Program Type: Tweens/Teens
Registration Required
Event Details:

Grades 5-12.  Learn how to make this tasty dish.

Rock the Block

10:00am–10:45am
Children
Children
Upcoming
Registration Required
Library Branch: Plainview - Old Bethpage Public Library
Room: Combined Room A & B
Age Group: Children
Program Type: Children
Registration Required
Event Details:

Ages 2-4 with accompanying adult. Rock the Block program offers toys to provide the kids with the opportunity to be creative, improve fine and gross-motor skills, build, develop an appreciation for how things work, and all wh

Disclaimer(s)

Family Center Age Restrictions

  ALL PROGRAMS ARE AGE SPECIFIC. NO YOUNGER OR OLDER SIBLINGS UNLESS SPECIFIED. The library holds the right to remove a participant from a program if they do not meet the registration requirements.

*All programs start promptly and no one will be permitted after 10 minutes. Please call to cancel if your child cannot attend the program. Failure to do so will lead you to be placed on the waiting list for future programs.*

ADULT OPEN GAME DAY

12:30pm–3:30pm
Community Group Meeting
Adults
Library Branch: Plainview - Old Bethpage Public Library
Room: Room B
Age Group: Adults
Program Type: Community Group Meeting
Event Details:

Welcome to Open Game Day. Please bring your own game and your group of four; we will supply a well lit room with a standard card table and chairs. One table per group. One reservation per POB resident.