A few display ideas

Here is a collection of decoration ideas from the summer library program workshop:If you want to have a picture (of an astronaut or some other night-time related person or animal) with a face cut out for photo opportunities and general silliness, someone suggested...

Children’s Choice Nominees

Children’s Book Week is coming up, May 7-13. Encourage kids to read the books nominated for the Children’s Choice award, and then VOTE, starting March 14!2012 Digital Toolkit is another resource, featuring everything you need to help spread the...

Envelope Box Theater

Jodi and Debbie from Menomonie shared an excellent idea at the SLP workshop about a perennial favorite at storytime. They made this great house-front out of an envelope box:As you can see, the kids really enjoy the box. It’s even better when paired with this...

Curing Cabin Fever in Prescott

Art Therapy in the form of valentine-makingPrescott Public Library hosted a Cabin Fever Fest on Saturday, February 11 that was guaranteed to cure kids’ winter blues. Dr. Becky diagnosed each child as they entered the meeting room – of course every single...

Dream catchers? Or not.

With a summer library program theme about night time and dreaming, some libraries might be considering making dream catchers as a craft project, or using them as a decoration in the library.Many thanks to Julie from Cumberland for pointing out some of the problems...

Summer Library Program Follow-up

If you were unlucky enough to miss the Summer Library Program workshop last week, you might be interested in taking a gander at the handouts from Marge Loch Wouters and from others who gave presentations.There’s a booklist there that I compiled mostly from...