…and the living is busy! Anyone who is in the business of children’s services in a library is busy right now. I’m surprised you even have time to read this! Summer Reading Club is sheer madness for library staff, but we all know the rewards are great. This summer, we’ve been madly rushing to get ready for a Wild Animal Puppet Show, in which we use our beautiful Folkmanis puppets and pretend they are real, 
presenting a “Steve Irwin” type program teaching facts and fun about the animals we bring along. My summer assistant is agreeably wearing a costume to go along with the charade. We are doing a bubble program, and trying to work out the best bubble solution and figure ways to remind 7-year olds NOT to breathe in when playing with soap; spending a lot of time making toys with masking tape, string, and Dixie cups, and watching for sales at the Salvation Army so we can stock up on t-shirts for our Teen Tee Parties. I am preparing stories to share at an Autism Camp, writing missions for Humans vs. Zombies, stocking up on stickers, pencils, and tattoos, keeping all the branches supplied with everything they need to make summer a reading joy for kids. Busy? You bet! Gotta go, puppet show starts in 20 minutes!
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A Wild Animal puppet show – I love it! I’m fortunate this year in that our FOL are paying for a real skunk and other noctural friends to visit next month. And yes, it’s been crazy busy!
Can you write more about you Teen Tee Parties? Sounds like a cool idea.
For our Teen Tee Parties, we have found several super easy T-shirt mods that can be done with no sewing, just with scissors. One is making an old T into a beach bag, others are from the book “Generation T : 108 ways to transform a T-shirt ” by Megan Nicolay. We’ve asked staff to clean out their closets and donate old shirts, and also have gotten some at Bag Day at Salvation Army ( I think I got about 20 shirts for $7.50!) Here are some more great ideas for those old T’s!
http://www.instructables.com/id/Scoochmaroo-Challenge-T-shirt-Mods/
What a fun program! Animals programs are so popular but not always affordable. Great idea to make it puppets.
It sounds like you are doing lots of cool things!