Our librarians are so cool! They put on a scavenger hunt for us this morning! We showed up with other members of our homeschool group and were taken on a tour of the library which included information on using the computer catalog followed by a
scavenger hunt. Teams of children were racing around trying to gather information like "find the call number of a book about sharks" or "write the title of a local newspaper in the library" or my favorite... "write down one of the librarians names along with one interesting fact about that person". I found out that one of our librarians has been there for 23 years and is learning to quilt.
So much fun! If anyone is interested, I can post the questions that we used. They can be used in any library, or slightly altered to fit your own library. We had 14 children and split them up into teams, but you could let your children do it on their own. You'd just have to figure out the answers first or just have fun right along with them.
Let me know, 'kay?
Hey, Charlotte! What a fun thing to do in the library. I would love to get your list of questions. We just had one of our major libraries remodeled. I wonder if they still have a card catalog.:( It's all modernified...if that's even a word! If I could find a dictionary maybe I could look that up.:)
ReplyDeleteSure! Our library actually still has a card catalog but it's in the head librarian's office where it can't be disturbed. I showed it to my kids just so they could say they had seen one.
ReplyDeleteOh how fun!
ReplyDeleteI would love to see your list. We do scavenger hunts for 12th birthday parties. Last time, we used a mall. I'd much rather go to the library :D
ReplyDeleteWhat fun!! I'm an academic librarian and we do this kind of thing with college students as well. I bet it was much more fun with children!!
ReplyDeleteThat sounds amazing! We love love love our library too, and I would very much like to have the list of questions!
ReplyDeleteThanks for sharing
I'd love to see the list as well. This sounds like a great winter time field trip activity.
ReplyDeleteThat's funny, Charlotte! Thanks for putting the list of q's on your recent post.:)
ReplyDeletehi charlote!i'm looking dor the activity like that in my library.what u did was so cool.can i have the copy of what u have?thanks a lots..
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