Featured – Activities for Kids

Shadow Show: Puppet Show and Illusions

Great activity idea: Put on a Shadow Puppet Show! You can use many different things for your puppet characters!

Shadow Puppet Show

All you need is a bed sheet or large piece of thin paper. Shine a light from behind it, where you will be casting the shadows. Your audience will sit on the opposite side of it and see the shadows that you cast on the sheet.

Shadows can be created from many things:

Paper cutouts
Foam shapes
Silverware
Other Unusual items from around the house
Your hands!

Try a Shadow Puppet play with your created characters!

Shadow Puppet Show with Sheets! — Shadow Puppet show — with a creative Bed Sheet!

Shadow Illusions

Kijeon and Zach show you some really cool shadow illusions. In the description of the video, you can download the 3d models if you wanted to print these out and try them!

Middle School / Elementary

Digital Escape Rooms

Very talented and creative people at a few libraries have created Digital Escape Rooms and offered it for FREE! It’s just like the fun and challenge of a physical Escape Room without the need to be trapped in a confined space!

You can complete this escape room as a family or individual, you can compete against friends and try it multiple times. Just make sure you have fun!

Hogwarts Digital Escape Room

Created by Sydney Krawiec, Youth Services Librarian at Peters Township Public Library in McMurray, Pennsylvania

Marvel’s Avengers: Escape from the Hydra Base!

Created by the Richmond Hill Public Library in Richmond Hill, Ontario Canada

Dog Man Digital Escape Room

Created and shared by a school media specialist from Shiloh Valley Elementary School, North Carolina

Escape from Wonderland Digital Escape Room

Created by Erin Honeycutt, Children’s Librarian at Moultrie-Colquitt County Library System in Moultrie, Georgia

Space Explorer Training Digital Escape Room

Created by Morgan Lockard, the adult/teen services librarian at the Carrico/Fort Thomas Branch Library in Carrico/Fort Thomas Kentucky

Minecraft Digital Escape Room

Created by Laura Escamilla, Youth Services Librarian at the Regency Park Library in New Port Richey, Florida

Pikachu’s Rescue Escape Room

Created by High River Library in High River, Alberta Canada

Escape from Star Killer Base!

Created by the Richmond Hill Public Library in Richmond Hill, Ontario Canada

Bring the fun and challenge of a physical Escape Room to the virtual world.

If you know of someone who would like to create one of these escape rooms, or want to create one yourself, you can check out this “How to Build a Digital Escape Room Using Google Forms” by Meredith/Bespoke.

Activities, Middle School / Elementary, Preschool & Kindergarten

Paper Airplane Range: Have Fun with Paper Airplanes

Paper Airplane Range!

This is a game of skill where you challenge your friends and family to score the most points by flying your paper airplane through a target.

You can use large poster board paper and draw circles or other shapes and determine the points that your contestants will score when they fly their paper airplanes through the holes.

You can download a template to get you started: Paper Airplane Range.pdf

As you make Paper airplanes, try out various designs of folded airplanes and see which type you prefer! Some may fly straighter, for longer, or loop around. Then you’ll know what type of airplane you’d like to use when playing this Paper Airplane Range game.

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Shadow Puppet Show

Shadow Illusions

Bring the fun and challenge of a physical Escape Room to the virtual world.

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