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Interactive Displays

Page history last edited by Jane McManus 10 years, 10 months ago

Libraries are more than books. Some kids need a little direction to get the creative juices flowing. I gleaned the following from PUBYAC contributors. If you're a member, check out the archives for 9-3-2009. Please add YOUR comments. Your colleagues would appreciate hearing what works, and what didn't!


see also: Bulletin Boards

 

A bulletin board in the children's area, would be great way to post a series of interactive displays on it. Something where the kids and their parents can participate in some way.

  • A lift-the-flap joke bulletin board, where the punchline is under the flap.

  • Craft/activity instructions are related to the display so that your patrons could take and make at home.

  • Hang a sign inviting kids to draw and color an object to add to a specific theme, such as a picnic--and put out drawing paper, scissors and crayons. The board will quickly fill up with bears, or food, of all shapes, colors and sizes.

  • Create an "I SPY" checklist, and cover the BB with lots of items, related to a specific theme, (ie: underwater marine life).

  • A "Kid Picks" display. Leave out small forms for kids to fill out to make book recommendations to other kids in the library. About once a month, you could post a list of the top 5 kid-recommended books. Be forewarned, you may want to have kids drop their review slips into a box, and have a staff person do the actual posting on the board. (That way you can weed out any inappropriate things.)

  • Try a reverse bulletin board with a picture or scene which is then covered up with post-its or other removable pieces of paper. Some pieces are removed each day/week and kids can make guesses as to what image is slowly being uncovered.

  • A birthday poster -- one big poster with author birthdays, and the kids can see if they share the same birthday with that author: Perhaps put up small, simple signs saying: Johnny has the same birthday as Tomie dePaola and his favorite book is "Dinosaurs Before Dark" etc .

  • Match-up games. Give the patrons a few cards to put under the correct category.

  • For National Poetry Month, put up a bulletin board with objects or animals pinned to it and invite the kids to write a poem about one of the objects. The poems are then posted on the board for other kids to read.

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