Karaoke

Karaoke is always fun! Here's how we plan our Karaoke programs with our teens. First, you do not need a karaoke machine! I've figured how to put on a fabulous karaoke program with things that my library already owns. 

Here's a list of what you need:


I use one of the laptops we have for patron check-out. The laptop has an HD outlet. 

I connect it to our projector which is in the meeting room where we do 90% of our programs. 

I also purchased a portable, Bluetooth speaker which came with a microphone. 

https://www.amazon.com/dp/B00IWZZPW8/ref=sr_ph?ie=UTF8&qid=1466690256&sr=1&keywords=speaker


You don't need to buy Karaoke CDs either! Just search "karaoke [song title] and 75% of the time I've found a karaoke-friendly version of just about every song. Also, there's a youtube channel called Sing King Karaoke which can be found here. 


Hope this helped. If you have any tips or ideas please comment. 

***BONUS*** Here's a clip of one of my teens singing! She's very talented and it took a bit of coaxing to get her comfortable! 

Crochet Club: First Meeting

So I'm happy to announce that I've started a new club at the library! It all started innocently enough with me working on an infinity scarf for myself. One of my co-workers asked if I would teach her how to crochet and I agreed of course. This turned into a staff group project where I was going to then teach 4 other staff members how to crochet. The after school children can't be left out so when they saw us crocheting on break times and, of course, they wanted to learn to. Now our impromptu crochet club is 7 children and 5 adults strong and growing.  The library purchased 12 skeins of yarn and 12 needles. As a member of the club, you get 1 skein and 1 needle. Now the skein is more than enough to crochet a scarf. Some of students are very ambitious and want to crochet a blanket like the staff but they will have to purchase their additional yarn themselves. Below are pictures from our first meeting.

Ignore the snacks in the back. That's a different program that I"ll talk about later.

Also, ignore the fact that I've neglected this blog for like FOREVER. I'll talk about that later as well.

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