Things to Do in Baltimore with Kids, Nov 9–15

Playdate in the Library

📍 Canton

Need a third space for your infants and toddlers? Join us at the Canton Library for a delightful drop-in playtime designed for children from birth to 3 years old and their caregivers. Enjoy quality bonding time while exploring a variety of age-appropriate toys in a warm, welcoming environment. It's a wonderful opportunity to socialize, play, and support your child's early development.

Let’s Explore! Yoga Poses

📍 Govans

Get moving @ the Library! Join us in exploring different yoga poses and play Musical Poses.

STEM Crafternoon

📍 Roland Park

Join us for a STEM-themed crafternoon in honor of Maryland STEM Fest. Learn how to make your own windmill and try out some fun STEM tools!

Building Blocks Club

📍 Brooklyn

Join us each month to make a LEGO® creation! The only limit is your imagination.

Crafternoon: Create Your Own Dinosaur

📍 Waverly

It's Di-November! Join us for a dinosaur crafternoon where you'll get to create your own dinosaur craft.

Movie Monday: The Wild Robot

📍 Pennsylvania Avenue

A sentient robot stranded on an uninhabited island raises an orphaned gosling while trying to fit in with the local wildlife. 2024 | PG | 1h 42m| Trailer

Stories Together

📍 Northwood

Stories, movement, songs, and our most fun activities. Come ready to move, laugh, and learn together. For families with children ages birth - 5. All abilities welcome.

Jóvenes en Acción 2026

📍 Creative Alliance

This performance troupe brings together Latin American teens to encourage self-expression and promote team building through traditional Mexican and Latin American dance.

Teen Manga Club

📍 Johnston Square

Come bring your favorite manga and talk with other teens to swap stories, learn about upcoming series, and adventure into series. Any and all manga are open to discussion!

Photography Club: Fall Edition

📍 Central Library

Join us for a 4-session photography club designed for teens, running on Mondays, September 21st - November 9th. This club will introduce participants to the fundamentals of photography, including camera basics, composition, lighting techniques, and photo editing. This session's theme will be critiques in preparation for the next Photo Exhibition.

Peabody at the Roland Park Branch

📍 Roland Park

Please join us for an informal music performance presented by student musicians from Peabody Conservatory. All ages welcome!

Towson Women's Basketball vs Delaware

Towson Women's Basketball vs Delaware Streaming Video: https://go.flocollege.com/teams/caa-towson?utm_medium=partner&utm_source=multiple&utm_content=school-landing-page&utm_term=towson Tickets: https://www.gofevo.com/group/202627TUWBB?access_code=TUWBB1109&area=

Baby & Toddler Storytime

📍 Southeast Anchor

Stories, movement, play, and songs for babies in arms and toddlers together. Come early for playtime. For little ones under two with a favorite adult. All abilities welcome.

Tree Time: Leaves I

📍 Cylburn Arboretum

Join Cylburn Arboretum Friends for Tree Time! We will learn about nature through stories, crafts, and exploration. Join Cylburn Arboretum Friends for Tree Time on the second Tuesday of November as we celebrate the colors and changes of autumn leaves! We’ll learn about trees and the fall season through stories, crafts, and outdoor exploration. Registration is required. Each single child’s registration includes one adult guardian. Any additional adults/children (including siblings) should register

Stroller Strum with the Ukulalas

📍 Patterson Park

Join the Ukulalas in the Cedar House as they play their ukulele's and have a sing-along! Geared towards babies and young children, but all are welcome! *Subject to cancellation due to the weather.

Let's Create : Wooden Air Freshener

📍 Patterson Park

Come and create a decrotive air freshener for your house or car. Due to limited space, registration is required. Please call the Patterson Park Branch 410-396-0983.

Draw and Watch - Captain Underpants: The First Epic Movie!

📍 Hamilton

Draw your very own silly superhero, then enjoy a screening of Captain Underpants: The First Epic Movie! Kids will have fun creating their own comic-style character before laughing along with this action-packed adventure.

DINOvember Dinosaur STOMP!

📍 Cherry Hill

Have you ever wondered what a dinosaur footprint might look like? We have too! Join us as we learn a little about how fossils were made and make some fossils of our very own. You'll go home with your very own dinosaur footprint.

Tuesday Crafternoon: Cardboard City

📍 Orleans Street

Join us for a fun STEM-themed craft and design a city! Work together with friends or on your own to build and design a fun cardboard city. Help your friends and librarian name your cardboard city and display it in the children's section of the library for everyone to see your creation!

Make & Take

📍 Central Library

You won't know what you're making until you get here. Every session, a different material. A different method. A different thing to bring home. Drop in, roll up your sleeves, and walk out with something you made with your own hands — and a skill you didn't have when you walked in. Free. No experience needed. No spoilers. Sign up here to join in the fun

Turkey Tales and Crafts

📍 Hamilton

Enjoy a fun storytime with Run, Turkey, Run! then make a colorful paper plate turkey with feathers. Perfect for little crafters!

Windchime Craft

📍 Edmondson Avenue

Take some time to relax and craft a musical windchime.

Manga Drawing Lessons

📍 Govans

Learn how to draw anime and manga characters in weekly sessions! Build up a sketchbook of drawings to become a real artist. Supplies and resources for the program will be available at the Govans Branch. No prior drawing experience is needed.

Teen Craft & Chat

📍 Hampden

Calling all teen crafters and artists! Are you tired of working on your projects alone? Want to meet other creative teens like you? Then you should check out Teen Craft and Chat, where you can make new things and make new friends at the same time! Bring your own supplies for whatever you’re making and work on it in a creative and supportive social space - or use some of the limited supplies provided to make something new!

Stories Together

📍 Waverly

Stories, movement, songs, and our most fun activities. Come ready to move, laugh, and learn together. For families with children ages birth - 5. All abilities welcome.

Stories Together

📍 Cherry Hill

Stories, movement, songs, and our most fun activities. Come ready to move, laugh, and learn together. For families with children ages birth - 5. All abilities welcome.

Stories Together

📍 Brooklyn

Stories, movement, songs, and our most fun activities. Come ready to move, laugh, and learn together. For families with children ages birth - 5. All abilities welcome.

Capoeira

📍 Creative Alliance

Capoeira is a dynamic Brazilian art form that blends self-defense, acrobatics, and dance. It helps improve balance, coordination, and physical strength while introducing participants to a different language and culture. Practiced with music and rhythm, Capoeira encourages learning through movement in an engaging and energetic way. Classes are beginner and family-friendly. Each class in the series you learn a new skill. Come yourself, or bring the whole family and enjoy moving together!

Stories Together

📍 Enoch Pratt Free Library - Pennsylvania Avenue

An interactive storytelling program featuring stories, movement, songs, and activities for families with young children.

Jóvenes en Acción 2026

📍 Creative Alliance

This performance troupe brings together Latin American teens to encourage self-expression and promote team building through traditional Mexican and Latin American dance.

Irish Music Night - Second Floor

📍 The Judge's Bench

An Irish music group performs traditional Irish music on the second floor, welcoming all listeners to enjoy food and drinks in a convivial setting.

“Iron War Horses: B&O's Support of American Troops Abroad” Public Tour

📍 B&O Railroad Museum

Explore the Baltimore and Ohio Railroad’s involvement in global conflicts like the Civil War, World War I, and World War II on this engaging and exciting tour of our historic collection.

Howard Park Neighborhood Tree Planting

📍 Belvieu Ave and Hillsdale Rd

@ Get your hands dirty for clean water and a greener Baltimore! Join Blue Water Baltimore staff as we plant trees along the streets of Baltimore City. Volunteers new to planting trees and expert TreeKeepers alike are welcome to attend. Our tree planting projects are rain or shine, and we recommend closed-toed shoes and clothing that is appropriate for the weather and getting dirty. Hats, sunblock, and sunglasses are strongly encouraged. We ask volunteers to bring a reusable water bottle to reduc

See It Loud: The Globe Poster Story World Premiere

📍 MICA – Brown Center

Seeking the Kinetic-Curious! Kinetic Sculpture Race Info Night

📍 Checkerspot Brewing Company

AVAM and Checkerspot Brewing host past Kinetic Sculpture Race participants to explain how to build, decorate, or volunteer for the race. Family and pet friendly.

Arts on Stage Presents...The Wizard of Oz

📍 Chesapeake Arts Center

An enchanting musical adaptation of L. Frank Baum's classic tale, following Dorothy and Toto on their magical journey through the land of Oz, featuring beloved songs and characters.

Thankful Tree

📍 Northwood

We're making a fall-themed tree with fingerpaints, adding expressions of things we're thankful for in our lives! All materials are provided, and are available on a first come, first served basis as long as supplies last. To schedule a large group attendance, please contact Laura Freer Henderson at (410) 396‑6076 or lhenderson@prattlibrary.org

Fuzzy Velvet Coloring - Día de los muertos edition

📍 Southeast Anchor

Come and celebrate Day of the Dead! Let’s color some fuzzy velvet posters with the theme of the Day of the Dead. Make them as colorful as you can, while using markers or colored pencils. ¡Ven a celebrar el día de los muertos! Vamos a colorear carteles de terciopelo con temática del día de los muertos. Colorea el cartel lo más colorido que puedas, ya sea con marcadores o lápices de colores.

MD STEM Festival: Waverly Star Wars 4-H program's Introduction to coding & robotics!

📍 Waverly

Youth from the Waverly School Aged Child Care Center invite you to a fun, interactive demonstration and workshop on coding and robotics. Waverly 4-H Stem Club members will help other youth, K-3rd grade, learn how to use Daisy the Dinosaur app to write code and how to navigate and code the Dash robot. This program is held in collaboration with University of Maryland Extension, Baltimore Housing, and the Maryland STEM Festival.

STEM Challenge: Pumpkin Catapult

📍 Pennsylvania Avenue

Learn how to build a working catapult from simple household items, then compete to see who can launch their candy pumpkin the farthest! Top builders will receive fall-themed prizes.

Stories Together

📍 Enoch Pratt Free Library - Hampden

Interactive storytelling program featuring stories, movement, songs, and activities for families with young children.

Youth RPG Club — Kids on Bikes

📍 Canton

You know that feeling in Stranger Things when the kids are the only ones who understand what is really happening? When the adults are too busy, too skeptical, too caught up in the ordinary world to see the darkness gathering at the edges of it? That is Kids on Bikes. In this tabletop roleplaying game, you and your friends play ordinary kids in an ordinary neighborhood. You ride your bikes. You know your streets. And you are the only ones who know what is coming. Because something is coming. The

DIY Tie Dye

📍 Patterson Park

Bundle up this season with your very own pair of tie dyed socks or a beanie! No prior experience needed, just show up and have fun.

National Sundae Day

📍 Roland Park

Visit the teen department to decorate a foam clay ice cream sundae to celebrate America's classic dessert. All sundaes are dairy-free and nut-free, so don't let food allergies keep you from participating.

Makerspace Matinees

📍 Central Library

Enjoy a movie in the makerspace and unwind after school. New themes are chosen each month.

CTA School Show: Disney's Frozen the Broadway Musical

📍 Children's Theatre of Annapolis

A weekday morning performance of Frozen specifically for school and homeschool groups with special discounted pricing.

Winterfest Preview Party

📍 Baltimore Clayworks

Opening Night • Early Access • Community Celebration Purchase Tickets Here The Winterfest Preview Party on November 12 is your festive, ticketed kickoff to the season — and your only chance to experience Winterfest before anyone else. You’ll enjoy first access to the Winterfest 2026 Exhibition, our nationally…

Fossil Dig with the Science Guys of Baltimore

📍 Enoch Pratt Free Library - Hampden

Kids learn about fossils and excavate their own specimens with the Science Guys of Baltimore at the Enoch Pratt Free Library.

Baby & Toddler Storytime

📍 Central Library

Stories, movement, play, and songs for babies in arms and toddlers together. Playtime follows. For little ones under two with a favorite adult. All abilities are welcome.

Lava Tubes

📍 Central Library

Create a fun chemical reaction, & take your creation home! For families with kids 4 to 11.

Kids Night Out: Disney's Frozen

📍 Children's Theatre of Annapolis

A special evening program where children enjoy pizza, front-row seats to Frozen, a character meet & greet, crafts, and a dance party while parents have a night out.

Half-Price Friday Night

📍 National Aquarium

Weekly discounted admission evening at the National Aquarium offering reduced ticket prices on Friday nights.

Baby & Toddler Storytime

📍 Orleans Street

Stories, movement, play, and songs for babies in arms and toddlers together. Playtime follows. For little ones under two with a favorite adult. All abilities are welcome.

Maryland Irish Festival (51st)

📍 Timonium Cow Palace

A celebration of Irish culture featuring local, regional and international Irish music, Irish dancers, traditional cuisine, cultural exhibits and workshops, and vendors of Irish and Celtic goods.

SS JOHN W. BROWN ~ STEAM SCHOOL #12~ November 13 to 15, 2026

📍 S.S. JOHN W. BROWN

The Nightmare Before Christmas

8th Annual Stoop Soiree

📍 Maryland Zoo In Baltimore

Join hundreds of parents and professionals for an unforgettable evening celebrating families, honoring local resident change makers, and raising crucial funds to support the mission of Baltimore Family Alliance and to keep our fun event free and accessible for all.…

Hoodstock XXIII

📍 Baltimore Museum of Industry

Unified Community Connections, a nonprofit agency supporting people with disabilities, will hold the annual grassroots music festival fundraiser, Hoodstock XXIII, featuring live music from the ’60s, ’70s and today as well as food, drinks, dancing, raffles and a silent auction.…

The Therapy Tour (Woodlawn, MD)

📍 Morning Star Baptist Church

Family Day: Friends and Food

📍 The Walters Art Museum

A family-focused event at the Walters featuring art activities, food, and time to explore the museum together with special programming for all ages.

"Resilient Earth, Resilient Communities" Exhibit Showcase — All Ages

📍 Howard County Recreation & Parks

Exhibit showcase event at Robinson Nature Center for all ages

Music Box: Jazz It Up!

📍 BSO Family Concerts

Clap, swing, and groove along in a joyful introduction to the rhythms and sounds of jazz with the BSO Jazz Trio.

Disney Worlds Collide Concert Tour

📍 CFG Bank Arena

Multi-artist Disney concert tour featuring music from Descendants, Zombies, and Camp Rock franchises.

Charm City Players Youth Company Presents: Disney's Descendants: The Musical

📍 Alumni Auditorium at The Gilman School

Charm City Players Youth Company continues its second season with Disney’s Descendants: The Musical at Alumni Auditorium at The Gilman School in Roland Park! Performance Schedule:Saturday, November 14 at 2 PMSaturday, November 14 at 6-7 PMSunday, November 15 at 2-3…

Invent the Future

📍 Baltimore

What does the future look like to you? Get excited about the future of STEM with an afternoon full of future-focused hands-on discovery. Engage with local scientists, inventors, and more on Saturday, November 14 at the Maryland Science Center.

Mother Nature Storytime: Savvy, Slimy Salamanders

📍 Carrie Murray Nature Center

An engaging storytime program for children featuring tales about salamanders and nature, designed to inspire curiosity about wildlife.

Disney Descendants & Zombies: Worlds Collide

📍 CFG Bank Arena

The all-new “Worlds Collide Concert Tour” brings together the worlds of “Descendants,” “ZOMBIES,” and for the very first time, “Camp Rock,”in an unforgettable new arena spectacular. A pop concert of the highest caliber, this year’s cast features an exceptionally talented…

STEMFest 2026

📍 Central Library

Discover the building blocks of artificial intelligence through hands-on play, creativity, and problem-solving at this interactive family event! Children and caregivers will explore how computers learn by recognizing patterns, following instructions, making predictions, and learning through trial and error. Through engaging activities, families will discover that AI isn't magic—it's technology created by people. Kids will experiment with giving step-by-step instructions to a "robot," train a pre

Stories Together

📍 Central Library

Stories, movement, songs, and our most fun activities. Come ready to move, laugh, and learn together. For families with children ages 0-5. All abilities welcome.

Film: The Wild Robot

📍 Herring Run

After a shipwreck, an intelligent robot called Roz is stranded on an uninhabited island. To survive the harsh environment, Roz bonds with the island's animals and cares for an orphaned baby goose. 2024 |PG |101 minutes |Trailer

Canton Brick Squad

📍 Canton

Canton Brick Squad is a chill, hands-on monthly LEGO® club made just for children and tweens who love to build, hang out, and let their creativity flow. Each month, we’ll explore fun building prompts, work together on group creations, and leave plenty of time for freestyle builds and friendly conversation. No pressure, no competition—just good vibes, cool builds, and a place to connect with fellow brick fans. Whether you're a master builder or just getting started, you're welcome here. Bring you

Zoo Zoom: Run with the Herd 5K

📍 The Maryland Zoo in Baltimore

The official Maryland Zoo 5K race where participants join team-based species competitions to help their chosen species cross the finish line. A fun, active way to experience the zoo while running.

Family & Frequencies

📍 Jewish Museum of Maryland

Join us at the Jewish Museum of Maryland for a family and music-themed free-admission day! Jump into the recording studio with your friends and family to create your own CD, join us in the Arcade for crafting activities, and listen…

FAMILY URBAN LINE-DANCING CLASS #MBLD

Mushroom City Festival

📍 Carrie Murray Nature Center

A festival celebrating mushrooms with educational exhibits, activities, and demonstrations for families.

The 38th Annual Waldorf Fair

📍 Waldorf School of Baltimore

Join us for the 38th Annual Waldorf Fair at Waldorf School of Baltimore! Hosted by the WSB Parents Association, this beloved community event brings together families, local Baltimore artisans, and small businesses for a day of fun, creativity, and togetherness. It’s…

Intro to Glassblowing

📍 Corradetti Glassblowing Studio & Gallery

Learn the basics of glassblowing with a trained instructor in a group setting. You'll gain hands-on experience creating a solid piece, flower, blown vessel, and paperweight while learning essential sa

Towson Women's Basketball vs UMBC or Morgan State

Towson Women's Basketball vs UMBC or Morgan State Streaming Video: https://go.flocollege.com/teams/caa-towson?utm_medium=partner&utm_source=multiple&utm_content=school-landing-page&utm_term=towson Tickets: https://www.gofevo.com/group/410invitational?access_code=410invitationalwbb

Zoo Zoom Presented by CFG Bank

📍 Maryland Zoo In Baltimore

Run wild at the OFFICIAL Maryland Zoo race! Lace up your running shoes and join us for Zoo Zoom on Sunday, November 15! This year’s race features an exciting new species-centered experience, where every participant joins a team and races…

Beethoven's 5th

📍 Church of the Redeemer

From its iconic four-note opening to its triumphant finale, Beethoven’s Symphony No. 5 is one of history’s most powerful and recognizable masterpieces, tracing a dramatic journey from struggle to victory. Performed by the enormously talented Kathryn Farenish, Mozart’s Flute Concerto…

THE BLACK MALL SUNDAY! - (Bmore's Love Market/SUNDAY FUN DAY)

📍 The Black Mall

FMF 2026 Fall Horse Trials (USEA-Recognized HT)

📍 Full Moon Farm

A USEA-recognized horse trials competition featuring multiple classes and divisions for riders of various levels. Spectators are welcome to attend this outdoor equestrian event.

Alternative Christmas Market

📍 210 West Madison Street Baltimore Park Avenue entrance.

The annual Alternative Christmas Market generates monetary support for charities and social justice organizations through a festive, educational, non-commercial event. Patrons can meet representatives from the organizations and get more information about their work and make donations as Christmas gifts…