Long Melford Library

27/10/2026

Don't forget we have our Lego Inventors Club this morning from 10.30am-12.30pm! Have fun with physics, coding, and problem solving using our BricQ Motion and Spike Lego sets! Drop-in session, for children aged 6+ with an adult.

Check out our other free activities during this half term:

Wordplay
Tuesday 27th October 2.30pm-3.30pm
Join us for half an hour of songs and rhymes suitable for children 0-5 years old. Stay for a cuppa, a chat and a play after the session.

Family Crafts
Wednesday 28th October, 10.30am-12.30pm
Suitable for the whole family. Take part in the craft activity from last Saturday!

Family Crafts and Lego Club
Saturday 31st October, 9.30am-12.30pm
Suitable for the whole family, Take part in our craft activity, take on a Lego challenge or free build

All activities are FREE thanks to the support of the Friends of Long Melford Library. If you wish, you can make a small donation to help towards the cost of future events.

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26/10/2026

Bring your little ones down to the library every Tuesday from 2.30pm and enjoy an afternoon of stories, songs and rhymes, suitable for babies and toddlers under 5.

Stay after the session for a cup of tea and a chance to play. This session is free to attend, no booking required.

ID: Poster with a picture of a waving owl. The poster is for Wordplay at Long Melford Library featuring all the information in the above post.

25/10/2026

Are you looking forward to the October Half Term holidays? We've got plenty of free activities to keep the whole family busy for the week.

Family Crafts and Lego Club
Saturday 24th and 31st October, 9.30am-12.30pm
Suitable for the whole family, Take part in our craft activity, take on a Lego challenge or free build

Lego Inventors Club
Tuesday 27th October, 10.30am-12.30pm
Have fun with physics, coding, and problem solving using our BricQ Motion and Spike Lego sets! Drop-in session, for children aged 6+ with an adult.

Wordplay
Tuesday 27th October 2.30pm-3.30pm
Join us for half an hour of songs and rhymes suitable for children 0-5 years old. Stay for a cuppa, a chat and a play after the session.

Family Crafts
Wednesday 28th October, 10.30am-12.30pm
Suitable for the whole family. Take part in the craft activity from last Saturday!

All activities are FREE thanks to the support of the Friends of Long Melford Library. If you wish, you can make a small donation to help towards the cost of future events.

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24/10/2026

The clocks change this weekend so we thought it was great timing for today's Family Craft: Fun Clocks! If you have a child learning to tell the time or who could do with a bit more confidence with clocks, it's a fun way to give them a helping hand!

Family Crafts and Lego Club run from 9.30am-12.30pm every Saturday and is free to attend thanks to the support of the Friends of Long Melford Library. And if you can't clock in today but want to do this craft or you have had so much fun you want to come back for seconds, we'll be running this craft again on Wednesday morning this week.

And don't forget, this half term, we also have:

Lego Inventors Club
Tuesday 27th October, 10.30am-12.30pm
Have fun with physics, coding, and problem solving using our BricQ Motion and Spike Lego sets! Drop-in session, for children aged 6+ with an adult.

Wordplay
Tuesday 27th October 2.30pm-3.30pm
Join us for half an hour of songs and rhymes suitable for children 0-5 years old. Stay for a cuppa, a chat and a play after the session.

Family Crafts
Wednesday 28th October, 10.30am-12.30pm
Suitable for the whole family. Take part in the craft activity from last Saturday (Fun Clocks)!

Family Crafts and Lego Club
31st October, 9.30am-12.30pm
Suitable for the whole family, Take part in our craft activity, take on a Lego challenge or free build

ID: Craft project of two clocks made from paper plates and card hands fixed onto the face of the clocks with split pins. One of the clocks is multicoloured, the other has a cat's head and tail with a paw shaped hour hand and a fish shaped minute hand.

23/10/2026

🔮 Take a look at our featured fiction and non-fiction books on witches and witchcraft to celebrate the new exhibition ‘Witches: Suffolk’s Dark Legacy‘ by Suffolk Archives!

Browse our selected books, including titles by A.K. Blakemore, Elizabeth Lee, Jill Dawson and many more: https://orlo.uk/rICDv

The ‘Witches: Suffolk’s Dark Legacy‘ exhibition takes place at The Hold in Ipswich from Friday 16 October until Sunday 21 February 2027, and will feature tours and special events

ID: Photos of covers of recommended books on witches including: The Wax Child by Olga Ravn, Witchcraft a History in 13 Trials by Marion Gibson, The Manningtree Witches by AK Blakemore, Cunning Women by Elizabeth Lee, The Ipswich Witch by David L. Jones, Witchfinders by Malcolm Gaskill, Ashes & Stones by Allyson Shaw, The Once and Future Witches by Alix E. Harrow, The Bewitching by Jill Dawson, Weyward by Emilia Hart, The Witches of Vardo by Anya Bergman, and Hellish Nell by Malcolm Gaskill.

22/10/2026

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Our top pick is 'Building Better Digital Habits for Focus and Well-being', a great course which shows how to build a more proactive relationship with technology and how sleep, exercise, mindful practice, and work culture can help reinforce your new digital habits.

Sign up for this free online course, which you can go through at your own pace: https://orlo.uk/VeRpN

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After watching this video, you will be able to discuss what digital resilience is. You need to understand the importance of managing digital resilience to thrive at work and at home.

21/10/2026

Do you enjoy poetry? If so, come along to today's Top Time social club! To celebrate National Poetry Day earlier in the month, we will be talking all things poetry! Bring along a poem or the words to a song you like to share with the group.

Top Time is a free weekly social group for adults running from 2.30pm-4.00pm every Wednesday.

ID: Graphic with the question 'Do you enjoy poetry?' in text on a pink background. Below the text is a pink book with flowers blooming out of the pages, and a blue book with the title 'Poems'.

20/10/2026

Thanks to the team from Wellbeing Suffolk for being with us this morning to answer questions about services in Suffolk. Don't worry if you missed the information stand today, we aim to host another visit in the near future.

20/10/2026

If you want to find out a little about wellbeing services in Suffolk we have Wellbeing Suffolk with us today, Tuesday 20th October, from 10am-1pm!

Wellbeing Suffolk are sharing information at an information stand in the library about support available for things such as stress, low mood and anxiety, to have a chat about what this support looks like, and to answer any questions you may have. This session is a drop-in, so please feel free to come anytime during the slot.