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. Please add YOUR comments. Your colleagues would appreciate hearing what works, and what didn't!

• 20 Crafts and Ideas to Celebrate the Olympics

http://www.redtedart.com/2012/05/01/olympic-crafts-ideas/

• Olympic Games for Kids

http://www.first-school.ws/activities/firststeps/olympics.htm

•  Kerri’s Library Page – Olympics

https://sites.google.com/site/kerricic/home/olympics

• 1996 NYS Summer Reading Materials—Read to Win: Team Up With Books!

FaceBook response, Storytime Underground Group, 4-11-2016

*Stuffed Animal/Kid Olympics (registration for kids and animals, with closing ceremony and awards, medal dais?
-Obstacle Course
-paper plane flying
-paper plate discus
-shoe kick
-long jump
-hoop bean bag toss (number points for how close you get)
-bottle bowling
-target golf (try to hit a ball into a box with several holes in it)
-Ring Toss (paper plate rings on paper towel tube)
-Quidditch Game
-Hula Hooping
-Book/water bottle Bowling (knock down books with beanbags or something similar)
-bocce ball
-bean bag toss
-croquet
-mini golf
-horseshoes
-sidewalk chalk
-play car/marble racing
-limbo
-long jump
-shotput
-balance beam
-Frisbee throw
-egg in spoon
-ping pong balls in cups game
-blow pompom along masking tape
-relay race
-Balloon or Beachball Tennis/Volleyball/Table Tennis/Badminton (make paper plate/craft stick paddle)
-Balance stuff on your head
-Standing Jump
-stack cups in a pyramid
-get cookie from your forehead to your mouth without using your hands
-toss marshmallows/something else into a cup
-hold a popsicle stick in your mouth and stack 5 dice on it
-Suck It Up: use straw to suck candy/pom poms from one bowl to another
-use spoon in your mouth to move ball from one bowl to another
-Junk in the Trunk: tie a box with balls in it to your back, try to get the balls out of the box without touching either.
-transfer cotton balls from one bowl to another using chopsticks
-string fruit cereal on pipe cleaners using only one hand