In addition to helping out our seniors, we have also lined up some holiday events in the library to keep things interesting. Our first event is teaming up with Student Council to write letters to Santa for Macy's Make a Wish campaign. We even received a little local press about that...
Another activity we do in the library during the holidays is decorate gingerbread people. We started this last year when the library entered the door decorating contest. We had a gingerbread house theme and had the student decorate construction paper gingerbread people.
Because the craft was so popular, we had to bring it back this year even though the school is not holding a door decorating contest. We decorate for everything around here anyway. We don't need a contest to have fun. So this year, they are decorating our library and external windows with gingerbread people to go with our other decorations. Some of them are quite unique. The students are having fun, and that is what matters.
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This week in additon to the letters to Santa and the gingerbread people, we have introduced our Shelf Elves. They come from the North Pole just to hide and make mischief in our library. We ask the students to help us catch these elves that our hiding in our library. If they turn one of these mischievious elves in to us, we give them a holiday treat. We have Spree, Sweetart, and Starburst flavored candy canes for the students as a "reward" for helping us catch the elves. I think this year, I plan to snap a couple of pics to post to the library's twitter and FB page of the elves and what they do at night while we are all home. Yes, this is a high school library, and yes the students still enjoy hunting the library shelves for an elf at Christmas time. Makes you feel all warm and fuzzy inside, right? Instead of the ever popular Elf on the Shelf, we bought our elves from Oriental Trading. They come by the dozen. After a few days on the front line of a library that sees 500+ students a day, multiple elves is highly recommended.
Next week we are hosting our Guitar and Bass Club after school for an hour. They will be performing their Holiday concert in our library while we serve cookies and cocoa. It is open for students and teachers alike. Speaking of cocoa, we did start selling hot chocolate in the library on Mondays before school for 25 cents or for 50 if you add whipped cream and sprinkles.
Now that I see it all laid out before me, I see why I go home each day tired. Call me crazy, but this is fun. I think the key is to introduce your programs one week at a time. If we started the letters, the gingerbread decorations, the cocoa, and the elves all the while teaching research classes, all 3 of us would have to be committed.
We are also pretty proud of our library decorations this year....
Happy Holidays! See you in the new year!
