Jamie Mercer is the Head of Youth Services at W.J. Niederkorn (Port Washington) Library and shares some extra fun with easy and/or FREE programming ideas/tips.
I am so super excited to share with you this next program for Fun Friday!
It can be as little or as much prep as you want it to be.
At the request of a patron, we decided to run a Pokémon Trading Day program. I really didn’t know what to expect. I planned a few crafts for the younger crowd (a Pikachu crown, Pokémon I-Spy page, and a design your own Pokémon card activity). Then we set out two tables for card trading and two tables for game play (we did advertise that if participants wanted to play the card game that they would need to provide their own decks and play mats).
It was awesomely overwhelming! For the hour and a half that the program ran, we had a total attendance of over 90 people. Not only that, aside from welcoming patrons, answering questions, promoting library services, and monitoring craft supplies, the program ran itself. I was able to float from our community room to our children’s library with little to no issue.
Kids cracked their binders of Pokémon trading cards and away they went. In retrospect, I don’t think I even needed the craft activities or the game tables. The focus was definitely the card trading and I had to pull out additional tables for kids to stand at for this purpose.
Before the program ended, we had several families ask when we were going to have the next trading event. We were so thrilled!
If you are looking for a fun, quick, low prep/low cost program, I highly recommend a Pokémon Card Trading event! Kids will LOVE it!
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