Lindy Liedl from the Rice Lake Public Library returns with her monthly column on all things virtual to help you connect with your patrons!
Our teens have been chatting online about their interests, and I found out that they’re all creative in their own way. More specifically, most of them have an ipad with one or more drawing programs on it that they use regularly, and we happen to have a button maker lying around. This sparked an idea.
Starting as a one-off for just one month, I invited them to email me one to three designs to make 3 pins per person. We haven’t opened up all of our in-person programming yet, so I assembled the pins for them and made up a curbside pickup bag of their creations. They loved it and asked for a continuation. So now it’s a monthly pin club! Each month, we invite our community’s teens to design three pins based on a theme (which is optional) set by my regular game night crew who chat online. As a little added bonus, I design a fun, extra pin they get with the library’s logo and “RLPL Teens” which will be different every month. It’s exciting to see what they create and send in. Hopefully soon they can meet in person and get to use the button maker themselves.
This is a great way to encourage and celebrate creativity in young people! It’s been super easy to do virtually–whether you don’t have a space or aren’t able to meet in-person.
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