I received a few more postings! Here are more decorating tips!
We used stuffed animals at strategic places for pets, dinosaurs, mammals, a boy on
a sled Christmas decoration for weather, an old outdated globe to show countries in
the 900s. We scrounged for items that would match the non-fiction section (toy
cars, ships and airplanes). For fiction, we cut out and mounted on card stock
characters from catalogs and stood them on small stands that I think are for
holding plates for collectors. Demco has small book stands too. I also bought
little character dolls from Scholastic like Junie B., Capt Underpants using monies
earned from Box Tops for Edu and cartridge recycling. Also just came across a new
type of stand that I think would work. Have you seen those small dome-shaped
stands for holding papers while you type? They're about $7 in Office Max. Well, I
saw one at a craft fair last week made from that claydough-like product I think is
called Fimo???that you can get at Michael's or Hobby Lobby craft stores. It was a
lump of clay about the size of a lemon with a slit across it. In the slit you put
whatever you want it to hold. Those would be easy to make using a playdough
recipe. Kids could help cut out characters from catalogs, glue them on an index
card or larger card stock, put on the call #, laminate and stick them in the slit
of the stand and put them above the correct shelf area. I used these direction
helpers all the time when I was scanning books while my aide was on cafeteria duty.
I would say "see the aisle with the Snoopy banner?;now go down and find the Shamu
stuffed animal, then look two shelves down for books about sharks"---whatever it
took to get them to the correct shelves when I couldn't leave the desk! <grin>
Also we had a pole in the middle of our library that became a tree; my asst wrapped
the pole with brown fadeless paper (worth the investment), took more brown paper in
6-8' lengths which she scrunched and twisted for branches, and added leaves--paper
and artificial. You can hang a kinds of things from the tree. It was neat.
Have fun!
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I have strategically placed some stuffed animals to help my students
find certain popular book set. For instance, a stuffed Clifford is
above the Clifford books, a stuffed Wishbone is above the dog books, and
a stuffed turtle is above the reptile books. In addition, I've got a
couple of other "things" placed above other sets, just as a point of
reference (the Magic Tree House books are on the bottom shelf directly
under the globe, etc).
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