Blogging & Book Trailers @ the Library

The summer fun continues. Check out some great trailers made by teens:
 Catching Fire by Suzanne Collins:  

Love Your Life:
   

 Every Day by David Levithan:
 

 Big Cats:
 

Grafitti @ the Library?: The Summer Fun Begins!

We have events for teens every week this summer! And...win great prizes for reading! Drawings every week. Put in an entry for every 100 pages, magazine or book you read or listen to!

This week teens were artistic & creative with chalk paint, CD scratch art, cross-out art, & more.
Check it all out:

They made their own chalk paint by mixing a little washable paint, 1/2 cup corn starch, 1 cup hot water, and a little dish soap. They used spray and squirt bottles, brushes, stamps--and their hands on sidewalks, paper, & poster board--all with amazing results. Visit the library to see the fantastic Beneath the Watery Surface mural in front.
The CD scratch art was very popular. Just paint the shiny side with a dark acrylic paint & let it dry. Then use a sharp instrument--they used a nail or letter opener--and scratch a design. It's reflective and colorful--and surprising!
They made some meaningful--and silly--cross-out art with a page from an old paperback. Pick a sentence you want to display & cross out everything else. Then make a frame--they used puzzle pieces.
Another interesting artwork was to take an old painting (we had colorful paper placemats & file folders), stick on vinyl letters and other stickers and then paint over it all with white paint. When it's dry, remove the stickers and the painting shows through. Interesting...
They made word art too--with www.wordle.net. Easy to make, harder to copy & print, but fun!

Poetry Madness!

Celebrate National Poetry Month!

It doesn't need to rhyme--

Or even make lots of sense.

(or it could be very deep)



Have fun with words.
Have fun with pictures.
And then...
Pick a prize!

Pick words from a boxful cut from magazines--or cut your own. Arrange them on your choice of paper & you have created poetry! Or...write your own Haiku--or library acrostic. We have lots already on display. Starting this week, try Blackout Poetry. Take an old paperback no one wants (we have some) and pick any page. Begin crossing out words. Then write down the words left and you have your very own blackout poem! 
Like this one:

Brilliant

Sit down

Sitting on a stack of newspapers.

Recycling.

Piano play.

Jokes, singing.

Applaud.

Crazy!

Cool Fun in January

SNACK & PLAN

Mon. Jan. 7 @ 4pm 

Members of T.A.B., Teen Advisory Board, & those wishing to join (12 to 17 years of age) will eat, play games, & plan programs. Earn volunteer hours.

This week make a book trailer like this one:

 

MAKE IT HOT!

Tues. & Wed., Jan. 8 & 9 @ 4

Teens, 11 and older, make salsa & experiment with a variety of hot chocolate & other warm food. Bring an old t-shirt & make your own t-shirt hat or scarf. All other supplies, snacks, & drinks will be provided.

SILENT LIBRARY

Thurs. Jan. 17 @ 4

Teens, 11 & older: play games & participate in unusual fear factor & minute-to-win-it type challenges without making a sound. Quietest participants will win a prize! Quiet food & drinks, too, some to silently make yourself.

GAMEFEST

Wed. Jan. 30 @ 3

PlayStation & Wii games, tournaments & more!

Summer Fun continued...

Black light t-shirts, gaming, U-Pick crafts--duct tape, pop tab jewelry, stress balls, & more...

 

Winter & Teens @ the Library

Teens created some amazing tie dye t-shirts, socks, & bandanas. They also celebrated National Do Nothing Day. Those who wanted to made deep fried twinkies & oreos for snacks, made stress balls from balloons and rice, and challenged each other to a Guitar Hero Tournament and a Fear Factor Scavenger Hunt. Check out the pictures:

tie-dye crafting 



 



Relax with a stress ball...

The programs keep coming...check out the Events Calendar and don't miss GameFest Wed. Jan. 25 @ 3!

Chocolate & More!

Celebrating December! Teens made chocolate candy to eat, take home, & for library programs in December.

 They also made ornaments for the library tree & to take home...

Check out the great madlib from the GameFest Holiday Style program:

Twas the night before Christmas and all through the squirrel

Not a pikachu was stirring, not even a wombat.

The children were electrified all snug in their loveseat

While visions of hot pizzas banished in their ear.

When out on the lawn there arose such a clatter, I sprang from my leg to see what was the matter.

I knew in an eyeball it must be Saint Philip with his miniature Lamborghini

And 17,000 tiny dragons named Dasher and Dancer and Roger and Keith.

He filled all our squirrels, then laying his teeth aside of his fingernail, up the chimney he echoed.

But I heard him exclaim as squeaked out of sight,

"Intelligent Christmas too all and to all a daring night!"

Teens @ the Library

School's started and now it's teens, teens, teens @ the library! At 2:40 each week day the rush begins as teens walk over from the school next door. And we have lots for them here @ the library!

• Teen Advisory Board--T.A.B. We usually meet on the 1st Monday of each month--except for months like this one when we are closed on the 1st Monday. 23 teens. 12 & older, met Mon Sept. 8, to eat, play games, plan programs, and earn volunteer time. We meet again on Oct. 8--again not the first Monday--to finish plans for the Fall Festival on Sat. Oct. 18.
• Over 30 teens enjoyed Craft Mania last week. They made tie dye t-shirts and duct tape creations! Check out the pictures on this blog and on the Teen board in the library.
• Our next monthly gaming program will be on Wed. Oct. 29 at 3:30. Enjoy a variety PlayStation & Wii games along with snacks & pop! Tournaments with prizes for all who want to participate! You may enjoy open gaming before that, since there is only 1/2 day of school.
• Our annual Fall Festival is coming on Oct. 18, Sat, 1-3. Three years ago the T.A.B. decided to have a this fest for the community in celebration of Teen Read Week. The theme that year was Get Active @ Your Library. That year and every year since we have had games, crafts, movies, and more to celebrate. Last year more than 250 people joined the fun @ their library! Earn lots of volunteer time having fun and helping at this important T.A.B. event!