Blogging about Lego Clubbin and other library program ideas
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 →
Library Escape Rooms are really big right now, so I tried to design this program so that any library can try to duplicate it. Because making something like this is kinda daunting--where do you even start? From what I've read, starting at the end is the best way to do it. UPDATE: My "Escape Room... Continue Reading →
Kids love trucks. Shocking right?? In other breaking news, the sky is blue and pie is delicious. So when I do storytime, I usually devote at least one week a semester to the subject of transportation, because of the high interest and the huge amount of great material out there. My storytime has a wide age... Continue Reading →
This was another really simple concept that kids liked!! After we went over rules, I told our kids that our theme was: secrets! We didn't really brainstorm as a group, but I told them some of my ideas. They could build a house with secret doors or secret passages or a secret jail. Or they could build... Continue Reading →
The Lego Librarian 