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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


  1. Twenty for Tweens Jean Carrier High Prairie Library Pikes Peak Library District

  2. 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

  3. Tween Brain "When I’m a grown - up, I want to be totally awesome." Part kid, part teen

  4. 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

  5. Tween Booklists

  6. Tween Kits • Some examples: – Cooking Kit – Shrinky Dinks – Perler Beads – Board Games

  7. Program Ideas

  8. Blackout Poetry Cost: $0-30 Description: Using book pages from discards create poetry.

  9. Water Bottle Rockets Cost: $20-30 Description: Kids make rockets out of soda bottles, fill with water, and launch them.

  10. Snow Globes Cost: $30-40 Description: Make a snow globes from jelly jars

  11. 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

  12. Candy Science Cost: $40-50 Description: Experiments using candy Floating Ms, Acidity tests, Skittles density rainbow, Jelly Bean Chromatography, Exploding Peeps

  13. Mug Cakes Cost: $50-75 Description: make cakes and other goodies using a mug and a microwave

  14. Gamestar Mechanics Cost: $0 (need computers) Description: kids create a login for a website that introduces kids to creating games https://gamestarmechanic.com/

  15. Marshmallow Catapults Cost: $15-25 Description: create catapults from simple objects

  16. Natural Paints Cost: $40-50 Description: create paints out of plants

  17. Printmaking Cost: $10-20 Description: make abstract art from everyday objects

  18. Marbled Bookmarks Cost: $10-20 Description: using shaving cream and food coloring to make pretty bookmarks

  19. Pendulum Art • Cost: $20- 30 (less if you don’t use tripods) • Description: abstract art with a tripod and paint

  20. 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

  21. Get Graphic Cost: $0-10 (cost of copies) Description: teach kids about comic books

  22. Summer Reading Program Ideas • Chocolate Olympics • Color Run – crayon art or race • Puzzle Art • Mini Skateboards • Wobble Egg Ninjas

  23. Canva Canva is a awesome website for creating flyers and other marketing pieces for programs

  24. Questions? Special Thanks: Melody Alvarez from Library 21c Tori Sparrow from Penrose Joanne O’Hearn from High Prairie

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