Thrive Thursday Roundup 12/19/13
We have an array of school aged programming this week. Drum roll please…
First up we have a couple of holiday programs you can add to your calendar for next year. In Short I’m Busy has a Santa’s Kitchen activity station complete with cookies and ornaments. A lot of prep and setup time is needed, but this all ages program was a big success!
I can’t resist Piper Loves the Library’s Nutcracker performance. If you have a ballet or dance company in your town to work with, you should try to duplicate this!
Romp, Riot, Read spent a lot of time creating a life size Candy Land game. You can tell there was an extreme amount of work that went into this. I want to jump on the squares right now! This can be used as a yearly program now that all the hard work was done.
I was so inspired by a professional development workshop at the Eric Carle Museum, that I am creating a club after him. This can be used as an art program or a reading program. I can’t wait to play some more with the rubbing plates and Q-tips!
If you’re looking for passive programs, check these out:
Storytime Underground wrote a fingerplay for Jane Austen’s Pride and Prejudice. You can gives tweens and teens the same idea. I might even try this myself. How about the 5 Little Zombies?!
The ALSC blog has some cool winter bookmark ideas for the winter vacation to keep the idle children busy.
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Santa’s Kitchen is my holiday program that ends the year. Like all my programs, it’s all ages, so we had toddlers up through tweens. http://inshortbusy.blogspot.com/2013/12/santas-kitchen.html (if you’re wondering why I do something so holiday-specific, I’ll note that I live in the “Christmas card town”, the annual tree-lighting/Santa visit happens after hours in the library’s community room, and the library is the repository for the Christmas card paintings – 23 and counting)
I hosted a Life Size Candyland this week as an afterschool program. It was a big success for us and had attendees who were mostly elementary-aged, though it was open to all ages. I think a lot of libraries are doing these games now, though. So, maybe not the most original post. 🙂
http://librarianneighbor.wordpress.com/2013/12/18/that-time-i-rocked-the-faces-off-32-people/
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