Rapunzel's glowing lanterns were inspired by this clever craft idea for a fall leaf lantern, I stumbled across a few weeks ago. This was such a cute idea, I had to try it and it was easily adapted to fit in with the movie Tangled. My lanterns were based on the same instructions only with shredded purple and

Last year our TAG group came up with a great idea for a Dirty Santa Book Swap program for December. This year we did it again.   This program is incredibly low maintenance and that may be why it's one of my favorites.We ask that teens bring in one of their own beloved books from home to exchange

 To add a little more interactive fun to our Christmas decorations in the Children's Department this year, we've incorporated 2 super awesome winter passive programs (and maybe one more to come!). Thanks to the ladies over at School Library Displays  for sharing the idea! Most of the books under our tree are easy readers but there are a

Neville Longbottom in the Sorcerer's Stone One of my bigger pet peeves of the series is the movie portrayal of Neville is not given enough recognition, being shoved more towards the wayside whereas in the books, he plays a decent role as a tag-a-long friend to the trio. His characters history and the progression from a nervous clutz

I remember when I was barely 13 and discovered Quizilla. Back then it was just a website for quizzes which gradually began to incorporate fanfiction and nowadays, I'm not sure what it looks like. But I do remember that was my first experience with creating quizzes of any kind. For our Cinderella movie night, I was able to

One program that was passed onto me recently was Story crafternoon, which has recently been re-branded as Makerspace. It is typically for school aged kids but at libraries, sometimes you never know who will show up! We've had anywhere from 4 year old to 6th graders come to these programs (and it can be rough when these extremes

 World of Warcraft Foam Sword Tutorial Having never before made a costume sculpted from EVA foam before, I rely HEAVILY on tutorials from more talented crafters. For some reason, where to begin with this sword construction really stumped me. Here's how this project went down for me - hope it helps you! Items used were: 1) interlinking foam

With creative collaborative websites and online blogs, it's so easy for us DIY-ers to compare ourselves to every random Jane Doe we come across online. I LOVE scouring the interwebs, seeing what creative creations people can come up with. And should I even mention my Pinterest addiction? For me personally, when it comes to my crafting, I am

When the summer reading decorations are taken down, the children's department looks so boring. The room goes from vibrant colors and exciting displays in every spare corner back to bare beige. What better way to help this transition than a bright, book-inspired bulletin board?! The characters were traced onto poster board and colored using oil pastels. Leaves are

🎉HARRY POTTER Birthday Celebration 🎉 It's always a huge sign of relief when Summer Reading is over, the kiddies go back to school, you don't have to constantly print and fold reading logs and you can take the long needed breath. Summers are HARD in the Children's department!! But this year, we had a completely different reason to

 Oh the perils of planning a program around a series I have not read. While planning for Summer Reading, one theme TAG kept mentioning was Percy Jackson. Based on their book descriptions I think I loosely remember reading The Lightning Thief but that was the extent of my knowledge and unfortunately for this program, I couldn't get anymore

In the freezing, arctic-like winter weather, Olaf's excited cry "Let's go bring back summer!" seemed like the perfect fit for our winter bulletin board! Plus, I saw a pin on pinterest of a teachers door...                                                        I mean, how cute is that??? Adapted for an 8 ft bulletin board... The castle was traced onto white poster board and