1/ branch themes to build some buzz
Our fall library system theme was arts, and there was a great course on building a birdhouse. We riffed on that and did all kinds of bird programming. We asked our artist customers to lend us bird paintings, and we put a collection of salt and pepper birds in the Cabinet of Curiosities. One of the customers had a Youtube video of herself doing a bird drawing speeded up, so we burned that to DVD in a repeating loop and played it on the big TV. We even made some bird nest cupcakes out of coconut (the only one who didn't like those was the cleaning lady)
2/ spontaneous participative activities
We put out some great drawing paper with gold frames printed around the edge for kids to draw us some birds. We also put out some felt pens designed for windows along the ledge in the foyer.
The two ideas came together with some sanctioned bird graffiti! We got a whole flock of birds, a poem, an "I love books", and some random scribbles.
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