We are looking forward to hosting another inspirational Children’s Village in 2025!
Non-Stop Activities
PLAY, DRAW AND WRITE Help Story Tapestries fill our graffiti wall with your poetry, stories and visual images. Take home an image and a piece of writing you create with crayons, markers, colored pencils and shimmering glitter. Explore Lunes, 11-word poems, easy to write and a gift for anyone you give the poem to. Finally, leave our booth dancing to the tune of your stories with a piece of art and a book in your hands.
TYPEWRITING Tap into history! Visit the Activity Center to learn about the history of typewriters and how these incredible machines revolutionized writing before computers with Montgomery History.
SENSORY ACTIVITIES, ARTS & CRAFTS AND MUSICAL INSTRUMENTS to explore, compliments of Kiddie Academy of Gaithersburg.
MAKE FINGERPRINT FLOWERS to celebrate the Spring with VisArts.
GET CREATIVE WITH YOUR VOCABULARY Celebrate all things we love about great stories – words, images, characters and settings. Then come by and get silly with our fun word-lib game, and take part in art activities, pick up some free tattoos and stickers, and enter a raffle for a book bundle with An Open Book Foundation.
BE PART OF THE JOKE The National Museum of Language will share its new exhibit on jokes in many of the world’s languages, including the world’s oldest joke book, originally written in Greek, “The Philogelos,” which we have put into graphic story form. Join the fun by hearing and telling jokes from around the world.
CREATE GRATITUDE CRAFTS for all ages and look for book giveaways with Girl Scout Council of the Nation’s Capital.
PETE THE CAT, RHYMING GAMES, STORIES AND BOOKMARK-MAKING with Twinbrook Community Church and Twinbrook Christian Daycare.
JUMP INTO LITERATURE by creating bracelets, completing an obstacle course, and hearing books being read out loud with Coconut & Palm Pediatrics, LLC.
EXPLORE ART Stop by and make your own colorful kaleidoscope, an artist’s sketchbook and pick up your festival scavenger hunt list. And get a head start on Montgomery County Public Library’s 2025 Summer Reading Challenge by preregistering with us!
PRINTING PRESS PIZZAZZ Come learn how to use various printing presses to create your own unique art with Frederick Book Arts Center
MAKE YOUR MARK with reading-inspired coloring sheets, with colored pencils and crayons to draw with Imagination Library of Montgomery County.
CHALLENGE YOURSELF WITH CHESS Learn how to play chess or challenge a friend to a game with U.S Chess Center.
EXPLORE LITERATURE with Warrior Canine Connection. There will be color sheets made from a service dog reading book and an opportunity to use MadLibs to write your own story about a service dog. And don’t forget to visit the dog kissing booth.
“EARLY LEARNING IS ALL AROUND ME!” MOBILE LEARNING ADVENTURE with PNC. Interactive kiosks and the “When I Grow Up” station are highlights of this traveling exhibit.
