MORE 'CRAFTS' POSTS
I am crafty. Well, I sometimes pretend to be crafty. Well, actually, I think about being crafty. Occasionally, I attempt being crafty. And as a librarian, I *do* end up doing a lot of crafts with tweens and teens in the library. So I am all about crafts, even when my execution leaves a little […]
Last year for Christmas, The Mr. and I bought the girls this big box thing of sprinkles. I’m not going to lie, it really just appealed to my organizational nature – I am a librarian after all. We used the sprinkles exactly twice. Once to make cookies. And a second time when the Tween had […]
Puppies, kittens and babies (oh my!) What do they have in common? A large portion of the population thinks they are cute. I propose they are cute because they are tiny. I mean, have you ever seen those tiny baby shoes? Totes adorbs, as my Tween would say. Because we seem to be drawn to […]
Whether it’s in conjunction with the winter holidays, Mother’s Day, or just for something fun, these simple activities are inexpensive, easy to put together, and provide each teen with a nice giftable item to take home. 1. Snack-in-a-Jar Photo credit:www.kids-cooking-activities.com/ There are innumerable variations on the in-a-jar theme, but the very simplest is […]
Here’s the deal. I only pretend I am crafty for library programming. But a month before Halloween we were standing there in the thrift store – always a great place to get cheap crafting supplies – and there was the perfect Tardis blue t-shirt. So I figured there had to be a way I could […]
As part of my 10 Things to Do with a Blank Canvas series (part 1 and part 2), I created this fantastic Doctor Who shadow art. And when I say I created it, what I mean is that I came up with this really cool idea and then I asked The Mr. to do it […]
Earlier this year, I put together for a Pop-Up/Mobile Makerspace. Two of them actually. One is LEGO based and one is Duct/Duck Tape based. It had to be mobile because we have a small physical space and we needed to be able to pull it out and put it away so it wasn’t hogging up the […]
Photo from www.MexicanSugarSkull.com – a great resource. If you’re looking to incorporate some cultural programming with a high fun factor into your program year, I highly recommend trying this out. Decorating calaveras, or Mexican sugar skulls in honor of Dia de los Muertos, is something I have wanted to share with my teens for several […]
“Right now, my fascination with Rainbow Bracelets is the reaction to them.” — The other day over at SLJ, Liz Burns was talking about Rainbow Loom bracelets. In her opening line she says she is fascinated by the reaction to them. I am too, because I think this is a possible case of hype. You […]
Summer is coming, and so is this year’s SRP theme “Beneath the Surface”. Christie is going with a mermaid theme for one of her weeks because they are definitely beneath the surface. And mermaids are hot right now in part thanks to Animal Planet’s Mermaids: The New Evidence, which was its highest rated telecast ever […]
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