This Week at a Glance (December 1-5)
- dcstayathomeparent
- Nov 30
- 4 min read
Free and low-cost scheduled activities for babies and toddlers this week in DC
MONDAY (December 1)
10:30am - 11:00am: Cleveland Park Library Family Story Time
10:30am - 11:00am: Southwest Library Family Story Time
11:00am - 11:30am: Shaw Library Baby and Toddler ASL Story Time
11:00am - 11:45am: Woodridge Library Baby Story Time
11:00am - 12:00pm: Francis A. Gregory Library Strong Start Playgroups
11:00am - 12:00pm: Northeast Library Toddler Play Time
11:30am - 12:30pm: Portrait Gallery Kids Arts & Crafts and Play Time
2:30pm - 3:00pm: National Children’s Museum Baby Jam Music Time  (hourly timed tickets required, $18.95/person, children under 1 and members free)
3:00pm - 4:45pm: Tenley-Friendship Library Coloring Time
3:30pm - 5:00pm: Capitol View Library Library Coloring Time
4:30pm - 5:00pm: Northeast Library Baby Story Time
TUESDAY (December 2)
9:15am - 9:45am: Northeast Library Baby and Toddler Story Time
9:30am - 1:30pm: National Zoo Little Critters: Nature Play (at the Bird House)
10:00am - 11:00am: Woodridge Library Toddler Story Time
10:30am: Folger Shakespeare Library Story Time (in the Great Hall)
10:30am: Kidsinger Jim Puppet Show at Eastern Market ($10 in advance, $12 at the door)
10:30am - 11:00am: Bellevue Library Preschool Story Time
10:30am - 11:00am: Deanwood Library Preschool Story Time
10:30am - 11:00am: Lamond-Riggs Library Toddler Play Time
10:30am - 11:00am: Parklands Turner Library Preschool Story Time
10:30am - 11:00am: Petworth Library Toddler Story Time
10:30am - 11:15am: Benning Library Baby and Toddler Story Time
10:30am - 11:30am: Cleveland Park Library Duplo Lego Play Time
10:30am - 11:30am: Southwest Library Toddler Play Time
10:30am - 12:00pm: Natural History Museum Play Date at NMNH: Marvelous Meteorites
11:00am - 11:30am: Martin Luther King Jr. Memorial Library Toddler Story Time
11:00am - 11:30am: Palisades Library Baby and Toddler Story Time
1:00pm - 1:30pm: American Indian Museum Performance: Welcome to a Native Place
1:00pm - 1:30pm: Mt. Pleasant Library Baby Lap Time
5:00pm - 7:00pm: Lamond-Riggs Library Crafts and Cocoa
6:15pm - 7:30pm: Southwest Library Holiday Kids Movie: Mickey's Twice Upon a Christmas
WEDNESDAY (December 3)
10:00am - 10:30am: Georgetown Library Baby and Toddler Story Time (ticket required, register online here)
10:00am - 10:30am: Shaw Library Family Story Time (ticket required, on a first come first serve basis)
10:00am - 10:30am: Takoma Park Library Family Story Time
10:00am - 10:30am: Tenley-Friendship Library Family Story Time (ticket required, on a first come first serve basis)
10:00am - 11:00am: Tudor Place Tudor Tots: L is for Light (Member Child: $5 | Non-Member Child: $10 | Accompanying Adult: Free)
10:00am - 12:00pm: Hirshhorn Museum Storytime Studio (ticket required, on a first come first serve basis, two time slots: 10am or 11am)
10:00am - 4:00pm: American History Spark!Lab
10:00am - 4:00pm: American History Wegmans Wonderplace
10:00am - 4:30pm: American Indian Museum ImagiNations Activity Center
10:30am: Folger Shakespeare Library Story Time (in the Great Hall)
10:30am - 11:00am: Chevy Chase Library Family Story Time (ticket required, on a first come first serve basis)
10:30am - 11:00am: Mt. Pleasant Library Baby and Toddler Bilingual Story Time - English & Spanish
10:30am - 11:00am: Shaw Library Family Story Time (ticket required, on a first come first serve basis)
10:30am - 11:00am: West End Library Family Story Time
10:30am - 11:15am: Benning Library Baby and Toddler Play Time (registration required, 0-24 months)
10:45am - 11:15am: Takoma Park Library Family Story Time
10:45am - 11:15am: Tenley-Friendship Library Family Story Time (ticket required, on a first come first serve basis)
10:45am - 11:45am: Northwest One Library Toddler Story Time
11:15am - 11:45am: American Indian Museum Baby Story Time Cradleboards and Crawlers
11:30am - 12:00pm: Chevy Chase Library Family Story Time (ticket required, on a first come first serve basis)
2:30pm - 3:00pm: National Children’s Museum STEAM Story Time (hourly timed tickets required, $18.95/person, children under 1 and members free)
4:00pm - 6:00pm: Mt. Pleasant Library Children's Movie
4:30pm - 5:30pm: Cleveland Park Library Special Olympics Young Athletes Playgroup - An Early Childhood Play Program (register here)
5:30pm - 6:00pm: Lamond-Riggs Library Family Story Time
THURSDAY (December 4)
9:30am - 1:30pm: National Zoo Little Critters: Nature Play (at the Bird House)
10:00am - 4:00pm: American History Spark!Lab
10:00am - 4:00pm: American History Wegmans Wonderplace
10:00am - 4:30pm: American Indian Museum ImagiNations Activity Center
10:30am: Kidsinger Jim and Rocknoceros at Eastern Market ($10 in advance, $12 at the door)
10:30am - 11:00am: DC Public Library Story Time at La Cosecha
10:30am - 11:00am: Solid State Books H Street Story Time
10:30am - 11:15am: National Building Museum Story Time (free; register for museum admission)
11:30am: East City Bookshop Story Time
12:00pm - 1:00pm: Martin Luther King Jr. Memorial Library Performance Lab: Chamber Music at Noon
1:00pm - 1:30pm: Martin Luther King Jr. Memorial Library Baby Story Time
1:00pm - 2:00pm: Southwest Library Baby Story Time
1:30pm - 2:00pm: Takoma Park Library Baby Story Time
2:00pm - 2:30pm: Georgetown Library Baby Story Time
2:30pm - 3:00pm: National Children’s Museum Toddler Play Time: Tinker Tots  (hourly timed tickets required, $18.95/person, children under 1 and members free)
4:00pm - 4:30pm: Martin Luther King Jr. Memorial Library Story Time for the Spectrum (register here)
4:30pm - 6:30pm: SW Waterfront Jingle Block Rock
6:00pm - 6:45pm: Cleveland Park Library Raising Kids in a Digital World - brought to you by Sesame Workshop (register here)
FRIDAY (December 5)
9:00am - 9:30am: People’s Book Story Time
10:00am - 11:00am: National Gallery of Art First Friday Story Time: Good Morning (East Building Atrium)
10:00am - 11:30am: Postal Museum Story and Play Time (meet in the historic lobby)
10:00am - 4:00pm: American History Spark!Lab
10:00am - 4:00pm: American History Wegmans Wonderplace
10:00am - 4:30pm: American Indian Museum ImagiNations Activity Center
10:15am: Zinnia Silver Spring Lunch Bunch Kids Music
10:30am: Kidsinger Jim Puppet Show at Eastern Market ($10 in advance, $12 at the door)
10:30am - 11:00am: Cleveland Park Library Family Story Time
10:30am - 11:00am: Shaw Library Heure Du Conte - Bilingual Story Time in French and English
10:30am - 11:30am: Southwest Library Baby and Toddler Play Time
11:30am - 12:00pm: Cleveland Park Library Baby Story Time
4:30pm - 5:00pm: Cleveland Park Library Ukulele Sing-Along