More Programs in April: Let the Hunger Games Begin & More

Let the Hunger Games Begin
Thursday, April 19 @ 4

Feed your hunger with food you make at 'Peeta's Bakery'. Test your survival skills with fear factor challenges. Protect yourself with a bow & arrow you make. Create your own mockinjay pin. Show what you know with trivia challenges. And much more!

GameFest
Wednesday April 25 @ 3

Play Wii & PlayStation games. Compete in tournaments for prizes or enjoy open play. Snacks & pop, too!

Cool Crafts from Trash
All month long
Recycle bags, CDs, scrap paper, magazines, old books, & more into something creatively great!

Poetry--It's Fun
Compose poetry in many forms: take a book and write a repurposed poem--you get to write in the book & it's fun & simple!; use words & pictures from old magazines to create your poem; write a Haiku--or a Cinquain-we tell you how--& it's easy; write a 24 hour poem--one word for every hour of your day; write an acrostic poem--a word for every letter in a word of your choice. Pick a small prize for every poem. We will display it & put it on the blog if you want. Your name will be entered into a drawing for a library bag full of goodies. 

April @ the Library

Teens at the Cedar Lake Branch created a 'Mishmash" of crafts this week: t-shirt & socks tie dye & painting; t-shirt pillows; pop tab bracelets; recycled cd mobiles & other artistic creations. They also recycled magazines into visual poetry and made repurposed book poetry.

You Belong @ Your Library: Write a Poem & Win!

All month everyone can write a variety of poetry--cinquains, haiku, acrostic poems, 24 hour poems, repurposed book poetry, and visual poems. It's all to celebrate National Library Week & National Poetry Month. All poets will pick a small prize for each poem and will be entered into a drawing for a library bag full of goodies. We will display them & post them on the blog if you want. Check out some of the poems so far:

Cinquain (has 5 lines--line one is the one word title; line 2 has 2 words and describes the title; line 3 is a 3 word pharse that describes an action relating to the title; line 4 is a 4 word phrase that describes a feeling related to the titile; line 5 is one word that refers back to your title.) Here's one:

Insectopedia
Crawly bugs
Bugs crawling around
Nasty, disgusting, disturbing, yucky
Insects.

And another:

Spring
Fun time
Flowers are blooming
The smell of flowers linger.
Warmth. 

One more:

Reading
Every book
Turning unseen pages
A world of possibilities
Endless.

A haiku:
Make a difference.
Have fun. Enjoy your lifetime.
Go enjoy a book.

An acrostic poem:

L earning new things

I ntelligent people making a difference

B ooks with interesting facts

R eading a lot of books

A ll access to new knowledge

R are and intelligent facts for learning.

Y ou have ways of getting inside a book.

Repurposed Book Poem: (yes, they circled words in a book & crossed out others...):

Eliminate difficulties
Beautiful considered
Figure identified
Toughest pleased
Arrived gift.