Blogging about Lego Clubbin and other library program ideas
This was a big hit at Lego Club! After quickly going over rules, I told my kids about the Global Cardboard Challenge, where kids are encouraged to make anything they want out of cardboard. At the time my wife was doing the challenge at her library, so I thought I would try to incorporate into... Continue Reading →
Last year, we were fortunate enough to have Dav Pilkey come to our city to promote the first "Dog Man" book. Normally we have our author events at the library, but this was so big that we had to host it at the high school auditorium. It was pretty crazy and the biggest event I... Continue Reading →
This one turned out pretty interesting. After setup and rules, I introduced our theme as "Secret Zoo." It's kind of a twist on a Lego Challenge I did a few months ago called "Scavenger Hunt." So the idea here was that kids were going to build a zoo exhibit. They needed to have an animal... Continue Reading →
Lego Club--if you don't have one, you definitely need to start one. Having a Lego Club is such an amazing way to get kids into the library again and again. And after the initial investment, it's basically a no cost program that's more or less guaranteed to bring in kids every time. I initially modeled... Continue Reading →
UPDATE: As another librarian pointed out, flannelboards can be considered fair use, but making coloring sheets of a individual's art would be considered a "derivative work" and probably infringing on copyright, depending on the situation. So what I've actually done is gone out of my way to contact the authors of the two books I... Continue Reading →
Toy sleepovers are a really fun and cheap program to have at the library. Libraries have been doing them for a while now, but if you're like me (and I know I am), you're starting to run out of ideas (we're up to our sixth sleepover at this point.) So I thought I would share... Continue Reading →
Go Lego Go!! This one is a favorite for my kiddos because it's definitely not something you do everyday. After I explained the rules of Lego Club, I told them the day's challenge. They first had to build a car, plane, boat, carplane, boatcar, or any other combination. But they had to work into their... Continue Reading →
Emoji Day lands right on July 17th, so it's a perfect summer reading program event. Not really sure why emojis need their own day, but it's a great way to get tweens and teens into the library. We did a lot of pretty simple crafts that kids loved; some I took off Pinterest and I'll... Continue Reading →
Don't be like Philip! This was one of the first photo projects that we ever undertook. After seeing a seminar by Ben Bizzle, I really got inspired by trying to branch out with a little bit of "meme marketing"--the idea here being that if you advertise your product in a funny way, you'll engage more... Continue Reading →
Scavenger Hunt!! Basic premise of this one is that you build whatever you want, but you have to hide a special Lego somewhere inside what you built. Then everyone goes around and tries to find where you hid your item! This one took a little bit more prep than usual, but it's totally worth it.... Continue Reading →
