1. From Zombies to Steampunk (& More)
Steven S. Moser Rikki Unterbrink
Lima Public Library Bluffton Public Library
mosers@limalibrary.com unterbrink@blufftonpubliclibrary.org
www.facebook.com/LPLTeens www.blufftonpubliclibrary.org

2. Natural Disasters

9. Programming Ideas:
• Worst Case Scenario Game Night
• First Aid classes by the Red Cross
• Survival obstacle course
• Volcano building/science experiments
• Cardboard maze-building
• Book discussion group – What would you buy in the
grocery store to prepare for one of these disasters if
you had $200 and not much time?

10. Trapped!

15. Programming Ideas:
• Survival supplies scavenger hunt
• Create your own living space in the Library
• Cooking program (using found supplies)
• Rationing your supplies (Community group???)
• Create your own games/entertainment
• Write your own “Trapped in the library”
story/choose your own adventure

16. Contagions & Disease

23. Programming Ideas:
• ???
• Create your own book trailers
• Create a newscast (reports from inside
and outside the outbreak)
• Create your own newspaper (place around
the library to promote the book)

24. Zombies & The Dead

31. Programming Ideas:
• Zombie Awareness Day (May)
• Zombie Feud (Email Rikki for the questions)
• Book Discussion – Zombies vs. Unicorns by Holly Black &
Justine Larbalestier
• Zombie & Unicorn eats – Unicorn cupcakes, zombie face nachos, green
ooze punch, gummy blood
• Zombie Apocalypse
• Bounty hunters “scanned” participants for infection and doled out
“weapons” and eyeballs for zombie putt-putt golf, target shoot, makeup
station, severed hand toss
• Jell-O brains (just fun to cut up)
• HvZ (Humans vs. Zombies)
• www.humansvszombies.org

32. Programming Ideas:
• Zombie Awareness Day (May)
• Zombie Feud (Email Rikki for the questions)

33. Programming Ideas:
• Book Discussion – Zombies vs. Unicorns by Holly Black & Justine
Larbalestier
• Zombie & Unicorn eats – Unicorn cupcakes, zombie face nachos, green ooze punch,
gummy blood

34. Programming Ideas:
• Zombie Apocalypse
• Bounty hunters “scanned” participants for infection and doled out “weapons” and
eyeballs for zombie putt-putt golf, target shoot, makeup station, severed hand toss
• Jell-O brains (just fun to cut up)

35. Programming Ideas:
• Zombie Apocalypse
• Jell-O brains (just fun to cut up)

38. Programming Ideas:
• HvZ (Humans vs. Zombies)
• www.humansvszombies.org

40. And FAIRY Tales

51. Programming Ideas:
• Disfigured makeup lessons
• Perform a readers’ theater or puppet show of the
original fairy tale story
• Project Runway – Cinderella’s dress or other costumes
• Movie Night – Beastly, Snow White & the Huntsman,
Mirror Mirror, Enchanted, Penelope, Ever After,
Stardust, Princess Bride, TV Series Once Upon a Time,
TV series Grimm
• Paper folding crafts (Princess Bride)
• Speed Book Dating

52. Full Steam Ahead! (Pun Intended)

53. Steampunk: What is it?
Steampunk is a sub-genre of science fiction, alternate history, and speculative
fiction that came into prominence during the 1980s and early 1990s.[1]
Specifically, steampunk involves an era or world where steam power is still
widely used—usually the 19th century and often Victorian era Britain—that
incorporates prominent elements of either science fiction or fantasy. Works of
steampunk often feature anachronistic technology or futuristic innovations as
Victorians may have envisioned them; in other words, based on a Victorian
perspective on fashion, culture, architectural style, art, etc. This technology may
include such fictional machines as those found in the works of H. G. Wells and
Jules Verne or real technologies like the computer but developed earlier in an
alternate history.
-Wikipedia

61. Programming Ideas:
• Steampunk Awareness Day
• Book Discussion
• Steampunk Weapons presentation
• Book displays
• Steampunk snacks
• Darwinist Delites, Rivets and Screws, Clanker Cookies, Absinthe Punch
• YouTube Videos
• http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0reCimzqLfQ
• Steampunk Book Trailers
• Panic! At the Disco’s Steampunk music video (Ballad of Mona Lisa)
• Steampunk Costumes (& Photo Shoot)
• Movies
• Steamboy (2004 Anime), Golden Compass, Hugo, Sherlock Holmes

62. Programming Ideas:
• Steampunk Awareness Day
• Book Discussion
• Steampunk Weapons presentation

63. Programming Ideas:
• Book displays

64. Programming Ideas:
• Steampunk snacks

66. Programming Ideas:
• Steampunk Costumes

71. And other honorable mentions

82. Programming Ideas:
• Stargazing, astronomy programs
• Make your own alien (Disguise it as your
teacher)
• Mermaid cookbook (snacks for a program or do
as a cooking program)
• Mermaid spa
• Dr. Who program (Like Comic Con)
• Star Wars Reads Day (Or any other Star Wars
program)

83. Steven S. Moser Rikki Unterbrink
Lima Public Library Bluffton Public Library
mosers@limalibrary.com unterbrink@blufftonpubliclibrary.org
www.facebook.com/LPLTeens www.blufftonpubliclibrary.org
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