Many moons ago we got a patron comment that the person loved our storytimes for their older kids, but their younger child was too little for “flashcards and long stories.” (I like to sometimes start older kid storytime sessions with color/shape/animal flashcards to have the kids make sounds, guess shapes, etc.) This was a real…
We just wrapped up our Spring Break. Last year, as you might remember, we experimented with doing a week worth of mostly school-age programming. We had mixed results, but I’m glad we tried it. You can read all about what we did during that week here. But I was going to be out of town…
This year I decided it was time for our library to try out Spring Break programming. I’d be reading about all these amazing youth programs happening at libraries, getting all inspired and fired up, and I decided five days with no school just seemed like too big of an opportunity to pass up. Maybe we’d…
