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Twenty for Tweens Jean Carrier High Prairie Library Pikes Peak Library District What is a Tween? Ages 9-12 Grades 4 th -7 th Sometimes called: preteens, middleschoolers, tweeny, tweenies, pre-teens Too old for toys, too young for

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Twenty for Tweens

Jean Carrier High Prairie Library Pikes Peak Library District

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What is a Tween?

  • Ages 9-12
  • Grades 4th-7th
  • Sometimes called:

preteens, middleschoolers, tweeny, tweenies, pre-teens

Too old for toys, too young for boys

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Tween Brain

"When I’m a grown- up, I want to be totally awesome." Part kid, part teen

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Tips on Reader’s Advisory for Tweens

A little bit children’s services & a little bit of teen services. Helps to have a cache of books to recommend

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Tween Booklists

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  • Some examples:

– Cooking Kit – Shrinky Dinks – Perler Beads – Board Games

Tween Kits

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Program Ideas

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Blackout Poetry

Cost: $0-30 Description: Using book pages from discards create poetry.

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Water Bottle Rockets

Cost: $20-30 Description: Kids make rockets out of soda bottles, fill with water, and launch them.

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Snow Globes

Cost: $30-40 Description: Make a snow globes from jelly jars

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80s Bracelets

Cost: $30-40 Description: Make a slap bracelet from a tape measure, glitter bracelet from fish tank piping, and boho bracelet from safety pins

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Candy Science

Cost: $40-50 Description: Experiments using candy Floating Ms, Acidity tests, Skittles density rainbow, Jelly Bean Chromatography, Exploding Peeps

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Mug Cakes

Cost: $50-75 Description: make cakes and other goodies using a mug and a microwave

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Gamestar Mechanics

Cost: $0 (need computers) Description: kids create a login for a website that introduces kids to creating games https://gamestarmechanic.com/

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Marshmallow Catapults

Cost: $15-25 Description: create catapults from simple

  • bjects
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Natural Paints

Cost: $40-50 Description: create paints

  • ut of plants
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Printmaking

Cost: $10-20 Description: make abstract art from everyday

  • bjects
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Marbled Bookmarks

Cost: $10-20 Description: using shaving cream and food coloring to make pretty bookmarks

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Pendulum Art

  • Cost: $20-30 (less if you don’t use tripods)
  • Description: abstract art with a tripod and

paint

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Mad Scientist

Cost: $20-50 (varies by which experiments you do) Description: fun little science experiments Lemon suds eruption, cloud in a cup, exploding lunch bag, strawberry DNA, magnetic slime

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Get Graphic

Cost: $0-10 (cost of copies) Description: teach kids about comic books

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Summer Reading Program Ideas

  • Chocolate Olympics
  • Color Run – crayon art or race
  • Puzzle Art
  • Mini Skateboards
  • Wobble Egg Ninjas
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Canva

Canva is a awesome website for creating flyers and other marketing pieces for programs

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Special Thanks:

Melody Alvarez from Library 21c Tori Sparrow from Penrose Joanne O’Hearn from High Prairie

Questions?