New Furniture!

Hello!

I just wanted to share some fabulous new furniture that we have now in the Teen Forum! The place is really looking spiffy, and soon we will have new banners on the walls for our books. The banners will be painted by one of the local high school's Art Honors Society, so it will be meaningful to have them in the Teen Forum. Those will be revealed later, and I will be sure to post pictures. For now, check out the awesome furniture in fun spring colours!

Great news!

I apologize for being out of the blog world for so long! Work has been a lot of non-stop planning lately. So excuses aside, we had a really cool thing happen with WeCo a local community district in our city. The businesses in this district banded together to raise money for the Teen Forum in Martin Library by selling book-shaped cutouts people could write their names on. It was an amazing sense of community and a wonderful fundraiser for the teens! Here is a picture of the check presentation and thank you! (I have the hat on!)

Dawn states; being a community is great!

Do you have fun and unique ways to raise money at your library? Send me an email or post a comment and let me know! dstates@yorklibraries.org

Ugly Sweater Party

We had a party with the teens at the other library in our system, and we all wore some really crazy and ugly sweaters! The party was fun and simple and is something I think other libraries with teens could combine on. Please read on to find about the party and to see the group picture with Santa!

Ugly Sweaters continued.....

It was really lovely to meet with the other teen group and get creative and make some terrible sweaters for the party this Friday! The results were absolutely terrifying. I am pleased to show them off, please see the photos below.

Ugly Sweaters

Whoa! It has been a bit since I posted on here! This is just an update on some fun things we are doing here, which include ugly sweaters! Read on to find out more.

Food Science: Tortilla Chips

Last night we explored the wonderful science of making your own tortilla chips! The teens did not know they could make their own chips, nor did they guess they could find scientific information in the process. Read on to discover what variables we tried and some of the results!

Poe Evermore

Last night we got to take a group of  teens on a field trip to see the fabulous and frightening Poe Evermore Show. The show was amazing and the teens had a great time! Read on to find out what famous Edgar Allen Poe stories were told, how the teens reacted, the benefit of doing a program like this and how you could do something similar!