What do you offer? How often do you repeat the offering? Please share, your colleagues would appreciate hearing what works, and what doesn't.

see also:

ALSC Kickstart

Cancelling Programs

Challenges

Katrina Spencer--Comprehensive Guide to Resisting Overcommitment

FORMS: Program Planning Worksheet

              Program Template (for wiki)

              Program Evaluation

                       How Much Punch Does That Program Pack? Best Practices...

How to Record Attendance for Passive Programs

Jbrary Book Character Roundup (Check the comment section for other parties)

Kidles Library Program Mojo -- UW-Madison SLIS CE

Mingling Activities

Minimum Programming

Monthly Anniversaries and Birthdays

OCLS Children's Programs Bank

Programming and No Shows

Programming By Age Breakdown

Virtual Programming

Pinterest (several boards)

• African-American Read-In
• Aliens Invade the Library
• Artist Trading Cards-Tiny Art Show
• Audience Participation Films
• Banking Basics
• Banners, Boxes and Bookmarks
  
• Bath, Bubbles and Rubber Duckies
• Bee or Bug Program
• Bicycling Program
• Big Trucks & Buses
• BINGO
• see also: BINGO Card Generator
  
• Book Character and Series Programs
• see also: Book-elations (ILA 2009, 2010; 2011) 
• Babar
• Beatrix Potter 
• Beverly Cleary  
• Charlie & the  Chocolate Factory 
• Corduroy 
• Charlotte's Web
• see also: Book-Elations 
• Curious George
• Dr. Seuss
• Diary of a Wimpy Kid 
• Donald Sobol 
• Ed Emberley(11-19-14)
  
• Eric Carle 
• Franklin (the Turtle)
• Frog & Toad 
• Goosebumps 
• Harry Potter
• Fantastic Beasts
• Printables and Group Games
• Trivia Questions
  
• How to Train Your Dragon
• Jan Brett 
• Junie B. Jones 
• Laura Ingalls Wilder
• see also: Book-elations 
• Laura Numeroff
  
• see also: Book-elations 
• Lois Ehlert 
• Madeline 
• Make Way for Ducklings
• Marc Brown 
• Margaret Wise Brown 
• Martha Speaks
• Mem Fox 
• Mo Willems
• see also: Book Character and Series Programs
• see also: Mel's Desk
  
• Mother Goose
• My Weird School 
• Paul Galdone 
• Percy Jackson
• Polar Express
• Sesame Street 
• Skippyjon Jones
• Snoopy & Friends 
• Spot the Dog/Biscuit/Clifford the Big Red Dog
• Star Wars 
• Sylvester and the Magic Pebble 
• Tea Parties-American Girl; Fancy Nancy; Olivia; Pinkalicious, Dinosaur
  
• see also: Book-elations FN 
• see also: Book-elations P 
• see also: Jbrary Character Parties
• Mad Hatter Tea Party 
• Thomas the Tank Engine
• Tomie dePaola 
• The Very Hungry Caterpillar
• Where the Wild Things Are
• Winnie-the-Pooh
• see also: Book-elations 
• Wizard of Oz
• see also: Book-elations  
• Book Clubs
• Book Filibuster 
• Book Magic
• Poetry--BE 
• Book Spine Poetry
• Book Swap
• Book Tasting
• Bookend Decorating
  
• Busy Bag
• Cabin Fever Activities 

• Candle Making

• Chalk the Walk
• Sidewalk Obstacle Course 

• Challenges & Passive Programming

• Children's Film Festival

• Cooking & Baking Programs

• Crocheting 
• Cup Stacking
• Dance (see also: Toddler Dance Program)
  
• Decoupage Collage Rocks

• Doodling 101

• Drive-In Movie
• Entrepreneurship
• Escape Room (truly for tweens and teens-- Search Library Think Tank FB "Escape Room")
  
• Face Painting 
• Fairy Houses         

• Fall Into Fun: Celebrate the Season
  

• Family Fun

• At the Beach

• Carnival

• Dinosaur

• Farm 

• Fairies & Dragonfly Program

• Folk/Fairytale or Fractured Fairytale Program

• Family Fort/Tent Night
  

• Game Day -- see also Challenges; Scouting Games; Games for Storytime;

                       Youth Downloads

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• BINGO
• see also, BINGO (Passive Programming)
  
• Candy Land  
• Candyland2
• Dice Games
  
• Finger Twister
• Fuku Wari (Japanese New Year's Game) 
• Human Hungry Hippos
  
• I Spy 
• In the River/On the Bank-open Games Galore Script
• Kerplunk
  
• List-a-Rama- open Games Galore Script
• Picaria
• Puzzle Day
• Spoons
  

• Jungle

• Outer Space

• Pajama Party 

• see also: Book-elations

• Science Day

• Time Travel (1960's; 1970's...) 

• Wild West

• Family Programs on a Shoestring
• Flat Stanley 
• FREE Comic Book Saturday
• Frozen 
• FUDGE (Friends, Uncles, Dads, Grandpa's, Etc)
• Gaming (ACLA Gaming Wiki) 
• Minecraft
• Gardening
• Making Seed Bombs
  

• Gingerbread House Program

• Halloween Party 
• Hobby Horse Tournament
  
• Homeschooling Programs

• In-House Craft Program

• Interactive Displays 
• International Food Feast--Foods of the World!
  
• Jewelry Making 

• Journaling
  

• Karate Program

• Kindergarten Readiness

• Kindness Club
  
• Knitting
• Leap Day Party

• LEGO BRICKS in the Library ***

               *Lego Librarian Blog

• Letterboxing

• Library Skills 

• Loco for Cocoa

• Luck of the Irish
• Makerspace & DIY Programming (see also: STEM/STEAM)
• Magic & Enchantment--would include stations for: Fairies, Dragons, Mermaids and Unicorns
  
• Mario Party
• Mini-Golf in the Library
• Minute-to-Win-It
  
• Invite and Delight Site
• In a Library
• Moonlight Madness
  
• Murder at the Public Library (grades 5-8)
• National Poetry Month
• National Popcorn/Ice Cream/anything Day
• Nature Club 
• Noon Year's Eve 
• Nutrition
• Olympic Games
• Oregon Trail (Tweens)
• Oregon Trail (STEAM)
  
• Origami
• Outdoor Play (see also: Make Sure Kids Exercise Regularly)
  
• PAGES: A young writers' group 

• Diary of... 

• Paper Airplane Program  
• Straw Power and Air Rockets
• Stomp Rockets 
  
• Parties and Celebrations
• Pen Pals (Seniors & Kids, Storytime Underground FB 3-7-2019)
  
• Pet Parade
• Photography
  
• Pirates   (see also: At the Beach)
• Potato Head Party (MCLS libraries, you can borrow lots of Potato Heads via The Toy Library)
  
• Pumpkin Contest 
• Quilling
  
• Race Cars & Track
• Read to Your Child 

• Readers' Theatre

• Reading to Dogs  

• Recycling Program (Trash Bash)

•  see also: Book-elations 

• Reduce, Reuse, Recycle 

• Rock, Paper, Scissors Contest
• Rocks
  
• Safe Kids (Bike & Water Safety)
• Scavenger Hunts 1/Scavenger Hunt 2/Nature Scavenger Hunt
  

• Scrap-It!  (Scrapbook Pages)

• Singing Program--choose a theme, or not
  

• Spelling Bee
  
• SpongeBob Squarepants 

• Spy Program (Tweens) 

• STEM/STEAM 
• Stitches 

• Stuffed Animal Sleepover

• Super Hero 
• see also: Book-elations 
• Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtle Pizza & Movie Party
• Supper Club for Grades 3-6th (Storytime Underground 5-13-2018)
  
• Survival Skills
  

• Take Me Out to the Ball Game

• Take Your Child to the Library (1st Sat in February)
• Tape Town (ages 2-5)
  

• Technology Classes (ACLA wiki) 

• Teddy Bear Picnic
• Terrariums
• Toddler Dance
• Travel Together
  
• Unicorn Party --see also: Magic & Enchantment
  
• VAP's--somewhat dated, check phone numbers to stay current
• Virtual Programming
  
• Writing Centers  
• Yarn Art
• Yoga for Kids
  

   

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