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Play & Explore
2025-04-23 18:00:00 2025-04-23 19:00:00 America/Los_Angeles Play & Explore Build your child’s preliteracy, social skills and motor skills with hands on activities. From blocks to puppets, different activity stations will be available for children to play and explore. For ages 0 – 5 with parent or caregiver San Gabriel Library - Meeting Room

Wednesday, April 23
6:00pm - 7:00pm

Add to Calendar 2025-04-23 18:00:00 2025-04-23 19:00:00 America/Los_Angeles Play & Explore Build your child’s preliteracy, social skills and motor skills with hands on activities. From blocks to puppets, different activity stations will be available for children to play and explore. For ages 0 – 5 with parent or caregiver San Gabriel Library - Meeting Room

San Gabriel Library

Meeting Room

Build your child’s preliteracy, social skills and motor skills with hands on activities. From blocks to puppets, different activity stations will be available for children to play and explore. For ages 0 – 5 with parent or caregiver

Please join us during the program for an opportunity to chat with other caregivers and gather parenting tips from a Triple P Positive Parenting Program accredited librarian.

This program is part of Smart Start at the Library, LA County Library's collection of programs and services for early learners ages 0 - 5 and their caregivers.

AGE GROUP: | Toddlers | Preschoolers | Babies |

EVENT TYPE: | Parenting & Caregiving | Education & Literacy | Arts, Crafts, & Hobbies |

TAGS: | Smart Start |

San Gabriel Library
Phone: 626.287.0761
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About the branch

San Gabriel Library was founded in 1915 and moved to its present site in 1967. The non-profit Friends of the San Gabriel Library organization was founded in 1967 to support and promote awareness of the Library and its services.  An interior mural painted by accomplished Native American artist Robert Freeman in 1984 depicts life at the Mission San Gabriel Arcángel in the late eighteenth century while recognizing the importance of the indigenous people of the area, the Gabrielino-Tongva Nation.

The library underwent a refurbishment in 2007 that added an elevator tower, enhanced community room, updated technology, new furnishings, and a bright and colorful redesign which included a paint restoration of the mural. 

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