Tuesday Tips - Reading Celebration

Sam Jones is the Youth Services Librarian at the Beaver Dam Public Library. She shares tips to make your job easier in her Tuesday posts.

One program we put on that really went well recently was our Reading Celebration. This was our 20th year doing one with the Alpha Xi Chapter of Delta Kappa Gamma. They have been a great group to partner with and they help out a ton with the event. The parties consist of read-alouds, crafts, and a snack. The celebrations usually have a literary character as a theme. This year it was Elephant and Piggie. 

This year, our craft was Elephant and Piggie paper bag puppets. We had cake in honor of this being our 20th celebration, and Gerald and Piggie themselves made an appearance! I have to shout out Jackie from Germantown for being fantastic and loaning us their Gerald and Piggie costumes. Children loved to take their photos with them. Someone even brought in their own copies of Elephant and Piggie and asked Gerald and Piggie to sign the books! We had some great high school volunteers in the costumes who got the kids to have a ton of fun. I'm super excited to start planning our next one and deciding which character will be our guest of honor next time!