Activities
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Free activities for primary school children are held at Merri-bek Libraries.
For more information and to see session details, visit the After School Activities page on our Eventbrite.
Lego Club
Come along and build, build, build! One hour of fun-packed free-play LEGO!
This session is for primary school aged children only. ALL children need to be accompanied by a parent/carer.
Fawkner Library, every second Tuesday during school term, 4pm during term times.
Curiosity Crew
A weekly STEAM (Science, Technology, Engineering, Arts and Mathematics) program encouraging children to learn through play and exploration, with the use of robotics, programming, digital technologies and creative arts.
Glenroy Library, every Thursday during school term, 4pm.
This program is for children aged 8 years and over. Bookings required.
Random Mondays
An hour of random fun activities every week. Craft, board games, LEGO® building, or something completely unexpected!
Coburg Library meeting room, every Monday during school term, 4pm.
This program is for children aged 5 and over.
Brunswick Library After School Club
Craft, board games, LEGO, music and other random fun!
Kirrip-Djerring meeting room (above the Counihan Gallery), every Monday during school term, 3:45pm.
This program is for children aged 5 and over.
Craft Club
Get creative at these fortnightly after-school crafternoons.
Campbell Turnbull Library meeting room, every second Tuesday during school term, 4pm.
This program is for children aged 5 and over.
Reading Challenges
Big Summer Read 2025-2026
The Big Summer Read ran from 1 December 2025 and ended 31 January 2026, but will return in December 2026. The program aims to arrest the ‘summer slide’ by engaging children and their families in a fun and dynamic program encouraging reading for pleasure.
Over 200 children took part in the Big Summer Read with Merri-bek Libraries this year, reading a combined 4112 books! That's more than the entire junior fiction collection at Coburg Library.
Congratulations to our Merri-bek winners, Mette, Lotus, Kota, Mila, Rose and Bill, who each won a LEGO kit in our prize draw.
If your child completed the challenge and would like to commemorate their hard work, swing by your local branch to collect a Big Summer Read 2026 certificate.
Victorian Premiers’ Reading Challenge
The Premiers’ Reading Challenge is a fun way of encouraging children to read. Premiers’ Reading Challenge books are easy to find. Just look for the colour coded stickers on the book spine. You can also search for books, by age category, using the library website or on the Education Victoria website.
CBCA Awards
The Children’s Book Council of Australia presents annual awards to books of literary merit, for outstanding contribution to Australian children’s literature. Every year Merri-bek Libraries celebrates these books at storytimes.
Winner and Honour Books: Announced at noon AEST on the third Friday in August.
For more information visit the Childrens Book Council of Australia website.