Oklahoma Librarian

What is a take home kit? A take home kit is where we put together crafts for guests to take and do at home. A library program in a bag if you will. These kits can range widely from soap-making for teens to gluing colorful streamers to a cotton ball cloud for toddlers. I aim to make kits for elementary-aged kids from 6 - 11 years old. Below, I have the poster, description, and instructions. I found that I rarely get feedback on kits but I'll mention it if there was any. Feel free to copy any of these! The Kits This is a super cute and easy kit for everyone. It's one toilet paper roll cut in half with paper, pipe cleaners, and googly eyes. It's perfect for quick craft for valentine's day. You can find my  instructions here .  Description: Celebrate the upcoming holiday and express your love with our Love Bug kit! Inside, you'll uncover everything needed to craft these charming love bugs. Each kit makes two bugs! I made this kit to help promote my  Great Backyard Bird

What is Spring Crafternoon? This is a fun event that my programming department works together to make happen. This is the 4th one we've done. The idea is that we all put together the supplies and instructions for a few crafts that can be done during the event. We have 4 people that work with different ages so we planned 1 - 4 crafts for the group we work with. We set up in our lobby and couch guests through the crafts and other activities.  Description: Pop by the Midwest City Library for a fun and open Crafternoon. We will provide an abundance of supplies for families and friends to create fun craft projects! All ages welcome.  What I did to prepare I put together two crafts that felt like they belonged in Spring. I gathered all the supplies and cut out shamrocks and scrap paper. I bounced around during the event to make sure everything was running smoothly. We opened up our regular event space for additional seating and had a person stationed in the room. This made the event real

What is a take home kit? A take home kit is where we put together crafts for guests to take and do at home. A library program in a bag if you will. These kits can range widely from soap-making for teens to gluing colorful streamers to a cotton ball cloud for toddlers. I aim to make kits for elementary-aged kids from 6 - 11 years old. Below, I have the poster, description, and instructions. I found that I rarely get feedback on kits but I'll mention it if there was any. Feel free to copy any of these! The libraries in my area promote Dolly Parton's Imagination Library. If you don't know, Dolly mails free books to kids under the age of 5. It's an amazing program that helps lots of kids. You can read more about it and sign up here: imaginationlibrary.com . Dolly's birthday is January 19th so we're celebrating!  The Kits I've been collecting tissue and glove boxes for the better part of a year to do this take home kit. It's an easy craft that mostly takes tr

What is a take home kit? A take home kit is where we put together crafts for guests to take and do at home. A library program in a bag if you will. These kits can range widely from soap-making for teens to gluing colorful streamers to a cotton ball cloud for toddlers. I aim to make kits for elementary-aged kids from 6 - 11 years old. Below, I have the poster, description, and instructions. I found that I rarely get feedback on kits but I'll mention it if there was any. Feel free to copy any of these! The Kits I always loved making these as a kid. I found a website called  firstpalette that had a template for these. In my opinion, explaining how to cut the paper was the hardest part of this craft so a template was an amazing find! Description: Fold and cut paper into amazing three-dimensional snowflakes to hang around your home. While supplies last. Instructions I found this idea on Pinterest that lead me to krokotak . There weren't any written instructions so it was a bit of t

  What is a take home kit? A take home kit is where we put together crafts for guests to take and do at home. A library program in a bag with instructions if you will. These kits can range widely from soap-making for teens to gluing colorful streamers to a cloud for toddlers. I aim to make kits for elementary-aged kids from 6 - 11 years old. Below, I have the poster, description, and instructions. I found that I rarely get feedback on kits but I'll mention it if there was any. Feel free to copy any of these! This month was all about the dinosaurs! The Kits I loved origami as a kid! I wanted to give the opportunity to do some free origami with this kit. This kit really needed a video attached to it so my instructions were a QR code with a short explanation. I bought green origami paper for this and was able to make 48 kits! This is a link to the pdf instructions . I ended up putting the document into two columns to save paper.  Pinecone dinosaur! Everyone loved this kit and they wer