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| I am not a Dalek. I am a human. |
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oufflé Girl here! Not really. Just little ol' me in a snazzy cosplay get-up. But I do have a whisk in my belt and that has to count for something. At least once a month we host after hours lock-ins at my library for the teens. Sometimes, like our Doctor Who program, I spend hours scouring the internet looking for great program ideas only to let the kids get hopped up on sugar and run around. It happens. How can you resist when one of your teens' mothers bakes cupcakes with adorable Doctor Who fondant pieces on top? Especially when you've already made marshmallow Adipose creatures and Ood cupcakes? The phone with the close-up shot of the Adipose is presently missing, but you best believe I will ETA this johnson once I am reunited with it.
Now, not every library program is going to have such fancy cupcakes. Guess what? The teens don't care. I promise. I only have fancy snacks from time to time because unlike the majority of the librarian population, I loathe baking. Those Ood cupcakes? Yeahhhh... I bought a 24 pack of unfrosted cupcakes and let my teen volunteers decorate them. They love cupcake decorating and helping to bring lock-ins to the next level because they get to take ownership when the snacks are complimented. It's pretty much a
win win win. You can also make regular snacks fit your theme with a little imagination. For this lock-in I had Candied Companions (Sour Patch Kids) and Still-Not-a-Ginger Snacks (pretty much orange foods like Cheez-Its and Nacho Doritos, but you can also use gingersnaps).
While planning this event I encountered several Doctor Who parties featuring a Weeping Angels Red Light/Green Light game, so of course now that I'm writing up the program I can't find a single source. I had to edit the game, so I don't feel as guilty about not linking, but still... just pointing out that this isn't original. Those games called for the traditional rules of Red Light/Green Light where the person that is "it" (or in this case "The Doctor") merely turned around and everyone had to freeze. We found after a few rounds that it was not challenging enough for the teenagers so we took it up a notch. Since the Weeping Angels move freely in the darkness, my colleague flicked the lights off when the teens were expected to move and once the lights were back on they had to freeze immediately. It was a lot more fun and provided a much more "realistic" Doctor Who experience than traditional Red Light/Green Light.
Can we just stop for a moment and think about how much we all love photobooths and photo backdrops? They're the best. You can instantly turn transitory moments and lulls in program momentum into a fun time simply because you have a photobooth! This one was very low budget and took about 20 minutes to whip together. I know that some people really take their TARDIS building very seriously, and I don't want to knock that, but
ain't nobody got time for that. The plastic tablecloths you get from most any dollar store out there is decently close to TARDIS blue. Painter's tape is very close, but light enough to provide a bit of contrast to make panels for the door. My anal retentive handwriting skills lost out in favor of letting a teen volunteer write "Public Call Police Box" on black construction paper with white chalk to get the background done quickly and still looks phenomenal. You can also print out
one of these bad boys, slap it up there with some white squares and you're set. Easy peasy TARDIS squeezy.
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