Teen Advisory Board (September)

What am I doing today? Painting notebooks with chalkboard paint.  It's a tough job, but someone has to do it.

 

These are for our first TAB meeting on September 26 which falls during Banned Books Week.  We'll be drawing banned book covers and quotes on them during our craft time.  Originally, I wanted the teens to paint the notebooks, but it took four coats (with four hours in between each coat) and a three day waiting period before they can be drawn on.  Soooo....I don't think a four day lock-in was the way to go.  I highly recommend this craft; it was simple, cheap, and fun!  I now have six teens signed up for TAB (yay! close to my goal of ten!) and I'm extremely excited for our meeting and what's to come.  Stay tuned for Zombie Prom...yes, I said it, ZOMBIE PROM!!!

What's on Display (September)

 

Banned Books Week is fast approaching (September 22-28) and I got a little anxious to put my display up early (ok, let's be honest, I thought it would take me weeks to finish because I'm craft-handicapped).  And while it's not perfect (I'm learning! Only one near limb decapitation with the x-acto knife this time), I'm pretty darn proud of myself.  I am also happy to announce my first Teen Advisory Board meeting will be Thursday, September 26.  We are hoping to take some cool mug shots of them reading their favorite banned book.  I also have a neat chalkboard notebook craft where we will be replicating (with chalk!) some banned book covers and favorite quotes (my Sylvia Plath "Weekly Quote" would be quite appropriate).