Valentine's Day Craft

We will create fun Valentine's Day jar lid decorations.

Please bring 3-4 jar lids from a mason jar or something similar for this craft. All other supplies provided.

NHS Jazz Combo

The Norwell High School Jazz Combo is a small group of students who have been involved in the jazz program for multiple years. The Combo is modeled on small jazz groups from the 1940s-1960s, and it performs mostly jazz standards from that era.

Baby Play Group

Meet new parents in a space with age appropriate toys for ages 0-12 months. Registration is required. No meeting February 20.

Storytime with Marissa

Ages 0-5 are welcome to join Marissa for 30 minutes of stories, participatory songs, and fingerplays that support early literacy. Registration is required. No meeting Februay 17.

Brick Builders

Drop by the Children's Studio after school and build with our Legos! See if you can tackle a Lego Challenge Card, or just free build. Please leave your own Legos at home. Best for children age 6 and up, caregivers must remain in the library. Only meeting on February 4.

Take and Make: Pinecone Snowy Owl

Register for your kit to take home and make a snowy owl with a pinecone, cotton balls, and felt! This month's craft provided by the Norwell Garden Club. All ages. Registration required to secure your kit.

Raising a Reader

Big Ryan’s Tall Tales welcomes all parents and their children ages 3-5 years to come to this 5-week series on making stories where language comes alive. Register through the South Shore Community Action Council.

Read to Spider

Read to Spider, a certified therapy dog!  You may bring a book or choose one from the library. No registration required. First come, first served. 

Miss Ari's Family Tree Sing-A-Long

Miss Ari's Family Tree Sing-A-Long show turns singing & dancing into learning & play! With live music featuring ukulele and guitar, Ari covers the classic nursery rhymes, colors and the alphabet. For children of all ages and their caregivers. Registration is required and will open 2 weeks prior to the event.

Drop In Friendship Bracelets

Drop by during vacation week and make a beaded friendship bracelet! While supplies last. For all ages, younger children will need caregiver assistance. No registration required.

Music at the Blissful

Evan Haller of Boston, MA comes to Norwell for a high-energy, fun-filled, interactive, movement-packed music experience for the whole family. Come join the fun as we sing, jump, shake, laugh and go slow and fast with Music at The Blissful. This is sure to be an action-packed good time for all. For ages 0-7 with caregiver. Registration is required.

The Poop Museum

The Poop Museum is the place to come for those kids ages 5 and up (and their grownups) who are curious and have questions about poop, and also, if like Susie Maguire, they LOVE poop, and think it’s fascinating! At The Poop Museum, everyone learns A LOT, and some of the facts that are shared are mind blowing! But The Poop Museum is also full of laughter. Registration required.

Read to Skipper

Come meet Skipper, a therapy dog who loves pats and being read to! Register for a 15-minute slot for one-on-one reading time with Skipper and his handler.

Yoga for Kids with Little Bee

Join Christine from Little Bee Yoga for 45 minutes of beginning yoga for both caregiver and child ages 2-6. Enjoy fun poses, music, stories, breathing exercises, and guided relaxations. Children grade 3 and under must be accompanied by a caregiver. Registration required, please bring your own yoga mat.

Sheep Scavenger Hunt

February is National Sheep Month! Find 20 different breeds of sheep in the Children's Library this month.

Teen Homework Club

Sit and work on your homework, snacks and water will be provided! This program is for Grades 6 through 12. 

Crafterdark: Pipe Cleaner Flowers

Session for both Adults and Teens!

Learn how to make cute daises out of pipe cleaners, all supplies included!

Crafternoon: Pipe Cleaner Flowers

Session for Teens! 

Learn how to make cute daises out of pipe cleaners, all supplies included!

Teen Oreo Taste Test

Have you ever wanted to taste test a bunch of Oreos at once? Now you can! We'll be trying serval different kinds of Oreos to vote on the best tasting one.

For grades 6 through 12. 

Video Games Club: Teens Only!!

This month's Teen Video Games Club is themed with a Mario Kart Tournament! 

This program is intended for those in grades 6 through 12.

Qi Gong - Tai Chi

Tai chi has been proven through medical studies to benefit the body in many tangible ways. The slow graceful movements help reduce the risk of falling & ease arthritic joint pain. 

Ongoing classes will be held on Tuesday mornings from 11:00 am – 12:00 noon in NPL’s Meeting Room.

Beginners of all ages & abilities are welcome. Wear loose comfortable clothing.

Death Cafe

A Death Cafe is where we create a safe and welcoming space to discuss life's most profound journey-our inevitable end.

Join us for meaningful conversations, community connection and light snacks and beverages.

Cake & Murder: Author Christine Knapp

Come for the cake, stay for the Murder Mystery! Join us for a reading and signing of Christine Knapp's new novel Murder at First Light published in January 2025. You won't want to miss  Maeve's Triple Fudge Cake -recipe is from Murder at the Wedding ( Book 1).

Mindful Yoga for Everyone

This 60-minute yoga practice offers a gentle mix of Hatha yoga-based styles, including breathwork and meditation to stimulate the energy systems in the body while at the same time bringing calm to the mind.

Jigsaw Puzzle Competition

Do you like puzzles?

Can your team complete a jigsaw puzzle faster than your friends and neighbors?

Each team will receive the same 500 piece puzzle provided by the library. The team that finishes first or completes the most before time is called wins!

Adults, teens, and families with children aged 10+ are welcome to participate.

Team registration required. 

Dinner and a Movie: Fannie Lou Hamer's America

Fannie Lou Hamer's America, winner of Best TV Feature Documentary or miniseries at the IDA Awards, is a portrait of Mississippi sharecropper-turned-human-rights-activist, Fannie Lou Hamer, one of the Civil Rights Movement’s greatest leaders.

Pizza dinner will start at 5:30pm - feel free to bring a side dish to share.

The film starts at 6:00pm, brief discussion after the film.

South of Boston Board Game - Meetup Group

Come by and play games like Azul: Summer Pavilion, Wingspan, and Bohnanza. Never heard of any of these games? That's okay! New and veteran players are welcome. Also, have a game you don't play? Bring a game to swap with other attendees. This free event is open to junior high aged teens and adults of all ages.

Adult Queer Craft Club

Build community with an LGBTQ+ craft club, join in making crafts or working on your own special projects! 

Knitting and Craft Night

This group meets on the 2nd Tuesday of the month.

Knitters, beginners, and experts alike!😊 Crochet and other crafts (drawing, coloring, scrapbooking, etc.) all are welcome!

Please register. This is not a formal class, just a chance to socialize and share skills.

Gentle Yoga Flow and Stretch

This is a Yang style class which focuses more on the larger muscle groups with slower, thoughtful and accessible movements, mostly on the ground, combined with gentle stretching. The class also includes breathwork and meditation to help center and calm the mind to to facilitate the connection of the mind, breath, body, and spirit.

All levels are welcome, with a focus on beginners and advanced beginners.

Literary Circle Book Group: The Color Purple

The Color Purple is an epistolary novel—a novel told in letter form—in which Alice Walker traces the gradual liberation of Celie, a poor, Black woman who must overcome abuse and separation from her beloved sister Nettie. Set in the South and an unnamed African country during the 1930 to 1940s, the novel is a study in the ways in which Black women use their faith, relationships, and creativity to survive racial and sexual oppression.

Books will be available at the circulation desk.

NPL Evening Book Group: Invisible Man by Ralph Ellison 

This month we will be reading Invisible Man by Ralph Ellison published in 1952. It was Ellison’s only novel to be published during his lifetime. Invisible Man is widely acknowledged as one of the great novels of American literature and a landmark in African American literature, winning the National Book Award for Fiction in 1953, the first novel by a Black author to receive that honor.