SRP 2017 - week 5

Self-made Ice Cream:
Picked a recipe that did not require heating/boiling any of the ingredients. (with only a microwave as a source of heat, we had limited options)
Notice the plastic coating over the floor. We had no idea what to expect from this project so we tried to prepare for the worst.

Rebecca pre-measured milk into sandwich bags. Scooped sugar into buckets for kids to measure their own. Librarians offered vanilla, strawberry or cinnamon flavoring.

We carefully instructed children to close their sandwich bags and place them inside a gallon freezer bag. Then add salt. We settled on using softener salt crystals. It was the cheapest in the quantity we needed.

Roughly 15 pounds of ice was scooped onto the kid's bags. More instruction to thoroughly seal bags.
Then SHAKE! Except for very chilly hands, the kids enjoyed that part. Five to ten minutes later, remove sandwich bag, wipe outside of it with napkin and eat.

'school' kids left to reach Madison Elementary in time for dismissal, but we still had 15 minutes of SRP. I created two identical grids on our carpet with a combination of duct tape and masking tape. Draped book displays with tablecloths and rolled them in between the grids.

Voila! Life-size Battleship. So much fun for children and adults!

My game had the added bonus of being fun to pull apart.

The children each left with a belly full of ice-cream and a magnet full of Frontier Bank.

SRP 2017 - week 4

The LEGO guy was an hour of kids and legos. The kids enjoyed themselves and it was super easy to clean up. (Do not be fooled by the picture, the LEGO guy is a real, live grown-up)

The Lego guy presented on the Friday we also had Tornado warnings all across our state. Every child and Lego made it home safely.
The children were back by June 21 for more Lego fun. It was hot outside, but not dangerously so. I split the 44 children into three teams to play Lego relay.

Each child had a turn to run across the Auditorium parking lot and add a lego to their teams tower. A simple game that appealed to all ages. Rebecca pre-sorted Legos to create an equal, and therefore fair, 'supply bucket' for each team.
After running around outside we came in for some free-build time. Library staff set up tables and piled on the Legos.

We were down one staff person this week so Legos was the perfect choice to make our lives easier.
Very little prep work or clean-up.
I now have no memory of what we served as a snack or what story I read to the group. Both snack and story did happen, I am sure. I simply did not store the info in mind.
note: we borrowed my brother, Ben's, Legos as well as an extensive collection from Carol Robertson at the Madison County Museum. Thank you, to you both!