<div dir="ltr"><div><a href="http://www.therobotgarage.com/">http://www.therobotgarage.com/</a></div><div> </div><div>Taking this a bit further, those in Metro Detroit area can avail themselves of this company, they bring the party (and expertise). </div>
<div>We know this was done at Royal Oak PL, and it looks very cool -- Lego-Robotics party. </div><div> </div><div>Just a rosy dream?? </div><div> </div><div>Mary C.</div><div> </div><div><font color="#000000" size="3" face="Times New Roman">
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</font></div></div><div class="gmail_extra"><br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Tue, Nov 26, 2013 at 5:05 PM, <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:scrotser-toy@alleganlibrary.org" target="_blank">scrotser-toy@alleganlibrary.org</a>></span> wrote:<br>
<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div><span style="font-family:Verdana;font-size:10pt"><div><font face="verdana, geneva">Our program is simply called, "Lego Club", and it's pretty unstructured. I do begin with a theme, however I think it's really remarkable the ideas kids come up with on their own-- I like that the unstructured nature of things allows them that freedom. In other words, hardly anyone sticks with my theme, but what they do is so impressive, I've got no complaints. I take lots of photos which we keep in our Lego Album - for posterity (and in case anyone wants to remember what they've done before). We also have a large selection of Duplos for smaller children, so I don't specify an age limit. For each Lego Club I assemble every Lego book in the stacks in one place to entice reading, too.</font></div>
<div><font face="verdana, geneva"><br></font></div><div><font face="verdana, geneva">I'm always interested to discover what others are doing with Legos.</font></div><div><font face="verdana, geneva"><br></font></div><div>
<font face="verdana, geneva">Thanks for asking, Angela.</font></div><div><font face="verdana, geneva"><br></font></div><div><font face="verdana, geneva">-Sharon Crotser-Toy</font></div><div><font face="verdana, geneva">Allegan District Library</font></div>
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Subject: Re: [Michlib-l] LEGO Nights<br>
From: Cari Fry <<a href="mailto:cari.fry@westlandlibrary.org" target="_blank">cari.fry@westlandlibrary.org</a>><br>
Date: Tue, November 26, 2013 1:43 pm<br>
To: Angela Scott <<a href="mailto:angelas1028@gmail.com" target="_blank">angelas1028@gmail.com</a>>, <br>
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<div style="margin:0px;font-family:Tahoma;font-size:10pt">Hi Angela...<br> <br> We call our program Lego Read & Play. I read a book on a story carpet to introduce the theme. Kids spend a little while (if the want to) making a Lego to go with the theme. ex. Elephant & Piggie book, then they made a "Pig" or an "Elephant", then we took pics to display in the library. (see below)<br>
<br> <img title="Click to Resize" src="cid:74222469-9d8d-4062-8a1b-1a15488d2236" width="224" height="167"><br> <br> <br> Some kids just don't want to participate in the "theme", so I don't make them. After about 20 minutes of together projects, the kids go and make friends playing Lego all around the room.<br>
<br> Cari Fry<br> Westland Library<br> <br> <div><br> </div> <br> <br> <hr> <div><font style="font-size:11pt" color="#000000" face="Calibri, sans-serif"><b>From:</b> <a href="mailto:michlib-l-bounces@mail.mcls.org" target="_blank">michlib-l-bounces@mail.mcls.org</a> on behalf of Angela Scott<br>
<b>Sent:</b> Tuesday, November 26, 2013 3:14 PM<br> <b>To:</b> <a href="mailto:michlib-l@mail.mcls.org" target="_blank">michlib-l@mail.mcls.org</a><br> <b>Subject:</b> [Michlib-l] LEGO Nights<br> </font><br> </div> <div>
</div> <div> <div dir="ltr"> <div> <div> <div> <div> <div> <div> <div>Hello Everyone,<br> <br> </div> The library I currently work for is thinking about starting a LEGO night and I had a few questions for public libraries that already offer these programs:<br>
<br> </div> 1) How did you get started, did you purchase the LEGOs, except donations?<br> </div> 2) Is there any structure to these programs or do kids basically just come in and play?<br> </div> <div>3) Do you have different ages come in at different times to ensure the very young children don't swallow the smaller LEGOS?<br>
</div> <br> <br> </div> I am curious to hear about how other libraries run their LEGO nights and would appreciate any additional information they have to offer.<br> <br> Thank you,<br> <br> </div> Angela Scott<br> </div>
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