kcorstel tweeted up a storm:
Cupcake decorating lesson — get a store to donate cakes and have local bakers come in and show off decorating techniques.
Mock Dating Game/Internet Safety lesson – “bachelorettes” are all serial killers!
Sidewalk Chalk art show, drawing favorite book covers, scenes, characters, etc.
Transformed book auction
Pajama story-time with teens reading to kids.
And some from emails:
Group A:
Book sculpture-paperbacks and hard backs are folded page by page to make incredible three dimensional art.
Altered books
Collage art of book covers from a book sale
Henna tattoos
T Shirt alterations
Frozen t shirts–freeze t shirts into a ball. The first person to thaw out their shirt is the winner
YouTube night. Project favorite YouTube videos. Serve popcorn.
Group B:
Butcher Paper Murals (or Grafitti Murals)
What you need:
Butcher Paper or Broken down cardboard boxes (can get either for free or might have lying around)
Supplies already in your library, such as: markers, colored pencils, tissue paper, old magazines, old books, glue scissors, any recycled materials
Let the teens go crazy by putting together a really cool mural using all kinds of materials. This can be a program that is dedicated for a certain amount of time (2 hours) or a drop-in and add-to program.
We think it’s a big draw to have snacks for teens, so we think that the cost would be in providing snack food if it is done during a specific time frame: popcorn, chipd, soda, anything inexpensive.
Group C:
A quick poll of the group gave us all meeting room space and teens who liked something enough to come up to us and talk about it: manga. The second most popular topic was gaming. One of the librarians said she’d just gotten a manga board game (but couldn’t remember the title) it was brand new. We figure it would cost less than $25 (average price point for a board game is $19.99; I know the Flibbix creators) It’s possibly the Manga Manga game (http://www.boardgamegeek.com/boardgame/9214/manga-manga)
So we figured we’d get together with the teens we know who like manga and set up a afternoon to check out the game play, and ask them to help us take it apart and turn it into a live-action version that lots more teens could get involved with. Think of a LARP (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Live_action_role-playing_game) + cosplay. If the game itself was cool enough, and the teens liked it, we’d try to scrounge funds to get extra copies (Friends, temporary donations from a local game store for the event) to run a tournament.
Group D:
Our group decided that using resources the library had of three microwaves and a meeting room, we could do a series of teen microwave cooking classes culminating in an iron chef night.
Series of Cooking Classes
Protien
Vegetable
Fruit
Dessert
then you have a final Iron Chef competition
kids can work in teams, discover skills and learn life skills
get local and community involvement, grocery stores, etc to donate foods
http://www.instructables.com, microwave cooking books for resources
Some other ideas we discussed:
Anime Club – Funimation – Operation Anime
Anime magazine – create your own manga magazine
Book Safes
Book Purses
Picture Books on Cardboard
Altered Books
Redesign Covers
Group E:
Grocery bag runway
Use plastic grocery bags tape and staple to make fashion.
Splatter paint shoes
Acrylic paint
Paint your shoes
Lay out table cloth on floor
Put down shoes
Splat paint on it
Dry
Qr codes
How to make them and also putting them up in teen library as a url shortner
Group F:
Recycled/Garbage Art
Create sculpture/clothing/jewelry using recycled items/ garbage
Photograph final products and display them on the library website/facebook page/flikr page
Have patrons vote on their favorite piece via online survey tool on the website (good way to get more teens to look at the website and therefore library offerings!)
$25 used for snacks or purchase of a prize for the project that receives highest votes.
Button making
Avatar creation
Henna/colored marker tatoos
