Today I’m over on Teen Services Underground sharing ideas for Father’s Day Crafts for teens. Father’s Day often gets shunted to the side in the middle of graduations and summer reading program kick-offs. There’s also the thought that Father’s Day has to be strictly for the guy in the family when it’s not the case. […]
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Sports Crafts
With the Summer Olympics coming in August and the iRead and CSRP themes this year centering around sports themes, there is no better time to take a look at some favorite sports crafts. While the summer sports tend to focus on baseball, swimming, soccer, and rugby, I’ve found that any type of sports crafts are a […]
Everywhere a Bookmark: Duct Tape Edition
All of my library kids are in love with bookmarks. They love using them for school books, workbooks, journals, library books- pretty much everywhere in their daily lives. And since one thing we highly encourage is for them NOT to dog-ear our books, having an abundance of bookmarks and bookmark crafts is a good thing. One […]
Anime Crafts
I think if I didn’t do an anime/manga craft every so often my teens would revolt. They are so into their favorite series that they would stalk my office waiting for new volumes and give me pages and pages of suggestions for new series that we should have carried. Sadly, we never had the budget […]
Emoji Crafts
My tweens and teens are in love with emojis. Half of their devices’ memory is specialized emoji, whether it’s additional faces and gestures or specialized characters devoted to their favorite fandoms and movies. There are times when I will get messages from them entirely in emoji, and I actually enjoy figuing out the puzzle of […]
Bookish Crafts
I am a movie lover. I am also a book lover. So when the two combine I get extremely excited. When there’s spinoffs of concepts, such as this weekend’s release of The Huntsman: Winter’s War, it brings out the geek in me and I want to bring out some of my favorite bookish crafts. Having been […]
Resist Art Ideas
I’ve always been drawn to resist art. For those who aren’t sure what I’m talking about, resist art is art that is created by layering two different and incompatible mediums (or techniques) together, and then removing one to reveal the space beneath. You see it used a lot with negative space art- people will put down […]
Free Comic Book Day Ideas
I love Free Comic Book Day! The first Saturday in May (so this year May 7), comic book stores around the country have purchased specially created comics and give them away to comic lovers of all ages. They have special events, have parties, and celebrate the love of reading of comics. Libraries get into the […]
Upcycling T-Shirts
I missed the dress-up gene somewhere along the line. I go to conferences, I go to amusement parks, and I see people in business casual attire or dresses, going around in heels or other dress shoes, and all I can think of is, “How can they do that?” My work shoes are a dressy version […]
Duct Tape Inspirations
If you asked them, the one material that my teens have loved to work with more than anything else has been duct tape. Doesn’t matter when, where, or what, it has been, “Miss, when are we doing another duct tape night?” or, “Miss, can I make a duct tape thingie?” I made it worse […]