It’s Showtime! Stop-Motion LEGO Movies Made by Tweens

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A few weeks ago when our Summer Reading Program, “It’s Showtime At Your Library!” officially began, we held a LEGO Stop-Motion animation workshop in our Central Library in the fourth floor studio. To prepare for this program, I read up about stop motion animation using one of the library’s books: […]

Book Trailers Made by Kids!

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Kids 9-12 years old came to the library for a three-day program last week to make book trailers about their favorite books. These trailers were all created using iPads with the iMovie app, though we also tried some other movie editing software too. Most of the photos the kids used […]

Bon Appetit! Preschool Storytime

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Last Saturday, we did a storytime that worked up an appetite, with stories, lots of dancing and movement, and yummy, funny reads! I did a short puppet show narrating the classic book The Little Mouse, The Red, Ripe Strawberry and the Big, Hungry Bear by Don and Audrey Wood. I […]

Writing Party: Make a Board Book

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Last month, we had a Writing Party for kids 5-8 years old about making a board book for a baby relative or friend. Turnout was huge! It was one of the most exciting writing programs I’ve ever done at the library. Kids and their families came and had a blast […]

Lucha Libros: 2nd Grade – Junie B. Jones and Jack and Annie

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Last week, twenty second graders met at Pasadena Central Library to answer questions about two books they read this month: Junie B. Jones and a Little Monkey Business / Junie B. Jones y el negocio del mono Haunted Castle on Hallow’s Eve / Un castillo embrujado en la noche de […]

Writing Party: Get Your Toy Elected President!

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On July 13, 2018, we had a special creative writing and filmmaking workshop for kids between the ages of 5 and 8, to make campaign videos about getting their toys elected president! The idea came from the book I’ve published with lesson plans to do writing workshops with primary grade […]

Minecraft Coding Workshop

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In July 2018 we had a three-day workshop for kids between the ages of 9 and 12 years old, taught by Matthew Clough-Hunter of LA Makerspace and facilitated by Illyanna Logan and AnnMarie Hurtado, about doing coding in Minecraft. Kids enjoyed playing the game but also built programs called “turtles” […]

Opera for Kids: The Elixir of Love

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On May 26th we had a delightful program presented by Orange County Opera and sponsored by the Pasadena Opera Guild, giving kids a hilarious introduction to opera by performing a version of Donizetti’s Elixir of Love in English. It was, to my knowledge, our first-ever opera program at Pasadena Public […]

Project Designation: Computer Graphic Design Workshop for Teens and Tweens

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Earlier this month we had a great graphic design workshop taught by teens, for teens and tweens. The instructors are from Arcadia High School and they have created their own nonprofit organization called Project Designation, and they visit schools and libraries teaching kids graphic design concepts and leading them in […]

Spiralizer Art: Kids’ Coding Club

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By Illyanna Logan Last Thursday we had our April session of the Kids Coding Club, where we did a project that explored using coding to make digital art. We tried an activity from Coding Projects in Scratch by Jon Woodcock, where we used Scratch to create a spiralizer that made […]