duct tape to dunk tanks - teen programs you can use

Duct Tape to Dunk Tanks

Suzanne Walker – Presentersuwalker@library.in.gov

Suzanne Walker - Presenter

GAMES and GAMING

TODAY

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• Games and Gaming• Arts and Crafts• Anime/Manga Clubs• Parties• Teens and Mysteries• Movies• Books

TODAY

• After Hours• Guest Speakers• Foodies

Games and Gaming – If you can play it, you can have a teen program…

• Apples to Apples• Spoons• Wii or other Gaming System• Hide and Seek after hours• Field Day Type Games

Library Golf

• Teens reate “holes” in your library with books• Golf with yard sticks and golf balls

After school “Dance Dance Revolution”

• Or whatever gaming software and game is currently available and popular

“Dungeons and Dragons Club”

Settlers of Catan

• Life Sized Monopoly

Life Size Candy Land

• Life Size Candy Land (I made cardboard figures for the various cutouts and used sheets of colored foam as the pathway. The teens had a blast and played the game at least three times!)

Elkhart Public Library

• Life-Sized Clue - staff actually dressed up and acted out the characters of Col. Mustard, Prof. Plum, etc.

• Life-Size Angry Birds - used balls and boxes to play Angry Birds

• Tipton County Public Library

Open Gaming

• Open Gaming Tuesdays: a long-lasting, fun program for teens, simply because it breeds so much cross-clique interaction. We put out the Legos and Minecraft (on our account, on our netbooks) and they go to it!

• Mitchell Public Library

Arts and Crafts – IF you can make it…you can have a teen program

Arts and Crafts – IF you can make it…you can have a teen program

• Knitting / Crocheting• Scrapbooking • Holiday Crafts• Tee Shirts• Body Art• Duct Tape (duh)• Green / Recycled Crafts

Finished product from “Knit and Natter”

Also works with crocheting…

“Glass Paint Swirled Holiday

Ornaments”

Example of what they look like…

“Weaving Program”

• Homeschool Art Series: Using materials on loan from the National Gallery of Art, I do a short presentation on a period or style of art, then the teens go create their own art using a related medium or method.

• Mitchell Public Library

“Magazine Bowl Program”

“Duct Tape Flip Flops” (pic borrowed from another library)

• It never fails... ANYTHING involving duct tape. I have two teens on my teen council who LOVE duct tape. Last year, one of them volunteered to teach a summer reading program (Duct Tape Lockers, where teens essentially covered boxes with duct tape). The program was my highest attended program and the easiest for me since I had worked with him and prepared him to teach a program. The success of that program has opened up opportunities for me to have more Teen Council members teach programs, which is always a huge help to myself and Teen and Adult Staff (I'm the only teen librarian).

Teen Services LibrarianHussey-Mayfield Memorial Public Library

Nightmare before Christmas Clay Craft

“Mini Murder Mystery Scenes”

We just called them "night creatures," and I just had a picture example and they went to town!

It was just material and felt scraps, jewels, and chenille stems, kind of like the mummy you had us make out of florist wire and crepe paper. 

Jay County Public Library

Freaky Frankentoys

Shelby County Public Library

• http://www.craftstylish.com/item/4976/how-to-emboss-a-metal-tin/page/all

• Embossing Art

• Vermillion County Public Library

• We also had a large turnout for Wookie Tissue box covers.

Teen Services LibrarianHussey-Mayfield Memorial Public Library

• Rube Goldberg Machine (Teen Tech Week build a machine. I had a general plan ahead of time but incorporated the kids’ ideas as we went. I was amazed by their creativity. Watch tons of YouTube videos to get good ideas. With our limited time we weren’t able to have a success but most of the steps worked separately and they had a great time!)

Elkhart Public Library

A Rube Goldberg machine, contraption, invention, device, or apparatus is a deliberately over-engineered or overdone machine that performs a very simple task in a very complex fashion, usually including a chain reaction. The expression is named after American cartoonist and inventor Rube Goldberg (1883–1970).

“Sidewalk Chalk Program”

“Henna Tattooing Program”

This is Henna when it is still wet and staining the skin.

“Henna Tattooing Program” - This is a Henna Tattoo after the Henna has been removed.

• Tie Dye is easy with kits

• I’ve use the Tulip kits

Anime/ Manga Clubs

• Still seem to be somewhat popular

Anime / Manga Club (Culture Clubs)

Making Rice Balls with the Anime / Manga Club

Painting Japanese Fansfor Anime / Manga Club

Sushi

• Origami

• Paint your own parasols…

Make your own tee shirts

Candy Sushi

• Shrinky Dinks

• Make your own buttons

• Last night we had Karaoke Night for our Manga club, it was AWESOME. Everyone got up and sang voluntarily. I was shocked.

• Bedford Public Library

PARTIES!

“Harry Potter Party” – Teens volunteered

“Harry Potter Party” – Teens volunteered

• HAPPY DAYS ARE HERE AGAIN! PARTY• In January, we celebrated the 39th anniversary of

the debut of the TV show “Happy Days” with music, games, and food from the 1950s. Dressing up in 50s fashion was optional, but those who did were given a small prize. Competition activities included a 1950s trivia quiz, hula hoop contest, “Name That Tune,” and a “car hop” relay. We also had Yahtzee and Checkers out for those who wanted to play. Snacks were potato chips, popcorn, M&Ms, and Coke or Root Beer floats.

• Vigo County Public Library

• UN-VALENTINE’S DAY PARTY• We celebrated everything UN-Valentine.

Teens learned how to make duct tape roses from another teen, made un-valentine cards, created funny captions for valentine pictures, defaced candy hearts, and made their own catapults to launch the candy hearts across the room. Theme-based snacks were “broken heart cookies” (sugar cookies broken in half), chocolate hearts, and red drinks.

• Vigo County Public Library

• Zombie Prom (dress up, Pin the Brain on the Zombie, other zombie games)

Elkhart Public Library

• Hunger Games Party• -archery range (with toy bow and arrows),

tribute costume contest, snacks from the "Mellark Bakery," and I also printed off different Hunger Games profiles where the kids were given a name, a district, and how they died

• (I booktalked some other dystopian novels prior to the party.)

Alexandria-Monroe Public Library

• Zombie Program- A friend and I showed teens how to create zombie wounds using liquid latex and toilet paper. Then we had zombie snacks and watched Night of the Living Dead.

• Centerville-Center Township Public Library

Zombie Prom (dress up, Pin the Brain on the Zombie, other zombie games)

Elkhart Public Library

Teens and Mysteries

• WHAT HAPPENED TO SANTA? • Santa mysteriously disappeared! Teens had to help find

him in time for Christmas by putting together clues earned by participating crafts and other activities. The clues were individual words that when arranged in order practically spelled out what happened to him. Crafts included making graham cracker houses, decorating potholders, sun catchers, and cookies; making “peace” beaded and reindeer ornaments; building snowmen out of cotton balls; making cone hats, and dipping pretzels in white chocolate. Activities were a Simpson’s trivia quiz, “Santa Got Run Over by a Reindeer Bowling,” and a “Gift Box” piñata held the key to finding Santa: We had to sing “Santa Claus is Coming to Town” and then he (actually a she) appeared!

• Created by the TAB group at the Vigo County Public Library

• Murder Mystery Party • -purchased a murder mystery game and asked

for volunteers to play characters (I usually had more people attend than there were characters)

• (winner of the game received a copy of The Hunger Games and I booktalked a bunch of different mysterys available at the library)

Alexandria-Monroe Public Library

Teen Council

• Target teens already coming to your library• Give them a reason to exist…Grant? Have

them help you plan your programs?• Feed them• Review Books for your department• Have a mission and goals

• The top teen program at the Mitchell Library this year was when we recorded the Harlem Shake (getting all photo permission forms, of course) at the library, then had the teens edit the video. Teens with their own devices edited the video they (or a parent) shot on that device, while kids without a device used the library's raw footage. Library staff was made available to the teens to help them in the editing process, but the teens preferred to figure it out on their own. We had over 20 teens and tweens shooting or participating in the Harlem Shake, and 3 edits were submitted. I posted the one best on our Facebook page, and the others have our "seal of approval" on YouTube.

Movies

• MuVChat – Oakland City Public Library

Lock-Ins and After Hours Programs

• Permission slips including:– Behavior agreement– Emergency contact– Hold harmless in case of hospital visit– Information on how they will be leaving the next

day– Make sure parents can get a hold of their child if

the phones at the library are turned off

Music / Poetry / Writing / Book Discussions

• Music Jams• Writing Clubs• Poetry Writing Clubs / Poetry Readings /

Poetry Contests• Book Discussions / Book Clubs• Book Trailers

• book speed dating (copy an excerpt from various genres, make teens read & rate, reveal titles)

• Muncie Public Library

• April is National Poetry Month and APL is celebrating by holding a Twitter Poetry Contest!

How it works:Register for the contest online.

• Subscribe to our Twitter feed, @andersonlibrary.• Post three (3) tweets to your own public Twitter feed with the

@andersonlibrary handle. The three tweets together will count as one entry. At least one of the tweets must reference libraries, books, reading, or Anderson.

• Check out the contest website during National Library Week, April 14-20, to see the entries and vote for your favorites.

• Three winners will receive a $10.00 gift certificate to be used at any Anderson Public Library Friends of the Library book sale.

Booktalks

• Try to get into schools for a captive teen audience

• Promote new books, classics, weeding candidates

• Use chocolate to get the attention of teachers• Show trailers as well

• Author Fair / Read and Feed

Guest Speakers / Performers

• Authors• Artists who will teach a drawing class• Someone who will speak on topics requested

by your teens

Harry and the Potters

• They came to our Yule Ball!

Foodie Programs!

• Pizza Taste Off• Make Smoothies• Chocolate Dipped Pretzles, cookies, etc• Healthy Dinner (they help make everything)

• Design Your Own Sandwich• -provided the kids with a bunch of different

ingredients and let them go crazy• (I also had a bunch of cookbooks on display.)

Alexandria-Monroe Public Library

So many other great programs!!!

• Just add your personality and their suggestions and you will have winning programs…

• Don’t give up! It takes a lot to build a successful Teen Department!

Contact Me!

Suzanne WalkerIndiana State Library

suwalker@library.in.govTwitter: @suzieecw

Phone: 317.234.5649