Hamilton Public Library has knitting and crochet programs for all ages and skill levels. Drop in with your current project and materials.

Drop-In Knitting and Crochet

Bring the whole family to story time and get ready to read. Discover stories, rhymes, music, finger plays and flannel boards at this interactive program.

Family Storytime: Get Ready to Read

Bring your imagination to the table and make a cool creation to take home. Supplies provided.

Craft Cart

Learn to make a unique craft and explore a variety of art techniques. Paint rocks with phrases of kindness and beautiful images. Supplies provided.

Make and Create - Kindness Rocks

Learn to make a unique craft and explore a variety of art techniques. Supplies provided.

Make and Create - Spring/Summer Crafts

Join HPL staff for stories, songs and rhymes that foster acceptance and inclusion, celebrate family diversity, being yourself and a love of reading.

Rainbow Family Storytime

Attend story time with your baby and meet other families at this interactive program. Learn songs, rhymes and stories to foster early language development and a love of reading. Discover our collections after the program and choose your favourite items to take home. Suitable for children from birth.

Baby Storytime: Get Ready to Read

This half-hour interactive program for adults with disabilities and their caregivers features stories, rhymes, music and fun.

Storytime for Adults with Disabilities

Explore the emotional and symbolic potential of colour. Learn about colour relationships, including warm and cool tones, complementary and analogous palettes, basic colour theory and how to evoke feeling in your artwork.

Explore Art at HPL - Colour and Emotion

For children currently in grades one to six. Meet with teen volunteer Reading Buddies for support and help with reading though game-playing and fun activities. This is not a tutoring program. This program is intended for children who have knowledge of reading fundamentals but would benefit from...

Reading Buddies

Make and Create

Create Mandala patterns — circular, geometric designs — on rocks. Supplies provided.

Craft at HPL - Mandala Stones

Fuel your little one's creative side by exploring a variety of art materials. Supplies provided.

Little Artists

Summer Reading Club 2026 is all about water—so dive in! Registration for Summer Reading Club begins on June 27. Head to any branch to register and celebrate the start of summer with fun activities. Set your sites on a reading tracker and find out what's happening at any branch or Bookmobile...

Summer Reading Club Kickoff 2026

Come read with our teen volunteers! These fun sessions are designed for sharing and exploring books and our love of reading, not as tutoring or reading instruction. Depending on attendance, we will have small group or one-on-one sessions with our Little Buddies. Little Buddies can sign up for as...

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