HIT:MID: Display case ideas

[Carolyn Warhol <cwarhol@PUYALLUP.K12.WA.US>]

Thank you, thank you.  Here are the many ideas you all sent me.

DISPLAY CASE IDEAS

1.  Show baby pictures, documents and memorabilia but do not give names, give
clues to who it is.  All could be faculty members.

2.  National Hobby Month (March)--ask staff to lend one items of anything that
they collect.  Cover empty Velveeta boxes with contact paper to use to vary the
heights of the items displayed and add books on collecting/collections.

3.  Do a theme around a country with items from that country.  Talk to fellow
teachers that travel.

4.  Cut out words "It's a MYSTERY to Me" from newspaper and tack them on the
back of the display case.  Display mystery books hanging by fish line or
standing on floor of case.  Can use a small tension-rod to hang things from or
drape a sheer black cloth from rod.  Needs to be a lighted display case so that
you can see through the black cloth.   Or you can wrap the display case in paper
and have a torn opening to look through.

5.  Buy the book "The Mysteries of Harris Burdock" by Chris Van Allsburg in
poster form.  Use them on a bulletin board.  Title it "Pick an Illustration--You
write the story.  Short story contest sponsored by the Library/Media Center."
Promise that all entries will be bound into a collection, barcoded and placed in
the library.  Get local merchants to donate prizes. Have at least one teacher
agree to be on the judges panel. When contest is done, photograph authors and
place on bulletin board next to the illustration.  Get local paper to take
pictures of winners.

6.  3-D representation of the ocean...with fish, seaweed, and garbage...and..
tires, broken oars, McDonald's trash, styrofoam cups, dirty diapers, as would be
discarded by passerby.  Caption:  "Would you want your home to look like this?"
Another display close by would have books on ecology and pollution with
newspaper clippings, etc.

7.  April is Poetry Month.   "Put a Poem in your Pocket."

8.  "Spring Thing"  Use garden tools, seeds, garden gloves, baskets, potted
plants, etc.  Put in gardening, flower, and vegetable books.  Straw hat and
fertilizer, too.

9. Weather display--"Read up a Storm"  Put a little fan in facing up and attach
flying things to it.  Need electricity.  Could make a ghost out of white plastic
bags and tape to fan for October.

10.  Big letters out of flowers that spell "spring."  Fill the case with
artificial tulips, hyacinths, etc.  Include pictures of your state with
wildflowers, etc.  Then highlight student projects in front of this.

11.  Do a Mix and Match with staff baby pictures and their current faces.  Or
mix & match pets to students or staff.

12. "Information is our Bag."  Use a lot of different bags.  Some with books in
them, some empty.

13.  "Mystery Readers."  Have pictures of students and staff half hidden behind
a book, reading.  Students could guess who those mystery readers were.  It
promotes reading and displays titles of some good books.

14.  "Earth Day" (April)--"Don't Let Books Become Extinct."  Use dinosaur
pictures and plug in the words Fiction, Non-Fiction, Biography, etc.

15.  "Good Luck" --Use as many good luck symbols from around the world as
possible.

16.  Pioneers of your own town--use authentic clothing, photos, tools, books,
etc. from your town.  Maybe students and their families could lend things they
might have.

17.  A hobby a month--each month highlight a different teacher's collection or
hobby in the display case.

18.  Ask teachers, principals, custodians, etc. to lend their favorite childhood
book and a picture of themselves as a child.

19.  Various sizes of pears (drawn, painted, maybe pictures) with quotations
found in Bartlett's Quotations-- quotes such as "twas brillig..." Carroll;  "It
was the best ot times..." Dickens;  "E-mc2" Einstein.  Title-- "Bartlett Pears".

20. Display all kinds of hats.  On the back wall have a sign saying "Hats Off to
Reading".  Also can print various hats from Print Shop and have them on the back
wall with the sign.

21.  Display copies of the State Reading Medal books and the title:  "Bet You
Can't Read Just One."

Carolyn Warhol, Librarian
Ferrucci Jr. High
Puyallup WA             cwarhol@puyallup.k12.wa.us

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