Lend-a-Friend

Like many of you, I'm looking for programs that don't take too much staff time and help circulation. My assistant found a cool passive program from Lisa at the blog Thrive After Three called Lend a Friend. Families check-out a binder with a laminated picture of a popular book character like Curious George. Children draw a picture, take a picture, or write a story about what they did with the character at home and put it in the binder. When the next family checks-out the binder, they can read the previous adventures and add their own one.

Lisa provides her templates for the binders on the blog!