Dragonopoly

Dragonopoly

The reading bench display continued the theme. The Monopoly pawns were made of aluminum foil atop black paper, and details on the foil were made with a black Sharpie. Be sure to notice how all of the major signs actually promote our library. The Community Events chest is full of images for our events, Games…

Fall Can Be Easy

Fall Can Be Easy

In previous years, I’ve had lots of wordplay fun with November. This year, I wasn’t really feeling super-de-dooper inspired. At some point I’ll quasi-repeat Dinovember , because there’s so many different things that we can do with it (and it’s both funny and punny). UPDATE: We repeated it in 2017 /end update But at this…

It’s Dinovember!

It’s Dinovember!

I have been wanting to have Dinovember since last November when I saw the adorable online postings from the parents who would move a set of plastic toy dinosaurs around their house every night to surprise their children. Refe and Susan Tuma (those creative parents) actually coined the term “Dinovember” and even have a book…

It’s Gnomevember!

It’s Gnomevember!

As we started planning what we wanted to do in November (in early October), I had planned on trying to keep it as simple as possible. I should really know better. I gave Mary the task of figuring out something to do in terms of décor for the library. The next day she commented that…