Gallery of Terrible Programs
Leah Langby
April 12, 2010
Keeping Up With Kids

Did you ever have a program that did NOT work? A movie program with a broken projector? Hundreds of people for a performer who didn’t show up? An idea that seemed great when you thought about it, but wasn’t so great once you had forty kids running around the room? Here’s a chance to share our failures, and how we dealt with them!

Everyone is bound to have some terrible programs. The question is, how can we minimize the damage? What do you do when the performer is 15 minutes late? How do you recover from a really bad storytime? Please share your ideas!

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