Thanks to Sam Carpenter from the L.E. Phillips Memorial Public Library for this guest post!
Ah, December. Summer is long-gone, the holidays are upon us,
and that means it's time for . . . closet cleaning. Yes, we dug deep
into our back storage room, eliminated clutter via the IFLS listserv and discovered
leftover materials just waiting to have new life breathed into them.
One of those materials was several packages of Grafix Cling Vinyl.
I used them to create what my mother calls "a conversation piece,"
which dovetails nicely with the early literacy practice "talk." I
placed images from the internet into 2X3 inch frames in InDesign, then blew
those images up with an opaque projector. The resulting window display is very
colorful on a gray Wisconsin day and can be enjoyed by people inside and out.
And it did get kids talking: There were a couple of siblings in the Play
and Learn the day I put it up competing to be the first to shout out each
character's name. We all had a lot of fun with it once they accepted my
suggestion to take turns. :) See anyone you know?
A note on cost: Grafix Cling Vinyl is pricey. You don't need
it and InDesign and an opaque projector to make a fun guessing game with
character silhouettes--black construction paper and a copy machine will do
nicely. Or you could wait for the 2016 closet clean . . .
Labels: displays, Every child ready to read, interactive displays
