Paint Bomb Art

The artists and their finished explosively awesome artChristy in Pepin sent in another great post about making Exploding Paint Bombs at her summer storytime.  The basic instructions are here, but Christy had a few extra tips for librarians considering doing...

Costume Exchange

Thanks to Christy from Pepin for this guest post!Every fall families would come into the Pepin Public Library and socialize with each other and the conversation would turn to “What are your kids going to be for Halloween?”  They would then talk about costumes...

Changing It UP

Summer Library Program is an exciting, exhausting, and time-honored tradition at public libraries.  I love to hear stories of success and continually popular traditions.  I also love to hear about your innovations, your questioning how to improve outcomes,...

An ELF Elf in Ladysmith

Kudos to the Ladysmith staff who created this adorable library elf to promote Library Elf!  Hollis says the elf doesn’t leave the library–but there is probably someone on your staff or among your volunteers or community members who could make...

Bugs Bugs Bugs

Patti from Durand sent over some photos from their program with Bruce The Bug Guy–they shared expenses with Colfax and Bloomer to bring him, so they saved money, and they had over 85 people attend.  Looks like a fun intergenerational program!