This is the relay race played during our I Survived book club meeting for I Survived the Attack of the Grizzlies, 1967. A thorough (ish) overview of that months meeting can be found here 😁 In the book, two teenage girls are attacked by two grizzly bears on the very same night at Glacier National Park. Prior to

 I feel like it's becoming a habit that I accidentally give away all my copies of a book we're reading and then end up walking into book club never having gotten my hands on another copy! For discussion, activity/craft and snack ideas, I rely heavily on the book for guidance and inspiration. But with these grizzlies, I was

A very short list of books that went out on our YA Read-Alike book display. A fair number of titles have been paired with a movie/tv series.  If I'm Being Honest by Emily Wibberley  This has been on my tbr list for too long! 💜💜💜   We Were Liars by E. Lockhart (Find a copy of the audiobook.

Book: Trashy Town by Andrea ZimmermanA short, repetitive book about Mr. Gilly, the Trashman who drives to different locations and picks up trash. Repeating phrase, "Dump it in, smash it down, drive around the trashy town" was a good, hand clapping, foot stomping part for the group.   Book: Raccoon Tune by Nancy ShawFamily of raccoons searching for food

Harry Potter Book Club's second meeting was so much messier than our first meeting, which made it amazing. This meeting we focused on different Hogwarts Professors through a group game of Family Feud and re-potting Mandrakes. If you read my first post on our Harry Potter Book Club, you might remember that we're not reading and discussing the

Another short and sweet craft/activity write-up today. For this months I Survived Book Club meeting, my coworker stepped in for me and led the discussion. However, I really wanted to share this cup racing game with you. This was inspired by An Almost Unschooling Mom's blog post, which can be found here! In this book, Paul Colbert is

The Research Robot was a passive program that encouraged kids to research using books set out on the table and as a rotating non-fiction display. This display was changed weekly, with questions ranging from "Who painted the Mona Lisa?" to "How many moons does Jupiter have?" to "What did Paul Bunyan do for a living?". Animal questions were

Because our Harry Potter Summer Reading Finale was for ages 0-18, we really wanted to have age appropriate crafts to accommodate our itty-bitty library users. So I really had to think hard on this simple little thing.  The sock template was pulled from Pattern Universe and I added the quote using Microsoft Publisher.  Click HERE for my printable

If you read my post on our Lego Spinning Challenge Wheel, then you're familiar with our re-vamping Lego Hour at the Library. But here's a brief summary: This school year, we've put a list of different building themes on a spinning wheel and each meeting, one participant gets to spin the wheel that will determine our challenge! This