Customer curator found us horse art

New theme of the month- horses! 
Bonus is that a regular customer did the art curating for us- and found a great set of images.
Had a kids' art contest again- so popular.  And put My Little Ponies in the cabinet!

Who can resist?

In June the Summer Reading Club launched with this fun craft dreamed up by the kids' team.  Dinosaur and frog footprints were laminated, and taped to the floor winding through the library.

It led to our beautiful windows, where customers were offered window markers to add their drawings.

Knit bombers

Heard about another knit bombing, which made me miss the knitters at my old branch.  They met once a week to "stitch and chat", and decided to play an April Fool's Day joke.  Afterwards, the squares were stitched together to make a rug for storytime.

The squares were strung across a clothesline rope to look like Tibetan prayer flags.

The fuzzy bumper on the rail was my favourite.

Graffiti birds

Two ideas we're playing with:

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. 

More bird images to follow...