For an online episode of Bookie Bakes, I talked about Mo Willems and his popular characters Pigeon, Gerald and Piggie.  We made Gerald'...

  I'll do a real write-up for this one later. For now, here are some songs for water story time!   SONGS Little Raindrops Falling Down (...

 This post contains 2 separate Eric Carle inspired crafts. The first is a Little Cloud parfait, based on "Little Cloud". The seco...

 Pictures of the Black History Month YA display. Only a small portion of the books from our collection are being shown on display.  The bulk...

This interactive bulletin board is all about guessing which first line goes in which book. It was simple to design and create the pieces for...

 During Covid, our library did a series of Author Focus videos in a series called "Bookie Bakes". The idea of this video was to fo...

For the last two years, our Young Adult bulletin board has had a stationary spotlight display. Every month, 2 new books are featured in the ...

  This was inspired by passive programs to write letters to Santa.

   Truth time.   I hadn't planned to do a tutorial of this so the pictures aren't as explanatory as I'd like. 

Books themes are characters who are imposters or pretending to be something they're not,  who-dun-it's, murder mystery types and mis...

Sometimes you want display items to stand out. One way I do that is by making them stand up!  Here's my simplest method of making charac...

 What's a Presidential Election if there's no run-off between literary characters at the library?

 

For a virtual Columbus Day program, the Christopher Columbus stand-ups were made for a re-telling of Columbus's discovery of the America...

  Johnny Appleseed was supposed to get a biographical retelling with fun props, similar to the Columbus Day story .... However, that didn...

 Cleaning up and reorganizing My Documents and my USB and stumbled across this YA display from last September when everyone wanted to storm ...

This is an English fairy tale about an old woman who can't get her new pig to go over a stile. It's getting late, she's in a rus...

      I'd forgotten how fun Bingo sheets were to make until this summer. Click the links for Buffy Bingo and Pokemon Bingo ! 💚💛💜 ...