As a part of Summer Reading, we designed weekly voting boards for the kids to offer their opinions.  For the first week, we asked kids what ...

Last summer Abby at Abby the Librarian had a great post about how she revamped her summer reading program prizes.  While I wanted to revamp...

I am fortunate that I get to see 5 of my nieces and nephews often and end up watching them at least 1 time a week.  Their ages span from 2 t...

I love summer reading time because I get to pull out my favorite programs!  One such program is Parachute Games.  Once you have a parachute ...

This is one of my favorite toddler programs and it is always on my schedule every summer at the beginning of summer reading.   You can ch...

This was a very wonky year for our summer reading program.  It was my first year coordinating the program across all three of our locations....

Last winter I found this awesome web site called PaperRollerCoasters.com and it screamed summer library program.  I bought the templates,...

Since I always like to see what other libraries are doing, I am going to show off how we run our summer reading club at my library.  Our pro...

This idea originally came from Sara at Bryce Don't Play .  I took her original idea, made it fit my building, and added some new twists....

If you are looking for a quick and easy early literacy station to put up in your library, you may want to try this out.  I will admit that I...

My colleague and I are big bakers and cooks so one program that we always wanted to do here was some kind of cooking program.  The glitch th...

Contests are a great way to do some passive programming in the midst of our busy summer reading schedule.  They are fun, relatively easy to ...

I love summer, because we get to pull out some of our other fun programming, rather than all story times.  One of my favorites to do is Para...

If you have seen my displays in the past here, you will know that we have 1 display space in our building for kids' books.  It is kind o...

One of my favorite programs of the summer is our Dance Party.  It is popular and you can do it for as many or as few people as you want.  Pl...

In my dream world where I have tons of free time and energy, I would run more programs like this one.  There are a lot of great children...