Adult Winter Reading Challenge 2025-2026
2025-12-01 00:00 - 2026-02-28 23:59 (America/Los_Angeles)
Cozy up with a good book this winter and join our annual Adult Winter Reading Challenge! Participate by reading a book in each of the three challenge categories. Turn in your reading log at the library or online by February 28, 2026 for a chance to win a $50 Powell’s gift card.
This year’s challenges are:

Re-read a childhood favorite (or find a new favorite children’s book!)
Read a book featuring immigrants or refugees.
Read a book by a Pacific Northwest author.

Parks and Recreation Advisory Board Meeting
2025-12-01 19:00 - 20:00 | Sherwood City Hall, Community Room, 22560 SW Pine Street, Sherwood, OR, 97140, United States

Baby Storytime
2025-12-02 09:30 - 10:15, 2025-12-09 09:30 - 10:15, 2025-12-16 09:30 - 10:15
Baby Storytime is a great way to introduce your child to the love of reading and books.
We lead parents and caregivers in an interactive experience that will have you bouncing, tickling, singing, and enjoying books together with your baby.
This program is designed for both the child, ages 0-12 months, and their adult(s).
Attendees, please bring a blanket for your baby to be on and your own toys.
15 minutes of playtime follows this storytime.

Fun for Ones Storytime
2025-12-02 10:15 - 10:45, 2025-12-09 10:15 - 10:45, 2025-12-16 10:15 - 10:45
Fun for Ones is the perfect next step for your walking one-year-old.
We will sing, dance, read, and create an experience for you and your child to grow the love of books and reading at this in-person event.
This program is designed for youth, ages 12-23 months, and their caregivers.
30 minutes of playtime follows this storytime.

Enjoy our storytime activity sheets!
Alphabet-themed coloring sheets.
Letter Knowledge worksheets.
Letter Matching Worksheets.
Alphabet Pages with Math Concepts Coloring Sheets.

Old Town Sherwood Art Walk: Holiday Gift Edition
2025-12-02 17:00 - 20:00 | Sherwood Center for the Arts, 22689 Pine St., Sherwood, OR, 97140, United States
The Winter Art Walk returns on TUESDAY, December 2 from 5pm to 8pm. This festive tradition pairs artists, vendors, and musicians with Old Town businesses to create a winter market feel in our historic downtown.
On the day of the event, we encourage you to start at the Sherwood Center for the Arts where you will receive a map of the Art Walk route. Each stop on the map provides a experience such as viewing local art, chatting with artists, participating in interactive activities, listening to live music, or enjoying food and beverages from Old Town locations.
As you visit each stop, make sure to get a stamp on your map. Finished maps are collected and entered to win a fantastic prize basket! Prizes from many local Sherwood businesses will be up for grabs. Don’t miss a single stop!

City Council Meeting
2025-12-02 17:30 - 20:00 | Sherwood City Hall, Community Room, 22560 SW Pine Street, Sherwood, OR, 97140, United States

All Ages Storytime Session 1
2025-12-03 09:30 - 10:15, 2025-12-10 09:30 - 10:15
Let’s grow together in literacy! Join us for an interactive program where we read books, enjoy puppets, sing songs, and play action rhymes.
This program is planned for kids ages birth to 6. All ages and abilities are welcome.
A 15 minute playtime follows session 1 and a 30 minute playtime follows session 2 storytime.
We try to create a welcoming environment for everyone. If your child has special needs, please let a staff member know and we will try to accommodate.

All Ages Storytime Session 2
2025-12-03 10:15 - 11:15, 2025-12-10 10:15 - 11:15

Circle of Friends
2025-12-04 10:00 - 12:00, 2025-12-11 10:00 - 12:00
It’s time to start another group! feeling isolated or lonely? Are you new to the area and looking to connect? Have you gotten separated from your social life during Covid? The Circle of Friends group is geared towards older adults (aged 62+) in need of more social support and connection to their community. The group will be initially structured to meet for 8 weeks on a once-a-week basis with a facilitator who will guide the group in discussion, activities, and fun. Activities and discussions are based on participants interests.

Teen Volunteer Club
2025-12-04 16:00 - 17:00
Welcome teens 7th-12th grade who want to make a difference in their community through the library! We welcome newcomers! Reach out to let us at askusSPL@sherwoodoregon.gov to know you’re coming.

Budget Committee Meeting
2025-12-04 18:00 - 20:00 | Sherwood City Hall, Community Room, 22560 SW Pine Street, Sherwood, OR, 97140, United States

Stuffed Friend Sleepover
2025-12-05 15:00 - 16:00
Welcome kids and kids-at-heart who appreciate a stuffed animal!
At this event, bring your stuffed friend along for an interactive storytime and craft. Then, offer a reassuring hug to your sweet friend as you depart and leave them to stay the night in the library. What will happen? Participants will receive photographic proof of the fun, light-hearted, and sometimes zany antics the stuffy gets up to in the night.
Stuffies will be ready for your arrival the next day when the library opens at 10:00 a.m. Pick up your sweet friend along with a memory book of how their night went.
Everyone welcome!

Digital Navigator Tech Help
2025-12-06 10:00 - 14:00, 2025-12-13 10:00 - 14:00 | City Hall / Library, 22560 SW Pine St, Sherwood, OR, 97140
Digital Navigator Tech Help is held every Saturday in the library except the 3rd Saturday of the month (when the library hosts computer classes) from 10:00 a.m to 2:00 p.m. through July 25. Need help with devices? Have technology-related questions? Want help with job searches? Bring your own device or use library computers.
These are drop-in hours only, so first come, first served.
This free program is provided by a visiting Digital Navigator and is in partnership with AmeriCorps & Washington County Cooperative Library Services.
Also see our Tech Help Appointments offered by library staff.

Holiday Food Drive
2025-12-07 00:00 - 2025-12-13 23:59 | City Hall / Library, 22560 SW Pine St, Sherwood, OR, 97140
The Sherwood Public Library invites the community to join in the spirit of giving during our annual Holiday Food Drive, taking place December 7–13. All donations will support local food pantries, which are seeing an increased need for assistance this year. We encourage everyone to drop off nonperishable food items at the library during open hours. Every can, box, or bag of food helps make the holidays brighter for families in our community!

Suggested items include:

Sugar, flour, oil
Granola bars and protein bars
Peanut butter and jelly
Cereals
Baked and dried beans
Canned fruits and vegetables
Pancake mix and syrup
Canned soups, broths, and gravy mixes
Pasta, ravioli, and pasta sauces
Rice and rice-a-roni
Condiments
Canned chili and Spam

Community Chess Drop-In
2025-12-07 13:00 - 16:00
Please join us for friendly chess games at our monthly, volunteer-led gathering!
Whether you’re just learning the rules or have been playing for years, connect with fellow chess lovers and enjoy casual games in a welcoming environment.
All ages and skill levels are encouraged to participate, meeting the first Sunday of each month 1pm-4pm.

Sound Bath Meditation
2025-12-08 18:00 - 19:00 | City Hall / Library, 22560 SW Pine St, Sherwood, OR, 97140
Relax and rejuvenate with Melissa Felsenstein of Inner Sounds Meditation. Specially tuned crystal bowls and gongs create a sound bath to help alleviate stress and ease listeners into meditative states. No yoga is practiced, simply sit or lay down and be immersed in meditative sound.
This program is free and open to the public. No registration required. Participants are welcome to bring a yoga mat if they prefer to lay down during the sound bath.

Planning Commission
2025-12-09 18:00 - 20:00 | City Hall / Library, 22560 SW Pine St, Sherwood, OR, 97140

Senior Advisory Board Meeting
2025-12-10 17:00 - 18:00

Adult Book Discussion: Funny Story by Emily Henry
2025-12-10 18:00 - 19:00
Read. Be inspired. Discuss.
We’re hosting a book discussion in person at the library. If you love to talk about the books you’ve read, join us for a lively discussion of Funny Story by Emily Henry, which may be available as an e-book and audiobook in Libby as well as physical library copies which can be checked out. The first 10 people to register for this program can be given copies of the book provided generously by Friends of Sherwood Public Library.
Registration online is encouraged but not required. Click here to register.
From the publisher:
Daphne always loved the way Peter told their story. How they met, fell in love, and moved back to his lakeside hometown to begin their life together. Too bad it turned out to be more of a prequel, a complication to Peter’s actual love story, the one that ends with him dumping Daphne before their wedding to begin a relationship with his lifelong best friend, Petra. And so that’s how Daphne’s story really begins: stranded in beautiful Waning Bay, Michigan, without friends or family but with a dream job as a children’s librarian (that barely pays the bills), and proposing to be roommates with the only other non-Peter-related person she knows: Petra’s heartbroken ex, Miles Nowak. Just until she can get a new dream job literally anywhere else. Scruffy and chaotic, Miles is entirely the opposite of buttoned-up Daphne, and they mainly avoid one another until one night, while drowning their sorrows, they form a tenuous friendship. Miles decides he will convince Daphne to give Waning Bay a real shot. He’ll show her why he loves this idyllic town and its residents, and if they happen to post deliberately misleading photos of their adventures together-for a particular audience of two-who could blame them? Miles believes Daphne deserves the chance to build a life here, her own life. As she begins to fall for the town, Daphne wonders what this summer is supposed to mean. Is it just for fun? An interlude to her own love story? Or maybe it was never meant to be a love story? Maybe it was just an anecdote to share at future dinner parties: that time she fell in love with her ex-fiancé’s new fiancée’s ex-boyfriend. Who’s to say?

Read to the Dogs
2025-12-13 11:00 - 12:30
Build reading confidence and improve reading skills by reading to a dog!
Gershwin and Missy and their trainers will listen with compassion and without judgment as you read.
Sign up for a 20 minute session.
You can bring your own book or choose one from the library shelf.
Each time you read to Missy or Gershwin, you will get a free book from the Friends of the Library book sale shelf. After 5 visits, you get to choose a NEW book from our Read to the Dogs book box.
This program is for kids who read by looking at the pictures to tell a story (PreK) and kids who are reading words on the page.
Sign up for a session by calling 503 625-6688 or emailing askusSPL@sherwoodoregon.gov
Session 1
11:00 a.m. – 11:20 a.m.
Session 2
11:20 a.m. – 11:40 a.m.
(Break 11:40 a.m. – 11:50 a.m.)
Session 3
11:50 a.m. – 12:10 p.m.
Session 4
12:10 p.m. – 12:30 p.m.

Cultural Arts Commission Meeting- Cancelled
2025-12-15 18:30 - 19:30 | Sherwood Center for the Arts, 22689 Pine St., Sherwood, OR, 97140, United States

City Council Meeting - Cancelled
2025-12-16 19:00 | Sherwood City Hall, Community Room, 22560 SW Pine Street, Sherwood, OR, 97140, United States
