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Greetings from the ALSC Public Awareness Committee!
 

  
 

Greetings from the ALSC Public Awareness Committee!
 

   

Summer is nearly here, and with temperatures 
rising, and
kids out of school, what’s a busy librarian to do?   

   

Keep your cool with the Kids! @ your library® tool 
kit,
which has some great ideas to help you with your summer program plans!
 

   

Here are 10 FREE ideas from our online tool kit to 
get your
summer off to a great start! 

   

More details for each activity can be found at the Kids!
Website. 

   

1.      
Use our scripts for the “Library Dragon” or
“The Chicken and the Librarian” to host your own reader’s
theatre program. 

2.      
Hold a bookmark contest, and distribute the winning
bookmarks as part of your summer
 reading program. 

3.      
Have your tweens decorate the library entrance for
summer using sidewalk 
chalk. 

4.      
Children’s
Book Week is around the corner – visit the CBW website for 
posters,
bookmarks, and activities! 

5.      
Host a library-themed treasure hunt at your library. 

6.      
Let your tweens Build-A-Bot using modeling clay and
wind-up walker toys. 

7.      
Check out our list of songs about reading and libraries
to have your kids singing about the joys of the library all summer long.
 

8.      
Share our list of the Top 10 Things to do at the
Library with your kids 

9.      
Host an Underpants @ Your Library party, featuring
Captain Underpants!
 (from Maggie Ahrens at the York County Library System) 

10.  
May is Get
Caught Reading Month, so take photos of your kids reading 
around the
library (the sillier the better!) and create a poster of Kids Caught 
Reading
for your library (don’t forget your photo release forms!) 

   

Happy programming!

Bethany Lafferty,ALSC Public Awareness Committee, member



      

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