Upcoming Events

Join us after dark in Discovery Grove to play a game outside. Please dress for the weather.

*This program has been moved indoors

Discovery Grove

Study and de-stress with a certified therapy dog.

No registration required.

Celebrate all there is to love about winter in this storytime while we stay warm and cozy.

Siblings welcome, please register them.

Discovery Grove

Celebrate all there is to love about winter in this storytime while we stay warm and cozy.

Siblings welcome, please register them.

Discovery Grove

Sweetbriar Nature Center will be presenting some of their ambassador animals. Meet a variety of animals that might live in your neighborhood, right here on Long Island.

Sweetbriar Nature Center will be presenting some of their ambassador animals. Meet a variety of animals that might live in your neighborhood, right here on Long Island.

Embrace the beauty of nature and get creative as we use flowers and other items to make a sparkling suncatcher. 

Discovery Grove

Sweetbriar Nature Center will share the amazing world of reptiles and their fascinating adaptations for survival. You will even meet some reptile friends.

Discovery Grove

Rooted in the principles of physics, use recycled materials to make a perfectly balanced mobile.

Discovery Grove

Help our librarians design and maintain the outdoor Patio space, including the gardens, pergola, and other features.

We will be weeding and working in the gardens.  Dress for the outdoors!

Build your own bee hotel to take home using phragmites, bamboo, and other natural materials to support solitary native bees like mason bees and leafcutters, who are essential pollinators.

Help our librarians design and maintain the outdoor Patio space, including the gardens, pergola, and other features.

We will be weeding and working in the gardens.  Dress for the outdoors!

Help maintain our Community Garden by weeding, watering, sweeping, pruning, and harvesting. Each session will include an interactive nature activity. 

Help maintain our Community Garden by weeding, watering, sweeping, pruning, and harvesting. Each session will include an interactive nature activity. 

So many birds on Long Island and so many are here in summer raising a family! It makes summertime so much fun!

Through hands-on activities and discussion, explore what to do before a trip, what matters most in the first 24 hours, and how to build toward longer-term safety and success if rescue is delayed.

Help our librarians design and maintain the outdoor Patio space, including the gardens, pergola, and other features.

We will be weeding and working in the gardens.  Dress for the outdoors!

Help maintain our Community Garden by weeding, watering, sweeping, pruning, and harvesting. Each session will include an interactive nature activity. 

Help our librarians design and maintain the outdoor Patio space, including the gardens, pergola, and other features.

We will be weeding and working in the gardens.  Dress for the outdoors!

Compare dinosaur eggs, teeth, gait and footprints while creating dinosaur fossils to take home.

Help maintain our Community Garden by weeding, watering, sweeping, pruning, and harvesting. Each session will include an interactive nature activity. 

Swimmers? Waders? Herons, sandpipers, plovers and more! The abundance of water around Long Island also attracts an abundance of birds that need water to thrive.

Help our librarians design and maintain the outdoor Patio space, including the gardens, pergola, and other features.

We will be weeding and working in the gardens.  Dress for the outdoors!

Help maintain our Community Garden by weeding, watering, sweeping, pruning, and harvesting. Each session will include an interactive nature activity.