Saturday, July 16, 2016

Come On Down and Guess That Smell!

So this weeks event was a total bust. I did nutrition with some cereal box puzzles and a Guess That Smell game, and fruit. Unfortunately, all my work was mostly useless as only a couple of kids came and they were little kids that happened to be there for story time. Story time, which was also about nutrition, went great. There were 20 kids in attendance this week. My assistant who runs story time was talking about what foods were good for you versus junk food. It went really well and kids actually answered questions. Only 8 of those kids however came to my actual Summer Reading Program. Sigh. Oh well, can't really do anything about it except be really pumped about the next program which is an Obstacle Course using pool noodles!

Monday, July 11, 2016

Miniature Golfing in the Library!

So it's summer reading time and all librarians know what that means, lots of programs! This year the theme is Sports/Health/Fitness or On Your Mark, Get Set, Read! which makes for lots of fun ideas. For the first week we did miniature golf in the library and had about 12 kids which is pretty good considering we have 45 kids signed up for summer reading.

We got little kids golf clubs and I had two full size putters to use.

I set up the course using books and other items from the library. I used book ends as holes, which made things difficult because of the slight dip up to get the ball in the hole. I used books as obstacles for the most part except for one hole that I used shredded paper as "sand traps". The kids had a pretty good time so I consider this program a win. Next we're doing Nutrition and Food Fun.