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RFL January Calendar

December 15, 2025

To download the calendar, scroll to the bottom of this post!

1/1 Closed for New Years Day

1/5 Friends of the RFL meeting 10am. Monthly business and taking down holiday decorations!

1/6 LEGO Day (Kids and families),Drop in 1-5pm. Let your imagination loose to build anything at all with the library’s LEGOs! This month’s challenge is a balloon-powered car!

1/7 Needle Felt an Evergreen Tree, (Kids age 6-11) Drop in between 1 and 4. Make a lovely evergreen tree that stands on its own and learn very basic needle felting skills along the way!

1/8 Mystery Book Club (adults) 6pm. Join us for a cup of tea and a chat about Stephanie Barron’s Jane Austen mystery Jane and the Year Without a Summer.  adults

1/8 Writer’s Workshop (adults) 6pm. Writers of any genre, interest area, and experience level. We meet virtually, so for info email mchurchill@newport.lib.nh.us

1/9 Board Games (Teens grades 6-12) 3pm. Play board games from our collection with your friends!

1/12 Snowflake Cardboard Lacing Craft, (Kids and families), Drop in all week, while supplies last. Littles practice their hand-eye coordination lacing string through these cardboard snowflakes, + big kids create a snowflake masterpiece!

1/14 Faux Stained Glass Bookmarks, (Teens Grades 6-12), 3pm. Come make a bookmark with a “faux stained glass” look, and bring your friends!

1/15 Adult Craft Night: 2026 Vision Boards (adults) 6pm. Help manifest the year you desire by creating 2026 Vision Boards. 

1/19 Board Games, (Teens grades 6-12) 3pm. Play board games from our collection with your friends!

1/20 Salt Crystal Snowflake Painting activity, (Kids and teens), 3:30pm. Science meets art in this neat activity to make a salt-crystal snowflake craft and use a pipet to add color to your creation!

1/21 Bead Bracelets Craft Drop In: (Kids and families) Stop by today to make beaded bracelets– we’ll keep supplies out the rest of the week so long as we don’t run out.

1/23 “Exquisite Corpse” Drawing Game (Teens Grades 6-12) 3pm. Play a drawing game created by the Surrealist artists, to come up with the wackiest artistic creations with your friends.

1/26 Needle Felting Drop in (Kids age 6-11) Drop-in between 1 and 4pm.  Learn how to needle felt! Make a melting snowman or invent your own project!

1/27 Brown Bags Book Club (adults)12pm. This month the group is meeting to discuss Remarkably Bright Creatures by Shelby Van Pelt! Interested participants welcome.

1/29 LEGO Day (Kids and Families) Drop-in 1-5pm. Let your imagination loose to build anything at all with the library’s LEGOs!

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