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 […]
Tag: teen programs
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 […]
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 […]
Shine a Little Light in a LED
In today’s world, there is a lot of emphasis on computer and programming skills, which is wonderful, and yet there is less focus on practical skills. We live in a society that is very focused in the now- when socks have holes, throw them away and buy more; there aren’t checkbooks anymore- balances are available online […]