Our local school district has off this entire week so we knew we wanted to have a program that families could come to and get a break from the house (and, let’s face it, from each other). I threw this party in the old space but when we moved into the new building, I knew…… Continue reading Charlie Brown Thanksgiving Party
I love Halloween at the library. If I’m working on Halloween (as I was this year) my coworker and I try to coordinate our costumes: Guess who we were this year! I’m particularly proud of my salsa hat. 🙂 We got some ideas for our costumes here. I created a couple new additions to the…… Continue reading Halloween Party (2018)
Apparently when you offer free food, they shall come. And by “they” I mean every child that has ever wandered through the children’s area. We had about 80 people attend this program and that’s not counting all the families we had to turn away. If they weren’t there in the first 10 minutes, they did…… Continue reading Cupcake Decorating (Kids in the Kitchen)
Today we discussed Henri Matisse. Book: Henri’s Scissors by Jeanette Winter This book talks mostly about Matisse late in his life after he lost the ability to paint and found solace cutting painted paper. Here’s the slide show I created for Matisse: For this session our project was making our own paper cutouts. We used…… Continue reading Creative Kids Art Club — Session IV
Today we discussed Georgia O’Keeffe. Book: My Name is Georgia by Jeanette Winter Here’s the slide show I created for Georgia: For this session our project was making our own watercolor. I painted a flower but the kids were encouraged to paint whatever they wanted. I had a few desert scenes and even a bunny…… Continue reading Creative Kids Art Club — Session III
Today we discussed Pablo Picasso. Book: Just Behave, Pablo Picasso! by Jonah Winter; pictures by Kevin Hawkes Picasso has an overwhelming amount of periods and artwork so summarizing him for the kids was tough. Here’s the slide show I created: I got the idea for our art project at The Pinterested Parent. I forgot to…… Continue reading Creative Kids Art Club — Session II
Today was the first session of our Creative Kids Art Club! I piggy backed on an idea I read about in After-School Clubs for Kids by Lisa M. Shaia. (I highly recommend this book if you’re stuck in a program rut!) Her Masterpiece of the Week Club focuses more on illustrators but I wanted to…… Continue reading Creative Kids Art Club — Session I
I forgot to take a single picture yesterday before or during our Halloween party! But I’ll try and piece together what we did … To start off I had a very short story time. Our age group skewed to an older crowd so some of the little songs I did for the few little ones…… Continue reading Halloween Party (2017)
God bless the people that make up these nonsense holidays. What a great theme for a party! I started off with a short story time: Book: Pirate Pete’s Talk Like a Pirate by Kim Kennedy; illustrated by Doug Kennedy Pirate Pete interviews a crew of scalawags only to find out his parrot has the best…… Continue reading Talk Like a Pirate Day Party
My last official event of summer! Phew! I had a really small turnout but that was fine with me. Easy peasy. Since I had some younger ones who hadn’t attended a previous event, I read a book explaining what coding and programming are. Then we reviewed the definition of crowdsourcing: These signs were created on…… Continue reading Ready, Set, Code — Session III
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