SWRD II

Have you heard about Star Wars Reads Day?  It's an annual celebration of Star Wars & reading (of course!) started by Lucasfilm and all of the licensed publishers.  Bookstores and libraries around the country celebrated the second annual SWRD last Saturday, October 5th.  I joined in the celebration at my library for the second year - the first year we had about 5-10 people show up, but this year I had 65 people come for our SWRD celebration!


Since Saturdays mean only one librarian in the Children's Room, I set up lots of drop in activities that parents and kids could do on their own.  I had four main activities (besides a book display) set up:

1. A scavenger hunt: Cutouts of Star Wars characters with added letters hidden around the room that kids had to find - after finding all the characters, they had to unscramble the letters to discover a hidden message that reads "Read you must!"  (idea borrowed from Catch the Possibilities)

2. Stick puppets: Just cut and tape!  These were an adorable free download from Teacher's Notebook

3. Prize drawing: I found some cute SW erasers from the Target dollar bins and got some promo freebies from Scholastic and DK Publishing as a part of SWRD.

4. Seek & Find Mash-up: I printed off a large version (using Block Posters) of this mural created by Ulises Farinas & gave kids a list of things to find - I'm not sure how legal this is, but I'm certainly not selling it & whenever someone asks where I found it, I send them to the artist's website.  Plus it's just so cool!! Kids love finding and pointing out all the characters that don't belong in the SW universe!

Did you celebrate SWRD II this year??  If not, I highly recommend joining in the fun next year!