Children's Library Services Projects
Activities, programs, and projects that can be implemented in a children's library.
Thinking Inside the Box Project - Story Starts:
Activities & Tools to Get Your Creative Writing Ideas Flowing
This was a project created in my Children's Library Services course. The topic was to develop a project that patrons could take home and use. I wanted to focus on a writing resource for interested patrons to help merge the love of reading and writing together. This project could easily be adapted and used in library services for any grade level. The activities in this could also be separated and used one at a time in a weekly programming aspect (or even a one time workshop) at a library. These could also be shared with teachers to
This box is full of ideas and activities to get kids writing. Kids will be able to check the box out and work on the projects at home. The focus will be on generating ideas, since oftentimes, coming up with ideas and starting is the hardest part. There will be a variety of story starts, so kids can then continue on and write stories of their own!
Click here to access all of the material for this project
Makerspace
Below are pictures and ideas for the Makerspace area I've been helping to create with my school media specialist. Many of these are inspired from courses I took about children and teen services and technology. The way a media center is used has changed, so it's not just for books anymore. These are programming and activities set up for the students that have been implemented in the school's media center during my practicum. These are activities that can be developed in any school media center grades K-12. In fact, we are working on planning a Community Day (called A Flutter of Creativity) in February for anyone in the community to come and explore and use the resources in the Makerspace.
Story Telling Program
This is a program that I designed in my LIS 60629 class. It involves a story time program for a school or library. We were to select a high interest book that would be read to the patrons and then have them do an activity with it. Below are my plans and a link to the video where I read the book.
Theme - Sequencing & Making predictions
Age-group - Aged 4-6 (with a parent/care-taker)
Book(s) you will read (and songs/rhymes, etc. you will use):
If You Give a Mouse a Cookie by Laura Joffe Numeroff
If You Give a Dog a Doughnut by Laura Joffe Numeroff
If You Give a Mouse a Muffin by Laura Joffe Numeroff
“Going on a Bear Hunt”
Related activities – will you incorporate movement? Song or rhymes? A craft?
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I will introduce myself, the books we will be reading and the activity
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We will start by singing the song “Going on a Bear Hunt,” which adds lyrics along the way as you continue on the bear hunt. This will be their first introduction to the idea of sequencing as new things are added to the song. I will ask them during the song what other items might be added to the bear hunt (to help with the idea of making predictions). We can even add some of the ideas that they say to the song!
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We will look at the three books by Laura Joffee Nemeroff. I have three different books so the kids can listen to how one of the stories works in terms of predictions and sequencing and then read the other two and stop along the way so they can make predictions about what they think is going to happen along the way.
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We will review the sequencing in the book and how one thing leads to another. I will then walk the kids through a brainstorming activity with their caregivers will they will write their version of the story, “If you give ----- a -------.” We’ll work through sequencing and predictions as they add new objects to their own stories. I will create booklets for them that look almost like comic book panels, so they can add their element and then add pictures too. We will work together to create their own unique stories.
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Participants can volunteer to share their stories that they wrote as we all eat cookies and milk!