Craft on the Go!

Have you ever wondered what to do with those leftover pieces of a craft that you, your staff or volunteers spent so much time cutting out or preparing? Wonder no more! Craft on the Go is for you!

In preparation for our meeting room construction, we started putting together lunch bags that have a picture of the craft on the outside (so you can see exactly how to make the craft) and all of the craft materials inside. All the kiddos need at home is a glue stick to put the craft together.

We usually run the program for a week and leave them on a table for kids/parents to pick up to take home.

In a way, it's a passive form of programming because the child doesn't  actually have to be present at the library to participate and a librarian or library staff member does not need to be present either. The program was so popular the first time we ran Craft on the Go, that we ran out of bags halfway through the week and I had to make more!

We do ask that parents/kids take only one bag per child per day.

Some patrons do come in every day to get a craft. It works great now that the construction is going on because it still brings people into the library.


This is a great program for teen volunteers to put together, too. Filling the bags can be time consuming, but scheduling a volunteer for an afternoon is a huge help.

We get about 15-20 bags picked up a day, so that means we have over 100 bags in the hold to put out for the week we run the program. In December and January, we had leftover bags, which meant that we didn't have to make as many bags the next month.