I'm home sick today. Yuck! So while I'm stuck home and pretty much immobile, I may as well send a shout out to an awesome friend who covered my storytime class today, Miss Susan!
Susan has come up with a superb teen program series she is calling, "Keep Calm and Game On." At each meeting, the teens get to learn a new/obscure game. The last game she did was Gloom.
Now, I still haven't played this one, but from what I hear it's pretty awesome. Basically each player has a family and the goal is to kill off your entire family while working to keep your opponents' families alive. It's also a storytelling game, so when the game is over you can look at the cards and tell the whole story from beginning to end.
Susan and I often bounce ideas back and forth, and one we came up with for this series were achievement charms. I had a bunch of leftover crafting scrabble tiles and jewelry bales from a flopped program (more on that later) so I made a bunch of these guys....
How cool are they!? I just bought some lobster claw jewelry closures and some spacers to make them lanyard friendly... or bracelet friendly, or pin friendly... whatever!
All the teens who attended the event LOVED the game! They were adding it to their online wish lists and asking about checking out the game to play at home (which we don't do... sadly), it was very encouraging! Hopefully the charms will encourage them to keep coming back. You know... "Collect your limited edition charm; available one day only!" Something like that.
 |
| The front and back of her take-home advertisements. |
Now, I still haven't played this one, but from what I hear it's pretty awesome. Basically each player has a family and the goal is to kill off your entire family while working to keep your opponents' families alive. It's also a storytelling game, so when the game is over you can look at the cards and tell the whole story from beginning to end.
Susan and I often bounce ideas back and forth, and one we came up with for this series were achievement charms. I had a bunch of leftover crafting scrabble tiles and jewelry bales from a flopped program (more on that later) so I made a bunch of these guys....
How cool are they!? I just bought some lobster claw jewelry closures and some spacers to make them lanyard friendly... or bracelet friendly, or pin friendly... whatever!
.jpg) |
| There's my WWSOC button! I miss those kids. |
All the teens who attended the event LOVED the game! They were adding it to their online wish lists and asking about checking out the game to play at home (which we don't do... sadly), it was very encouraging! Hopefully the charms will encourage them to keep coming back. You know... "Collect your limited edition charm; available one day only!" Something like that.
 |
| Gloomy reads for a gloomy time. |
So this amazing friend that I'm talking about also plans on blogging about her programs. You can find her at SH the Librarian on WordPress. Check it out! This is where she'll tell you all about the cool stuff she's doing with teen and adult programming, not to mention her own library musings and tales about her time in library school. It promises to be good stuff!
No comments:
Post a Comment