Library crafts

This quick and easy craft shows you how to make fun library card holders with your kids using felt and ribbon. Now library cards are ready to wear and use.

Teaching blog post on using genre crafts to teach genres in the upper elementary classroom

If you've been bitten by the crafting bug, but don't want to make a run to the store, try these 10 bookish crafts you can do in quarantine.

The countdown to spring has begun, and we wanted to usher in the flowers with this awesome bouquet project! With outdoor festivals in the future, this is a great little project to host at your lib…

The most successful displays I've done at my library have been passive readers advisory. For the last five years or so, I’ve done a monthly display of minature books based on the top YA titles checked out in my library system, with the top 10 books getting four readalikes. The Tiny Library is a collection of tiny books based on our most popular titles. Each tiny book contains reading suggestions based on our readalike list. There is a QR code that leads to a Google Form where teens can…

Print out this free template to make a 3D paper bookmobile, three historical bookmobile puppets and learn about the fascinating history of bookmobiles.

This week's theme is Knights and Dragons, with a To Go Kits for a Fire Breathing Dragon (more suited for younger children) and a Pom Pom Catapult (more suited for older children). The Fire Breathing Dragon craft was an idea from the CSLP Manual, with a link to One Little Project's original craft (which I borrowed the picture from for the instructions). Included in the kit was everything needed to make the dragons, except for scissors and glue/tape.I cut green construction paper in halves for…

Kids Book Crafts | Children's book companion craft ideas. Simple & easy projects for preschoolers, kindergarten & elementary. Free PDF templates.

Mrs. J in the Library's note: Decorations idea for secondary or elementary school libraries - "books" sprouting colored paper. Looks easy enough to make with a stapler and bright printer paper, actually.

It's Halloween time and the library has some awesome displays this year! Our first display is covered in slime! I got this idea from Pinterest, it was easy to make and looks great in person. I started off by getting a stack of lime green paper. I cut out five different variations of slime and then used those as templates to cut out approx 40 pieces of slime. For the top three shelves I taped the slime of the inside top of the bookcase along with the outside edge. The bottom four shelves you…