Book Fair: Story Laboratory science lab

I just finished out a very successful Book Fair at the largest of my elementary schools.  It was such a great year!  The spring theme from Scholastic is "Story Laboratory: reading gives you superpower".  I went all out with the science lab theme.

The first thing I made sure to do was order the decorating kit from the Scholastic Resource Kit.  I always use a portion of the $100 advance Scholastic Dollars they give you to purchase this.  While a majority of the items I use are re-purposed or purchased, these kits always seem to have the little details that you can't find anywhere else.

When walking up to the Fair, you see this bulletin board in the hallway:

This idea was born from this science bulletin board.

As you enter the Fair, the doors look like this:

The reading tube was an idea from Scholastic.  I purchased the clear PVC rooking panel and concrete form that the duct tape is wrapped around from Menards.

The check out desk:

A different view of the library:

One of our book-eating robot friends:

This robot was inspired by this amazing post on Book Fair decorations.

Are you having a Book Fair? I would love to see pictures of what you did.  Share your link in the comments!

Amazing Book Fairs!

The two fall Book Fairs were both amazing successes!  Thank you to all the parent volunteers who came in to work the fair and thank you to all the students and families that purchased items from the fair. With your support of the library, we are able to get over $500 of free books at one school and over $1000 at the other!  You are all amazing!  Thank you!

Book Fair Time for 2 schools

It's been a busy week in the library at Parkview Elementary! It was our book fair this past week. The theme was Book Fair Diner: All You Can Read. The library was decorated to the hilt and it was a lot of fun for everyone! Check out the picture below of how busy it was one morning before school! Thank you Parkview!




We do it again this week at Readfield Elementary, with the same theme. On Friday, Tom Pease will be there to give a concert! It's going to be a great time! Come on out and bogey with us!