Twenty for Tweens Jean Carrier High Prairie Library Pikes Peak Library District
What is a Tween? • Ages 9-12 • Grades 4 th -7 th • Sometimes called: preteens, middleschoolers, tweeny, tweenies, pre-teens Too old for toys, too young for boys
Tween Brain "When I’m a grown - up, I want to be totally awesome." Part kid, part teen
Tips on Reader’s Advisory for Tweens A little bit children’s services & a little bit of teen services. Helps to have a cache of books to recommend
Tween Booklists
Tween Kits • Some examples: – Cooking Kit – Shrinky Dinks – Perler Beads – Board Games
Program Ideas
Blackout Poetry Cost: $0-30 Description: Using book pages from discards create poetry.
Water Bottle Rockets Cost: $20-30 Description: Kids make rockets out of soda bottles, fill with water, and launch them.
Snow Globes Cost: $30-40 Description: Make a snow globes from jelly jars
80s Bracelets Cost: $30-40 Description: Make a slap bracelet from a tape measure, glitter bracelet from fish tank piping, and boho bracelet from safety pins
Candy Science Cost: $40-50 Description: Experiments using candy Floating Ms, Acidity tests, Skittles density rainbow, Jelly Bean Chromatography, Exploding Peeps
Mug Cakes Cost: $50-75 Description: make cakes and other goodies using a mug and a microwave
Gamestar Mechanics Cost: $0 (need computers) Description: kids create a login for a website that introduces kids to creating games https://gamestarmechanic.com/
Marshmallow Catapults Cost: $15-25 Description: create catapults from simple objects
Natural Paints Cost: $40-50 Description: create paints out of plants
Printmaking Cost: $10-20 Description: make abstract art from everyday objects
Marbled Bookmarks Cost: $10-20 Description: using shaving cream and food coloring to make pretty bookmarks
Pendulum Art • Cost: $20- 30 (less if you don’t use tripods) • Description: abstract art with a tripod and paint
Mad Scientist Cost: $20-50 (varies by which experiments you do) Description: fun little science experiments Lemon suds eruption, cloud in a cup, exploding lunch bag, strawberry DNA, magnetic slime
Get Graphic Cost: $0-10 (cost of copies) Description: teach kids about comic books
Summer Reading Program Ideas • Chocolate Olympics • Color Run – crayon art or race • Puzzle Art • Mini Skateboards • Wobble Egg Ninjas
Canva Canva is a awesome website for creating flyers and other marketing pieces for programs
Questions? Special Thanks: Melody Alvarez from Library 21c Tori Sparrow from Penrose Joanne O’Hearn from High Prairie
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