- The
6 R Movement (VOYA's
best program 2008)
- Anime
clubs
- Banned Books
Week
- Battle
of the Bands (from
Heaether Venetucci, Rockford Library, IL)
- Battle
of the Books (Tweens in MHLS program)
- Book
Crossing (Sharing books throughout communities)
- Books-to-Movies
Discussions
- Bookmark
Design Contest
-
Booktalking
- Calendar
of teen program ideas (YALSA wiki)
- Community
service programs
- Crafts
- Craft
sites for teens
(RoseMary Honnold)
- Arts-n-Crafts—Variety
of simple crafts with full directions, including some holiday ideas
- Best
Kids Books, Crafts, Songs and Fingerplays-Great compilation
of books with appropriate easy crafts, fingerplays and songs. Site
can be searched by topic or keyword.
- Calendars
(customized)-Variety of calendars to print out with themes,
ready to color
- Cardboard
Kids Toys-Instructions for making a variety of moveable children's
toys using recycled corrugated cardboard which you can get free
from stores.
- Craft
Index -Great site with alphabetical listing of crafts, further
broken down into Preschool, Elementary, Preteen and Teen/Adult categories
- Crafts
for Kids- Indexed site with many choices of craft projects
- Crafts
for Kids, Too-More great ideas which change monthly
- DLTK’s
Crafts for Kids-Great
site with crafts arranged by theme (holidays, animals, ABCs) to
be made from household items
- Enchanted
Learning-Wonderful site with crafts arranged by subject
- Gayle's
Preschool Rainbow Activity Central-Theme based program ideas
for preschool programs.
- Idea
Box-Ideas for activities, music, games,crafts, seasonal ideas.
- Kids
Domain Crafts-Lots of craft ideas for fun, gifts, using recycled
materials, related to seasons and holidays.
- Michael's
Craft Stores site-The craft supply store chain offers ideas
for a variety of crafts.
- Mother
Goose Page (Nursery Rhymes)-Many nursery rhymes with index.
- Paper
Crafts-Site with many patterns for all kinds of objects to be
made out of paper, including origami. Site also has links to other
craft sites.
- Perpetual
Preschool-Ideas for programs based on holidays, seasons, toddler
themes.
- Puppets-Everything
you need to know about making puppets, writing puppet plays, using
puppets in your programs.
- Trash
to Treasures-Ideas for many craft items you can create from
recycled materials.
- Zoo
Crafts-This site from the San Diego Zoo has many interesting
crafts related to animals plus some fun science experiments in the
Science in Action section.
- CSI Programs
- Dog
Therapy Program
- Dungeons and
Dragons
- Environmental
Programs
- Filmmaking,
Contests & Book-to-Movie Programs
- Fresh
Start Cards - Fine Reduction Program (Give teens break on fines)
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- Gaming
Programs (Board AND video)
- Graphic
novels/cartooning
- Haiku
Cut! (VOYA's runner up best program 2008)
- Holidays
- Asian
Pacific American Heritage Month (May)
- Christmas
Around the World-How Christmas is celebrated in over 200 countries,
origin, symbolism, Santa Claus, recipes, music & ornament suggestions
- Chinese
New Year- Information on how Chinese New Year's Day is determined,
Chinese Zodiac, significance of dragons, calligraphy & graphics
analogous to Christmas cards, plus information about Tet, the Vietnamese
New Year.
- Complete
List of Holidays-Lists arranged by months and by special holidays.
- Festivals
of the World—Click on any country on the world
map and find out about some of their holidays.
- Holiday
and Seasonal Activity Sites—Kathy Schrock's site with extensive
links to many holidays.
- Holiday
Zone - Ideas for holidays, searchable by specific holiday. Each
day has activities and ideas broken down into categories as follows:
Arts & Crafts, Language Activities, Poetry, songs & Action
Rhymes & Recommended Sources.
- Holidays
Around the World - Gourmet Gift Baskets provides a site rich
with links to history, crafts and ideas for educating kids about
different holidays from around the world.
- Kids
Domain Holiday Ideas - A list of ideas for games, activities,
stories, and special events for many holidays and the seasons of
the year.
- Kids
Gardening
- Knitting Ideas
- Lawn
chess (Build set w/Home Depot directions)
- Locked in the
Library
- Movie Night
- Music Programs
- Mystery &
Readers Theater Programs
- National
Library Week
- Passive
teen programs
- Photography
programs
- Scavenger Hunts
- Library
- Spanish
programs (Texas State Library)
- Speed
stacking tournaments
- Teen
Read Week
- Texas
State Library
- Tween-friendly
programs
- Writing (Places
that accept teen writing)
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