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

For the new school year, our LEGO Hour program got revamped. These past few months, instead of challenges, we've been having Free Build days where kids come in and build whatever their hearts desire. You can imagine, after a while that gets old. To add a new interactive element to the program, I designed a Lego wheel to

   This was inspired by Japanese Windsock crafts.  It's very simple, and the perfect for outdoor weather!  I'm afraid I don't have step-by-step pictures for this tutorial, so I'm just going to share what I do have: the instructions and the owl template Prep work:  For this craft, I had owls printed and already cut out on cardstock

A while back our library had a Harry Potter book club for tweens, where we read through the entire series. Several different families expressed a desire for a book club for a younger audience, so this school year that's our aim!  Since this is with a younger crowd, I didn't want to discourage anyone so instead of reading