Bulletin Board - Cozy Up with a Book

This was such a fun idea. I prepped this board at the very end of December to be ready for January, which was when I was gone most of the time while I served as Interim Manager at another branch location.

MONTH & THEME

• January (or any other cold weather month) 
• Cozy Up with a Good Book! 

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• Sweater  

I had found a sweater coloring page while searching Google (see link here for the page I found) for a storytime program a while before this board. To make this cut out I just took a coloring page and shrunk it down to a more manageable size for the board. 

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HOW DID IT GO? 
Amazing! A staff member that covered my Children's Desk shifts while I was gone asked me to share the file with her because the sweaters were so popular! There are so many cute little sweater designs too. Everyone did such a great job. I've had the idea of maybe making an Ugly Sweater type display for the holiday season too.

Bulletin Board - Bloom with Books

This was such a cute idea. I left this display up for two months and it got pretty full, especially when Spring finally hit.

MONTH & THEME

• March and April
• Bloom with Reading (Spring!) 

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• Tulip flower
• Daisy flower

I found both clip arts for the shapes on The Mailbox.

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I apologize for the gloomy dimmed photo quality!

HOW DID IT GO? 
Pretty well. It created the board prior to the first day of spring, but once we got into the season it totally became popular with the children. Everyone like both flowers, but I believe the daisy was more popular because it's a more recognizable flower shape.

Bulletin Board - We Love Reading!

We love books and reading and everyone in the Library!

MONTH & THEME

• February (Valentine's Day!)
• We Love Reading! 

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• Heart with text "I Love the Book ________"

To tie into the love of other things, not just people, during the Valentine's Day season I printed out hearts that said "I Love the Book ________ " for the children to fill out with the name of their favorite book.

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HOW DID IT GO? 
The children had some difficulties with coming up with a book title let alone spell the title. So, pretty much everyone started writing their names on the hearts instead. I was perfectly fine with this because they were still practicing their writing skills which all that I really wanted. I'm probably going to do this next time, but leave out the book title option. Granted, I think adults and teens could help us with a display elsewhere in the library with these type hearts!

Bulletin Board - Warm Up with a Book

What's nothing better than a cup of hot chocolate with yummy marshmallows? How about when you're reading? Even better!

MONTH & THEME

• January (or any cold weather month) 
• Warm Up with a Book!

CUT OUT 

• Marshmallow

I couldn't find a good shape for a marshmallow at the time. So I simply made a shape on Microsoft Publisher (Word can work as well) and printed out bunches of marshmallows.


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HOW DID IT GO? 
It took some convincing for the children to color a marshmallow, so I had to provide them with a couple of examples at my desk. They finally caught on and there are some very delectably colorful marshmallows on the board. I wonder if they have different fruit flavors to match the colors!

Bulletin Board - Slip and Slide into Reading

This was my first interactive bulletin board. I was completely amazed at how popular it would be for the children to color a shape and place it on the board.

MONTH & THEME

• December (or any other winter month) 
• Slip and Slide into Reading 

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• Penguin

I believe I found this cute fellow on The Mailbox.

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HOW DID IT GO? 
Amazing! Look at the flock of penguins! The children had so much fun coloring in their tummies. It's adorable!

Bulletin Board - Knights of the Reading Table

This is from my 2015 file. My library system came up with their own Summer Reading Program theme, which was Join Our Fantasy Quest - Read!, which was all things fantasy.

MONTH & THEME

• June and July 
• Knights of the Reading Table 

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• Shield 

I had a hard time finding a shield that looked good. If memory served me correctly, I found one on free clip art site called Clker.com.


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HOW DID IT GO? 
The children had fun with this one. I made two examples for this board. One that was taped to the board already while one was on my desk as my example display. This helped the children be inspired to make different designs to create their own "coat of arms" design.

Bulletin Board - Make Tracks for the Library!

For our 2016 Summer Reading Program my library system used the theme from the Collaborative Summer Library Program. I'm a runner and so I just had to have a running theme display! Looking back, I which I had added in some grass or mile signs in the brown areas.

MONTH & THEME

• June and July 
• Make Tracks for the Library! 

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• Running Shoe 

I used a shoe clip art that came with the CSLP offered in their package. You can probably find a shoe clip art on The Mailbox or Education.com.

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HOW DID IT GO? 
This was great! The children started putting their shoes right at the end, and literally, on to of the finish sign. Eventually shoes started to fill up the rest of the track.

Bulletin Board - Hop into Reading

This was such a cute idea for Easter. I particularly like the red bunny rabbit that one child colored.

MONTH & THEME

• March (also good for whenever Easter is)
• HOP into Reading! 

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• Bunny rabbit 
• Egg 

 I found both of these clip arts on the The Mailbox website for free. I made examples that I kept at my desk, which also served as an advertisement.

I made an Easter basket out of construction paper and added a couple of book covers that I printed on copy paper to the center of the display.

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HOW DID IT GO? 
The children really liked this board. The bunny rabbit is so cute, and who doesn't like coloring eggs? I took the picture about half way through the period the display was up. It was definitely popular! Everyone was very ingenious with some of their egg designs too!