Winter Wigglers: Block Party

  • Program Goals
    • Offer an active program during winter
    • Offer a program on Wednesday morning that will be open to toddlers and preschoolers
    • Encourage parents to play with their children
    • Attendance: 20
    Supplies
    • Blocks
      • Vinyl blocks from children's area
      • Wooden, cardboard, and rubberwood blocks from Discount School Supply
      • Duplos and duplo tables
    • Other play materials
      • Chalk for the chalkboard wall
    Setup
    • I move all the tables to the back of the room and put on Elizabeth Mitchell or other calm music. There is an easel at the front of the room with a poster for the block party on it and a clipboard for people to sign in.
    Resources

    • 1-23-19
      • Attendance: 10
      • Notes: This was a drop-in program we ran in lieu of the planned yoga. There was a massive winter storm and no school. Most attendance was some middle schoolers in the afternoon who spent a long time drawing on the chalkboard and using their phones to film each other jumping over the reading cushions, which now apparently live in the Storyroom.
    • 1-11-16
      • Attendance: 20
      • Notes: Run by my associate
    • 2-10-16
      • Attendance: 30ish
      • Notes: Run by my associate. Really good turnout. We've moved the blocks into the closet so we don't have to keep going down to the basement for them.
    • 1-13-16
      • Attendance: 35ish
      • Notes: Run by my associate. Early Head Start brought a bus of people and held their early literacy event during and after the block party.
    • 9-16-15
      • Attendance: 20
      • Connections/Feedback: A few people from last year, some drop-ins, and some who had no 4K today so all the people I was aiming at.
      • Notes: I need more of the cardboard bricks. I didn't have the cardboard boxes to decorate this year as I'm using them for something else and I wanted to keep this just to blocks.
    • 1-14-15
      • Attendance: 29
      • Connections/Feedback: Lots of new people and those who usually attend Pattie's programs came. Most did not know we had a program and just showed up to be at the library; a few found the program online.
      • Notes: I somehow completely neglected to realize that all those cardboard blocks (80) would have to be assembled!! I didn't finish until the program was over, even with a volunteer and some moms helping.

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