Below are some of my favorites linking (if available) flyers with more information, and blogs that inspired the program or ones that contain similar information:
- Bento Boxes! -- The teens ate this up (literally--yuck yuck yuck). I found Lunch in a Box to be so helpful that I even printed out the page on gap filling for the teens to take home.
- Fashion Forward -- One of the ways I battled a depleted budget was to harass convince my friend Christina to talk about her time at Fashion Institute of Technology and her post-graduation job working with Ralph Lauren.
- Jam Session -- Recycling records into bowls was a smash hit. Halfway through we started sending off the records by playing a track from the album on YouTube as it melted in the oven.
- When Zombies Attack! -- This one was yet another product of harassing convincing my friends to help out the library. I harassed encouraged her to combine her love of zombies with her theater training to create a most excellent interactive presentation.
- Gift Workshop * -- This was an epic two parter. At the first workshop we had three projects going on: 1) Everyone turned Delias catalog pages into star-shaped gift bows and then either 2) made duct tape wallets or 3) decoupage magazine pieces onto little boxes.
- Gift Workshop (2) -- At the second gift workshop we converted old CD cases into frames.
- TAG -- Working directly with my Teen Action Group has been some of the most rewarding time I spent this year. I blogged back in November detailing a fun activity we did.
- Writing Festival -- More harassment (oh whatever, we all know it was harassment at this point) on my behalf where I gathered some of my favorite writers to host stations and go over manga, fan fiction and a really awesome haiku game I learned in high school.
- Rock Band -- I inherited a fabulous gaming program at my library featuring head-to-head tournament play. It was nice taking a break from that and watching everyone just playing instruments.
- Candy Sushi -- This summer my Teen Cafe regulars rolled out some Rice Kristipie treats and Swedish Fish to some delicious results. Definitely revisiting this one in the next few years.
Leave some of your best 2009 programs in the comments!
* Sorry for the head tilt! Towards the end of the year I switched to vertical signage to be able to advertise more programs. It prints lovely, but is a bit annoying when looking at on the screen.
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10 comments:
You are so crafty and creative. I'm envious. I used the "judge a book by its cover" activity w/my 6th grade club and they LOVED it. I need to find more book-ish activities for them.
Aaww thanks, Alicia! You're so sweet.
I'm super pumped that your 6th graders loved that activity! Let me know what you come up with.
I love your idea of integrating creative writing activities with your TAG meetings. Though I love books (duh) I never really caught the creative writing bug in school and thus don't know of too many fun and quick writing activities. Do you have any ideas?
One of my favorites is the haiku game we did at the writing festival.
To start, each person writes the first two lines of a haiku and then folds the paper so that you can still write on it but can't see inside. Everyone then puts their paper into the middle and draws a new sheet. Without opening the paper to see the first two lines, participants write down the last line of a haiku that may or may not relate back to what they wrote on the first paper they had. Once everyone is done take turns reading the poems. I cut up paper of varying colors to make it easier for teens to grab a different paper than the one they put in.
Since you're both interested I think I'll make a post in the next two weeks about creative writing games. I am glad that my English/Creative Writing degree can actually be used for something other than hanging up on my wall.
Hi, just wanted to say I love your blog. Thanks for sharing some many awesome teen programing ideas!
Love all these ideas for programs and love your blog! It's always such a blast to read, definitely part of my daily Google reader!
Thanks Erin! I can't wait to check out your blog.
And Andrea, I feel the same way about your blog, thanks!!
Would you mind sharing with me what you did at your zombie program??
Sure! Lemme talk to Kala and see if she doesn't mind my sending her documents on. Otherwise I will just write up a general gist of what happened, but it would be better if I could get you the exact handouts she used because they were awesome.
Thanks. I would love to somehow incorporate this into Teen Tech Week. :D
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