We had forty participants at our Kickoff program to our Summer Reading Challenge! Families came to our Studio On 4th to dance, make musical instruments and rock out!

Here’s a video of some of the highlights of the program:

We had a Wii set up for dancing:

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We made some awesome guitars out of cardboard boxes, cardboard tubes and rubber bands.  We just taped the tubes to the boxes and cut a hole in the boxes for the sound to resonate.  Not too difficult, and the result is pretty cool:

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We also made drums by stretching cut balloons over large cardboard tubes.  You have to stretch the balloons really tight; this one was harder!  Good thing we had the help of some great teen volunteers:

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We made drumsticks out of chopsticks and foam balls:

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And we made some more craft stick harmonicas:

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We even got silly!

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We had kids and adults of all ages and had a great time all around.  Hope to see you in the library for more summer reading fun!

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ali and the guitar