Events Calendar

Design your own custom wrestling mask.

Learn tips and tricks of the trade to create a unique and terrifying look for your spooky Halloween events.

Learn the art of papermaking.

Enjoy a weekly drop-in program intended for kids aged 5-11, including activities like brick building, crafts, games, and more.

Come Crochet with us!

Books, Hooks, & Needles!

Join us to make compost seed bombs filled with California-native wildflower seeds.

Join us for a chill hangout where LGBTQIA+ teens and allies can come together to share interests and connect! This month we will be painting.

Join us for a not-so-spooky Halloween story and craft!

Get creative and celebrate this season with a fun Halloween craft at the library!

Kids will paint with acrylic paints to create a masterpiece.

Make Calaveras to celebrate the Day of the Dead, a popular Mexican Holiday. Geared for ages 10 and older, but all ages are invited!

Crafts for ages 1-4!

Take some time for your creative pursuits and chat with fellow art-makers in this virtual studio hour. Please bring whatever creative project you're working on, or if you need an art prompt, we will provide one.

Come learn how to sew or use our sewing machines to finish a project. You can also bring your embroidery, crochet, or knitting project.

Join us for an exciting workshop where participants will learn the basics of nature journaling and create a page to submit to the LA Nature Quest journaling contest!

We will bring out hundreds of blocks and participants can stretch their imaginations and build away!

Learn how to carve and print your own linoleum print, or linocut.

Come and build the challenge of the day or make your own creation. Ages 5-11.

Decorate a sugar skull in remembrance of a loved one for Día de los Muertos!

Our STAR volunteers read to children one-on-one or in small groups. No sign-up is required. Take home a free book to keep after attending three STAR storytimes at our branch.

Bring your crochet, knitting, embroidery, or hand-stitching projects to the library and enjoy a relaxing hour crafting and chatting with other needle-art fans. Limited supplies are available for practicing and learning.

Come to the Pico Union Branch Library and paint some miniatures! Painting can be therapeutic and meditative. We provide brushes, paint, and even miniatures that you can keep!

Families are invited to join us for kids' craft programs on varying themes, every other Thursday, September 17 through October 15.