Use these free printable files to create your own Turkey Scavenger Hunt. The turkey images used were found using a quick google search. 

 Yall. I am SO disappointed. 

I forgot to take pictures of my tabletop activities for Halloween!!!

Interactive Bulletin Board

The concept for this was: To prevent a vampire from rising, an old slavic tradition was to plant a rosebush over the grave. 

Kids colored roses, cut them out and placed them in the pocket for me to staple onto the board.

UN-PHOTOGRAPHED ACTIVITY

Dracula's Coffin 

This was a cardboard coffin with a bat slit cut out. The object of this activity was to write something that scares you and put it inside the coffin. 

Dracula's Castle Coloring Page

The idea for this came from Pinterest but required me to make my own template. This is what I came up with. Dracula is an image I found on google, the others are shapes made in Publisher. 

Here is a slightly different haunted castle.

Unfortunately there are no pictures of what this castle is supposed to look like but here is what you do . . . 

1. Color it
2. Cut it out
3. Fold along the vertical lines
4. Arrange the folds so the castle stands up on its own. 

 

This tabletop Easter passive program ideally had kids coloring Easter Eggs and putting them inside a cardboard Easter basket. 

Due to our library getting new light fixtures at this time, this table barely had any traction before it had to be put away. Then Easter Sunday passed before the department reopened. 

These printables will definitely be reused next year and I will endeavor to take pictures for this post! In the meantime, save these to your computer for use later.

 Towards the end of November, we had an all day set-up of department decorating crafts. The concept was similar to come&go crafts, but instead of taking your craft home, you'd leave it with us to hang up in the room!

There were 4 different crafts to do: Ornament coloring (as seen pictured above), a paper chain, snowflake decorating and Christmas tree ornament crafts from Oriental Trading. Here's a quick breakdown of what we had...
 
 Ornament Coloring
Exactly what you think it'd be.

Beforehand, I had drawn and cut out ornaments from poster board. All we did for this craft was put them out on the table and provide crayons for kids to color them.

Once completed, ornaments received a string of yarn and they were hung on the end caps of our non-fiction shelves!

(I did google different ornament shapes though so they weren't all the same)


Snowflake, Ornament & Tree decorating
.... There's probably a better way to describe it than that ↑

In retrospect, this is very similar to the craft listed above, but for this one we pulled out stickers. And sequins. So many sequins.

This activity got the most attention. We had bought equal amounts of the different shapes from Hobby Lobby and the snowflakes were by far the most popular option.

Once completed, these were hung on our fiction shelves. 


Tree Ornaments
The past few years, instead of decorating the tree with our YS ornaments, we've let the kids decorate it themselves.

A good bit of the above craft decorated our tree too.

Little story: This year we bought several different sets of foam ornaments from Oriental Trading, at different times throughout the year. When we pulled them out for our craft day we realized that all our different sets we had bought were red, white & blue. No idea how that happened, but our tree was very patriotic.


  Paper Chain