A while ago I was in charge of doing a teen book display. And I thought it would be fun to have little cut-out sunglasses to put on the book covers. I had the sign say “Eye See You Found a Good Book!” I thought the book covers looked especially fun. Basically this display just…
So a while ago I posted about some gingerbread book characters I made and posted on a window in my library and called Ginger-Who? Well, I decided to do that again…only I wanted to do snowmen characters. And this time I did this game in the children’s area. First I came up with a list…
My coworker re-did our teen display a bit ago, and the books are flying off. Every time I go over there I notice that it needs to be restocked (even if I restocked it that morning). It is a Humor display. I think she got the idea from my friend Rachel’s blog.
Today is the last day of Summer Reading! I can’t believe that we have made it through our crazy summer of reading! Whew! Since today is the end…I thought I would write one more post about what we have been doing all summer. When the kiddos came to the library, they could write their name…
So the teen section also did Wacky Week at the library. The teens had 10 “wacky” things hidden around the teen area. They had to find 5 wacky things to get a bookmark and find all 10 to get the fun dip. So here is what we did that was wacky: 1. We had a…
So I wanted to do something different than just a Summer Reading I Spy game for a passive program this summer. So I did a Wacky Week. I got the idea from the library in Washington that I used to work at (shout out to all my WA friends!) and thought I would bring it…
Look at the fun thing we have up in our teen zone. Because of the “Beneath the Surface” theme could mean so many things…one of my co-workers at another library branch found these cool pictures. They are of various animals, and then are an x-ray of the animal. That way you can see “Beneath the…
Decorations are pretty much one of my favorite things about summer reading. Mostly because I love how the whole library being decorated for something, like summer reading makes me feel like we are all working together to get people excited about reading. And that makes me happy. So, I was grateful when I got the…
With the “Dig Into Reading” theme we really wanted to have fun with decorating our windows. So we wanted to play with some tunnels and dirt. And Mo Willem’s Naked Mole Rats. First we put up some “dirt” on the windows. Then some purple tunnels (because brown on brown wouldn’t be very easy to see…
My co-workers are great. They all get into the spirit of decorating for the summer reading program. Here is what one of my brilliant co-workers did to decorate the Information Desk. She made a huge tunnel (thanks for the idea, Marketing Team!) and put our “Dig Into Reading” banner in the middle of it. Then…