Passive programming

Create your own book tournament bracket, a perfect passive program for any age pitting book against book in the ultimate showdown.

Passive programming for YA section. Pages from weeded books and Sharpies. Participants create poetry by leaving select words visible and blacking out the rest.:

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Passive programs for the library (self-directed programming)

I got this idea while viewing the Martin Luther King Jr. Memorial Library in DC this year. In their children’s library, they had a map handouts of their children’s library that doubled …

The Library Adventure uses affiliate links, see our policies for more information.Kids ages 8 to 12 are often too busy with scheduled activities of their own to make it to library programs in the afternoons or evenings. For librarians who wish to increase attendance at programs for this age group, this can be very frustrating, […]

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One of our easiest and most useful initiatives is our Celebrate A Grade initiative. We’ve run it for the past three school years and it has lots of applications. Every month celebrates a specific grade. We begin in October with kindergarten. When kids in each grade come up to the desk and tell us their teacher... Read more »

January is kind of a quiet time at the library, so I thought it would be a great time for a contest! I had the Where's Waldo idea for a while and I wasn't able to do it until now! The idea is basically a scavenger hunt around the Children's room with characters from the Waldo series. So far it has been getting a good reaction and it is a lot of fun to watch kids try to find all of the characters. One day Tim came for a visit. I told him about the Waldo's and he felt the need to participate…

When you get new books at the library, what better way to get them checked out than to build an interactive table around them? For this ta...

good list of passive programs

The Lego Librarian – Blogging about Lego Clubbin and other library program ideas

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In yet another program I ripped off from Pinterest, a Post It Note Art Gallery! This was as easy as putting out a bunch of post it notes, markers, and colored pencils, plus a sign asking kids to ad…

My library frequently has passive programming for the children, usually in the form of a craft that they can do while they are at the library. The limit to this type of program, though, is that it has to be something kids can do independently with the materials we feel comfortable leaving out, so we try to avoid anything requiring pointy scissors, liquid glue, glitter, paint, etc. This time I wanted to give the kids something fun and different to do in the library that didn't involve making…

A "Choose Kind" program at your library is an easy passive program that works literally year around!

I found this post from Mlissinginaction and had wanted to do something like this for awhile now. I attempted to make my own fortune teller/cootie catcher and failed miserably (I made them a million…

Great passive program: a board with strings in a grid, paired with a bucket below full of plastic bottle caps! It's like a very low-tech litebrite... a fun way to recycle and to make beautiful art :) From the Hillsdale (NJ) Public Library.

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